The contrast with Trump's "America First" could not be clearer. In his first month, Biden has issued a raft of executive orders and foreign policy shifts to reverse his predecessor’s foreign policy. Biden is sending the message that America wants to reengage with her allies.

In the annals of the republic’s short history, the storming of the Capitol would probably rank as one of its most egregious episodes. In his inaugural address President Joe Biden promised to heal the country and defeat ‘white supremacy,’ yet nativism remains a potent force that can still destabilize the republic.

The ‘separatism’ Bill announced by Emmanuel Macron on the 2nd October is currently working its way through the institutions of the French executive. The proposed law is called the “Bill to Reinforce Secularism and Republican Principles”, the term ‘separatism’, once considered, has been removed. The Bill looks to update the 1905 law that officially separated church from state.

The British government is careering into a coronavirus catastrophe, on the scale and intensity Italians are experiencing today. It is a tragedy entirely of its own making. Over the past two months, the government has failed to plan appropriately for the crisis, has failed to follow sound universally accepted scientific advice and has failed to respond to the clear indicators that a disaster is looming.

Modi’s surprise actions in Kashmir after repealing Article 370 was influenced by a worldview that has seized India, Hindutva, a rabid form of nationalism that is built upon a grand conceit. For Hindu nationalists, Islam is the problem and its place in any future India is for it to be subdued, depoliticised and chastened by the power of the state and the braying of the mob.

Boris Johnson entered Downing Street like a gun-slinger announcing his entrance at the last chance saloon. His cabinet cull, of seventeen departures was unprecedented in British politics, and some of the country’s most ideological Brexiteers have joined his team. The optics worked, the clearing out of Theresa May’s team and Cummings pictured behind the Cabinet Secretary in his trademark anarchic attire served to hail in a new British politics.

China has been flexing its economic, political and military influence. The intensity of its project to unseat America’s 70 year grip over the region has reverberated across all capitals. The prospect of a future great Asiatic power has enticed many to reconsider on which side its bread is buttered, hedging between an established and growing power.

The Americans believe they built the modern world and raised it to riches. They expected in return the world would recognise its central role as owner and organiser of this system. Instead the world has turned its back on the United States, so now America is turning its back on them.