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President Biden aimed to establish three poles of power in the Middle East through American foreign policy, but Iran's independent rise as a regional player challenges traditional strategies, signaling a potential shift in regional dynamics.
Policy analysts, diplomats
The full transcript provides a detailed breakdown of American foreign policy goals in the Middle East, specifically concerning Iran's emerging role and its potential implications for regional stability.
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Well, howdy there, Internet people. It's Beau again.
So today we are going to talk about President Biden, 4-D chess,
and whether or not he pulled a really fast one with American foreign policy
and achieved something that nobody thought he could achieve.
And he did it in a way that was just multi-leveled and thinking super far ahead.
And this is what American foreign policy pulled off.
There is a lot of coverage right now about how Iran is coming out.
And they're becoming that third pole of power in the Middle East.
And they are filling a power vacuum that has been created.
There are a few messages that I've received asking, did Biden pull this off?
Was this American foreign policy at work? Because that was the goal.
Biden's goal was to establish three poles of power in the Middle East
and achieve kind of a balance so the United States could
deprioritize the Middle East and leave. That was the goal.
And that is kind of happening.
But Biden's team hasn't pulled off the nuclear deal.
Biden's team didn't really bring Iran out, but it's still happening.
Does this mean that Biden achieved it via some 4-D chess method?
No, don't do that. Don't do that.
We saw that a lot under President Trump, his supporters basically crediting him
with anything that went right, even if he had nothing to do with it.
Don't do that.
You know, it's foreign policy is an international poker game
where everybody's cheating.
Biden's team, the Biden administration, they didn't play the hand well.
They didn't win the hand, but all the other cards that got dealt,
they pushed Iran the direction that the Biden team wanted them to go.
This wasn't an American foreign policy win because under that plan,
Iran would be coming out under U.S. auspices.
They would be coming out and being kind of friendly to the U.S.,
warming up, joining the international community.
That's not really what's occurring.
They're coming out and filling up a power vacuum on a regional level.
They're not joining the international community
the way the Biden administration wanted them to.
Does that change the benefits for the United States?
Not really.
Not really. If the goal is actually to deprioritize the Middle East and get out,
one is just as good as another.
But it's not because Biden won here.
It's because other factors achieved kind of the same goal
and it looks very similar from the outside.
But it's not that Biden's team pulled off a miracle
or was thinking 18 steps ahead and tricked Iran into doing it.
The power vacuum existed.
Iran is starting to fill it.
So they're becoming even more of a regional player,
which turns them into that third pole of power
and hopefully could, in theory, still stabilize the Middle East.
It cuts out U.S. interests,
which for most people watching this channel,
that's not something you probably care about.
You care about human life.
And if there is stability reached between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Israel,
then, yeah, that's going to happen.
The same goal as far as people's lives, it'll be achieved.
But it wasn't because the Biden administration was playing 4-D chess.
They lucked into it.
Now, 50 years from now, if it all works out,
if it all works out, when history books are written,
yeah, he'll look like a genius.
But standing here today, it was luck.
It was luck.
And we're still not certain that it's going to play out the way
that we're hoping, the way it looks like it might.
Iran coming into its own there,
establishing itself as a more regional player
that is playing more by traditional rules,
is good across the board for the international community.
It's good for the Iranian people.
It's good for the Middle East as a whole.
It's good.
It's a good thing.
It is something that could bring about peace.
You can't credit Biden with it.
He tried.
It didn't work.
Maybe it provided a nudge and let them know that it was possible.
His team's plan isn't how it happened.
So not really a win, but it's also not a loss.
You can look at it that way.
Anyway, it's just a thought.
You have a good day.
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