President Trump and Joe Biden couldn’t be any more different in terms of family background, personality, temperament, and worldview. The former is unapologetic, loud, obnoxious, energetic, and blunt. The latter is personable, even-keeled, mild-mannered (depending on the issue) — a politician.

Sure, the political appointees, cabinet secretaries, and policy priorities will change depending on the outcome of the presidential election. But some foreign policy preferences are likely to remain the same regardless of who places his hand on the Bible in January 2021. In Washington, old habits die hard.