“I’m here today to share with you how the United States intends to work with partners and allies … [in] the commitment of my new administration to help lead the world toward a more peaceful, prosperous future for all people,” President Joe Biden told the opening of the United Nations General Assembly today. The world, that is, except those nations arbitrarily labeled “authoritarian,” which when added up, represent at least half the human race.
He presented his administration as having “ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan,” closed a “period of relentless war,” in order to open “a new era of relentless diplomacy; of using the power of our development aid to invest in new ways of lifting people up around the world; of renewing and defending democracy.”
Neither Russia nor China were named (although Chechnya and Xinxiang were), but there was no mistaking those two powers are the prime targets of the asserted “relentless diplomacy” policy. Other nations being subjected to regime change and siege-like economic sanctions in the name of “democracy” and “anti-corruption” were named, among them Belarus, Burma [sic], Syria, Cuba, and Venezuela.
