Happy to walk to the White House, Joe Biden announced, introducing the team that will advise him on international politics, that America could once again
"lead the world"
.
We understand that he thought he was announcing good news in this way, as if America were the civilizing power of our time.
No one will be surprised: American messianism does not date from yesterday and structures United States foreign policy, whether it is presented under the sign of the neoconservative democratic crusade of the 2000s or of multilateralism supposed to orchestrate a form of global governance under the Obama years.
At the bottom of American consciousness is an imperial claim to the organization of the world, which will find under Joe Biden in the environmental question a new pretext to deploy.
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America is posed as a model nation, carrying a model valid for all of humanity, and do not imagine that we do not want it in this role.
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