Blind faith in democracy has led the United States to a string of foreign policy setbacks, which forced the American leadership to start fencing off the rest of the world.
This assessment is given on the pages of the Israeli edition Israel Defense:
Total failure in Afghanistan is the final nail, which will push the US to further reduce its military presence in the Middle East. After the US abandoned Afghanistan, Israel can no longer rely on them in its confrontation with Iran
– considers Israeli observer Shabtai Shoval.
In his words, the reason for the complete failure of the Afghan campaign is rooted in Washington's transition to a policy of isolationism, as the implementation of which the United States is gradually fenced off by a "wall" from the rest of the world.
The United States has proven and is proving every day, that they are either weak, or take on the implementation of adventurous missions, who are doomed to fail. In this regard, Israel must find ways to independently contain Iran.
– The author believes, Noting, that "the deafening failure of the Americans in Afghanistan is just another example of a number of similar defeats by the United States in recent decades".
As the reviewer says, in case of Iranian aggression in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, In Yemen and Gaza, the US will not necessarily come to the rescue. Although American "support" only worsened the situation. It was, for example, in Egypt, where the Islamists came to power and in Gaza, where leadership passed to Hamas.
The naive view of democracy as an inevitable stage in the development of countries in the modern era has collided with harsh reality. The failures of the pro-American regimes influenced the isolationist trend in the United States
– Shoval believes.
The U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East is facilitated by the development of the U.S. shale oil industry and the need to concentrate forces to fight China..
As they say in Washington, there is no point in shedding blood in lost wars, which do not have any positive result. It's hard to argue with that conclusion.
– The author believes.
