President Joe Biden and his administration, are slow to react to events. This sluggishness may have deadly consequences as Russia’s Vladimir Putin prepares to invade Ukraine and China’s Xi Jinping ramps up his military’s practice runs to conquer Taiwan.

By next month, the world may be at war or America, and her allies, may be utterly discredited and seeking détente with the strongest adversarial bloc we’ve faced since the British torched Washington, D.C., in 1814.

The danger is driven by both perception and reality, with the entire U.S. leadership chain, from the commander in chief to the executive branch departments appearing to suffer from age-related cognitive decline exacerbated by an inability to adjust to reality due to ideological stubbornness.

This combination of being slow to understand developments compounded with a pervasive left-wing mindset led to the rapid disintegration of border security just as Biden took office in January, followed by the Taliban’s blitz of Kabul in August............