The disastrous Biden foreign policy positions that will cost the Democrats dearly in 2024

As we head towards 2024, it is nothing short of remarkable that the Democratic Party still considers Joe Biden to be the best possible candidate to contest the next US presidential election against, if the poll numbers are accurate, an evermore bullish Donald J. Trump.

His clearly cognitive issues aside, taken in sequence, the chaotic withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 — which drew justifiable comparison with the evacuation of Saigon by US forces, embassy staff and Vietnamese allies in 1975 — marked one of the most shameful and humiliating foreign policy disasters in US history, of which there have been many.

This was followed by Biden’s adamantine and unswerving support in treasure and huge military aid to Ukraine from the moment Russia moved into the country on February 24 2022. At this writing, this aid amounts to a whopping $113 billion, with a further proposed amount of just over $60 billion earmarked but currently placed on hold due to fierce opposition by senate republicans, for whom — and understandably — President Zelensky’s star has waned dramatically.