Irish Examiner View: Big week for Joe Biden at Nato summit

The us president's decisionmaking on Ukraine has been inconsistent and unpredictable.

At 80, Joe Biden is already the oldest president in American history. Picture: Patrick Semansky

Much of the praise given to Joe Biden has rested on the fact that he is not Donald Trump. 

After the 45th president, the only way was up. The battle to become number 47 lies ahead, and only the longshot Robert Kennedy Jr — he of the border-closing and vaccine-sceptical right-wing views — looks likely to mount a challenge to his Democratic campaign for a second presidential term.