The Covid-19 epidemic saw the rapid and almost unprecedented erasure of the United States on the international scene in a matter of months. Dedicated since the election of Donald Trump to a transactional vision of international relations, their institutions paralyzed by a deep political divide, the Americans had revived for a few years with their old isolationist tendencies. This trend suddenly accelerated and accentuated with the coronavirus health crisis. The glaring absence of the United States from all attempts to coordinate a global response to the greatest contemporary pandemic already appears to be a turning point of historic magnitude.
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Particularly affected on their territory by the epidemic, with 90,000 confirmed deaths from Covid-19, or a quarter of the victims of the virus worldwide for a population representing less than 5% of that of the world, the United States of Donald Trump reacted by making a rapid withdrawal. The closure
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