We Must End the Democrats’ Failed Foreign Policy

We have no right to complain when no one else in the world wants to do our bidding.

"Leading from behind" has been the formula for the ongoing Biden train wreck that has utterly destroyed the U.S. position on the world stage.

Although our industrial base has been allowed to wither, and important business sectors farmed out to the rest of the world, we still have immense industrial capabilities, and massive energy and other resources, despite the best efforts of the green fanatics to hobble us.

So how then is it that nothing seems to be going our way in the world? How is it that our best interests seem thwarted at every turn, sometimes by genuine great power rivals such as the Chinese, sometimes by international pygmies such as the Houthis.

Our place in the world is falling apart because we insist on "Leading from behind," which is another way of saying that we refuse to lead. Biden and his foreign policy minions sometimes seem simply not to care, other times to be frustrated when no one seems to pay attention to our wants or needs.

The Democrats sent signals to the entire world that we were fundamentally unserious when it came to persistent or emerging threats.

Proposing to spend a half trillion dollars on student loan forgiveness while failing to adequately fund our defense needs tells the world that we are fundamentally unserious.

We want to hobnob with the gilded denizens of the World Economic Forum while hiding behind the shibboleths of multilateralism when it comes to facing the world's ills.

If we want a world in which American interests are properly served, then "Leading from behind" isn't the way to do it.

We may lack the power to dictate solutions to the world, and that's a good thing - we don't need to be the "World's policeman," nor, emphatically, should we ever want to be the world's dictator.

If we want a world that is congruent with our interests, then we have to identify those interests, articulate them clearly, show them to be interests beneficial to others, and then demonstrate through our actions how we mean to bring good things to fruition. 

https://spectator.org/we-must-end-the-democrats-failed-foreign-policy/