From Ukraine to Afghanistan, President Biden often rejects the views of aides and experts in favor of long-honed instincts on foreign policy.
It was not yet clear where the missile had come from. But Biden and his aides knew they would face immediate questions about whether Russia had intentionally launched a missile into a NATO country — an act of war that would triggerof the alliance’s charter, drawing the United States and more than two dozen other countries into direct conflict with Russia.
With the sun not yet up, Biden huddled with his two top foreign policy officials, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan. The three sat on the couches in Biden’s lavish hotel room at the Grand Hyatt Bali and dialed into a briefing with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who told them the Pentagon had strong indicationsBiden’s first move was to call Polish President Andrzej Duda.
Biden then invited a cluster of foreign leaders — including France’s Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Rishi Sunak — to his hotel room to personally workshop a joint statement aimed at calming the situation., he veered from his prepared remarks to make clear the explosions probably were not from a Russian projectile.
The moment reflected key elements of Biden’s approach to foreign policy, as he heads into a stretch of his presidency likely to be far more dominated by global affairs: He reacted instinctively, relied heavily on relationships with other world leaders and showed few qualms about departing from a carefully scripted statement.
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