Joe Biden, America’s unenthusiastic allies – and the real ones

Sam Vinograd, an Obama administration national security alumnus – and now, needless to say, a CNN nat sec analyst – is hearing things:

She’s not alone; both the mainstream and the social media are full of political establishment types rejoicing that the Biden administration will return things to “normal”, including in the area of international affairs. Trump was certainly an unorthodox foreign policy operator, and his legions of critics have had a field day – or, rather, field four years, of decrying the President “trashing the norms”, destroying the alliances, and leaving America isolated and friendless in the world.

Of course, if you’re old enough and have memory better than a media-trained goldfish, you…