Biden Risks New Cold War

Scott Ritter- The Biden administration’s re-embrace of Cold War-era policy constructs reflects a desire for stability in the face of an increasingly adversarial competition with China and Russia for g

The President Joe Biden administration is aggressively pursuing a US foreign policy based on a rules-based international order that it applies to all countries — liberal democracies, emerging democracies and existing autocracies. It promotes this policy as a return to a norm that existed prior to President Donald Trump, who eviscerated alliances that had existed for decades because he found them inconvenient for his “America First” agenda. However, this Biden policy is actually a stark departure from the policies of every administration in the post-Cold War era. By rejecting the possibility, and even the desirability, of a reconciliation with autocratic governments such as Russia and China to bring them into a rules-based international order, the Biden administration is returning to Cold War policies that sought to maintain a balance of power between Western liberal democracies and the communist bloc. At that time, the order bound liberal democracies together under US hegemony in order to oppose Eastern bloc nations. The Biden administration’s re-embrace of Cold War-era policy constructs reflects a desire for stability in the face of an increasingly adversarial competition with China and Russia for global dominance. But the rules-based international order that underpins Biden’s policy lacks both currency and relevance. As such, it is doomed to fail.

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