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FILE – In this file photo on Thursday, September 29, 2016, Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria. Blinken is the main contender to become the candidate for secretary of state for President-elect Joe Biden, according to most people familiar with the Biden team’s planning. (Photo AP / Jose Luis Magana, File)
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US President-elect Joe Biden made the first decisions on the future cabinet: Tony Blinken will become foreign minister, under Barack Obama he was security advisor to the then Vice President and later Deputy Secretary of State. Jake Sullivan, who was part of the US delegation that initiated the nuclear deal with Iran, was appointed National Security Advisor. Likely Defense Minister Michèle Flournoy served under Obama in the Pentagon is considered a European expert and a staunch ocean liner.
This is good news. In the future, Europe and Switzerland will again have contacts in Washington. Adults who recognize the value of multilateralism, whether in the fight against the pandemic, climate change or in an attempt to take a united front against China Xi Jinping and Russia Vladimir Putin.
However, even with Biden it will not be possible to go back to glorified times.
Resilient agreements with a government will again be possible in the future because there is cooperation in Washington, a process of defining policy. And no longer a one-man show at the White House setting the direction with erratic tweets.
However, even with Biden it will not be possible to go back to glorified times when Europe was primarily concerned with itself. Donald Trump initiated the trade war with China, but America’s breakthrough in Asia has been the central motto of Obama’s foreign policy.
What Biden will not undo is the US withdrawal from the Middle East and Afghanistan. Perhaps the hasty withdrawal that Trump is trying to push through can still be stopped. The danger threatens that Putin or his Turkish opponent Recep Tayyip Erdogan will shape the course of events and that regional powers will soon fight their struggle with arms – or China will fill the void.
Even President Biden will not relieve Europeans and Swiss from difficult decisions on these issues.
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With his nominations, the elected president of the United States shows that he wants to make the United States again a reliable partner in foreign and security policy.
opinionPaul-Anton Kruger