Biden's Afghanistan debacle of August 2021 was quickly followed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, by China's and Russia's fueling insurgencies in North Africa, and by Iran's attacks on Israel from Gaza and the Golan Heights.

"Blood now soaks the soil of three continents," Jonathan Bass, an energy consultant with InfraGlobal Partners and an expert on Gulf state politics, told Gatestone this month. "More will be spilled. Aggressors are now on killing sprees."

American policy is failing, and it will continue to fail because it is based on a fundamentally flawed premise. Biden seems to believe that the world has not fundamentally changed since the Cold War and, therefore, it is possible to integrate virtually all nations into the rules-based international system.

The world, however, has already cleaved and hardened into factions, and one of the factions, the one centered around China and Russia, does not respect the sovereignty of other states.