The US should reduce its influence on other regions and deal with domestic issues. This is the view expressed by Foreign Affairs columnist Stephen Wertheim.
According to Stephen Wertheim, the administration of US President Joe Biden came into office with the intention of giving a “strategic emphasis” to US foreign policy. In its first year, the White House ended the two-decade-long war in Afghanistan, promised to “increase the US military presence in the right size” in the Middle East and even established “stable and predictable” relations with Russia.
“The logic was that by paying less attention to certain regions, Washington could focus on what most affects U.S. interests. <…> Today, that vision is in shreds. The United States is now involved in numerous wars in Europe and the Middle East, precisely where the administration sought to keep things quiet,” the journalist noted.
The author of the article emphasised that since the end of the Cold War, the formula for US global dominance has been to maintain military superiority in the world and suppress competition among other countries. According to the columnist, the United States has contained any emergence of rivals and “kept the peace at a reasonable price for itself.”
However, the columnist noted that the unipolar world was over. Now the United States was faced with a choice: to cut costs and risks or to maintain global dominance by “tossing from one crisis to another”.
“The US does not need global military dominance to prosper. If they need anything, it is to salvage their own liberal democracy, rebuild party politics, and regain the trust of the people. Trying to cling to primacy sets back this great task. The result is a foreign policy that is constantly out of control and a country that loses its sense of self-control,” Stephen Wertheim 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 the UN General Assembly meetings than the United States.