the chance of their being a bipartisan shift in that direction is limited.

So, welcome to the starkly partisan era in US foreign policy making. It will not be easy on the US—and it will not be easy on the world.

I've been trying to warn Europeans against assuming that the NATO alliance can simply rebound after Trump for this reason. There might never be a consensus again in favor of the transatlantic alliance. Even if there are Atlanticist Presidents in the future...

For years the same people, criticising Western wars, have rightly insisted that international law is upheld, quoting the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which described a war of aggression as "the supreme international crime". But when Russia does it, they demand the victims surrender.

This is a classic example of the phenomenon known as campism. Instead of applying universal humanitarian principles, campists align with one bloc against another, regardless of the merits of its actions.