Biden or Trump, foreign policy in 2025 is anyone's guess
Now that both parties have chosen their presumptive nominees, the 2024 presidential campaign is off and running. Given the number of international crises and dangers at play, foreign policy should be atop the list of critical topics for debate.
But barring a Pearl Harbor-like crisis, that will not be the case if history is prologue.
Regardless, Democrats will blast Donald Trump for asserting that he may abandon NATO and Ukraine, appease Russia and impose crippling tariffs, principally on China and Europe. How he will deal with Iran and the war in Gaza is likely to involve spontaneous and not thoughtful reactions. Worse, Trump will forego traditional U.S. international leadership, retreating into an America First, MAGA Potemkin-like sanctuary.
Republicans will be no less harsh with President Joe Biden’s foreign policy, starting with the disastrous 2021 retreat from Afghanistan. Biden will be eviscerated for inconsistency and weakness in not facing up to Iran and its surrogates, especially the Houthis’s threat to block passage through the Red Sea. His aid to Ukraine will be seen as excessive and without an exit strategy. And his fight with........
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