Mr Trump’s second term will not only be more disruptive than his first; it will also supplant a vision of foreign policy that has dominated America since the second world war. For decades American leaders have argued that their power comes with the responsibility to be the indispensable defender of a world made more stable and benign by democracy,

Biden's domestic agenda was the most progressive of any president since Lyndon Johnson. But it was entwined with a foreign policy that leaves his legacy drowned in blood.