Is the World Really Turning Away from the United States?

 

 

 "But the global leader who has most theatrically flouted American leadership is President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil. Since he returned to office in January, Lula — whose defeat of Jair Bolsonaro felt like a sigh-of-relief replay of our own 2020 election — has been doing his iconoclastic best to reshape an unsteady world order. He has declined to condemn Russia’s invasion and support Ukraine; dispatched a delegation to meet with Venezuela’s reviled president, Nicolás Maduro; allowed Iranian warships to dock in Brazilian ports in violation of U.S. sanctions; announced plans to pursue a kind of common currency with Argentina that might grow into a sort of Latin American euro; and traveled to China with dozens of Brazilian business leaders to sign more than 20 bilateral agreements. Once in China, he lashed out at a global financial order that effectively requires all countries to do business in dollars — a bête noire of the Chinese — and did so at the “BRICs Bank” in Shanghai run by his onetime protégée, Dilma Rousseff, who succeeded him as president of Brazil from 2011 to 2016."

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 Is the World Really Turning Away from the United States? – DNyuz