US Losing to Russia and China in War of Global Opinion

The United States is consistently losing out to Russia and China in getting other countries to align with its views, according to a recent analysis of three decades of voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly. The analysis comes at a time when the U.S. appears increasingly at odds with both the world’s other major nuclear-armed countries as Russia wages war in Ukraine and as the growth in China’s might sees it rivaling the United States as the preeminent military power in East Asia and potentially beyond. Both countries, also veto-holding members of the U.N. Security Council, have consistently…