President Bidens Totally Failing Foreign Policies by Eric Zuesse!
(2021-08-09 at 20:48:51 )

President Bidens Totally Failing Foreign Policies by Eric Zuesse!

Maybe, America will start to apologize for what it has been since 1945. But this is very unlikely to happen on Joe Bidens watch, Eric Zuesse writes.

Joe Biden came into the United States White House promising to change Donald Trumps foreign policies, but did not even try to change them, and instead he has continued them, and has failed with them exactly as Donald Trump did when he was the President. Here are some examples:

-The nuclear agreement with Iran (the Obama-negotiated "JCPOA" for Iran to stop research that might be useful for developing nuclear warheads): At first, Biden demanded that Iran stop continuing to develop missiles (which was a demand that Trump had made), before Biden would even negotiate with Iran on anything, including the JCPOA. Iran stood firm on refusing to make any preliminary concessions, and insisting that the United States of America simply rejoin the JCPOA that America had signed-to under Obama and then abandoned under Trump. Biden started to negotiate with Iran in Vienna though Iran had refused to change its position on developing missiles. Biden was negotiating though he had said he would not unless Iran first complied with his (which had been Trumps) demands. Biden lost.

-Biden in the Vienna negotiations continued demanding that Iran halt its missile-program. Iran continued refusing to do any such thing. Biden dragged-out the negotiations, perhaps hoping that Iran would finally cave. Iran continued to stand firm. On August 4th, the Moon of Alabama blogger headlined "Maximum Pressure’ Against Iran Has Failed. What Will Biden Do Next?", and reported that the longer those fake "negotiations" continued, the more embarrassing the results would turn out to be for Biden. This is total failure of Bidens (Trumps) Iran-policy.

-Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline: Biden started his Presidency by demanding that Germany not allow the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to be completed and begin supplying Russian gas directly to Europe. He threatened Germany with sanctions if Germany did not abandon the pipeline, and tried to get Germany to commit to buying the far costlier United States-produced canned-and-shipped gas instead of Russias directly-pipelined gas. Biden was continuing Trumps policy on that gas-pipeline, too. Just as had happened under Trump, Germany refused to comply (just like Iran did on the JCPOA). Biden finally caved and did not impose any sanctions against Germany. On July 21st, the Washington Post headlined "United States, Germany reach agreement on Russian gas pipeline, ending dispute between allies", and delivered the United States Governments spin on this capitulation (which was NATOs spin on it): "In exchange for an end to United States efforts to block the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Germany will invest in Ukraines green technology infrastructure, and Berlin and Washington,D.C. will work together on initiatives to mitigate Russias energy dominance in Europe." However, Germanys alleged concession, or "commitment", was purely nominal, and would be virtually inconsequential even if it were to become embodied in enforceable legal terminology. Again, it was simply lipstick on a pig.

On August 3rd, NATOs main PR arm, the Atlantic Council, then issued, via Politico, a fluff-piece trying to present the United States of Americas humiliating defeat on the Nord Stream 2 matter as having been, instead, a victory for both America and Germany. The Atlantic Councils John R. Deni headlined there "Why Central and Eastern Europe should be cheering on Nord Stream 2", and he argued, basically, that the July 21st agreement - whatever it might turn out to be or to mean - was a win for Washington,D.C., because "The alternative, Washington,D.C.s unilateral sanctions on German businesses, only strengthened the voices of those in Berlin who favor a more ambivalent German policy toward great power competition - one that pursues an equal distance between the United States and Russia." In other words, implicitly, Deni was saying that Bidens objective of preventing the completion and operational start of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was stupid, and that NATO was just lucky that Biden had failed on it. This was therefore, implicitly, a statement by NATO praising Germany and criticizing the United States.

-Israel & Palestine: On 11 May 2020, the Biden campaign had issued its vague "policy"-commitments regarding Israel and the Palestinians, such as these:

"JOE BIDEN AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITY: A RECORD AND A PLAN OF FRIENDSHIP, SUPPORT AND ACTION"

11 May 2020

A Biden Administration Will:

-Sustain our unbreakable commitment to Israels security - including the unprecedented military and intelligence cooperation pioneered during the Obama-Biden administration, and the guarantee that Israel will always maintain its qualitative military edge.

-Work with the Israeli and Palestinian leadership to support peacebuilding efforts in the region. Biden will urge Israels government and the Palestinian Authority to take steps to keep the prospect of a negotiated two-state outcome alive and avoid actions, such as unilateral annexation of territory and settlement activity, or support for incitement and violence, that undercut prospects for peace between the parties.

-Reverse the Trump Administrations destructive cutoff of diplomatic ties with the Palestinian Authority and cancellation of assistance programs that support Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation, economic development, and humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza, consistent with the requirements of the Taylor Force Act, including that the Palestinian Authority end its system of compensation for individuals imprisoned for acts of terrorism.

-Urge Arab states to move beyond quiet talks and take bolder steps toward normalization with Israel.

-Firmly reject the BDS movement - which singles out Israel and too often veers into anti-Semitism - and fight other efforts to delegitimize Israel on the global stage.

-Hold Irans government accountable and rejoin a diplomatic agreement to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, if Iran returns to compliance with the JCPOA, using renewed commitment to diplomacy to work with our allies to strengthen and extend the Iran deal, and push back against Irans other destabilizing actions.

-Ensure that support for the United States-Israel alliance remains bipartisan, reversing Trumps exploitation of United States support for Israel as a political football, which harms both countries interests.

-Support the critical economic and technological partnership between the United States and Israel, further expand scientific collaborations and increase commercial opportunities, and support cooperation on innovation throughout the region.

For example: regarding "Reverse the Trump Administrations destructive cutoff of diplomatic ties with the Palestinian Authority and cancellation of assistance programs that support Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation, economic development, and humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza”:

the only thing that Biden has done thus far on this is:

"Blinken announces United States plans to reopen Jerusalem consulate"

25 May 2021

"Blinken did not give a precise date for reopening the consulate but said it would be "an important way for our country to engage with and provide support to the Palestinian people"."

The United States of Americas foreign policies are bipartisan, at least 95% neoconservative (i.e.: supporting United States imperialism) in both of Americas political Parties. The permanent-warfare state is America. And the continuation of the warfare-state after WW II (post-1945) in America is what made it permanent here. When World War II - the war against the Axis powers (the fascist powers) - ended in 1945, the military-industrial complex took control in the United States of America, and instead of waging war to preserve democracy (which had been FDRs objective), the goal of America (starting on 25 July 1945) has been waging war to spread the United States empire everywhere.

In this, both of Americas political Parties are united. It is the American sickness, which infects all successful United States politicians. (It does so because United States of Americas billionaires profit enormously from expanding the United States empire, and will not support any politician who opposes imperialism.) There is no actual market for peace, in America, because Americas (that is, its actual rulers, its billionaires) aim is global conquest - not national security, and not peace.

War is Americas business; and, after WW II, it has all based on lies, and this is how it is sold to the American public (by lies), so that, other than "small business," the military is the most trusted institution in America (and "the military used to be clearly the #1 most trusted American institution). Neoconservatism (United States imperialism) has replaced patriotism, in America, ever since the end of WW II. America is on the warpath.

We lost in Vietnam and many other places, but Americas billionaires keep on winning, and so the lies for yet more wars keep on coming, and they apparently never stop. (But, perhaps now that "small business" is as trusted by Americans as "the military" is, that might now start to change.)

This is why (for example) on 6 August 2021, an eloquent and accurate op-ed by Maitreya Bhakal at RT headlined "The richest and most war-mongering nation on Earth is still addicted to bombing poor, defenseless nations", and he opened: "A nation-state version of a psychopath, the United States refuses to give up its addiction to bombing innocent people. In just over a month, it has bombed Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan - and shows no signs of developing a conscience." Nothing he said there was an exaggeration. And the United States regimes top rule is: Never apologize. It did not apologize to Vietnam. It did not apologize to Iraq. It did not apologize to Syria. It did not apologize to any of its many victim-nations. It does not apologize any more than Hitlers regime did.

Psychopaths do not apologize - unless they are forced to.

That is because they have no conscience. And Joe Biden, like all recent American Presidents, is a representative of that reality, and of the arrogance of Americas billionaires, the people who are being served by the permanent-warfare state: the United States Government.

Maybe the reason why "small business" became, in 2020, at least as respected by Americans as is "the military" (the socialized - that is, taxpayer-funded - servants to Americas billionaires) is that the covid-19 pandemic, which has done so much to increase the wealth of Americas billionaires, decimated Americas small businesses.

Joe Biden still represents the billionaires. He has never changed. But maybe America, for the first time since 1945, is about to change. Maybe, finally, this psychopathic country will start to apologize for what it has been since 1945. But this is very unlikely to happen on Joe Bidens watch. He has been part of Americas problem for as long as he has been in American politics.

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