British news agency Reuters reported today that forming a broader alliance against China was to dominate the agenda of today’s expanded G7 meeting in the morning, and that Russia would be taken up in the afternoon.
In their joint press conference yesterday prior to those London discussions, U.K. Foreign Secretary Raab and his sidekick, Tony Blinken, baldly admitted that the very, very special Anglo-Americam “Special Relationship” is focused on taking on “threats to the international rules-based order and to democratic values and human rights,” which had been the primary subject of their discussion, with Russia and China singled out as the chief such threats.
Unctuous in his praise of British leadership in foreign relations, Blinken shamelessly praised that “Special Relationship” as established in Winston Churchill’s infamous 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech. That was the speech in Fulton, Missouri, with Harry Truman at his side, in which Churchill declared the United States’ break from the course charted by Franklin Roosevelt, of sovereign nations collaborating for progress, working out their differences peacefully through the forum of the United Nations; henceforth nations would be divided into the hostile blocs of the Cold War.
