Under Joe Biden’s Failing Leadership, Europe Seeks to Ditch the US as the World Laughs

When Joe Biden ran for the presidency in 2020, his message on foreign policy was that Trump’s America First stance would be shunted. In its place would be the restoration of the good old days of American-European relations and a preference for multilateral international engagement. Upon news of his election, newspapers lauded that finally after four years of Trump (which resulted in historic breakthroughs like the Abraham Accord and no new American involvement in foreign wars) “the grown-ups are back in charge in Washington DC.” This theme of the adults being back has persisted into the present.

The ‘adults’, however, have scored yet another major foreign policy failure as French President Macron returned from Beijing and spoke about ditching the United States.

In an interview with Politico, Mr. Macron spoke at length about Europe needing to “resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers’.” He noted that there was a “great risk” that Europe “gets caught up in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy [from the United States].” The French President later revealed that “The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic [Taiwan] and take our cue from the U.S. agenda and a Chinese overreaction.”

The politician noted that “Europeans cannot resolve the crisis in Ukraine; how can we credibly say on Taiwan, ‘watch out, if you do something wrong we will be there’? If you really want to increase tensions that’s the way to do it.” Macron spoke about Europe reducing its dependence on the “extraterritoriality of the U.S. dollar”, which Politico noted was “a key policy objective of both Moscow and Beijing.” The statesman also railed against attempts to undermine his goal of strategic autonomy.

“If the tensions between the two superpowers heat up … we won’t have the time nor the resources to finance our strategic autonomy and we will become vassals,” said Macron.

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The article in Politico, which was cleared by Elysée Palace (the office of the French president), quoted Yanmei Xie, a geopolitical analyst. The analyst said that “Europe is more willing to accept a world in which China becomes a regional hegemon. Some of its leaders even believe such a world order may be more advantageous to Europe.”

Biden’s policy, far from bringing America and Europe closer, has utterly failed. While Europe providing for its own defense needs (which is not exactly touched on in the article) is laudable and a necessary development should it actually happen, Europe joining China or remaining neutral in affairs between the two superpowers does not bode well. While America may be back, as Biden declares, it is back to being a declining power that fails to pursue a realist foreign policy and gets repeatedly ripped off.

Testimony to Biden’s foreign policy failures comes from across the world whether it is the alarming rapprochement in the Middle East between Saudi Arabia and Iran, a closer partnership between China and Russia, or Macron’s musings about a neutral strategically autonomous Europe. Far from bringing our allies together, Biden has elected to try to subvert them as demonstrated in the case of Israel. Such public interference in a purely domestic affair in a fellow ally and democracy is prone to “be poisonous” to the relationship between the two over time as noted by an article in the DC Enquirer if not properly addressed.

Perhaps the adults in the room would like to explain how exactly their policy has profited the United States more than Trump’s more realist-driven America First policy. This would be nigh impossible given the adult’s own foreign policy fails on its own declared terms.