The Biden foreign policy moves we're seeing -- refusing to stop buying Russian oil, sudden outreach to Venezuela and KSA, the insane cave-in to Iran/Russia in the Vienna talks -- make sense once you realize Biden admin foreign policy has two inviolable rules:
Rule #1: get back into something that can be heralded as the Iran deal, no matter what. This is less a policy idea than a matter of Democratic honor – refusing to admit the failure of Obama’s major foreign policy goal, repudiating Trump, etc.
Rule #2: cripple domestic energy production. This is the foremost demand of the eco-activist base of the Dem Party. No matter how much gas prices increase, the admin will not budge.
And so the admin is left begging bad regimes for oil. It’s morally appalling, it’s nonsensical as a policy to reduce carbon emissions, but it pleases eco-activists. So it is done.
Right now Rule #1 really clashes with Rule #2 since much oil production comes from the same Gulf Arab countries endangered by Democrats’ obsession with the Iran deal. Biden is left chasing tin-pot thugs like Maduro and…unable to stop funding Putin’s war on Ukraine.
There are a lot of these inviolable policies in Dem politics today, signifying a weak party largely controlled by interest groups. They’re making Dems bad at governing – unable to respond to events w/ reasonable course corrections. /end
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