By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

 

The US is definitely on the decline on the world stage as is evident by the ignoring of the presence of its president at major international forums by fellow heads of states.

Following his pushing to the extreme end of the back row at the photo session of leaders of 21 participating countries in Lima for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) earlier this week, Joe Biden was totally out of picture on Monday during a similar photo session of the G20 states against the backdrop of Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Sugarloaf Mountain.

Like the summit in the Peruvian capital, in the summit in Brazil’s major city China’s President Xi Jinpiang held the centre stage along with host President Luiz Lula da Silva, while none of the leaders of the 16 (out of 19) countries assembled for the photo session missed the absence of Biden and the two other absentees.

Yesterday, however, as consolation to the outgoing US president, or perhaps as a form of courtesy towards the Canadian and Italian prime ministers (Justin Trudeau and Giorgia Meloni), a second photo session of all participants was hastily arranged – the first such instance at international summits.

The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” proved true at this year’s annual G20 ‘family photo’, which clearly showed the countries of the western bloc in disarray and the US a fast fading shadow on the world stage.

At any rate, this is all clear indication of the declining trend or the further disgrace of the US, of whose stagnant economy and ageing military power, no one is much bothered.

We are also not concerned here about the proceedings of the G20 summit since its decisions do not affect us in the Islamic Republic of Iran, although we are happy at the cutting to size of the US, which is viewed as the ‘evil empire’ by most of the free world.

This downward slide will continue under the incoming Republican regime of Donald Trump, who is only a showman with an over-inflated ego given to theatrics but with a weakness for slavishly serving Zionist terroristic designs that often drives him to commit crimes against humanity.

In other words, the person whom the North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un famously called “dotard” is not a politician, let alone a statesman, as is obvious by his immoral behaviour, foul mouth, fraudulent accumulation of wealth, habitual lies, racial discrimination, and threats against independent countries that only backfire on the US.

We are fully confident that irrespective of his bombastic and blundering statements, in between his Israeli-dictated external policies, especially against Muslims and particularly against the long persecuted Palestinians, the 78-year old mentally declining Trump will lead the US to its ultimate decline.

When this happens, the US will no longer be hegemon, with relief for the free world in which there will no entity called Israel.