Antiwar.com Original
As Trump and Secretary of State Pompeo withdrew in the dying days of their
administration, they sowed the foreign policy ground with landmines. The landmines
were meant to checkmate the new administration so that, no matter which way
President Biden moved, the landmines would blow up.
In the first minutes of the administration, certain statements by Biden nominees
forecast how Biden might tiptoe through that minefield. Sometimes they suggest
that Biden will try to defuse the landmine. But sometimes they suggest he may
embrace them.
Like weather forecasts, these forecasts may be wrong. They are only preliminary