Biden says Putin failed to achieve Ukraine objectives as he reflects on cabinet's foreign policy

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US President Joe Biden says Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has failed across the board during his single term presidency as he reflects on his administration’s foreign policy success one week before the end of his time in office.

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00:00U.S. President Joe Biden delivered a final speech at the U.S. State Department in Washington

00:07reflecting on his administration's foreign policy.

00:10Biden says his single-term presidency was one of remarkable success on the foreign policy

00:15front.

00:16Thanks to our administration, the United States is winning the worldwide competition.

00:22Compared to four years ago, America is stronger.

00:26Our alliances are stronger.

00:28Our adversaries and competitors are weaker.

00:31The outgoing president, who is set to vacate the Oval Office next week, dedicated much

00:35of his speech to perhaps his biggest adversary, Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

00:41Biden says his administration has prevented Putin from achieving any real success in Ukraine

00:47and breaking Western unity.

00:49And now, nearly three years later, Putin has failed to achieve any of his strategic objectives.

00:55He has failed thus far to subjugate Ukraine, failed to break the unity of NATO, and failed

01:02to make large territorial gains.

01:07He added that his government not only restored American credibility on the world stage, but

01:12also hands over U.S. enemies, at their weakest, to the next administration.

01:17Major authoritarian states are aligning more closely with one another, Iran, Russia, China,

01:25and North Korea.

01:26But that's more out of weakness than out of strength.

01:31So as a new administration begins, the United States is in a fundamentally stronger position

01:36with respect to these countries than we were four years ago.

01:43Biden stressed that the job is not complete, noting that the work he's done for Ukraine

01:47must continue.

01:49Next week, President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office.

01:53His views on the war in Ukraine are starkly different.

01:56And until his inauguration, there's no telling what the next four years of U.S. foreign policy

02:00towards Ukraine would look like.

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