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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