>>Who do we - the British - want to win?
Neither will particularly favour the UK unless there is some advantage in it for them.
Direct harm is also very unlikely from either of them, though there is always a higher chance of Trump taking umbrage, sulking and doing something petulant.
I think there's little doubt that Trump will screw up the US more than Biden. I don't think it is particularly clear that Biden will bring positive, more a lack of negative.
Some of the things that Trump has done Biden will politically need to be seen to undo, even if he doesn't particularly want to. There are definitely areas where it will suit Biden to be able to shrug his shoulders and say "nothing I can do, the Senate won't let me".
Other than the fact that Trump is in power, the Republicans don't particularly like him and much of the stuff he's done either. So it will equally suit them, on some issues, to say "not our fault, the [new] President made us revoke it".
Inactivity is as likely to come from each shoving it on to the other as from trying to stop each other.
Of more interest is their foreign policy and behaviour and the implications that will have on the world and, indirectly, us.
And that is complicated. The US losing it's position as Princess of all global relations and behaviour will be no bad thing.
And the US's treatment of China, for example, has pushed them into a PR exercise including significant environmental commitments. So that's not a bad thing in any way.
Trump's action is also removing the US's global monopoly on cell phone operating systems. Again not bad.
More difficult to predict is Russia. Trump's relationship with Russia is a worrying thing.
It will become bad if the US pressures another country so much that they decide to take action. Escalation is almost always bad.
Biden's likely international behaviour is not a known thing.
tl:dr - NAFC
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