Everything indicated that the arrival of Biden would mean a reversal of the rudeness of his predecessor that so damaged the image of the United States in the world. To White House An expert on international issues arrived. For decades he chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and then he served eight years as Vice President with Obama in charge of foreign policy issues that, among other things, brought him to visit Mexico on more than one occasion.
The arrival of professional people; Pragmatic and strategic predicted a recomposition of the United States before its allies that, although it would not be easy, it would be possible. But only in these first eight months of government what we have seen is a Biden acting like Trump: aggressive; impulsive and unloyal to traditional allies of USA.
Trump-ada 1: The withdrawal of Afghanistan. When Joe Biden held a press conference on July 8 to announce the departure of US troops from Afghanistan after twenty years of war in that country, he assured that the departure would be orderly and that the Taliban they would not be a threat to Afghan citizens or a haven for international terrorism. Less than a month later we saw the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and a disorderly departure of the Americans with little concern for the Afghans who helped them. The start was a good decision, very poorly instrumented. I remembered that phrase of a guerrilla from the Vietnam National Liberation Front about the United States when leaving Saigon “There is only one thing worse than being an enemy of the United States: being its friend.”
Just as the Americans were able to enter and leave Afghanistan, from one moment to the next even after having spent twenty years in that country, so they can help and abandon any other ally. That was Biden’s first Trump-ada.
Trump-ada 2: The treatment of Haitian migrants. If the departure from Afghanistan was so chaotic, perhaps it was because there was no other way, some of us think. But looking at the handling of the migration crisis by Haitians who have reached the Coahuila border with Texas seeking asylum to be either taken back to Mexico or flown back to Port-au-Prince like cattle, it is clear that there is a problem. sharp in the Biden government. The images of Border Patrol agents on horseback catching migrants with the rein of riding or hitting them with whips crowned the view that between the Trump administration and Biden, there is no difference in the inhumane treatment of migrants.
Trump-ada 3: The lunge at France. The announcement of the agreement between Australia, Great Britain and the United States, AUKUS, to share with Australians technology that would allow them to have nuclear-powered submarines was a blow to France because the country lost a contract of 40 billion dollars of sales agreed with Australia for conventional submarines without the Americans or Australians giving them advance notice.
How is it that the Biden government did not think that it should inform the Macron of something like this in order to obtain from AUKUS an agreement approved and endorsed even by France? The French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, denounced the stab in the back he received from the United States. For the Elysee Palace, the move from Trump to Biden did not turn out as positive as they hoped.
The idea that the Biden administration would be one of little drama and a lot of strategy is falling apart. One reason for this is Biden’s fixation on China that is apparently clouding his vision. In the next installment that new Cold War with China it will be my analysis.
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