The company men behind Biden’s foreign policy ‘Blob’

Asia Times ^

[FarCenter]

WASHINGTON – In moments of great peril and uncertainty, the question of who actually runs Washington – who they are, what they think, what they know, what they think they know – takes on even more importance than it might under normal circumstances.

In this, the first in a three-part series, Asia Times will examine the current power dynamics that shape the Biden White House and his national security team.

Needless to say, the most important players in Washington are, as one might expect, the ones closest to the President, even if, for the most part, they remain unknown by the public at large: Who are the players, and why does it matter?

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The irony of America’s current predicament is that Biden’s cast of utterly conventional, decidedly buttoned-down establishmentarians who brook no deviation from the bipartisan foreign policy orthodoxy of the post-Cold War era are the very opposite of the sort who are needed to find an off-ramp from this, the most perilous moment of East-West confrontation since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Still worse, there seems to be a growing connection between the “win at all costs” rhetoric now coming from the White House and the material reality of the American commitment to providing whatever Ukraine says it needs to win.

Given their collective outlooks, one wonders whether the wondrously well-credentialed and richly experienced Biden team even is minimally able to recognize just how dangerous a game they have embarked upon in Eastern Europe?

[chopperk]

Don’t forget the two people behind Biden foreign policy are Pelosi, and Schiffty. How low can the USA go with these two clowns representing the USA to foreign countries.

[Ken522]

From the article: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, counselor to the president Steve Ricchetti and deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed.

[Ken522]

Also further down:

Working closely with the Cardinals is Anita Dunn, who recently returned to the White House after a brief break. Dunn works on messaging along with senior advisor to the president Mike Donilon, brother of Obama’s national security adviser Tom Donilon, who also handles polling, messaging and strategy. Just slightly down the White House food chain, economic and foreign policy are handled by what is said to be a collegial tandem of two young Obama administration alumni: National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and the Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese.

[hinckley buzzard]

With this roster of so-called experts, what could go wrong?

[Tench_Coxe]

"Given their collective outlooks, one wonders whether the wondrously well-credentialed and richly experienced Biden team even is minimally able to recognize just how dangerous a game they have embarked upon in Eastern Europe?"

Several possible answers:

1. No, they aren't.
2. They are, but suffering the myopia causing by "winning the next election", and naively figure the "distraction will resolve itself". After all, the media pivoted so quickly from CovidCovidCovid to UkraineUkraineUkraine fast enough to give a neutral onlooker whiplash, and they figure they can pull off another scam -- it worked with Libya, Syria, etc. Only problem is the country being used just happens to be a nuclear power.
3. Based on something I've heard other speculatiion on-they're trying to hide something bigger. Big enough to run the risk of a nuclear exchange. It may sound stupid, but given the way the criminals in DC and the WEF think, they're looking at it from a purely personal perspective, i.e., they themselves may survive a nuclear exchange but not hordes of the people they have been pi**ing on dragging their sorry a**es into the street and rending them limb from limb.