Who was REALLY taking the big decisions in the USA during senile Biden's rule?

Yet there always had to be limits and senior Democrats knew that stage had been reached when he called Zelensky Putin and his own vice-president Trump, let alone aimlessly wandering off from a photoshoot line up.

There was simply no way in which he could represent the mighty USA for another four years without producing profound mockery and political leaders throughout the West must have heaved a sigh of relief when he finally accepted, he could not go on. Moscow and Beijing, by contrast, are probably drowning their sorrows.

Yet what has happened, over the last couple of years, has been cruel. A man was allowed to decline mentally and physically and to become a laughingstock in the most public of positions and his family appear to have done nothing about it other than issue denials.

Their motives have given rise to much speculation but it beggars belief that anybody could have thought it right that Biden be urged to continue.

It also defies all normal reasoning that senior Democrats were prepared to go along with it, when the entire globe could see what was happening to the leader of the Western world. Indeed, most of us wonder how Biden can stagger on even till January. Numerous serious questions are posed by this none too glorious episode in American history.

The mechanisms for ejecting a President from office on medical grounds appear non-existent. That needs rectifying. Then it must surely be incontestable that the only reason Biden was ever even considered fit to serve another term was that there was no obvious successor, no King Across the Water, nobody around whom the banners were rallying.

How, in a democracy the size of the USA, could there be so little choice? Next the obvious question: who has been really running America while this wretched state of affairs has continued and which will continue until the start of next year?

No mature democracy should be content with a puppet leader whose strings are being pulled from behind the scenes, but it is difficult to conclude that anything else has been the reality, with the President unable to hold a train of thought for more than a few seconds.

The famous debate, which Biden mishandled so laughably, was a blood sport on a par with the public exhibition of the seriously deformed in Victorian Britain.

Laying aside the distaste any normal human being must feel for such a spectacle, it begs the question: what is the President like in policy meetings? So once again, who is really taking those big decisions?

Kamala Harris has been all but invisible, but I doubt if that can be maintained now the White House has finally admitted in all but so many words that the President does not have capacity.

She will have to step into his shoes, but many do not want her to be the Democratic candidate in the forthcoming election. Cue much wrangling and skullduggery throughout the Summer. Trump may yet have an easy ride back to office.