What Joe Biden’s Phone Calls Tell Us About His Foreign Policy

Akshobh Giridharadas
4 min readMar 11, 2021

US President Joe Biden

Some time in 2012, social media did what social media does best — parodied and memed then President Barack Obama’s rendition of Carly Rae Jensen’s “Call Me Maybe

The song was a pop sensation with prosaic lyrics, but kept regurgitating the title of the song, “call me, maybe” — clearly a phone call meant a lot.

Dating to 2021 (no pun intended), but just like the millennial protagonist in the song, waiting for a call from a heartthrob…

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Akshobh Giridharadas

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