Last week, Vice President Kamala Harris told Fox News interviewer Brett Baier, “My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency.” The statement reinforced her earlier comment to Stephen Colbert, “I’m not Joe Biden,” and her debate exchange with Donald Trump, “You’re debating me, not Joe Biden.”

Harris’s implicit disavowals of identification with the Biden agenda reflect a clear reversal of her initial campaign strategy, when she and her advisers touted her Biden administration experience.

Asked last month what she would have done differently, she responded, “There’s not a thing that comes to mind.” Earlier this year, Harris said she was the last person in the administration who spoke with the president at the end of each day. She also explicitly agreed with Biden’s most controversial foreign policy decision: his catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Biden himself confirmed her integral role in his agenda when he declared, “There was not a domestic or foreign policy decision I made that she was not closely involved in.”

The shifting campaign strategy on how a Harris-Walz foreign policy would differ from Biden-Harris offers only confusion for American voters and for foreign allies and adversaries. The parlous state of world affairs includes regional wars raging in the Mideast and Central Europe and a third potentially about to erupt in the Indo-Pacific. Awaiting the next president are three major foreign conflicts, all of which could escalate to bring more........

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