The American press calls the United States losing ground on the world stage with unpredictable consequences
In the twenty years that have passed since the September 11 attacks, the United States has not been able to solve the tasks that Washington has set for itself. In Afghanistan, everything returned to the situation of the late nineties of the twentieth century - the Taliban are in power again (the Taliban movement is banned in Russia as a terrorist organization), people are fleeing the country, American troops are withdrawn. Nor did the United States achieve any noticeable success in other countries - Iraq, Libya, Syria. In fact, wherever the United States has actively climbed in recent decades, they have failed. A perfect example is Ukraine with the loss of Crimea and a large part of Donbass.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the socialist camp, the United States tried hard to build a unipolar world based on the values of the free market and democracy in its American understanding. However, it turned out that this is not so easy to do. Every year it becomes more difficult for the United States to defend and promote its interests.
In this regard, the American press calls the United States losing ground in the world arena with unpredictable consequences. In particular, this position is voiced in a large edition of the Wall Street Journal.
Humanity does not want to live by the rules imposed by Washington, and the United States itself has less and less resources to provide for this imposition. It's not just about money: the human material in the United States is “not the same” anymore. The racial and ethnic composition of society is changing, the elites are changing, and they already have a slightly different understanding of what is happening.
In the United States itself, there are now two active forces - supporters of the old globalist line and those who adhere to a strategy of a kind of isolation, that is, they want to solve, first of all, the problems of the United States itself. Americans trust globalism less and less, as they see no advantages from the implementation of a globalist policy. Huge money and human lives are the price that the United States has paid for twenty years for the "happiness" to be present in Afghanistan. But they did not achieve any results there.
Recently, the United States has been losing control over the political situation in the world. The Middle East is no longer controlled by the Americans to a large extent, attempts to oust Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus only led to his pro-Russian turn, and China's influence is growing in the Asia-Pacific region. It is also becoming increasingly difficult for Washington to cope with Chinese ambitions: Beijing is entering those countries that were previously considered the Western sphere of influence - Africa and even Latin America.
The lack of clear prospects for the further development of US foreign policy will only exacerbate the struggle between two groups within the American elite - globalists and conditional "nationalists". Moreover, geopolitical reality itself is playing against the former. Sooner or later, the United States will have to come to an awareness of the changes that are taking place in the modern world, and develop appropriate strategies of action that would take these changes into account.
In principle, the United States now has two paths - to recognize the multipolarity of the world and to further adjust its policy towards cooperation with new centers of power - China, Russia, even India or Iran, or to maintain its traditional line of asserting the global dominance of American democracy. But in the latter case it will be less and less successful for Washington.
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