What if Joe Biden wins? Some say the biggest foreign policy challenge of his presidency would be… at home.
Biden has in the past described playing hardball with leader’s like Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic, above; Biden says he told Milosevic that he’s a “damned war criminal.” | AP Photos
“I found him to be an utter realist, somebody who didn’t have any illusions about what he was up against.”A Biden campaign adviser points to several examples of his boss criticizing U.S. partner countries, such as Hungary, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, over democratic backsliding and human rights abuses. Biden, the adviser says, “won’t hesitate to hold our partners accountable when they fall short of the values we strive to uphold.
“He took to heart Mubarak’s emphasis on the risks that would follow should he be removed from office. Mubarak would say, ‘It’s either me or the Muslim Brotherhood.’ Biden gave that much more credit than the president or many others,” one former Obama administration official says. All of this is why Biden’s rare comment on Egypt, a tweet promising “no more blank checks for Trump’s ‘favorite dictator,’” intrigues activists on the left.
“If six months into the Biden administration, Egypt is still acting the way they are today, I don’t know why they should be a U.S. security partner,” Murphy says.
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