Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Biden’s Disastrous Foreign Policy and False Claims

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🗓️ 18 January 2025

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In this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson critiques President Joe Biden’s claims about his own foreign policy in the waning days of his presidency. “So why would you claim that you had done this outstanding achievement? And the war is not over. It’s the worst carnage in Europe since the Battle of Stalingrad—1.7 million dead, wounded or missing. It’s nothing to brag about. It’s a complete catastrophe.” “He said that he was tough on China. He said China wasn’t our rival. He allowed a Chinese spy balloon to traverse the United States. For a week, he did nothing.” “Trump didn’t have a war in Afghanistan because you lost it. And you humiliated us. And you destroyed deterrence…this was the single greatest disaster in foreign policy in a century, and yet, he had the audacity to go before the State Department and claim it was a great success.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joe Biden is on his way out of office.
0:02.0	And he made a series of claims that were, to be frank, complete fabrications.
0:06.0	He said that the world was calmer now than it was when he inherited.
0:10.0	He inherited a calm world affairs where there was no war in the Middle East.
0:14.0	There was no war in Ukraine.
0:16.0	Why would you claim that you had done this outstanding achievement and the war is not over?
0:20.0	It's the worst
0:21.3	carnage in Europe since the Battle of Stalingrad, 1.7 million dead, wounded or missing.
0:27.3	Hello, I'm Victor Davis-Hanson for The Daily Signal.
0:43.0	Joe Biden is on his way out of office, and as a farewell to all of us, he reviewed the
0:48.2	State of Affairs abroad to his own State Department.
0:52.5	And he made a series of claims that were, to be frank, complete fabrications.
0:57.0	He said that the world was calmer now than it was when he inherited.
1:02.0	He inherited a common world affairs, calm world affairs, where there was no war in the Middle East,
1:10.0	there was no war in Ukraine. He, there was no war in Ukraine.
1:12.1	He took credit, if you can believe it, for saving Ukraine.
1:17.1	But when he entered office, remember what he said.
1:20.7	He, first of all, said he was going to put on hold the weaponry and munitions necessary for Ukraine's deterrence that Donald
1:29.5	Trump had approved. And he did. He was asked, what would you do if Vladimir Putin should
1:37.3	go into Ukraine? He said it depends on whether it's a major invasion. That had a green light effect on Vladimir Putin. So did the August
1:48.5	2021 complete scram, scaddle from Afghanistan, which we left $50 billion or so of munitions,
1:57.5	equipment. We lost 13 great soldiers.
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