Wake up with the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er: ‘Trump-proof­ing’ for­eign pol­i­cy and Biden’s bomb­shell bor­der plan

For­eign pol­i­cy plots
The world looks a lot dif­fer­ent in 2024 than it did in 2020. For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump liked to boast about how calm the world was when he was in charge — no war in Ukraine, no war in Israel, and Chi­nese and North Kore­an lead­ers “liked” and “respect­ed” him a lot. Pres­i­dent Joe Biden hasn’t had the same inter­na­tion­al calm as Trump, though he has had the ben­e­fit of build­ing and strength­en­ing the inter­na­tion­al rela­tion­ships that frayed under Trump’s sting­ing cri­tiques of neigh­bors and allies. 
Just how impor­tant those rela­tion­ships are has been on dis­play recent­ly. A pris­on­er swap that released for­mer U.S. Marine Paul Whe­lan and Wall Street Jour­nal reporte …