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The White House promised “no deliverables” on President Joe Biden’s first visit overseas, but his return has critics searching for meaning in his foreign policy agenda.
“It s not clear to me what the argument is,” said Kiron Skinner, policy planning director at the State Department during the Trump administration, of Biden’s sweep from the G-7 meeting to the NATO ministerial and the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We re reengaging multilateral forums that the Trump administration pulled out of, but it s not giving us the argument behind all of these decisions,” Skinner said.
She added: “If we re meeting for the purpose of meeting to say that the United States is back, I think that s a complete waste of time. If we re meeting to establish that American power is going to help make the world a better place, that we re going to make some hard choices that defend American national interests above all, then I think there is a reason