In a world increasingly dominated by the Chinese communist-led Beijing-Moscow-Tehran Axis, it is timely to ask the political class, much of the commentariat and other elites a series of questions beginning: are you still happy with your preferred candidate in the 2020 election, Joe Biden?

With his ignominious surrender to the Taliban, this question is particularly appropriate for Australians who are even now more dependent for our defence on a United States which, under the Biden presidency, is clearly unreliable.