In Major Speech, Biden Reveals His Deep Misunderstanding Of Foreign Policy

The world we inhabit is qualitatively similar to the post-Napoleonic world of 1820, with one predominant but overstretched great power and several other powers jostling for space, influence, and interests.

While America's military power is unparalleled and Europe is still dependent on Washington, the EU has independent financial interests and trade sanction powers that diverge from the United States' interests, and sooner or later, that elephant in the room must be addressed.

Biden's frame for foreign policy puts forward a needlessly confrontational stance that will give all small states in the peripheries incentive to drag the United States into a potential confrontation with other adversarial great powers.

A moderate to large power should be very wary of small states on the periphery dragging them to conflict with other large powers who might be hostile overall, but not confrontational.

Great powers battle other great powers over strategic and tactical resources.

Naturally, if one is steering the grand strategy of a great power, one should ideally aspire to workable relations with other great powers, like a "Concert" or equilibrium, instead of appeasing the insecurities of highly ideological small states in regions that are not existential to your security.

The United States also needs to pass burdens to allies, prioritize regions and territories, and accept that various powers have their various interests and spheres of influence.

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