Joe Biden’s indispensable leadership
The administration has played a weak diplomatic hand on Ukraine skilfully. But the crisis is only beginning
WHEN JOE BIDEN told the Munich Security Conference last year that “America is back”, it seemed unlikely that any of its high-powered European delegates fully believed him. Donald Trump had just won the second-highest vote-count in the history of presidential elections. Mr Biden, contrary to his stick-in-the-mud reputation, appeared as keen to shift diplomatic focus from Europe to Asia as his immediate predecessors. And indeed his early efforts to do so, including the disastrous retreat from Afghanistan and bungled roll-out of a new Anglo-Saxon security pact, created further doubts about America’s transatlantic leadership.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Joe Biden’s indispensability”
United States March 12th 2022
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