General view of the screen as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel (not pictured) take part in the Online G7 Summit, at European council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium Feb 19, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
As predicted, US President Joe Biden took advantage of the G7 Summit and the Munich Security Conference on Friday to announce that "America is back".
But neither the United States nor the world is the same as they were four years ago, when the world had little knowledge of the extent to which a so-called champion of democracy and freedom could belie itself.