The US has historically championed the WTO (and its predecessor the GATT), as an important part of the US-led rules-based international order. But over the past decade, this support has frayed. Nowadays, the US is even quietly sabotaging the WTO by blocking the appointment of new appellate judges, preventing the WTO from resolving trade disputes between WTO members. Notably, this policy is being carried over unchanged from the Trump administration to the Biden administration.