Biden: America is ‘winning the worldwide competition’ after my four years in office
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‘Our adversaries are weaker than they were when we came into this job four years ago,’ declares US president in final foreign policy address. Four years after President Joe Biden entered office with the intent on strengthening American alliances that had been neglected during Donald Trump’s first administration, he says he’s leaving office having accomplished those goals.
![[Taliban fighters celebrate the third anniversary of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August of 2024.]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/08/25/10/Afghanistan_Taliban_18837.jpg)
In his final foreign policy address at the State Department on Monday, the US president declared that America was “winning the worldwide competition” while pointing to a strengthened — and growing — North Atlantic Treaty Organization and other new and upgraded US alliances as evidence.
![[Evacuees swarm a US aircraft departing Kabul during the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/08/18/15/Afghanistan_Evacuation_210821-M-GQ845-1035.jpg)
“Today, I can report to the American people, our sources of national power are far stronger than they were when we took office,” said Biden, adding that America’s adversaries were conversely “weaker than they were when we came into this job four years ago.”.
The remarks will be just one of several events the administration has planned to mark Biden’s final week in office, after which he’ll close out more than a half-century in public service by attending Trump’s second inauguration to mark the peaceful transfer of power he was denied four years ago when Trump attempted to overturn his 2020 election loss.
The president’s final foreign policy speech was initially set to be delivered as a bookend to Biden’s final trip aboard as president, a visit to Rome that was scuttled to allow him to oversee the federal response to the wildfires that have devastated Los Angeles and the surrounding area.
