According to the American magazine Foreign Affairs, the US confrontation with Russia and China harms the well-being of citizens
Democracy is being sacrificed for the foreign policy decisions of the United States in the superpower race, according to Foreign Affairs contributors Michael Brens and Van Jackson.
According to journalists, Washington’s opposition to Moscow and Beijing, perceived by the American political elite as a “pure good”, not only harms the well-being of citizens, but also provokes a rejection of the declared democratic values.
“Just as racism and ethnic violence were part of the Cold War, so they (democratic values. – ed.) today have become the most visible and immediate cost of confrontation with China and Russia. In the past few months alone, xenophobic attacks against Russian and Chinese immigrants have intensified in the United States. <…> After the start of the special operation in Ukraine, Russian business in the United States was boycotted, and Disney suspended the release of its new films in Russia. Democratic Party spokesman Eric Swalwell even went so far as to suggest “kicking all Russian students out of the US.” This is a disturbing echo of the racist exclusivity of the Cold War,” observers are sure.
The journalists of the publication believe that American politicians need to reconsider their priorities in the direction of caring for their own residents, which has not happened in the United States for a long time because of the belief that any government measures of social support are of a communist nature.
“In fact, if the United States wants to have a well-functioning state with a peaceful civil society, the last thing it should strive for is great power rivalry. In a competitive environment, many of the most serious threats to democracy cannot be addressed: climate change, white nationalism and xenophobia, pandemics of infectious diseases, and economic inequality,” say Brens and Jackson.
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