“President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral victory comes as a series of major foreign policy issues are in play, with the Biden administration facing difficult diplomacy and threatened escalation in the Middle East, Ukraine and beyond,” the Washington Post reports.
“Over President Joe Biden’s remaining 10 weeks in office, foreign leaders will have to decide whether to acquiesce to his policy prescriptions or dismiss the U.S. leader as a lame duck and hold out for what they anticipate will be better treatment from Trump.”
“If past is prologue, many of what Biden considers his highest foreign policy achievements — re-cementing traditional alliances disparaged by Trump in his first term, renewing American leadership of global institutions from which his predecessor withdrew or downgraded, and emphasizing diplomacy rather than unilateral declarations of power — are likely to go up in flames.”
