Obama/Biden weakened our military, dismissed our role in the world and the result is naked aggression and war.

 Obama/Biden weakened our military, dismissed our role in the world and the result is naked aggression and war.

"...the absence of interstate war had become the norm, as if by its own accord. ..This state of affairs was maintained by American power.

Presidents Obama, Trump and Biden have whittled away that power and shrunk America’s global role. Mr. Obama slashed the share of gross domestic product spent on defense by a third, withdrew forces prematurely from Iraq, stinted on arms for Ukraine, and squandered credibility by erasing his own “red line” in Syria once it had been crossed...Mr. Biden yielded Afghanistan to the Taliban, seeming to assume this would have no consequences elsewhere.

Various predators and would-be predators have smelled weakness in America’s retrenchment. On Feb. 4, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping issued a manifesto hailing the “redistribution of power in the world” and the “transformation of the global governance architecture and world order.” They added that their partnership “has no limits, there are no ‘forbidden’ areas of cooperation,” an explicit declaration that these two will set their own rules in the new world order." https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-liberal-international-order-ukraine-russia-invasion-war-xi-putin-taiwan-china-peace-talks-turkey-defense-spending-budget-negotiations-global-power-11648660753?mod=opinion_lead_pos5