Time's person of the year is Zelensky.
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Well, Biden's been obsessed with ending America's sandbox wars at any and all cost, which he did in Afghanistan in a super crude and just fucking cold blooded way. (Trump couldn't do it like that, just pack up and leave one night without even telling Afghan allies.) In Syria he's leaving the SDF (who have once conquered the capital of the very same "hardline religious order" when working with Trump) to be slaughtered by Turkish drones because he doesn't give a fuck about them and so ironically their only hope is with Russia now, and I don't think the American public cares, nor even knows about it at all. I think it's kinda tragic actually, despite them being a sort of anarcho-communists (of a nationalist kind, with tribal allies).
All of which indicates that the US's words are worth shit, their promises is as empty as their rhetoric and their threats are puny.
If Russia actually helps stabilise Syria by getting a deal done between fractions then their standing goes up. Biden isn't focused on 'ending sandbox wars', it's because they found a better way to launder money through Ukraine than the Middle East, only reason they changed. By the end of his term, the US will be mostly a joke because of leadership so we can only hope China's decline pushes a Taiwan invasion attempt off the table.
Other American officials care more.
https://www.axios.com/2022/12/07/cia-warned-turkey-strikes-syria-kurds-us-troops