Joe Biden's Foreign Policy Legacy
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🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, national security correspondent Greg Myre, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:29.9 | I'm Susan Davis. |
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| 0:31.7 | I'm Greg Myrie and I cover national security. |
| 0:34.2 | And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent. |
| 0:37.7 | And today on the show, we're going to look back at President Biden's foreign policy record. |
| 0:42.4 | Mara, I want to start with a big picture thought here. Former President Donald Trump's first term marked a very clear shift in American foreign policy. |
| 0:50.3 | He said the U.S. was spending way too much to help defend allies and the policy should move to what we now know as, quote, America first policy. He said the U.S. was spending way too much to help defend allies, and the policy |
| 0:54.9 | should move to what we now know as, quote, America First Policy. When Biden won in 2020, |
| 1:01.1 | he tried to rebuild and add to those alliances. Did he succeed? I think in large part he did, |
| 1:07.6 | although the story of Biden's foreign policy, I think, could be titled TBD, because |
| 1:12.7 | we don't know how a lot of these foreign policy efforts are going to work out. But he certainly |
| 1:17.5 | rebuilt the Western Alliance. NATO, this is a organization of democratic countries, the United |
| 1:23.9 | States and Canada and Europe that Donald Trump had belittled and derided and threatened to pull |
| 1:30.3 | out of. And Biden did rebuild those alliances. And he kept the Western Alliance together to support |
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