Of course, the political elephant in the room is the currently Republican-held Senate. Very much will move ahead if the Democrats should take the Senate as well as retain the House.
And one of the things that must be demanded and insisted upon now (don't even wait until being President-elect, Joe, even if you must mea culpa for ever having listened to the bast-- uh, the misleaders-- during your Administrations) is that the Neo-Conservative-- neocon-- foreign policy cabal must be excised, root and branch, from the US foreign policy establishment.
The neoliberal Biden may be talked into this. But there is no question that Trump will continue to play the all-tactics-no-viable-strategy game of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" that has failed and failed since the neocon formulation of the Project for the New American Century, in 1996 (or name your start time for such tactics), and keeps failing today, because Trump is pathologically unable to look at the history of anything. His intelligence briefers say it is a virtually impossible struggle to maintain his attention.
Reports surface frequently today of American military association with elements of Al Qaeda. I am not permitted to cite articles referring to such involvement, but it happens, as it has in our Syrian conflict against ISIS and Bashar Assad's regime simultaneously.
President Washington must be rolling in his grave over such utter abandonment of his advice to his successors in power in the newly-Constituted United States against entangling foreign alignments and alliances.
The neocons know that no matter that their boy Bolton is not right at the president's right ear, Trump's tendency to unilateral, cowboy armed intervention (can you say So-lay-mah-knee?), in stark contrast to his campaign utterances, and his lack of any real morality, makes him an effective promulgator of their foreign policy line, which (if there can be said to be a strategy in what they do) first and foremost favors the interests pursued by the conservative governments in Israel.
The Israelis have carried out targeted assassinations frequently. Trump, given the tools and the power to go with his will to act in this way is, as I do not tire of saying, an existential threat to the survival of the human race.
I do not conclude that Biden will blow us all to kingdom come. He has known tragic death in his own life and family, unlike Trump, who has never met a tragedy-- "100,000 dead is a pretty good job!"-- due to his pathological inability to empathize or reflect. We know from Joe Biden's history, say what ill you want of him, cite his inadequacies ad infinitum and I will agree with most, that he has spent uncountable hours of reflection, including about whatever he feels his greatest failures have been.
I do not believe that Biden is anywhere in the ballpark of total surrender to giga-corporate influence as Trump's behavior before the coronavirus became a pandemic, and since, has shown him to be. Biden's advisors will be different ones from, for instance, the notorious multi-billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a longtime unofficial Trump advisor, who during this Administration advised Israel to drop a nuclear weapon on an "uninhabited" area of Iran, and tell the mullahs that if they didn't do away with their nuclear weapons development program, the next one would be on Tehran.
Miller, Grenell, Hassett, Navarro, Barr, Pompeo, that in-over-her-head fool McEnany, Friedman (not to mention Jared Kushner and Trump's children), and ALL the malevolent worst of his hirelings will be outathere pronto!
You may not have thought of it-- I hadn't till now-- but one very real and immediate benefit of A Presidency Without Trump will be a wholesale boost in the morale and efficiency of career civil servants from ambassadors on down. Diplomacy by Twitter will end.
I expect it is too late for Biden to move the US Embassy back to Tel Aviv. But unless Netanyahu and the Likud put the rush on annexing the West Bank and Gaza, in order to do it while their de facto erratic puppet is still in office (which action will likely cause a wider Middle East War), I will bet the other dollar in my pocket that America, under Joe Biden, will not permit the annexation of Occupied Palestine.
Will Biden yield to the Progressive forces who helped elect him and propose, as President, what Bernie, Sen. Kamala Harris, and former rival in the primaries Andrew Yang, have already proposed: a guaranteed minimum income for every adult American, without a means test, at least until the pandemic is over?
2000 dollars is a figure often used. I've been living in the Deep South since the Great Recession of 2008, in a tiny house I bought for cash as a HUD foreclosure during the economic crisis, so I have no longer had rent payments to knock out thousands of dollars a year since then.
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