Biden wins White House ... How does Biden differ from Trump?

The world followed the results of the US elections, in which Democratic candidate Joe Biden won over his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump.

On Saturday evening, American media announced that Democratic candidate Joe Biden had won the US presidential election, after beating Republican candidate Donald Trump.

The media said that Biden won the presidency of the United States of America to become the 46th president in its history, and his victory came after more than 3 days in a state of uncertainty, while election officials were counting the votes directly or by mail that postponed the announcement of the results.

Biden crossed the electoral threshold of 270 electoral votes after his victory in Pennsylvania.

Joseph Biden, called Joe Biden, was born on November 20, 1942 and is an American politician, who was Vice President of the United States Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.

Despite the talk of many analysts that the change of the US president will not change much of the country's policy, there is a disagreement between the two-party views (Republican - Democrat) about global crisis management, and this was evident during Biden's repeated statements before his victory, during which he criticized the Trump administration.

'A bad omen for Erdogan'

President-elect Joe Biden's criticism of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan heralds a possible deterioration in relations between Ankara and Washington.

Biden had made these statements during a video interview with the "New York Times" last December, in which he directed harsh criticism of the Turkish president, who described him as an authoritarian, and denounced the latter's policy towards the Kurds and called for support for the Turkish opposition, and Biden called for followers to follow. A completely different approach to Erdogan.

Biden made it clear that it is necessary to encourage the opponents of the Turkish president so that they can confront and defeat Erdogan, not through a coup, but through the electoral process.

Joe Biden confirmed that the level of confidence in Erdogan has diminished a lot, noting that Turkey has played a role in enabling the rise of ISIS, which has raised diplomatic tensions.

Biden said of Erdogan: "I spent a lot of time with him, he is an autocrat."

Political pressure on Damascus and protecting the Kurds

On the Syrian file, Biden was one of the skeptics in the Obama administration about what the United States could do in Syria.

He was clearly contradictory to his colleagues at the time including CIA Director David Petraeus, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta who were pushing for the topple of al-Assad.

Four years later and during the final months of the Obama presidency, Biden voiced the same concerns about the more intrusive US policy in Syria.

However, none of this indicates that Biden will support the complete withdrawal of US forces from Syria, and in fact Biden officially supports the presence of a small contingent of American forces in northern and eastern Syria for the foreseeable future, as he told the Wall Street Journal in October. Last November: "Keeping a few hundreds of troops to protect the Kurds is a very logical matter."

Biden criticized Trump's decision to withdraw from Syria during Turkey's attacks on northern and eastern Syria, saying: "The last thing that could absolutely be done was to concede to Erdogan on the Kurdish issue as Trump did to Erdogan in Syria."

Biden described Trump's decision to withdraw US forces as a disgraceful decision that would provide ISIS a new lease on life, and that President Donald Trump abandoned America's allies.

"The American withdrawal and the Turkish invasion had a devastating effect on the extent of their danger to our national security and our leadership around the world," he added.

Biden said, "The courageous Kurdish and Arab forces those who pay precious things for their people, and offered ten thousand martyrs in order to defeat ISIS and the caliphate. They made the utmost sacrifices they had, and then Trump had abandoned them."

And added, "Russia and the mercenaries are taking our camps and former US facilities, so imagine how frustrated the morale of our forces, and Trump ordered the abandonment of the people who stood side by side with us."

Biden sees the solution in maintaining a small US military force to ensure that US special operations forces can prevent the resurgence of ISIS, and he will also use the weak military presence in Syria to put pressure the Syrian government to accept negotiations on a political transition.

"He supports withdrawal, but refuses to leave the arena to enemies and terrorism."

On the presence of American forces abroad, Biden supports the withdrawal of these forces, especially from the Middle East, but he refuses to leave the arena to enemies and terrorism.

Biden said earlier to the American newspaper "Stars and Stripes": "These eternal wars must end. I support the withdrawal of forces, but here is the problem. We still have to worry about terrorism and ISIS."

Biden said that the situations in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq are so complex that he cannot promise a complete withdrawal of forces in the near future.

Nevertheless, it does support a small U.S. military presence whose primary mission is to facilitate special operations against ISIS and other terrorist organizations.

Biden said: "I think we need the ability of special operations to coordinate with our allies," adding that there should be a maximum of "1500 to 2000" on the ground.

However, Biden said the military should not interfere with the political dynamics of the countries in which it is active, and said that US forces must be able to coordinate with allies to train and lead the eradication of terrorist groups that will continue to emerge.

Earlier, Biden said, "If I become commander in chief, I will push for an inclusive army that is able to maintain its dominant position as the most powerful force in the world."

'Dialogue with the Palestinians and Iran'

The Middle East has always been an important focus in the politics of successive American presidents of all kinds, and there may be major changes during Biden's arrival to the White House.

Regarding the Palestinian-Israeli file, in 2018 the Trump administration implemented one of its most controversial foreign decisions to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which sparked a lot of discontent in the Arab world.

This decision was followed by Trump's planning and presentation of what is known as the " Century Deal," which many around the world see as clearly supporting Israeli interests and at the expense of Palestinian rights.

Biden said recently that he would not change Trump's decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem, but he said that real peace will only be achieved through the establishment of two states, and he affirmed his desire for the return of the American dialogue with the Palestinian side and the reopening of the American consulate in East Jerusalem and the Palestine Liberation Organization representative office after their closure within Trump's first term.

As for the Iranian file, Trump led his country to unilaterally withdraw from the nuclear agreement with Iran, which was signed in 2015 with the mediation of the Trump administration and his deputy Biden.

The withdrawal led to the re-imposition of US economic sanctions on Iran, which resulted in great tension in relations between the two countries, which reached the launch of military operations on sites belonging to both of them and the killing of the commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Soleimani, during a US military strike.

Biden strongly criticized Trump's policy toward Tehran, asserting that it leads to nothing but Iran's evasion of its commitment not to build nuclear weapons.

Biden promised, if elected, to "provide a reliable way to Tehran to return to diplomacy. If Iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear agreement, the United States will re-join the nuclear agreement as a starting point for follow-up negotiations."

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