Well, that didn't take long

Remember when all the right-thinking people hailed Biden’s election? Joe does, but no one else, and his handlers haven’t broken the news to the old man.

November 2020: Europe hails Biden Cabinet as a chance to 'restore' trans-Atlantic ties

November 2020, Politico: Biden’s Europe challenge: Repair tattered transatlantic ties

POLITICO — The weighty insurgency signaled by the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency in 2016 had reverberations around the world, perhaps nowhere more so than among America’s European allies.

Over the next four years, Euro-Atlantic relations deteriorated to an unprecedented level as the U.S. president embraced Brexit, abandoned the Paris climate accords and damned the European Union as a “foe.” Europeans watched in dismay as Trump detonated the Iran deal, belittled NATO allies, paralyzed the World Trade Organization and abandoned the World Health Organization in the midst of a global pandemic.

Meanwhile, an assorted assembly of Trumpian fifth columnists comprising dubious diplomats, conspiracy-seeking minions and unctuous acolytes spread the gospel of discontent in Europe with evangelical fervor.

Against this background, it is easy to appreciate why the prospect of a Joe Biden presidency has been greeted with such a sense of relief among European leaders. A U.S. administration not hell-bent on undermining and destroying the fabric of global multilateralism offers a respite, a pause for mutually respectful reflection and engagement.

That was then, this is now:

It’s 9:00 AM. Who do you want to answer the phone in the White House? Probably Major Biden.

Biden Ignored Boris Johnsons' Frantic Calls for 36 Hours as Bungled Bugout Was Unfolding

And here’s a roundup of Joe’s friends’ reaction to events of this week:

European leaders dismayed by Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan. There’s plenty at the link.