AOC in Munich

There's a reason this trip exists, and it isn't subtle. One unnamed Democratic insider told the Daily Mail what everyone already knows, "She has strong domestic policy credentials, and strong progressive credentials, but if you're going to be on a national ticket and be president or vice president, you have to have some knowledge of foreign affairs."

"Some knowledge" being the operative phrase. In a 2018 PBS interview during her first congressional campaign, Ocasio-Cortez herself admitted the obvious, "I am not the expert at geopolitics on this issue."

Since then, she's reportedly been receiving foreign policy advice from Matt Duss, who spent five years as Bernie Sanders' foreign policy advisor, and getting briefings from the Center for International Policy.

Whether that's enough to stand on a stage in Munich and be taken seriously by European heads of state is the gamble she made.

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She failed miserably.