Tale nedavni govor Fione Hill, ene največjih antiruskih jastrebinj, objavljam – podobno kot sem Putinov govor na münchenski varnostni konferenci leta 2007 – izključno iz akademskih razlogov. Ker demonstrira, kako ameriška zunanjepolitična elita (ki jo imenujejo tudi “blob”) razmišlja o zunanjepolitični situaciji iz ameriško-centrističnega vidika. (v info: Fiona Hill je bila obveščevalna analitičarka v administracijah Busha mlajšega in Obame, prvi dve leti Trumpovega mandata je bila članica njegovega varnostnega sveta, nato pa sodelovala v t.i. “Russia gate” in impeachmentu proti Trumpu).
No, ta govor Hillove je – kljub perverznemu preobračanju dejstev v prvih dveh odstavkih – ne samo priznanje dejstva, pač pa prva resna objavljena analiza pripadnika ameriškega zunanjepolitičnega estalishmenta o tem, zakaj se je v zadnjem letu “tretji svet” popolnoma obrnil proti ZDA. Govor Hillove je tudi eksplicitno priznanje, da je enopolarnega sveta z ameriško hegemonijo neminovno konec (kot je povedala tudi v intervjuju v Politicu. “it’s the end of the existing world order. Our world is not going to be the same as it was before“). Hillova priznava, da so s svojo vlogo v tej vojni v Ukrajini in zaradi poprejšnjega hipokritičnega pedigreja (od Vietnama do Sirije) ZDA same pospešile svoj padec s trona. In še več, medtem ko je tudi Hillovi jasno, da je vojno v Ukrajini mogoče končati samo z diplomatskimi sredstvi, pa prav Hillova priznava, da ZDA nimajo več tega ugleda in položaja, da bi lahko to storile. Zato se vse oči obračajo proti Kitajski (čeprav Hillova na koncu vljudnostno, vendar brezpredmetno našteje še nekaj držav – od Indije do Estonije)
Since 1991, the U.S. has seemingly stood alone as the global superpower. But today, after a fraught two-decade period shaped by American-led military interventions and direct engagement in regional wars, the Ukraine war highlights the decline of the United States itself. This decline is relative economically and militarily, but serious in terms of U.S. moral authority. Unfortunately, just as Osama bin Laden intended, the U.S.’s own reactions and actions have eroded its position since the devastating terrorist attacks of 9/11. “America fatigue” and disillusionment with its role as the global hegemon is widespread. This includes in the United States itself—a fact that is frequently on display in Congress, news outlets and think tank debates. For some, the U.S. is a flawed international actor with its own domestic problems to attend to. For others, the U.S. is a new form of imperial state that ignores the concerns of others and throws its military weight around.
In the near term, this is particularly detrimental for Ukraine. Globally, the war in Ukraine is viewed as one in a long series of dramatic events since 2001 driven by the United States. America’s heavy-handed conduct of the “War on Terror” alienated the vast swathe of the Muslim world. The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, hot on the heels of Afghanistan, revived the horrors of U.S. Cold War interventions in Korea and Vietnam. U.S. inaction in conflicts like Yemen, and selective interventions in Libya and Syria, underscored U.S. foreign policy inconsistency. The 2008-2010 financial crisis and Great Recession, followed by America’s domestic upheaval and the election of Donald Trump in 2016 dimmed the power of America’s democratic example. Trump’s contempt for international agreements and his flagrant mishandling of the global pandemic, as well as, more recently, the Biden Administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, cast further doubt on the U.S. capacity for global leadership.
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