Israeli expert: After the US abandoned Afghanistan, Israel can no longer rely on them in its confrontation with Iran
Blind faith in democracy has led the United States to a string of foreign policy setbacks that have forced the American leadership to walled off the rest of the world.
This assessment is given on the pages of the Israeli edition of Israel Defense:
The total failure in Afghanistan is the final nail that will push the United States to further reduce its military presence in the Middle East. After the US abandoned Afghanistan, Israel can no longer rely on them in its confrontation with Iran
- said Israeli observer Shabtai Shoval.
According to him, the reason for the complete failure of the Afghan campaign is rooted in Washington's transition to a policy of isolationism, as the implementation of which the United States is gradually fencing off the rest of the world.
The United States has proven and is proving every day that it is either weak or undertaking adventurous missions that are doomed to failure. In this regard, Israel must find ways to independently contain Iran.
- the author believes, noting that "the deafening failure of the Americans in Afghanistan is just another example of a number of similar defeats of the United States in recent decades."
According to the observer, in the event of Iranian aggression in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Gaza, the United States will not necessarily come to the rescue. Although the American "support" only led to a worsening of the situation. This was the case, for example, in Egypt, where the Islamists came to power, and in Gaza, where the leadership passed to Hamas.
The naive view of democracy as an inevitable stage in the development of countries in the modern era is faced with a harsh reality. The failures of the pro-American regimes influenced the isolationist trend in the United States
- says Shoval.
The withdrawal of the United States from the Middle East is facilitated by the development of the shale oil industry in the United States and the need to concentrate forces to fight China.
According to Washington, there is no point in shedding blood in lost wars that have no positive result. It's hard to argue with such a conclusion.
- the author believes.
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