World Sits On Razor’s Edge As Biden Quietly Caps Off His Final Year In Office
As President Joe Biden concludes his final year in office and prepares to hand the reins over to Donald Trump, he leaves behind an increasingly unstable world stage.
Tensions in Europe, the Middle East and East Asia have only increased towards the end of 2024, with U.S. adversaries making big moves as Biden quietly fades from the world stage. As Trump takes office, foreign policy fires he will have to contend with include the years-long war in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas War, the freshly-ignited Syrian civil war and an increasingly aggressive China that’s hellbent on solidifying its position as the U.S.’ greatest adversary, economically and militarily.
“There’s a certain ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ quality to this entire discussion,” Justin Logan, director of defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It’s clear that the President of the United States is not making detailed day-to-day decisions on these issues.”
Despite receiving a whopping $130 billion in U.S. military aid since its conflict with Russia began, Ukraine has so far failed to change the course of the war, with both adversaries trying to make incremental gains in anticipation of Trump taking office, who may force a peace settlement. The Biden administration has expressed little interest in diplomacy with Russia, pouring an additional $2.5 billion to aid Ukraine just as Biden is set to leave office, according to the White House Monday.
“They go to the positions once and if they survive, they never return. They either leave their positions, refuse to go into battle, or try to find a way to leave the army,” a Ukrainian battalion commander told CNN in September on Ukrainian troops morale. (Read more from “World Sits On Razor’s Edge As Biden Quietly Caps Off His Final Year In Office” HERE)
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