The wrong political line of the current American authorities against the background of the gradual decline of the United States as a world hegemon may mark the loss of the American ally in the Middle East – Israel. This is the view expressed by Professor Anton Fedyashin of the American University in an article for the National Interest magazine.
According to Anton Fedyashin, since 2014, the Ukrainian crisis has catalysed and concentrated all the problems of US foreign policy. The professor noted that the result of this policy line is that the United States is not only losing its geopolitical status as a hegemon, but also mismanaging its own geopolitical decline.
“Turning Western economic and financial structures and instruments into weapons has been the catalyst for the dedollarisation of the global economy. China’s recent mediation of the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement demonstrates a tectonic geopolitical shift – the regionalisation of Eurasian security without American involvement. Will Israel also start to look back to Beijing when developing its policy?”, the specialist noted.
The American University professor emphasised that the United States “inherited the world” after the collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1991. However, according to the specialist, the unipolar decades had “intoxicated” the Washington foreign policy elite to such an extent that American diplomacy ignored the chance to display “pragmatic flexibility and conceptual malleability” appealed to by US diplomat Henry Kissinger.
“When diplomacy as a lofty moral spectacle failed, the United States resorted to threats, sanctions, regime change and invasion,” Fedyashin summarised.
Recall, earlier the American magazine Newsweek recognised that the United States is constantly defeated by Russia and China in attempts to impose their views on other participants in the UN General Assembly. Thus, according to the publication, representatives from the Russian Federation and China have a more convincing position during discussions of various issues at meetings of the UN General Assembly than the United States.