If anyone is expecting me to comment on what is currently happening in Syria, then I’m sorry to disappoint you. It’s a hugely complicated situation, of course, and I know as much about it as any other lay person. I will say, though, that I had to raise a metaphorical eyebrow at the fact that Joe Biden has passed comment on what is currently going on there, as if what he says still has any resonance in the area. He is a lame duck president, of course, but perhaps more pertinently it implies he thinks that the US still has the authority and prestige it once enjoyed over world affairs. The recent election of Donald Trump has rendered America a joke; the entire world can now see that it has no idea what it’s doing politically. It may still have the resources, but America’s days as the world’s leading superpower are now at an end. Frankly the country is a laughing stock, so idiotic that it would elect a deranged fascistic charlatan as it’s president not just once but twice. Nobody can take America seriously any more. Thus for Biden to still think that anyone will take what he says seriously, as if he still leads the world’s most prestigious country, one possessed of the authority to control affairs in the Middle East, is frankly laughable.