@John But this is a moment when the global security order is severely challenged, when sustaining a normative consensus in favor of the US-led order against temptations offered by emerging, resentful new contenders is essential. You can draw all the moral distinctions you think appropriate. I’ll agree with some of them. But the case Biden had begun to make, that the US is “back” as a force for order worthy of the world’s respect has been eviscerated by these new events and the US response. 2/