Isn't this what everyone wanted anyway?

[mahnmut]

Geopolitics analysis has been pointing out for a decade that the United States would withdraw from leading the world.

Biden has accelerated this transition. His legacy is being written in current wars and conflicts that the United States is all but ignoring.

The US is more hands-off than usual in the Middle East. It fears making things worse

Or it could well be the other way round. Maybe the rest of he world withdrew from the outdated notion that it was good to be led by the USA. ;-)

But seriously. Whether it's Trump or Biden next in office, the trend has been set. The US seems to have grown tired of messing around with everybody. It's costly. In all respects imaginable.

Also, if you want a different point of view (or you might call it the standard Putinite talking-point if you like), it seems after the US got its ass kicked by a few thousand goat herders in Afghanistan and had to retreat and withdraw in shame... I mean... failed in building up a real functional self-sustaining government, it realized that it cannot win wars and instead must instigate others to fight the wars that it wants. A good old Putinite would now recite to you how America wants to punish Iran for not caving to western exploitation and found a useful idiot in Israel, how Israel is just goading on Iran at the moment waiting for the bigger war to start, just like it is using Ukraine to goad on Russia, who also needs to be punished for not caving in to western exploitation.

You decide which standpoint to adhere to. All I know is, when the wars go nuclear the US military has an advantage, and the US as a whole has the advantage of being far away from the battlefield. As usual.