When US soldiers departed Afghanistan in September of last year, the Taliban rapidly reclaimed control of Kabul, the same group that the US had deposed and used as a pretext to invade Afghanistan two decades ago. The US pullout from Afghanistan has been termed “Uncle Sam’s humiliating escape from Afghanistan” by critics.
Of course, the United States’ exit from Afghanistan was not the first debacle and retreat from the Middle East; the United States’ withdrawal from Iraq in 2020 is also worth mentioning.
Despite initially refusing to withdraw its forces from Iraq, it ultimately succumbed to the Iraqi people’s will and reduced its military presence in the country under different pretexts, including the COVID-19 outbreak. Many commentators attribute the United States’ withdrawal from the Middle East to Iran’s policy of punishing US invaders, which began following the assassinations of Martyr Soleimani and Martyr Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis.
Some view these events as solid evidence of the United States’ decline and, as a result, the breakdown of the unipolar order in international relations. They believe that these situations will result in the development of new world order, the strengthening of regional powers, and a shift in the nature of global hegemony, with China, Iran, and Russia as examples of potential polygonal world powers. As a result, confronting these countries is one of America’s foreign policy goals. Inciting neighbours against independent states like Iran, which will play an important role in the world’s future, is one of the US’s measures for curbing the Axis of Resistance.
The current political squabbles over Imran Khan’s administration are just another example of the US collapsing and Iran, China, and Russia rising in the not-too-distant future. These developments in Pakistan, which happened just after Afghanistan’s neighbours had successfully gathered, were clearly of foreign origin. In spite of US intentions, Imran Khan’s administration maintained strong ties with China, Iran, and Russia while refusing to grant the US a military base in Pakistan. Khan’s independent initiatives appear to be the cause of Pakistan’s current turmoil.
If we look closely at US national security strategies, we can see that China has emerged as a significant threat to the US in recent years, and that, in tandem with the intervention in Ukraine, Washington is attempting to move closer to Russia’s borders while desperately attempting to force Iran to make concessions through economic and media pressure. Of course, Americans have not been very successful in achieving these goals. For example, although the Group of Seven (G7) has stated that one of its main goals is to confront China, John Mearsheimer, one of the most prominent neo-realist thinkers, believes that China will continue to enhance its capabilities through peaceful rather than military means.
Meanwhile, Russia, which the US has been seeking to contain, now poses a greater threat than ever before to the EU and the US. Today, Iran, after years of enduring unjust political and economic sanctions, is reluctant to offer any concessions to the US. Kenneth Waltz, for example, believes that the United States’ approach to Iran’s nuclear programme was flawed and incorrect. Almost every attempt by the US and its allies to thwart the Axis of Resistance has failed miserably.
The White House’s policies to delay the expected new global order include strengthening US ties with South Korea and Japan, as well as promoting Taiwan to control China, weapons sales to Arab states in the Persian Gulf, complete support for the Zionist regime to contain Iran, political upheavals in Kazakhstan, and inciting Eastern European countries to control Russia.
Of course, Iran, Russia, and China have not sat idly by in the face of US malign designs, and they have used ingenious strategies to frustrate US objectives. These strategies include the New Silk Road, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and joint military drills. To summarise, it is America’s own materialist mindset and erroneous worldview about sovereign nations that have brought the US to this low position.
As American policy analysts describe it, “no country in the world, save the United States, aspires to influence everything on the globe.” “As a result of this effort, US foreign policy has become “overburdened,” which is the main factor in America’s impending collapse.
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