Seems like they're really trying to not just demoralize Americans, but shifting the blame for the pandemic on America, using it as a justification for making the US "take responsibility":

The coronavirus pandemic is the greatest failure of leadership in the western world since the two World Wars. Add it to the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, the 9/11 fiasco and the 2008 economic crisis, and you begin to get the picture.

We will now likely have the misfortune of navigating another unprecedented economic recession thanks to what is sure to be a continued government mismanagement of this pandemic.