Predicting that Joe Biden’s presidency would be a disaster on the world stage was a rare political forecast that did not cause me painful spasms of self-doubt. By the time of his election in 2020, Barack Obama’s vice president had established for himself an unrivaled record of bad judgment predicated on faulty assumptions. All that was open to debate was the scale of the debacle over which Biden would preside, and it’s hard to say he underperformed.
From engineering a national humiliation in Afghanistan, to overseeing the eruption of two hot wars on as many continents (and he has managed both wars schizophrenically), to calling into question the longevity of American primacy on the high seas, Biden has set a new standard for failure.
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