After Trump derided and weakened the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Biden has rallied NATO on Ukraine’s behalf.
After Trump pressured Russia’s beleaguered neighbor for his personal benefit, Biden has steeled Americans for shared sacrifice in defense of Ukraine’s right of self-determination.
After Trump deferred to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the US government’s own intelligence agencies, Biden has deployed those agencies’ tradecraft in a multi-pronged transatlantic effort to deter Russian aggression.
“You couldn’t get a sharper contrast,” Hill observed in an interview.
For the moment, at least, she sees Biden’s approach paying some dividends.
Witnessing Britain’s industrial decline helped her understand the populist appeals Trump rode to the White House. But the celebrity real-estate developer’s handling of foreign policy in the Oval Office — driven not by expertise or the national interest but by his personal experiences, impulses and interests — was like nothing Hill or her national security colleagues had ever seen.
“There’s no Team America for Trump,” Hill recalled. “Not once did I see him do anything to put America first. Not once. Not for a single second.”
It showed in Trump’s praise for the authoritarian leader of Russia, an American adversary that had boosted his finances as a business executive.
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