[Salon] Dan McCarthy: the brutal end to the post-Cold War presidencies and their failures

[Kelley Vlahos <vlahos@quincyinst.org>]

All -- We have a great piece by Dan McCarthy, former editor of the American Conservative, now editor-in-chief at Modern Age, on the end of the neoliberal/neocon epoch that blotted the post-Soviet era in US foreign policy.

Joe Biden’s place in history is as the man under whom the liberal international order unraveled.

America has suffered bouts of inflation before, and while Biden’s domestic failures will be remembered, they will not stand out as singular. In foreign policy, however, Biden has written the end of a chapter not only in America’s story but in the world’s as well.

Far from representing “hope and change,” the slogan on which he and Barack Obama were elected in 2008, Biden has personified the hopelessness and stagnation of the West’s post-Cold War foreign policy.

Please read the full essay at RS today: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-foreign-policy-failures/

All the best,

Kelley

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