slightly overwhelming how much the international news is about Biden's senescence and how unbelievable it is that a "major" country is facing down an election between two obviously unreliable psychos
even in anglo countries that have historically given a great deal of deference and respect to american news, our press has basically spent 8 years increasingly treating all US headlines as "Next, In The Cartoon Section"
even as conservative as Japanese media tends to be there's an obvious undercurrent of "you don't have anyone up to the challenge of beating the world's third least electable man huh? you don't bother disallowing them from office either? well look at you"