Useless Stenographer

DC 12.12am

If I were American I'd actually be extremely worried listening to this because it shows a near total disconnect between reality and the world according to the State Department. 2023 was anything BUT a year when "the world looked to the US to lead and we did."

If anything it was a year when the world DIDN'T look to the US to lead, and the US didn't lead.

2023 will probably be remembered by historians as the year when the world irremediably pivoted away from the US-led world order into a new multipolar order, meaning by definition a year when the world stopped looking to the US to lead.

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And a year when the US abdicated its role as global leader anyhow. Reminder that this was the year of Jake Sullivan's era-defining speech where he defined the "New Washington Consensus", essentially America's farewell to the world: "we had this narrative of building a 'rules-based order', it failed for us, we stop the pretense and now unabashedly focus on our own self interests."

The ONLY thing where the world REALLY looked to the US to lead was Gaza because of course the US is the key country backing Israel militarily, financially and diplomatically. And it's now painfully obvious that the U.S. didn't "lead" there, except towards the disaster that Gaza has now become.