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Intereconomics Biden’s Security Policy: Democratic Security or Democratic Exceptionalism? Forum Biden’s Security Policy: Democratic Security or Democratic Exceptionalism? Simona R. Soare, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris, France. Can the Biden administration chart a new course for American security policy given the unprecedented level of polarisation and social unrest in the United States? Can the US lead internationally and build a new transatlantic partnership while tackling the layered political, economic and health crises it faces at home? This article examines the...

With me is seth moulton, an iraq war veteran. >> thanks, good to be here. >> trump is declaring a victory. apparently we're rolling tanks in to guard oil field. >> it's a disaster. it's terrible for our allies on the ground. it's terrible for our troops who feel betrayed by their own commander in chief. >> it's terrible for the fight against isis. it does help iran, it helps russia, putin. it helps assad, the butcher of syria, and it helps erdogan, putin's protege. don't think this is just versus implications in the middle east. china is watching, north korea is watching, iran is watching. >> ...

Having the kurds back, i mean, watching their back and protecting their back? >> yeah, i mean, i think that's what -- see, here's what happens. you go in, you have all these people that say the answer to every foreign policy problem is to send u.s. troops. then you send the u.s. troops, you make partnerships and if you leave, you leave them high and dry. if you didn't intervene in the first place, you won't have this problem. once you do, i think we have some responsibility to the kurds, that's why i say execution matters. we could have gotten some of them out of there, we could have arranged ...

Welcome back to "the beat." i'm joined by rachel maddow, host of "the rachel maddow show," right here on msnbc. her new book is "blowout," about how the oil and natural gas businesses can corrupt governments around the world. and we can announce right here, right now, it is again number one on "the new york times" best seller list. that is new and for the second week in a row. >> thank you. that's brand-new news. that's awesome. it's weird. mostly awesome. it's weird. >> thank you for stopping by. you're doing a million things. >> sure. >> why is it important to understand oil and business as ...

Jason johnson is politics editor at theroot.com. all of them are msnbc contributors. david, i want to start with you because this has been one of those -- we've been talking about this inside our own news room for quite some time going there is this giant foreign policy problem sitting at the president's desk. but it's hard to articulate because the problem is inaction. you did a good job of articulating it in this big picture, but this isn't the easiest story to explain to the public. explain what we mean by by inaction? >> so, chuck, it is a complicated world. today's a day when we felt as i...