[T]he relationship between Mexico and the United States is going through moments that are, yes, both tense and complicated, but above all, quite strange.
Bell argued that [the rise of far right factions] should be understood less as a straightforward product of economic conflict than as a response to social dislocation and anxiety over status.
Arguably, the West can surmise that it already lost the current round of the geopolitical battle for the world, Africa included, before the COVID-19 outbreak.