Racing To Exit Biden Admin, Blinken Brags US In ‘Much Stronger Geopolitical Position’ Despite World On Fire

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that the U.S. is in a “much stronger geopolitical position” under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris — despite several global conflicts and rising multi-national tensions.

Blinken has overseen U.S. diplomacy across the globe as wars have broken out in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and as tensions with American adversaries abroad have dramatically increased. As he seemingly prepares to leave his post in January, Blinken wrote in an op-ed for Foreign Affairs on Tuesday saying that the U.S. is in a far better position than it was under the former Trump administration, and outlined what he believes should be American foreign policy going forward.

“President Biden and Vice President Harris pursued a strategy of renewal, pairing historic investments in competitiveness at home with an intensive diplomatic campaign to revitalize partnerships abroad,” Blinken wrote. “The Biden administration’s strategy has put the United States in a much stronger geopolitical position today than it was four years ago.”

Blinken argued that Biden and Harris were hampered when they took office by the former Trump administration’s legacy on foreign policy and diplomacy, which he says had been signaling to other nations that the U.S. was in “irreversible decline.”

“They saw an American public that had lost its faith in government, an American democracy that was polarized and paralyzed, and an American foreign policy that was undermining the very alliances, international institutions, and norms that Washington had built and championed,” Blinken wrote.

Blinekn said that though Biden and Harris have made substantial progress, there is still “unfinished” work to attend to. The U.S. must continue to strengthen its alliances abroad, be prepared for national adversaries to deepen their cooperation and work against American interests and encourage friendly global competition, he said.