The United States, the world’s most self-serving nation, doesn’t really need allies, simply loyal vassals and has at all times been pursuing the “America First” doctrine no matter its allies’ pursuits.
BEIJING, May 29 (Xinhua) — Washington’s try to coerce its submissive allies on the just-ended Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Japan once more testifies that the United States, the world’s most self-serving nation, by no means really treats them as pals.
Fanning the flames of the Ukraine disaster to pull European allies into its quagmire and pressuring G7 allies to take harder positions on China, the United States has at all times been pursuing the “America First” doctrine no matter its allies’ pursuits.
The United States has lengthy leveraged the alliance system to maintain its world hegemony. The U.S. administration, as German MP Sevim Dagdelen noticed, “don’t actually want allies, just loyal vassals.”
SELF-CENTERED ALLIANCE SYSTEM
After World War II, the United States started to forge its alliance system marked by the founding of NATO in 1949. With the institution of its bilateral alliances with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, a self-centered community of worldwide alliances led by the United States has been step by step fashioned.
Founded in response to the so-called “security threat” from the Soviet Union, the U.S.-led alliance system, which was presupposed to dissolve with the tip of the Cold War, continued to be strengthened since then.
Washington has lengthy been using its alliance system to hawk the so-called “democracy versus autocracy” rhetoric in an try to fire up camp confrontation and hostilities.
NATO’s eastward enlargement is a living proof. Manipulated by the United States, NATO has undertaken a number of rounds of enlargement, squeezing Russia’s strategic residing house by the day.
Now Washington is pleased to see the Ukraine disaster drag on, and even escalate because the disaster permits it, on the one hand, to bleed Russia, and however, to fleece its allies.
Jose Luiz Fiori, a Brazilian professional in worldwide political economic system, remarked that the United States unscrupulously touted “Russophobia” as if the West can’t unite collectively with out demonizing exterior enemies.
The identical ploy is used to comprise China, first by defining China as a strategic competitor and hyping up the so-called “China threat,” after which by ganging up in opposition to China within the Asia-Pacific area.
Among its newest strikes are makes an attempt to carry Japan and South Korea into its trilateral fold, forge the quadrilateral safety dialogue to construct an Asian NATO, and reinforce the AUKUS trilateral safety settlement.
“American global supremacy is woven by an elaborate system of alliances and coalitions that literally span the globe,” Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former U.S. nationwide safety adviser and strategist wrote in his e-book.
Under the guise of multilateralism, the Biden administration really adopted the “America First” doctrine. Its self-centered alliance system is, in essence, to comprise and suppress China, tame and manipulate allies, and maintain and increase hegemony.
AMERICA BENEFITS MOST
“We will unapologetically pursue our industrial strategy at home, but we are unambiguously committed to not leaving our friends behind,” stated U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in an tackle on the Brookings Institution in April, attempting to mollify its allies.
Focusing on renewing American financial management, his speech was unabashedly vocal about America coming first and American pursuits taking priority over its allies’.
Brad Glosserman, deputy director of and visiting professor on the Center for Rule-Making Strategies at Tama University, stated that whereas Sullivan’s rhetoric might sound “music to the ears of those partners,” laws just like the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act, the truth is, benefited U.S. firms greater than pleasant opponents.
Take the vitality subject. Due to powerful sanctions on Russia, oil and fuel deliveries to Europe have been drastically decreased. After the Nord Stream blasts, Europe had no selection however to import costly vitality from America.
Therefore, increasingly LNG carriers are “logically” departing from the United States for Europe. And ultimately, it is Europe that suffered a giant loss, whereas the United States made a fortune.
On points regarding who bombed the Nord Stream pipeline, some Western officers should not so keen to seek out out who on earth ought to be held answerable for the blasts, in response to The Washington Post.
A senior European diplomat stated leaders noticed little profit from digging too deeply and discovering an uncomfortable reply and was quoted as saying “Don’t talk about Nord Stream … It’s better not to know.”
“America comes first” can be mirrored within the U.S. army presence worldwide.
According to a examine performed by David Vine, professor on the Department of Anthropology at American University, as of 2021, there are roughly 750 U.S. army base websites overseas in 80 international nations and colonies, practically 3 times as many bases overseas as its embassies, consulates, and missions worldwide.
More U.S. army bases had been set and extra troops had been despatched in, ostensibly to supply safety for its allies, however really to strengthen management over them. Meanwhile, many of the treaties signed by the United States and its allies, such because the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan, comprise exemption clauses.
On prime of that, the U.S. army not solely enjoys extraterritoriality but in addition can provide up the achievement of treaty obligations below sure circumstances.
When requested about international interference throughout a parliamentary listening to earlier this month, former French PM Francois Fillon stated, “Yes, I encountered it, most of the time, it came from a friendly and allied country called the United States.”
PAWNS NO MORE
Refusing to be pawns in Washington’s geopolitical strife, Japanese demonstrators gathered collectively to protest the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, holding placards of “U.S. out of Asia Pacific.” Australian students signed an open letter voicing considerations over Australia’s participation within the AUKUS.
Former Australian FM Bob Carr stated Canberra wanted a United States with a “creative role” within the area, not one “obsessed with its primacy and with its dominance.”
A wave of reconciliation, represented by Syria’s return to the Arab League, is sweeping throughout the Middle East, because the Arab nations notice that U.S. interference within the title of allies has solely plunged the area into instability and chaos.
“We continue to believe that we will not normalize our relations with the Assad regime, and we don’t support our allies and partners doing so either,” stated U.S. State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel, as soon as once more exposing that what the United States actually desires are vassals, not allies.
The hegemonic practices and zero-sum sport mentality of the United States have created confrontation and division on regional and worldwide points, critically damaging the event pursuits of its allies.
The Biden administration is “indifferent to the concerns of its Arab allies, making unilateral decisions on matters of regional importance without consulting them,” stated in a report printed by Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, titled “The Middle East: From a decade of conflict to an age of reconciliation.”
“Strategic autonomy” turned a buzzword round Europe, with specialists and political insiders realizing that the United States has by no means needed to see a united and autonomous Europe.
Echoing French President Emmanuel Macron’s push for “strategic autonomy” away from the United States, European Council president Charles Michel remarked “if this alliance with the United States would suppose that we blindly, systematically follow the position of the United States on all issues, no.”