At a time when President Joe Biden is considered one of the most experienced and knowledgeable American presidents on foreign policy issues due to his past experiences and a long resume in this field over nearly half a century, Biden's aging, and the rigid traditional school control over his world view, has paralyzed the policy machine The foreign state is the largest and most influential in the world today.
Biden served for decades on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and chaired it for many years, allowing him to get close to and meddling in the details of managing and making foreign policy decisions during the reigns of Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, James Carter, Donald Trump, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, before the president's help Barack Obama is using it to fill his lack of experience with foreign files.
And after 18 months in the White House, it appears that the system that the American elite calls the "liberal world order" appears less liberal and more chaotic in various parts of the world, especially in Western European countries and in the United States itself.
Despite the huge shock caused by President Donald Trump's presence in the White House for four years, President Biden shows great reluctance to make any major, influential and decisive decisions that will result in shaping his administration's positions on issues rejected and condemned by Biden himself and his Democratic party elite, and pledged to amend them, and to restore foreign policy. The American administration is on its right path, which has not happened yet, and it does not seem that there are any indications that it will happen in the near future.
Eighteen months after Biden's accession to the White House, US foreign policy is facing an even more tense world not seen since the end of the Cold War at the end of the 1980s.
No one in Washington knows the fate of Russia's war on Ukraine.
Despite Washington's aid that exceeded $50 billion in four months, it does not appear that there is a significant impact of US arms and sanctions on the fate of the war or its repercussions on the European continent and beyond.
Europe is facing an unprecedented military policy crisis, and consolidating the NATO partnership has not succeeded in reassuring the European or American elites about Russian plans and intentions within the European continent.
After 18 months in the White House, Biden and his foreign policy team stand helpless in the face of domestic calculations and external balances regarding the file of negotiations over the nuclear program with Iran, after Washington withdrew from the agreement at the hands of President Trump in 2018. The American elite realizes the seriousness of Iran's pursuit of acquiring a nuclear weapon After Biden refused to return to the previous nuclear agreement upon his arrival at the White House in January 2021, as he had previously pledged to do so.
Biden and his team avoid provoking the wrath of some of the Democratic Party's opposition to the Iran deal, not to mention the Republicans and Washington's Middle Eastern allies' rejection of any progress in the talks.
After 18 months in the White House, China continues its calculated escalation towards Taiwan, in light of its repeated violations of the island's private airspace, which is only 90 miles from Chinese territory.
Despite the Chinese escalation in the South China Sea and Beijing's encroachment on areas belonging to Washington's allies in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, Washington has not escalated or worked seriously to deter China by eliciting military responses or threatening economic sanctions.
Biden and his team also neglect to confront the reality of China's support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
And after 18 months in the White House, it appears that the system that the American elite calls the "liberal world order" appears less liberal and more chaotic in various parts of the world, especially in Western European countries and in the United States itself.
Global concern is less with international institutions that Washington has relied on for decades to pass its financial, economic and political vision to the world.
The American hegemony over the World Bank, the IMF and the United Nations faces unprecedented challenges from Washington's rivals such as Russia and China, and from some of its allies such as India, Brazil and African countries in general.
Biden and his team have chosen to focus on external issues with clear internal dimensions such as climate change and gay rights, policies that continue to deeply divide the United States and abroad.
Despite Biden and his teams claiming that they are in the process of restoring well-established values and principles related to human rights to become among the priorities of US foreign policy, Biden's visit and meetings in the Saudi city of Jeddah showed the void of these allegations in form and content.
Biden's assertion to the leaders of the Middle East that his country will not "step away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran" is a clear indication that the determinants of US policy towards the region depend on interests in the first place, making it difficult for any international competition for influence in the region. They ignore the reality of the competition of major countries, including allies and enemies of Washington, for influence in the Middle East, and even the inclination of many Arab rulers and peoples to the Chinese and Russian model in managing their internal affairs.
Biden went to the region at a moment when the world is facing enormous economic and security risks, and only secured oil pledges that will not solve a complex global energy crisis, yet Biden and his team are successfully celebrating a visit by a troubled president to a region that remains unstable.