As Joe Biden continues with his foreign policy initiatives, America drifts further away from the Global South.
Biden’s administration is seen as delivering moral tutelage to the ignorant masses, leading a “Summit of Democracy” that sets out to promote democracy, but is old-world and out of touch.
The assassination of Zaire’s first elected prime minister in 1960, Patrice Lumumba, shows that the US only believes in human rights if it works for them at a given moment, not as a solid cause.
Today, with Biden’s links to Ukraine, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Iraq war, and the illegal occupation of Northern Syria, many countries question whether the US is fit to give lessons on human rights.
The US is incapable of leading by example and takes the pulpit as savages. It is a rank absurdity that America still indulges itself with this role, inviting only countries that it deems fit to attend conferences like the “Summit of Democracy.”