Sky's Dominic Waghorn looks back on a year where Donald Trump put the White House behind him, China stepped up its intimidation of Taiwan and Russia parked its tanks on Ukraine's border.
The nadir of Joe Biden's year came in August in Afghanistan. America is not so much back as turning its back, said one British official anonymously during the debacle.chaotic withdrawal and the precipitateEnemies looked on with glee. The impression that the world's best equipped military was being sent packing by a rag-tag guerrilla army has heartened jihadists worldwide.
Deterrence to that threat relies on the prospect of America defending Taiwan along with Pacific allies. There are some reasons to be cheerful about America and the world order that Donald Trump did so much to undermine.
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