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This need for approval from foreign leaders is something new to America, I believe. Does a superpower, the world's leading democracy, really need to be interested in these people? Did any of them have confidence in Obama?America is still the worlds policeman but now we are the most irrelavant we have been since ww2 around the world, that is a problem, and people around the world cheering that America has been defanged and is constantly blundering at home and abroad does not make me feel better, it makes me feel worse OK?
Foreign leaders have been blaming America for their domestic problems for generations, and it often worked well on the locals. But Americans at one time understood this to be typical grandstanding and could see the posturing for what it was. Now it seems to be taken seriously, and it shouldn't be.