Whiny-baby US starts United Nations fight, blames China for COVID — respect plummets

© 2020 Peter Free

 

25 September 2020

 

 

There is a difference between what works in domestic politics . . .

 

. . . and what works internationally.

 

The Trump Administration is not smart enough to distinguish the two.

 

Yesterday, it made a King Kong fool of the United States at the United Nations:

 

 

US President Donald Trump, who is facing a re-election battle made more challenging by the disease’s spread across the country, on Tuesday demanded action against China for spreading the “plague” of COVID-19 to the world.

 

US Ambassador [to the United Nations] Kelly Craft reiterated those accusations at the council’s virtual meeting, drawing an angry response from her Chinese counterpart Zhang Jun.

 

“Enough is enough,” he said.

 

“You have created enough troubles for the world already. … The US should understand that blaming others will not solve its own problems.

 

“With the most advanced medical technologies and system in the world, why has the US turned out to have the most confirmed cases and fatalities?

 

“If someone should be held accountable, it should be a few US politicians themselves.”

 

© 2020 Al Jazeera News Agencies, World in disarray: Angry exchanges at top UN meeting on COVID-19, Al Jazeera (25 September 2020)

 

 

Ambassador Zhang's rebuttal was accurate

 

Most of the world will recognize its truth.

 

 

The moral? — Trump's (hostile-to-everyone) base will applaud these US theatrics

 

The rest of us — especially those who understand that diplomacy's soft power and respect-worthy dignity are internationally important to maintain — are probably increasingly of the mind that:

 

 

(a) someone with probable dementia (Joe Biden) would

 

(b) humiliate, and thereby weaken, the United States much less often than

 

(c) President Trump does.

 

 

In essence, we are the point of having to admit that someone with lost mind would be a less nationally self-destructive American commander in chief, than someone with toddler moron mind.

 

Equally however, we could reverse the above reasoning:

 

 

A nation that has so pathetically let itself decline into a leadership contest — between dementia and moronitude — may as well pull its own plug by re-electing the moron.

 

 

Quicker and cleaner that way, don't ya think?

 

Kind'a like blowing one's head off with a shotgun, as opposed to repeated plinks of a .22.

 

If y'all do not think that all this is darkly funny, you haven't seen much of Life among Humans.