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President Biden connected Monday spoke for the past time from the State Department connected the authorities of American overseas argumentation and nationalist information arsenic his four-year word is acceptable to reason successful 1 week erstwhile President-elect Trump volition erstwhile again instrumentality up the apical job.
Biden did not specifically code oregon sanction the inbound president, but helium referenced the prior, and incoming, Trump medication and touted that helium is leaving a "strong manus to play."
The president listed a fig of large nations of apical geopolitical value to U.S. nationalist security. But helium besides referenced the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan – which has been among the president’s astir heavy criticized argumentation decisions, and which resulted successful the decease of 13 American work members and astir 170 Afghan civilians arsenic ISIS-K launched an onslaught connected those evacuating astatine Abbey Gate.
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"[I am] the archetypal president successful decades who's not leaving a warfare successful Afghanistan to his successor," Biden said.
The president pointed to the 2011 assassination of 9/11 mastermind, Usama bin Laden, during the Obama medication and said helium assessed that ample numbers of American forces were nary longer needed erstwhile helium took up office.
"So erstwhile I took office, I had a prime – lone I saw nary crushed to support thousands of servicemen successful Afghanistan," helium added. "In my view, it was clip to extremity the warfare and bring our troops home, and we did."
The president attempted to antagonistic the disapproval helium received of the withdrawal and said, "Remember, critics said if we ended the warfare it would harm our alliances and make threats to our homeland from overseas directed coercion retired of a harmless haven successful Afghanistan.
"Neither has occurred," Biden said. "Our alliances person stayed strong, we've utilized our over-the-horizon capabilities of striking Afghanistan and elsewhere erstwhile we had to.
"And by ending the war, we've been capable to absorption our vigor and resources connected our urgent challenges," the president said, pointing to issues the U.S. continues to look from adversaries similar Russia and China.
Biden urged the incoming Trump medication to proceed to support Ukraine and deter Russian President Vladimir Putin, noting Moscow’s occurrence successful Ukraine volition person resounding consequences astir the globe – particularly successful Asia.
"There's much to do. We can't locomotion away," helium said, noting the U.S. invested astir $1.3 trillion successful the defence concern basal nether his presidency.
"That's much than America did successful immoderate four-year play during the Cold War," Biden said. "It's going to guarantee that we're afloat equipped to combat and triumph wars, which is besides the champion mode to deter wars successful the archetypal place."
Biden besides touted his progress successful deterring China arsenic a large U.S. adversary and claimed that erstwhile helium entered bureau Beijing was assessed to economically surpass Washington by 2030.
"Now according to the latest predictions connected China’s existent course, they volition ne'er surpass us," helium said.
But determination was 1 large country helium warned the incoming medication astir – clime alteration and the menace China poses successful that arena.
"Some successful the incoming medication are skeptical astir the request for cleanable energy. They don't adjacent judge clime alteration is real. I deliberation they travel from a antithetic century," helium said successful his harshest rebuke of the incoming administration. "They are dormant wrong.
"It's the azygous top existential menace to humanity – the cleanable vigor modulation is already happening," Biden continued. "China is trying to predominate the cleanable vigor manufacturing, captious materials, proviso chains.
"They privation to seizure the marketplace of the aboriginal and make caller dependencies – the United States indispensable triumph that contest," the president added.
Biden further urged the Trump medication to proceed processing artificial intelligence, arsenic good arsenic countering the Houthis successful Yemen and North Korea arsenic adversarial powers like Iran, Russia and China proceed to turn person together.
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