Jonathan Lemire Praises Biden’s ‘Deeply Consequential Foreign Policy Legacy’

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LEMIRE: "Biden administration officials en route to the region now to start getting the lay of the land since Assad has been deposed. You're right, President Biden was just in Africa, a trip that Donald Trump never made during his first term in office. Fulfilled a campaign promise, Biden, to go. And this will be a deeply consequential foreign policy legacy for this president. And certainly, there have been questions even within his own party how he has cozied up to Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel, but we’re seeing there the changes in Lebanon, Hezbollah down. Of course, the situation in Gaza continues, there are still hostages. We're seeing the support for Ukraine and how that has shaped alliances and shaped Europe, and now he will be handing off to his successor, who obviously has different foreign policy views, but he hasn’t done so just yet. That's the key point. Though Trump has been on the global stage, we know he was in Paris over the weekend, the Biden team and the Biden administration still conducting foreign policy and will, too, until the last minute."