After a year behind Ukraine, American credibility is back
In retrospect, his personal courage may also have done something more: reversed years of talk of American decline, and restored a sense of American greatness.
Just think where things stood a year ago, on the eve of Putin’s invasion. America’s allies looked on aghast as Washington’s credibility was in free fall, like the desperate escapees who dropped from the wheel wells of the C-17s taking off from Kabul.
Faced with a doddery president who seemingly couldn’t complete an interview unscathed, the revisionist axis led by China and Russia was emboldened as never before.
Joe Biden’s gaffe machine was seen as symbolic of America’s senescence: a once-powerful country that had handed its voters a ballot-box choice between a pyromaniac and a has-been.
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