Biden’s handling of Gaza has been the clearest demonstration of why Obama’s Secretary of Defense was so openly disdainful of Joe’s ability in that arena. Joe Biden is awful at foreign policy.
Firstly he withdrew all resources from the effort to expand the Abraham Accords, demonized Saudi Arabia who was ready to sign the Abraham Accords, and released sanctioned funds for bad actor Iran.
Next, it quickly became apparent all of the above was moronic so Biden completely reversed himself to undo the damage Biden had done, but it was too late to avoid all the damage.
Then Hamas, at the direction of emboldened Iran, sought to destabilize the Middle East to halt progress on the Abraham Accords. Israel took steps to mitigate the threat to their people, and Biden actually got something right when he condemned Hamas while loudly voicing support for Israel. Biden’s Press Secretary stood in the press room to say there weren’t two sides to this.
Biden subsequently retreated from his clear stand to both-sides the situation in ways that don’t match reality. One example was the claim that Netanyahu was stopping aid trucks from crossing the border into Gaza, which wasn’t true when Biden announced that he was building a pier into Gaza to get around Netanyahu’s supposed border blockade. The truth was that Hamas was attacking or stealing all aid and the Israeli army was failing to protect aid trucks on the interior of Gaza, which an American pier does nothing to address but it puts Americans where Hamas can shoot at them while failing to solve any issues.
In the latest low IQ effort, Biden has announced that he was stopping the delivery of military aid to Israel if they rolled in to where Hamas leadership has barricaded themselves. That outraged everyone who wants to see Hamas’ leadership removed from the board, and Biden did as Biden does when he backed off to say he was only talking about large diameter bombs but all other Palestinian-killing munitions would continue to flow even if Israel tries to wipe out Hamas.
Now maybe arms are going in, or maybe they aren’t, and maybe we have intelligence that could have ended this already but we withheld it. Biden is all over the place. He has no clear stance and his half-measures are enraging all sides except for the side who wants chaos for America.