https://www.rt.com/op-edge/413989-is...alem-un-trump/
There was a time perhaps when the US could command global leadership. That self-declared global authority was always over-rated, but there was a veneer of plausible appearance and credibility in Washington?s claims.
Now, Washington sounds like a pathetic, deluded narcissist, exposed by its own blatant contempt for the very principles it espouses to uphold: democratic rights, free speech, the rule of law.
This week at the UN General Assembly, the United States is no longer a world leader. It is more like a rogue state whose delusional greatness is belied by sordid acts of bribery, bullying, and intimidation. A tyrant whose time is over.
Most telling is that Washington?s threats of intimidation and ?name taking? no longer have power. The threats are seen as just more bluffing and puffing by a washed-up superpower.