President Obama‘s big foreign policy speech Wednesday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., isn’t likely to offer big changes from his current attempts to keep international affairs from interfering with his real job: getting Democrats elected in November.

The speech is more likely to be a larger response to the criticisms that led Obama to lash out in frustration April 28 during a news conference in Manila while on a trip to Asia to reassure jittery allies.