The administration's national security policy shifted from focusing on counterterrorism to perceiving the primary challenge as the rise of a revisionist China and Russia, as directed by HR McMaster during Trump's presidency.
For 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States lived in a delusion that Russia and China could not touch us. And while Americans are not all that interested in the rest of the world, the rest of the world is interested in us. Plus, Biden and Bibi don't like each other. David Sanger joins Tim Miller.