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Joe Biden organized a perplexing "Summit of Democracies" last week.
Who is legitimate enough to distribute good and bad points in the conduct of the affairs of the world?
What interest is there in getting together to celebrate ourselves and denounce the authoritarian abuses of those absent?
If democracy is doing so badly that it is necessary to lean at its bedside, what benefit will it have derived from it?
Joe Biden opens the Democracies Summit by videoconference on December 9, 2021. CHIP SOMODEVILLA / AFP
At the bedside of democracy
Object.
After four years of Trump, where the White House had flirted with authoritarian leaders while mistreating its allies,
"rallying democracies"
was on Joe Biden's electoral platform.
Promise kept at little cost.
But rallying around what?
From a leader?
Of values?
From an action plan?
"We want this to be a galvanizing event,"
a member of the Administration mysteriously announced to the
Financial Times
.
At the end of what took on the appearance of a major conference on human rights, the fight against corruption and independence ...
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