The Ben Shapiro Show - Who Trusts Joe Biden on Foreign Policy? | Ep. 1553

From Afghanistan to Ukraine, from the Middle East to China, the Biden administration's foreign policy failures are stacking up. In this episode, Ben Shapiro takes a deep dive into the failures of the Joe Biden administration on foreign policy, and explains why they are so bad, and why we should all be worried about what Joe Biden is actually up to in terms of foreign policy and what he thinks he's up to, and how he's actually doing it. Ben Shapiro's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Do you like your web browsing history being seen and sold to advertisers? Get ExpressVPN right now at ExpressVpn.me/BenShapiroShow and use the promo code: "ExpressVPN" to get 10% off your first month with discount code: ExpressVPN at checkout. You can also join the ExpressVPN membership program, which gives you access to all of ExpressVPN's features, including the VIP features, for as little as $99.99. If you don't already have an Express VPN membership plan, you can get 20% off the first month by becoming a member of the program, and get an ad-free trial when you become a patron! You'll get 7% off for the entire year, plus an additional 3 months free when you upgrade to a Vimeo membership plan when you sign up for Vimeo, Vimeo and Vimeo becomes available. Vimeo gets access to the show. The Vimeo video version of The Ben Shapiro Show. Thanks to Vimeo for sponsoring the show! The show is now has a new ad-only version of the show, "Ben Shapiro's Vimeo. . Subscribe to the full-length episode of the Ben Shapiro Podcast. Subscribe on Vimeo! Subscribe and review the show? Subscribe at Vimeo Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Audible Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about Ben Shapiro on YouTube Subscribe on Podcharts Subscribe on YouTube Learn more on this podcast on Podcoin Connected by Ben Shapiro Learn more at Ben Shapiro s Podcasts Connect with Ben Shapiro: v=a_t=1_a& other? & other Podcasts on Leave a Review Thank you for listening to Ben Shapiro & more Ben Shapiro and other links on this episode Thanks Ben Shapiro is a big Ben Shapiro podcast and much more on the show on The FiveThirtyEight Podcast

00:00:00.000 From Afghanistan to Ukraine, from the Middle East to China, the Biden administration's foreign policy failures are stacking up.

00:00:05.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:05.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

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00:00:17.000 No?

00:00:17.000 Me neither.

00:00:21.000 When reviewing the record of the Biden administration on foreign policy, Let's just review for one second where foreign policy was when Joe Biden took office.

00:00:29.000 So, there was no open war with Russia, for example.

00:00:32.000 There was no open conflict with China.

00:00:35.000 There was a crackdown on China that was happening.

00:00:37.000 There was a move towards strengthening sanctions against Russia that had been happening, and stronger movement on Russia's borders.

00:00:45.000 By the Trump administration in the Middle East, peace had broken out.

00:00:49.000 The simple fact of the matter is that foreign policy might have been the brightest spot of the Trump administration.

00:00:52.000 And Joe Biden has signally capitulated on a variety of issues, and he's created tremendous lack of clarity on others.

00:00:58.000 And that lack of clarity leads to further conflict.

00:01:01.000 One of the key tenets of foreign policy is that lack of clarity leads to miscommunication.

00:01:05.000 Miscommunication leads to people making bad assumptions.

00:01:07.000 Those bad assumptions lead to actual dead people.

00:01:10.000 This has been the history of foreign policy ranging well back before World War One.

00:01:14.000 And yet the Biden administration, where it's not wrong, it is unclear.

00:01:17.000 And that is a serious, serious problem.

00:01:19.000 And it's true country to country.

00:01:21.000 And so we've seen over the past few months an attempt by Joe Biden to prop up his foreign policy as sort of a key component of a successful administration.

00:01:28.000 And yet I failed to see the success.

00:01:30.000 So the most obvious example is that last week, Joe Biden was out there and he was championing the idea that he had done a wonderful job in Afghanistan based on the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri.

00:01:40.000 Okay, so the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was the person in charge of Al Qaeda, this was a big win for Joe Biden.

00:01:46.000 According to the media, according to the press, it was going to revitalize his hopes at a 2024 run, revitalize democratic hopes in 2022.

00:01:53.000 There's only one problem, which is that Zawahiri was killed in the middle of Kabul.

00:01:57.000 Here was Joe Biden championing all of the killing of al-Zawahiri last week.

00:02:02.000 On Saturday, at my direction, the United States successfully concluded an airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed the emir of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

00:02:15.000 Now, justice has been delivered, and this terrorist leader is no more.

00:02:21.000 People around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer.

00:02:26.000 The United States continues to demonstrate our resolve and our capacity to defend the American people against those who seek to do us harm.

00:02:35.000 Okay, well, all of that sounds very nice, except for the fact that he surrendered the entire country to people like Ayman al-Zawahiri, which is why Zawahiri was sitting, you know, in the middle of Kabul.

00:02:43.000 And to understand how badly Biden screwed up Afghanistan, you have to understand that he's been wrong about pretty much every foreign policy issue of our lifetime.

00:02:51.000 Joe Biden doesn't actually have any ideas of his own.

00:02:53.000 The ideas that he has are just incorrect.

00:02:55.000 Very often what Joe Biden does, he just follows the center of the Democratic Party.

00:02:58.000 And so if the center of the Democratic Party is pro-Afghan war, he's very pro-Afghan war. 0.57

00:03:02.000 If it becomes anti-Afghan war, he becomes very anti-Afghan war.

00:03:05.000 And then he becomes very set in his own bad ideas, and the result is disaster.

00:03:09.000 There's a reason why Joe Biden's approval rating tanked from like 50% down into the 30s during the Afghanistan debacle in 2021.

00:03:16.000 It has not picked up yet because it underscores the incompetence of this human being.

00:03:19.000 So to understand Joe Biden on Afghanistan, you really have to go all the way back to like the initiation of the war in Afghanistan in the aftermath of September 11th.

00:03:27.000 So Joe Biden was full scale on board with the war in Afghanistan.

00:03:30.000 So was pretty much everybody.

00:03:31.000 There was pretty much nobody in Congress who was not on board with the war in Afghanistan.

00:03:34.000 Here was Biden circa September 14th, 2001.

00:03:37.000 If it requires the use of ground forces, I have no doubt you'll get support to do it.

00:03:41.000 I'm not confirming this.

00:03:42.000 Let's assume it turns out to be Bin Laden and his organization. 1.00

00:03:46.000 Any cell, any group, anything it takes, including using ground forces.

00:03:50.000 Okay, so it's all about Bin Laden and his organization, whatever we have to do. 0.64

00:03:54.000 And then the next month, he says, we can't just go in there and then break a few things and leave.

00:03:58.000 We have to be there for the long haul.

00:03:59.000 Again, this was the typical Democratic Party position circa 2001.

00:04:04.000 The president has personally stated it to Senator Helms and to me, and I'm sure to others, that we have to be in this for the long haul.

00:04:10.000 We can't, quote, drain the swamp and let it fill up again.

00:04:13.000 Okay.

00:04:14.000 February 2002.

00:04:15.000 Same message, right?

00:04:16.000 History is going to judge us.

00:04:17.000 If we don't stay the course, we have to be there long haul.

00:04:20.000 The first real test of post 9-11 engagement is whether or not we're going to stay the course in Afghanistan.

00:04:27.000 If Chairman Carr's eyes to govern effectively, the first thing he needs is security.

00:04:32.000 The second is a plan which is underway to rebuild a military and a police force and an infusion of economic assistance just to do the basic things, like put in fax machines, telephones, desk, paper, the things that are the necessary tools of governance in the most basic of ways.

00:04:51.000 History is going to judge us very harshly, I believe, if we allow the hope of a liberated Afghanistan to evaporate Because we are fearful of the phrase nation building or we do not stay the course.

00:05:05.000 I mean, that's an amazing statement by Joe Biden circa February 2002.

00:05:08.000 History is going to judge us harshly if we go against nation building.

00:05:11.000 OK, well, as we will see, that opinion has changed rather radically over time.

00:05:14.000 So you fast forward about six years.

00:05:15.000 And now the pitch from the Democratic Party is that the bad war is the war in Iraq and the good war is the war in Afghanistan, right? This is what is being pitched by, for example, the presidential candidate, Barack Obama. Joe Biden has followed along in those footsteps.

00:05:27.000 And so he makes that point in debate in October 2008, we're bogged down in Iraq.

00:05:30.000 We need to do more in Afghanistan. It's not a surprise at all that we have been significantly limited in our ability to deal with worldwide terror because we are tied down, bogged down in Iraq. 0.91

00:05:43.000 Afghanistan is slipping toward failure because there's never been a priority and it has to become one. 0.95

00:05:51.000 We spend more money in three weeks on combat in Iraq than we spent on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country.

00:06:04.000 Okay, so that was the good war, right? 0.98

00:06:06.000 Iraq was the bad war. 0.99

00:06:07.000 Afghanistan was the good war. 1.00

00:06:09.000 Then Obama takes office and he continues with this line, right?

00:06:12.000 Joe Biden starts talking about what exactly is our goal in Afghanistan?

00:06:15.000 What are we doing there?

00:06:16.000 After my trip, President Obama ordered a comprehensive review of the policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan.

00:06:23.000 And we want to make sure that our goals are clear and achievable because I would respectfully suggest none of you, nor us, could say precisely what our goal is in Afghanistan.

00:06:35.000 What is the goal?

00:06:36.000 Right.

00:06:36.000 So now we shifted from nation building is worthwhile and we should actually make sure this is not a terrorist safe haven.

00:06:42.000 We should liberalize Afghanistan too.

00:06:44.000 We don't know our goal.

00:06:45.000 In February 2011, moving forward a couple of years, Joe Biden says, we're definitely not going to leave.

00:06:49.000 I mean, we're not going to leave them in the lurch.

00:06:51.000 We wouldn't do that sort of thing.

00:06:53.000 Let me say it plainly, Mr. President.

00:06:55.000 It is not our intention to govern or to nation-build, but we are not leaving if you don't want us to leave.

00:07:03.000 We're not leaving, but we're not here for the nation-building.

00:07:05.000 That's a pretty significant shift.

00:07:07.000 And then by 2012, he's like, yeah, we're leaving.

00:07:09.000 Sorry, we're out.

00:07:11.000 Again, Joe Biden, nothing if not dull-witted.

00:07:15.000 Here he is in 2012.

00:07:18.000 With 49 of our allies in Afghanistan, we've agreed on a gradual drawdown, so we're out of there by the year 2014.

00:07:30.000 My friend and the governor say it's based on conditions, which means it depends.

00:07:35.000 It does not depend for us.

00:07:38.000 It is the responsibility of the Afghans to take care of their own security.

00:07:43.000 But we are leaving.

00:07:45.000 We are leaving in 2014.

00:07:48.000 Period.

00:07:48.000 Okay, so we did, in fact, pull out virtually all of our ground troops in 2014, and we were experiencing very few casualties.

00:07:55.000 The Afghans were experiencing enormous casualties.

00:07:57.000 We were experiencing very few casualties.

00:07:59.000 And this maintained Joe Biden's line up until basically the pullout from Afghanistan.

00:08:03.000 We are going to leave.

00:08:04.000 It doesn't matter what the consequences are.

00:08:06.000 We're going to leave.

00:08:07.000 So, April 14th, 2021, fast forward to Joe Biden's actual presidency.

00:08:10.000 He says, we went there to root out Al Qaeda, and we accomplished that, and now it's time to come home.

00:08:15.000 We went to Afghanistan in 2001 to root out al Qaeda, to prevent future terrorist attacks against the United States planned from Afghanistan.

00:08:25.000 Our objective was clear.

00:08:27.000 The cause was just.

00:08:29.000 Our NATO allies and partners rallied beside us.

00:08:33.000 And I supported that military action along with overwhelming majority of the members of Congress.

00:08:39.000 Okay, so again, we have now shifted all the way from we have to stay there, stay the course.

00:08:43.000 If we have to nation-build, we have to nation-build too.

00:08:45.000 We need to get the hell out, even though there are no American troops dying there right now.

00:08:48.000 It's time to come home, and we rooted out Al-Qaeda.

00:08:50.000 And he continued to maintain this in July of 2021, July 8th.

00:08:54.000 He said Al-Qaeda had been routed from Afghanistan.

00:08:56.000 He said the Afghanistan military would not collapse.

00:08:58.000 There would not be helicopters taking off from roofs of U.S.

00:09:02.000 embassies.

00:09:03.000 None of that was true.

00:09:05.000 We went for two reasons.

00:09:07.000 One, to bring Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell, as I said at the time. 0.77

00:09:21.000 The second reason was to eliminate al Qaeda's capacity to deal with more attacks in the United States from that territory.

00:09:31.000 We accomplished both of those objectives.

00:09:35.000 Period.

00:09:36.000 Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse.

00:09:41.000 That is not true.

00:09:43.000 Can you please clarify what they have told you about whether that will happen or not?

00:09:47.000 That is not true.

00:09:49.000 They did not, they did not reach that conclusion.

00:09:51.000 This is unbelievable.

00:09:53.000 Okay, and then by August, of course, there'd been a massive terror attack against American troops.

00:09:56.000 The entire country had collapsed to the Palabam, and Joe Biden was forced to stagger to the microphone, announcing a terrorist attack, killing 13 American service people, led by ISIS-K, possibly with the cooperation of the very people that Joe Biden was basically handing over Kabul to.

00:10:10.000 A tough day.

00:10:15.000 This evening in Kabul, as you all know, Terrorists attacked that we've been talking about, worried about, that the intelligence community has assessed, has undertaken an attack by a group known as ISIS-K.

00:10:37.000 Took the lives of American service members, standing guard at the airport, This is what a failed foreign policy looks like.

00:10:48.000 And then to sort of backfill the failure, on October 7th, Biden announced that the drawdown was complete.

00:10:54.000 There were hundreds of American citizens who were left behind enemy lines at a minimum.

00:10:56.000 Tens of thousands of U.S.

00:10:58.000 green card holders, people who had worked with the American military, those people were left to the predations of the Taliban.

00:11:03.000 And he said, don't worry, we're redirecting our competition to Russia and China.

00:11:08.000 Well, as it turns out, his policy with regard to Russia and China hasn't been a whole hell of a lot better than it was in Afghanistan.

00:11:12.000 Here was Joe Biden signifying the end of American operations in Afghanistan.

00:11:17.000 My fellow Americans, the war in Afghanistan is now over.

00:11:22.000 The world is changing.

00:11:25.000 We're engaged in a serious competition with China. 0.96

00:11:30.000 We're dealing with the challenges on multiple fronts with Russia.

00:11:35.000 We're confronted with cyber attacks.

00:11:39.000 So the idea was, we now have to refocus.

00:11:40.000 It was, we have to focus on Afghanistan.

00:11:42.000 Then Afghanistan was being distracted by Iraq.

00:11:45.000 Now Afghanistan was the distraction, so we have to surrender the entire country. 1.00

00:11:48.000 The predictable result of this is that people thought that America was a weak tiger under, it was a paper tiger under President Biden.

00:11:55.000 We'll get to that in just a second with regard to Russia.

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00:13:00.000 Okay, so Joe Biden suggested.

00:13:02.000 That we were pulling out of Afghanistan.

00:13:04.000 This is going to free up our hands to deal with Russia. 0.57

00:13:05.000 There's only one problem.

00:13:06.000 The pullout from Afghanistan actually incentivized the war between Russia and Ukraine.

00:13:12.000 Because, after all, where Joe Biden has been clear, he has been wrong.

00:13:16.000 And where he has been unclear, he has provoked conflict.

00:13:19.000 So no wonder Russia thought that Joe Biden was a weak horse.

00:13:21.000 After all, Joe Biden had basically been a Russia defender in the 2012 election.

00:13:25.000 You'll recall that he was ripping on Mitt Romney for suggesting that Russia was a geopolitical threat.

00:13:29.000 Here's Joe Biden circa 2012.

00:13:32.000 Governor Romney's answer, I thought, was incredibly revealing.

00:13:35.000 He acts like he thinks the Cold War is still on.

00:13:37.000 Russia is still our major adversary. 0.91

00:13:40.000 I don't know where he's been.

00:13:42.000 I mean, we have disagreements with Russia, but they're united with us on Iran.

00:13:46.000 The only way we're getting, one of only two ways we're getting material into Afghanistan to our troops is through Russia.

00:13:53.000 They are working closely with us.

00:13:55.000 They've just said to Europe, if there is an oil shutdown in any way in the Gulf, they'll consider increasing oil supplies to Europe.

00:14:04.000 That's not, this is not 1956.

00:14:06.000 This is not 1956, says Joe Biden.

00:14:09.000 Don't worry, Russia will take care of the oil for the Europeans. 0.87

00:14:11.000 Russia will help us with Afghanistan.

00:14:13.000 And then, of course, Russia helped us with Syria by basically taking Syria off the hands of President Obama to the wild cheers of people like Joe Biden.

00:14:23.000 Now, in 2014, Russia invades Crimea, and Joe Biden has some words for Russia.

00:14:27.000 That's pretty much all he has for Russia.

00:14:29.000 So he was vice president when that administration did nothing over the invasion of Crimea.

00:14:32.000 Here was Joe Biden circa 2014.

00:14:33.000 I want to make it clear.

00:14:36.000 We stand resolutely with our Baltic allies in support of the Ukrainian people and against Russian aggression.

00:14:43.000 As long as Russia continues on this dark path, they will face increasing political and economic isolation.

00:14:52.000 There are those who say that this action shows the old rules still apply.

00:14:59.000 But Russia cannot escape the fact that the world is changing.

00:15:04.000 And rejecting outright their behavior.

00:15:08.000 Of course, that was a lie.

00:15:09.000 It turns out that the steps that the White House pursued under Vice President Biden were extraordinarily weak.

00:15:14.000 Basically, they announced a visa ban on a couple of Russian and Ukrainian officials, and they canceled a couple of talks on trades and commercial ties.

00:15:21.000 That was pretty much all of the things.

00:15:24.000 And by the way, they then proceeded to deny lethal aid to Ukraine.

00:15:28.000 As Mark Thiessen points out at the Washington Post, In 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea and began arming separatists in eastern Ukraine with tanks, armored vehicles, and rocket launchers, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko came to Washington to plead for weapons to defend his country.

00:15:41.000 In an impassioned address to a joint session of Congress, with Biden sitting directly behind him, Poroshenko said his country appreciated the non-lethal assistance he was getting, but declared, quote, The Obama administration was unmoved.

00:15:53.000 The Wall Street Journal reported at the time that President Obama stuck to his refusal to provide weapons or other lethal military gear to Ukraine, despite a passionate appeal Thursday for help in fighting pro-Russian rebels by Ukraine's president.

00:16:03.000 Why?

00:16:04.000 The administration feared the lethal aid would provoke Moscow.

00:16:06.000 So instead, they gave meals ready to eat.

00:16:09.000 Food rations.

00:16:10.000 One frustrated Pentagon official said, quote, What kind of message does that send anyway?

00:16:14.000 We're sending MREs while they're being invaded by an aggressor.

00:16:17.000 So why exactly would Vladimir Putin have believed that an invasion of Ukraine full scale under Joe Biden as president would have done anything?

00:16:24.000 Would have made any difference?

00:16:26.000 Especially because Joe Biden doubled down on that in June of 2021.

00:16:30.000 According to politico.com, this is dated June 18th, 2021, the Biden White House has temporarily halted a military aid package to Ukraine that would include lethal weapons, a plan originally made in response to aggressive Russian troop movement along Ukraine's border this spring.

00:16:43.000 That aid package was worth up to $100 million, according to four people familiar with internal deliberations.

00:16:47.000 The National Security Council directed officials to put the package together as Washington grew increasingly concerned over a massive Russian military buildup near the border with Ukraine and in the Crimean Peninsula.

00:16:58.000 But officials at the NSC put the proposal on hold after Russia announced it would draw down troops stationed near Ukraine and in the lead-up to Joe Biden's high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

00:17:09.000 So they froze the package, right, of lethal aid to Ukraine, like last year.

00:17:14.000 So this notion that Joe Biden had somehow a role in dissuading Vladimir Putin, it was Joe Biden's weakness that led Vladimir Putin to invade in the first place.

00:17:22.000 And in December 2021, Joe Biden was openly warning that there would be a strong response to Ukraine invasion.

00:17:30.000 Apparently, Biden held a video call between Vladimir Putin and himself in which he voiced worries over the troop buildups and suggested that there would be strong measures amid the Ukrainian invasion.

00:17:39.000 But what credibility did he have?

00:17:41.000 The answer was none.

00:17:42.000 And so, Vladimir Putin made a rational, if wrong, calculation, which is that there would be no actual effect if, in fact, there was an invasion of Ukraine.

00:17:50.000 And it turns out that the United States was then forced to pour tens of billions of dollars into Ukraine.

00:17:56.000 Europe was deprived of its oil supply and all the rest.

00:17:59.000 And meanwhile, the United States, by the way, is not ratcheting up its energy supply to make up for the deficit.

00:18:03.000 So, Joe Biden said, we're pulling out of Afghanistan to deal with Russia.

00:18:07.000 And this actually prompted Russia to invade Ukraine.

00:18:10.000 Meanwhile, the situation with China is becoming more and more fraud because the Biden administration is not taking the measures necessary to strengthen the American economy at home.

00:18:18.000 Now, Biden has done better on China than he has done with, for example, Russia or Afghanistan, for sure.

00:18:25.000 China is going to eat our lunch? 1.00

00:18:26.000 rhetoric in the past. He's been pretty conciliatory toward China, which is why China probably figures we better do something now before Biden is out of office because we wait for a Republican president might not go so well. As late as 2020, Joe Biden was out there saying China isn't going to eat our lunch. There's really nothing to worry about. China is going to eat our lunch. Come on, man.

00:18:45.000 They can't even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the east, I mean in the west.

00:18:57.000 They can't figure out how they're going to deal with the corruption that exists within the system.

00:19:02.000 I mean, you know, they're not bad folks, folks, but guess what?

00:19:06.000 They're not a competition for us.

00:19:10.000 They're just competition, right?

00:19:12.000 In 2021, Biden said they're not an opponent.

00:19:14.000 They're just competitors, right?

00:19:15.000 Is there really any reason to see them as anything else?

00:19:18.000 I see stiff competition with China.

00:19:23.000 China has an overall goal, and I don't criticize them for the goal, but they have an overall goal to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world, and the most powerful country in the world.

00:19:36.000 That's not going to happen on my watch.

00:19:38.000 Well, I mean, I think that China probably thinks it was going to happen on his watch.

00:19:42.000 As Miranda Devine wrote in the New York Post in July of this year, like a couple of weeks ago, it took a certain bloodless chutzpah for the president to place his scandal-ridden son front and center at a White House function last week.

00:19:53.000 Hunter Biden popped up at Thursday's Medal of Freedom ceremony to glad hand a network from his front row perch, even as he awaits indictment by a grand jury in Delaware over his shady foreign business dealings, most lucratively in China.

00:20:05.000 Just one day earlier, the FBI Director Christopher Wray and his British MI5 counterpart made a rare joint public appearance in London to sound the alarm over the growing serious and economic threat posed by China, which aims to steal our IP and corrupt our politics. 0.97

00:20:18.000 Also on Wednesday, U.S.

00:20:19.000 counterintelligence officials issued a bulletin to state and local officials warning of an escalating campaign by China to manipulate and influence politicians to push Washington for China-friendly policies.

00:20:28.000 Biden has gone soft on China since becoming president.

00:20:30.000 Here are a few examples.

00:20:31.000 He diverted at least a million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, according to Reuters, to the state-owned gas giant Senepec in China.

00:20:39.000 He disbanded the China initiative, a national security program set up by the Trump administration to combat China's economic espionage at universities and research institutions.

00:20:46.000 He revoked Trump-era restrictions against TikTok, instead promising a national security review, which has led to no action for over a year.

00:20:53.000 In another unwinding of hardline Trump policies, the Biden administration granted the Chinese tech giant Huawei a license to purchase chips used in automobile manufacturing.

00:21:00.000 He has not pressed China on the origins of COVID-19.

00:21:03.000 He suspended tariffs on Chinese solar panels.

00:21:05.000 He's reportedly contemplating lifting further Trump tariffs against Chinese imports.

00:21:12.000 So, you know, the simple fact that Joe Biden is saying that he is strong on China while being increasingly weak on China is just another indicator that when it comes to Joe Biden's foreign policy, he's a mess.

00:21:23.000 And the mess that is Joe Biden's foreign policy extends to nearly every area of the globe.

00:21:27.000 I mean, Joe Biden continues to push an Iran deal that is completely unworkable.

00:21:31.000 Iran continues to buck all demands from the International Atomic Energy Agency for any sort of verifiable commitment to denuclearize.

00:21:40.000 Iran continues to foster terrorism around the region, develop ballistic missile technology, and yet Joe Biden is out there saying that he wants to get back to the Iran deal.

00:21:46.000 Joe Biden has made such a mess of things in the Middle East that he's been forced to reverse himself repeatedly on, for example, Saudi Arabia.

00:21:52.000 Because it turns out that the Obama-Biden backing of Iran created a Sunni alliance against Iran.

00:21:59.000 Joe Biden is not particularly fond of that Sunni alliance against Iran, despite the fact that it has created the Abraham Accords. 0.95

00:22:05.000 And yet he is now subject to fist-bumping MBS because he has cut off America's oil supply through both the war in Ukraine and also through failure to up domestic oil production.

00:22:14.000 He's a mess on foreign policy.

00:22:15.000 So when you look abroad and you see a world that is filled with increasing chaos, understand that that is because Joe Biden is really, really bad at this.

00:22:22.000 He was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

00:22:23.000 He has always been extraordinarily bad at foreign policy on nearly every score.

00:22:29.000 Everything that he has touched, he has essentially been wrong on.

00:22:31.000 It's very difficult to find an area of American foreign policy where Joe Biden has been consistently correct.

00:22:37.000 So when we look in a more chaotic world under Joe Biden, understand that, again, that is because Joe Biden has never been good at this.

00:22:43.000 All right, we've reached the end of today's show.

00:22:45.000 We'll be back here tomorrow with more.

00:22:46.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 10, 2022

Who Trusts Joe Biden on Foreign Policy? | Ep. 1553

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