‘America first’ again? Is Biden echoing Trump on Afghanistan and vaccines?

The president's pushing of a US-centric agenda has dismayed many but his defenders say it is progressive nationalism'

For Donald Trump, the former US president, beating the drum of America first" was something of an obsession. The future doesn't belong to the globalists," he once told the UN. The future belongs to patriots."

Last year, he was rejected by voters in favour of Joe Biden, a committed internationalist who vowed: America is back." Yet the past week has shaken the faith of old allies and led some to question whether a strain of the America first" mantra lives on.