Joe Biden s first budget proposal indicates that the US is leaving Donald Trump s non-interventionist diplomacy behind and embracing an expansionist approach with a.
Misusing the F-word
To effectively combat today’s far right we must begin by rejecting lazy analogies. Jack Conrad calls for clear historical thinking
Liberal and left opinion has been in part horrified, in part dumbfounded by the repeated electoral successes of the far right: Narendra Modi and the BJP in India, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil; Russia, Japan, Turkey, Sri Lanka and Israel can also be mentioned. Above all, though, there was and remains Donald J Trump. Although soundly beaten in the electoral college and in the popular vote on November 3 2020, he still got 74 million votes. This surpassed the previous record set by Barack Obama by more than seven million, giving him the highest vote of any sitting president in US history.
Strategic rivalries remain
Daniel Lazare says ending tensions with Russia will take more than discarding opposition to Nord Stream 2
When Joe Biden took office in January, no foreign-policy goal seemed more important than support for Ukraine, along with stepped-up hostility towards Russia.
After all, Democrats had impeached Donald Trump a year earlier for withholding military supplies from one country, while baying around the clock that the other was guilty of everything from election interference to placing bounties on the heads of US soldiers in Afghanistan. As bad as US-Russian relations were under Trump - and there is no question that they had taken a significant downturn despite Democratic charges that he was practically in bed with Russian president Vladimir Putin - the outlook therefore seemed clear: Biden would make them even worse.