In 1962, President John Kennedy welcomed his first mission directors at the White House after the creation of USAID, which was entrusted with the responsibility of managing foreign aid. He noted the difficult politics of maintaining foreign aid, but described it as a leader of the free world for the role of the United States. “You will not have a farewell parade when you leave.” It said Of their ascending deployments, “or when you return, the parade.” The reward was the work and the main reason for the independence was presented.
The foreign policy of a nation is a good window in its psychology. The United States that created USAID was a wider theory about itself in the world: defending freedom, suppressing international institutions, fighting for the hearts and minds of people around the world – an attempt at home The civil rights movement is submerged. The United States, which is defying USAID, has a very different feeling of its position in the world: threatening the victory of smaller countries, withdrawing from international institutions, proposing ethnic cleansing in Gaza – a global The theory that completes a large number of deportation and diversity programs at home. . A nation whose size and self -imagination are getting smaller.
President Trump, of course. , Run to re -election to promise to change America’s position in the world. After a grinding conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, he vowed to discipline the national security elite, who refused to learn from wars forever. After decades of complaints that our business partners benefited more from globalization, it promised to use the old tools of Stit State Craft to take advantage of better deals. After some parts of the Federal Work Force resisted their agenda in their first term, he tried to fill him with loyalists who would serve him and his movement. In a world of chaos -filled transactional chaos, Americans will have their own self.
Many Americans, which I have also included, support the improvement of the Consensus of Scholars’ National Security, which has ruled our policies since September 11, 2001. Nevertheless, it would be wrong to say that it would be wrong to reject merely the completion of Mr Trump’s foreign policy announcements and executive measures. His campaign is promised. He did not follow the end of USAID, Greenland’s victory or Gaza occupation. Instead of revealing power, their foreign policy eliminates the loss of American self -esteem and self -esteem, which makes the United States stand for things that it claims to have been supported by two World Wars. What is: freedom, self -determination and collective security
In many ways, Mr Trump cuts a more familiar photo of history: an aging strong person engages about regional expansion to strengthen power and stabilize his inheritance. Best, such foreign policy will help form a reformed international order in opposition to US abuse. Unfortunately, it can accelerate the global trend towards a defect and power conflict.
Consider what the rest of the world has seen in the past few weeks. Mr Trump is the first president in my life to enroll in the office, promising “expanding our area”. He has insisted that despite repeated objections from the governments and people of these countries, the United States withdrew the Panama Canal and occupied Greenland. It is possible that this conversation is getting ready to open, though most Americans are not in mind despite these things: decreasing US ships or moving the Panama canal to Greenland or resources in Greenland And gaining more access to military bases. It is also possible that Mr Trump means what he says about regional expansion.
In any case, Mr. Trump’s goals do not recommend strength. Picking on Panama and Greenland or threatening trade wars with Canada and Mexico is a sense of bullying in the school yard that someone is looking for someone to wander. Although this fight may offer a political victory immediately, the world is not alive and dying of American news cycles or the alternative reality of Fox News and ONN. It sees us from the outside and sees a president ignoring the state’s sovereignty, which has been the foundation stone of global stability since World Wars – and is doing this at a time when Vladimir Putin Putin Ukraine Trying to collect, Xi Jinping has been committed. To overcome Taiwan, and some Israeli politicians are pushing for Gaza and the West Bank affiliation under the guise of national security. If the United States exempt itself from the rules, why would other nations follow them?
This is one of the reasons that Mr Trump suggests that the United States takes ownership of Gaza and turns it into a Middle East’s rope. Like many of Mr Trump’s recommended things, it is unlikely to be (again, rarely demonstrated power). But it further legitimize the idea that two million Palestinians in Gaza should abandon the land they do not want to leave and ignore the fact that neighboring Arab states like Egypt and Jordan are involved in ethnic cleansing. Will be destabilized due to. Moreover, it clearly supports a foreign policy theory that has any right to determine their fate for less powerful nations and people. Israel’s right -wing finance minister, Bezel Smithrich, occupied this new fact: “Now,” he said after Mr Trump’s comment, “We will work to completely bury the Palestinian state’s dangerous idea. “”
If Mr Trump was concerned about the plight of the Ghazan, he would not destroy the US agency responsible for helping them rebuild them. Already, the global frozen agency is unable to support a tough ceasefire in Gaza with the help of humanitarian sympathy for foreign aid and USAID’s suspension, not more difficult to clean debris. There is never any objection to tasks, different bombs and providing asylum. Hundreds of thousands of citizens who have lost their homes.
Unlike Mr Trump’s announcements about Gaza and Greenland, USAID’s Elon Kastory monitoring is something that’s already happening, not just for people around the world who rely on the agency But also for the Americans who expect their government to have their government. Prevent the spread of the Chinese Communist Party’s terrorism, illness and global influence. USAID, which is struggling under prices, has been stripped of financing, countries, including US allies, can now see a more forecast to trade and invest in China. This dynamic reflects the methods in which power in this country comes out of our borders. When the richest man in the world can damage our position globally so easily, it is, of course, a harbinger of fall: a sign of a damaged superpower that is a source of influence. Can be separated from the inside.
President Kennedy told USAID officials in 1962, “People who oppose people should understand that this is a very powerful source of power for us. We are invading, we send you.” In the days, the United States was a new mint superpower, its growing status in the vision of his president’s youth and his “new border”. This was an extension of people around the world.
Today we are about to capture a falling superpower for the lost status. The combination of complaints, nationalism and liberty that indicates the basis of a partnership between Mr Trump and Mr Musk to a future in which the presidents are liberated from guards around the use of power and a federal work force The discomfort of what can happen. Chef for participating in excesses of power. And while Mr. Trump’s some foolishness about some comments, the history of the first half of the 20th century reminds us that when the tension of nationalism emerges, the rules, institutions, or aspiring values emerge. – Major countries led by nationalist strength inevitable conflicts; People inevitably suffer.
In panic of people of us must acknowledge that there will be no return in the past-there is no alternative story for how to make America a way to re-make it great or to the World War II warfare To be restored. There will be new ideas for how the United States can build people around the world and live peacefully with other countries. To reach this future, however, we must look inside. This is not enough to defend the idea of foreign aid or oppose regional aggression. We too must become a nation that is capable of seeing our own interests, as is linked to something greater than the desires of strength.
Ben Rhodes is an important author and author of voting, recently, “After the fall: We have the rise of dictatorship in the world.”
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