"the line the Americans drew: If you insist on adversarial relations, you will get them. “They’re standing in the world’s way”"
In his op-ed "Putin & the Emerging Order"
August 22, 2022 PATRICK LAWRENCE makes the case for "The baton of “global leadership,” which Joe Biden mentions every chance he gets, is passing to non-Western leaders."
Continuing American stupidity¹ will see it happen.