Tale of two headlines?

Biden's remarkable success on climate

So what gives?

By every standard, President Joe Biden's climate change summit was a remarkable success. With great diplomatic dexterity, Biden and climate envoy John Kerry assembled world leaders representing 82% of world carbon emissions, 73% of the world population and 86% of world economic output to commit to bold climate action.

Well not exactly by "every standard"

Joe Biden Makes an Absolute Clown of Himself on the International Stage

Biden appeared in a Zoom call with other international leaders, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping. This was a moment to show American power and greatness. Instead, Biden stumbled his way through wearing a mask, the only person on the call to do so.

Taking the focus off the ridiculous notion that a vaccinated person alone in a room cannot attend a zoom meeting without wearing a mask, what was the real story in regards to the Climate change Zoom meeting? 

Well according to the CNN analyst who fails to even fathom the possibility that anyone might see anything remotely negative about the Zoom meeting, this was a "breakthrough" where the old man mumbling from behind a mask "deftly" sold everyone on a "bold path" for a "powerful consensus"  on something to do with Climate change change?  The analysts admits that critics will say they have heard this all before, but she "swears this time it is different". She then goes on, not to explain what agreements were actually made (there were none), but rather runs us down on the latest in climate change propaganda. The argument wasn't so much what was agreed upon (again there was nothing). The argument was that this time they "must" come together, because the science is now really settled, not just sort of settled like before. 

Critics obviously took issue with what is being seen as American weakness since Trump stepped aside. We have seen international aggression increasing every month and there just seems to be a growing lack of respect for America in general. The concept that our President (already seen as feeble, old, and spineless) comes out wearing a mask, like he is afraid of catching something over the internet, is one of either ridiculousness or weakness. Take your pick. One has to assume that he believes he is setting an example. But obviously it is an example that the rest of the world rejects. 

The truth is that on the international stage world leaders couldn't give a hoot about American liberalism and the liberal culture that some are attempting to push on everyone. If the left seriously believes that Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong-un is somehow impressed with virtue signally, then this is why they cannot be take seriously.  Strong armed dictators (or Presidents behaving as dictators) care very little about being woke, being polite on Twitter, or anything that the left seems to believe drives the collective conscious of the entire world. We have adversarial relations with many other countries on this planet. We will not win them over with virtue signaling. In fact we might never "win them over" with anything other than a resounding show of strength and force.