The US State Department under the Obama and Biden Administrations became a toothless tiger long ago.
Anyone remember the plane loads of cash and gold sent to Iran for some unknown purpose (Yes, of course it was there money) to help smooth the unenforceable treaty to keep Iran from getting a nuclear bomb? The red-line in Syria over the use of chemical weapons?
But my all time favorite was when Obama sent Military food rations (MRE’s) and blankets to the Ukraine, when it was invaded by “little green men” in the Crimea. Yes, Ukraine had one of the largest nuclear arsenals, but agreed to give up nuclear weapons in exchange for a mutual aid pact to protect its sovereign borders.
“....the world's third-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. Ukraine was one of the three non-Russian former Soviet states, including Belarus and Kazakhstan, that emerged from the Soviet collapse with nuclear weapons on its territory......” Say haven't Russian troops been active in Belarus and Kazakhstan recently?
In 1994 Ukraine gave its nuclear weapons to Russia for destruction and “...Russia, the U.S. and the U.K. pledged to “respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine. The (1994) memo reaffirmed their obligation to ‘refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine.’ The signatories also reaffirmed their commitment to ‘seek immediate’ UN Security Council action ‘to provide assistance to Ukraine … if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression.’ These assurances upheld obligations contained in the U.N. charter and the 1975 Helsinki Final Act.....”
Yes that was perhaps the most significant Diplomatic example of the Obama-Biden Administration, unless you want to count the mess associated with the 2012 Benghazi attack.
Well how about some of Joe's stellar foreign policy moments? I have to say that the handling of withdrawal from Afghanistan was a favorite. Then again the way the State Department and the Vice President have handled relations with Latin America to stem the flow of illegal immigrants is a classic case of talking points over real action.
However, I really have to say it was amazing to watch Biden say Ukraine can count on backing by the USA and then only a week later say that our response will depend upon how much of a Russian incursion occurs. And now, that US troops have been sent to Romania I think Russia will just keep laughing all the way into Ukraine they want to go.
My heart goes out to the people of Ukraine and soon to the people of Taiwan. Yes there are dominoes that fall because of failed foreign policy.
“In 1994 Ukraine gave its nuclear weapons to Russia for destruction and “...Russia, the U.S. and the U.K. pledged to “respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine. “
Signed by Bill Clinton and an obscure Russian president that nobody remembers.
Some people are not smart enough to have their own country.