The Biden administration's disastrous
foreign policy has made the world a more dangerous place,
Larry Johnson, retired CIA intelligence officer,
told Sputnik.
The current
escalation in the Middle East is just one example of the Democratic POTUS' diplomacy failure, or rather, "
lack of diplomacy", the former State Department official underscored.
“US diplomacy is this: do what we tell you to do, or we're going to impose sanctions. That's not how you win friends and influence enemies. It's just someone who's going to order people about as if they are their personal servants, it is not going to get respect and is going to have people working against them if they can. I think that's the situation we are in," Johnson stressed.
Amid the spiralling violence, and as the blame game for the
intelligence failure which allowed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants to infiltrate the border between Gaza and Israel picks up steam, Russian President Vladimir Putin described the developments as a clear sign of the
failure of the US policy in the Middle East.
"The Ukrainian crisis continues, and, unfortunately, we see a sharp escalation of the situation in the Middle East. I think that many will agree with me that this is a clear example of the failure of the policy of the United States in the Middle East, which tried to monopolize the settlement, but, unfortunately, was not concerned with finding compromises acceptable to both sides, but, on the contrary, promoted its own ideas about how it should be done," Putin said as he met with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Al Sudani in Moscow.
Putin argued that Washington had attempted to monopolize settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, focusing on promoting its own ideas and putting pressure on both sides rather than finding acceptable compromises. He also underscored that Washington’s actions failed to take into account the “
fundamental interests of the Palestinian people," in reference to the need to implement decisions by the UN Security Council on the creation of an
independent sovereign Palestinian state.In another sign of how US officials had been blindsided by the brewing escalation, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan had bragged about what he called positive developments in the Middle East that were allowing the Biden administration to focus on other regions. "The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades,” Sullivan said at The Atlantic Festival on September 29.
“The Biden foreign policy has been a disaster,” underscored Larry Johnson.
Looking back at the fallout from the Biden administration's foreign policy, which has resulted in the ongoing
NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, constant egging on of conflict with
China, Johnson underscored that the world had become “
a more dangerous place.”