Seeming Isolation of United States
A lot of states whose `strategic’ capacities are reduced to private
interests are building their domestic foreign policy making and
awareness raising on the U.S. isolation, hypothesis of lack of wish in
Washington to intervene actively in different regional affairs.
This hypothesis is confirmed by a number of publications by American
and European experts that flood the internet.
Currently even Obama’s fundamental opponents agree that the United
States needs to stop, and foreign political activities now may cause
trouble.
This country, said to have 20% of global GDP (by other estimates, no
less than 40%), with a monetary system that became global a long time
ago, with national security that has transformed to a global one,
cannot afford real isolation.
The United States does not seem to conduct any policy on Russia, for
example. The U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul is an
intellectual but he reminds of a charity representative rather than a
diplomat. At the same time, Moscow has never been so angry and nervous
about the policy of Washington.
First, it should be taken into account that over the past 20 years the
United States has deposited immense capital in Eurasia, and now it is
receiving interests.
A study of the U.S. policy in regional terms will give supporters of
the hypothesis of American isolation a better understanding of such
`isolation’.
First, how should one juxtapose this isolation to the installation of
missile defense systems all along Russia’s geopolitical borders by the
U.S. thwarting the established system of strategic resistance?
The second action which is larger in scale is design and
implementation of structures aimed at balance of forces. This is not
only related to Russia, this is the universal method and approach to
the U.S. foreign policy.
The Near East is forming schemes of confrontation between Sunni and
Shiite states and communities; Turkey, Iran and Saudi; in South Asia
between Pakistan and India, in Asia Pacific China and several
militarized states with developed economies.
Now the United States is withdrawing from Afghanistan and Central
Asia, opening the green way to China, which does not need Russia in
this region any more.
The normalization of relations between the United States and Iran will
introduce considerable changes in the situation of some ambitious Arab
states, Turkey, as well as Russia which will lose a more or less big
partner in the south.
Furthermore, more trouble is awaiting Russia in the European direction
where the main goal- clash of interests of Germany and France, as well
as many other European states, with Russia’s claims regarding the
Eastern Partnership – is close.
The states which afforded to make a choice without figuring out the
situation may be offered only partnership in intensifying
international isolation.
So, who is isolated now?
Igor Muradyan
11:10 29/10/2013
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