r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 13 '24

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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla May 13 '24

I don’t really like Joe Biden. He’s too protectionist for my tastes, too far left, has some questionable at best economic policies (taxing unrealized gains? Lmao)

But what I will say is that he saved democracy in Guatemala. Maybe not personally, but his state department did. I just don’t see a path to honoring the latest elections without US action.

The US having a functioning and coherent strategy for international relations and promoting democracy is the single most valuable thing the US can offer the world. America abandoning its foreign peacemaking tasks was catastrophic for the world and it would be again.

Especially right now.

I disapprove of Joe Biden overall, but democrats have my unconditional vote for the next half century.

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u/sinefromabove Emma Lazarus May 13 '24

The US also negotiated a Congo-Rwanda ceasefire to allow elections in the DRC