From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Dessier, and this is Heritage Explains.

This is Heritage Explains.

In his first major speech at the State Department today, the president said he'll work to rebuild alliances around the world that he says were neglected and abused by

the previous administration.

America is back.

America is back.

Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy.

America cannot afford to be absent any longer on the world stage.

America is back?

Well, what about Afghanistan? Ukraine and Russia, the China Olympics and China's continued rise as the biggest adversary to America.

Let's cut to the chase. If American foreign policy is back, according to President Biden,

I really hate to see what it looks like if President Biden admits it's in decline.

Now, it's safe to say that having a strategy and sticking to it is a great idea in most situations.

It's even better if that strategy is one that benefits us in the end, not harms us or our allies.

Given all the episodes we've done on the three major foreign policy failures thus far in the Biden administration, which we just mentioned above, we wanted to give President Biden

and his State Department a chance to get it right.

To do this, let's look to the Atlantic region and develop a strategy for how we can build new alliances

and bolster existing ones in a comprehensive way that strengthens us against Russia and China.

But what would this look like?

What even is the Atlantic region?

This administration doesn't have the capacity, the bandwidth,

or even the desire to look at these big grand strategic initiatives

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