The old line about New England weather – if you don’t like it, wait a little – describes US foreign policy just as well nowadays. Other countries are exploiting this fickleness.
Joe Biden doesn’t rule out that Benjamin Netanyahu is delaying a truce in the Middle East until the possible return of Donald Trump, under whom the Israeli prime minister might have a freer hand. Nor does it take a paranoid mind to suspect that Vladimir Putin has been holding out for Trump’s re-election for the last two years or more.
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Financial Times
Janan Ganesh is the principal political columnist for the Financial Times.
