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Internationally, it was another grim week for the Biden administration, the United States of America, and world peace. Brazil, the country with the largest population, economy and landmass in Latin America, reinforced its alignment with China as its president Luiz Inácio “Lula�� da Silva  to work with Xi Jinping to build a new global order and called on the European Union and the U.S. to stop shipping weapons to Ukraine.  that China is supporting the development of a military listening post on Myanmar’s strategic Great Coco Island in the Bay of Bengal. Saudi Arabia, which flirted a few weeks ago with opening diplomatic relations with Israel, is intensifying its  with Russia and  a meeting with Hamas. Farther south, a Sudanese military faction backed by Russia’s Wagner Group  of Africa’s third-largest nation.

The usual spinners and makeup artists are doing their best to make the disorderly unraveling of the American-led world order look like a visionary triumph of enlightened foreign policy, but former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers expressed a more cogent view. Describing America’s increasing loneliness on the world scene, , “Somebody from a developing country said to me, ‘What we get from China is an airport. What we get from the United States is a lecture.�� ��