How AOC’s Foreign Policy Vision Is Different Than Biden’s

Everyone says they don’t know what AOC’s foreign policy is—but Jonathan Guyer, program director at the Institute for Global Affairs, argues that’s not quite right. He joins the show to break down his piece “AOC Meets World,” tracing how she went from a shaky, underprepared answer on Israel-Palestine early in her career to a confident speech at the Munich Security Conference tying global oligarchy and authoritarianism directly to economic policy. We discuss why her worldview is more class-based than Biden’s, why the left is pushing to disqualify Biden’s Gaza-era foreign policy advisors like Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken from future roles, and whether foreign policy—driven by the Iran war, gas prices, and strikes in the Caribbean—will actually be a factor in the next Democratic primary.

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