Stumper: What’s Biden’s Biggest Foreign Policy Achievement?

BUCK: What was Joe Biden’s biggest foreign policy accomplishment this year? Welcome back to the Clay and Buck show. We ask real questions and give you real answers, which separates us from about 90, 95% of the rest of the media, but we will continue to do so. So what is Joe Biden’s big foreign policy…? Remember, foreign policy for the Democrat-snob types is the area where they think because they studied French in college or something, they think they’re very worldly.

You know, they took that semester abroad in Italy which all my friends who did it will you tell you it’s great fun, but you’re basically just eating a lot of panini and going out to the discotheque at night. It doesn’t necessarily mean… Listen, I got nothing but love for that if you want to do it, but I’m just saying it doesn’t mean that you’re a scholar of global affairs necessarily.

But the libs themselves — especially in policy circles — are particularly elite on foreign policy, right? So, American Donald Trump, who was, “Oh, gosh! Yeah, didn’t get us in any wars, did he? Didn’t get us in any wars. Didn’t actually have a foreign policy catastrophe, not one in four years. Not one.” Here’s Joe Biden in year one, where I can’t even think of what would be the upside of his foreign policy, and Jen Psaki was asked. Here’s what she said.

REPORTER: It’s year-end season so I would ask you what does the administration consider your biggest achievement in foreign policy in this first year and also what lessons have you learned from what is arguably the biggest failure, which is Afghanistan?

PSAKI: You know, this is a great question. I want to be thoughtful about it, want to talk to the president about it and I’m happy to do that.

BUCK: Now, look.

CLAY: Wow.

BUCK: It is not fun — not fair, rather. It is fun. It is not fair to make fun of Jen Psaki on this because, Clay, she’s asked an impossible question, right? How do you answer this? ‘Cause Biden’s a loser.

CLAY: Anybody who has ever been in school and gotten called on… We need to hear that again. First of all, that’s a fantastic question. I don’t know who asked that question. Also, by the way, not an inconceivable question to prep for, right? Like end of the year, “Hey, how would you assess the first year? What are you proud of?” Now, she specifically asked about foreign policy, but it was like you could see Jen Psaki just freeze up like her brain like, “Oh, my God. We don’t have any foreign policy the achievements.”

And it reminds me a couple of times when I was in law school, Buck, you know, you have the Socratic method where the teacher– for people who haven’t experienced this, the teacher — in law school classroom just picks one student and grills them on a case. And if you haven’t read that case, if you aren’t prepared for that case, it is excruciating to watch somebody just get fileted in front of the whole class. That’s like the kind of answer you got when you hadn’t read the case and hadn’t done your homework.

BUCK: It’s remarkable. It’s also noteworthy that we’re here with Russia having over a hundred thousand troops on the border with Ukraine, and what I want to make sure everyone knows about this — ’cause you’re certainly not gonna hear this from the Biden lackeys in the media — is there’s a very clear pattern here, my friends. When there is a left-wing Democrat as president — Barack Obama, for example — Russia feels like it has…

Despite all the Russia stuff we heard under Trump, when did Russia seize Crimea? When did Russia begin its offensive of separatists in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine? It was 2014, the Obama administration. And then things got real quiet for a while with Trump in office. I know that he was the Russian stooge, but we actually had about 150 or so Russian paramilitaries blown up in the Syrian dessert.

You don’t hear much about that anymore when they were threatening our Kurdish allies. That was under Trump. You had more sanctions, more expulsions, more diplomatic pressure on Russia than ever about. That was under Trump. But just to bring it back here now, they’re getting ready to go into Ukraine under a Biden administration, and they’re already, they have been at war in Ukraine since 2014. They seized Crimea. They’re at war in Donbass. So this would just be an escalation, Clay, almost like they think Democrats don’t have much in the way of never mind military acumen, but diplomatic teeth.

CLAY: Well, first of all, that was an amazing analysis of current foreign policy with Russia and past couple of presidents, but I’m still kind of laughing about that Jen Psaki answer. What actually is their best foreign policy achievement? If she had to spin it, what do you think the answer is?

BUCK: You know, you and I do a lot of talking forgiving, right? If I’m put there and they’re gonna say, “Buck, you know, we’ll give you a million dollars just to answer this question,” I could probably answer. I might say something about Paris, you know, climate —

CLAY: Accords. Yeah.

BUCK: — in the future, something, something, you know, yada yada. But there’s nothing. There’s nothing. And you would think that the pivot, I think, would usually be, “We’ve put in place the beginnings of the…” But there is no Biden Doctrine.

CLAY: It’s such a fantastic… I think probably what I would spin is we stood up to China and we aren’t gonna have diplomatic relations for the Olympics.

BUCK: Wait a second. We’re continuing the Trump policies in China?

CLAY: I know.

BUCK: That was supposed to start a trade war? Okay.

CLAY: You certainly can’t talk about anything having to do with Remain in Mexico or Central America. You can’t talk about anything Afghanistan. You can’t talk about anything Russia, as you just laid out. The only thing I can even think of is the China angle. Now, you might be able to…

She probably should have just gone back to the answer for every subject. Democrats say everything is racist, which doesn’t apply very well in foreign affairs, because arguably their biggest foreign affairs move was banning travel to Africa, which was called racist. I think they have to just go with global warming and just try to claim they did something there. I think you’re right.

BUCK: Global warming, scream something about racism, and next question to Jen Psaki. The Jen Psaki story.