President Biden waves as he prepares to depart the airport after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, on June 16. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Opinion Opinion: We Don't Need A Biden Doctrine Dividing The World Into Good And Bad June 22, 2021 President Biden sees foreign policy as a battle between democracies and autocracies — and that's a flawed doctrine, according to analysts Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky.