I did not expect America to start pulling its international operations together so quickly after the arrival of the occasionally cognizant Joe Biden, but the political operative who became Barack Obama’s Vice-President does mostly shine through. The problem is that the old coot talks like a slow old coot. His ideas are fine, it’s just that he’s slowed with age and it’s obvious when he talks..so…slowly.
However, a month into Biden’s presidency, India and China began to publically speak about disengagement on their Himalayan front. Then, Pakistan and India, the enfant terribles (French for fucking brats) announced that they were beginning their ceasefire across the LoC, in the spirit of the Musharraf-era ceasefire of 2003 (that had been preceded by a nuclear standoff) and has been honoured more in the breach than in observance.
The benefits of not having an ignorant asshole in power