Even the US propaganda machine can't whitewash Biden's sordid record

In the long shadow of the First World War, one of the greatest titles for an epochal work - Parade’s End, by Ford Madox Ford - definitively marked the final acts of the British empire, that hung on for decades until coming to total demise in, of all places, Yemen.

In the same period, TS Eliot, the transplanted American, put it a little differently: “This is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper.”

Perhaps the current American equivalent would be “no gas left in the tank”, or “end of the line”.

Unfortunately, no well-known enough North American cultural figures come to mind who might be able to describe this particular moment.

An enfeebled president, suffering from dementia and possibly Parkinson’s, and amid an ongoing genocide, fully documented in real time, that his administration has paid for, approved and enabled - and closer to a third world war than at any moment since 1945 - has seemingly made a “personal decision” to not pursue a second term in office. 

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