NEW YORK—The United Nations General Assembly opened on Tuesday with the hope that it could move the world closer to an end to war and to building the sustainability needed to diminish the dangers of global warming.

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The gathering of world leaders also comes at a time when countries in the so-called “Global South” are showing open resistance to the domineering behavior of not just the United States but of all of the former colonial powers. Many of the representatives of countries that sat on their hands during the speech by President Joe Biden did so because they are determined to throw off the endless economic sanctions sent their way by both the U.S. and their former colonial rulers.

For many countries, it is not easy to applaud the leader of a government that has a history of economic sanctions or military intervention when it did not or does not like what is happening in another country.

Strongly reflected at the opening session of the General Assembly and at the meetings taking place on the sidelines is the positive attitude of developing nations toward the BRICS group of countries, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The attractiveness of the BRICS alternative to U.S. domination of the world economy is reflected also in the recent inclusion into that bloc of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Argentina, the United Arab Emirates, and Ethiopia.

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