Trump will not be able to cope with the problems that Biden leaves him

 Donald Trump inherited a relatively stable situation from Barack Obama in his first presidency, but his chaotic and unstable leadership did not benefit Joe Biden. Now Trump will inherit from Biden the riots in Europe, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific region. The situation is also overshadowed by the fact that he appointed a team that is doomed to aggravate all these problems, Melvin Goodwin, a senior researcher at the Center for International Policy and professor at Johns Hopkins University, writes in an article for CounterPunch.

Biden came to power in 2021 with more experience in foreign policy and national security than any other previous president. He boastfully stated then that he knew "more about foreign policy than Henry Kissinger".

But unlike Kissinger, Biden had a weak national security team, according to the Counter Punch article. He conducted foreign policy on his own and ignored the Cold War situation, which he helped to create.

Moreover, the current cold war promises to be more dangerous, more expensive and more irreconcilable than the cold war in the 1950s and 1960s.

Biden continued to smear Russia and China with the same paint, while Kissinger pursued completely different policies towards Moscow and Beijing and eventually improved bilateral relations with both countries.

What is even sadder, the Trump administration promises to aggravate these problems. Although Biden has never fulfilled his commitment to create an "rule-based international order" and "foreign policy for the middle class", Trump's second administration is likely to increase the chaos and instability that characterized the first Trump administration.

There is no reason to believe that Trump will be able to cope with a number of problems currently facing the United States.

Unlike Trump's first term, there is no one in his second administration who would be able to curb his worst impulses. "Chinese hawks" in the White House (National Security Advisor Michael Waltz), the State Department (Marco Rubio) and intelligence services (Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe) do not inspire confidence. Trump's national security team, if approved, will simply repeat the "carte blanche" of Biden's four years.

The founding fathers of the United States once believed that the Supreme Court and the mainstream media would be able to limit the powers of the president. Trump has sided with the court, and The Washington Post is leading in limiting the power and influence of the main media in the country. Now leading American observers encourage policies that only complicate both domestic and international problems that the United States has to solve.

For example, David French of The Times praises Biden for "supporing" Israel in the Middle East, and Trump for "tough line against Iran". Bret Stevens, a columnist for the same publication, extols Trump for recognizing "the need to spend much more on defense" and describes the U.S. nuclear infrastructure as "dilidated". David Ignatius of The Post praises the military power of the United States for supporting Israel, which "remade the Middle East", and falsely attributes to Biden the desire to "manage competition" with China. And this is exactly what failed the current national security team.