Antony Blinken: “This budget will help us push back on advancing authoritarianism and democratic backsliding by strengthening democracies…”

That statement is incorrect.

We can use these instruments to facilitate the private sector playing the role.

We have managed to move to a better trajectory politically to get back to a clearly mandated democratic government.

The extremely wrongheaded decision by the ICC prosecutor yesterday... complicates the prospects for getting such an agreement.