Kar se mene tiče, Marco Rubio, nov ameriški zunanji minister, ni oseba, ki bi jo človek povabil domov na večerjo ali šel z njo na pijačo. Vendar je nov ameriški zunanji minister in potrebno je pazljivo prisluhniti njegovim stališčem. Zaradi tega spodaj objavljam nekaj zanimivih pasusov iz njegovega intervjuja v Megyn Kelly Showu (objavljenem tudi na spletnem portalu State Departmenta). Meni so še posebej zanimivi predvsem deli, ki se nanašajo na (1) geopolitični strateški pogled nosilca zunanje politike nove ameriške administracije, (2) pogled na urejanje odnosov s KItajsko in (3) pogled na rešitev vojne v Ukrajini. Vendar priporočam branje celotnega intervjuja, ker je za razliko od podobnih zelo zanimiv.
Prvič, Marco Rubio v svojih pogledih zelo eksplicitno odstopa od dosedanjega 35 let dolgega obdobja enopolarnega sistema liberalne demokracije, ki so ga forsirale ameriške administracije po koncu hladne vojne. Namesto tega odkrito govori, da je zanj svet multipolaren in ki temelji na ravnotežju moči med velesilami. Vsekakor osvežitev glede na zadnjih 35 let in je – v skladu s teorijo zunanjepolitičnega realizma, ki jo zastopa John Mearsheimer – temelj za večjo globalno stabilnost, kjer ZDA več ne igrajo globalnega policaja, pač pa vsaka država zasleduje lastne interese in jih, kjer se razlikujejo od interesov drugih držav, poskuša uveljaviti prek diplomatskih sredstev.
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah. Well, I think we spend a lot of time in American politics debating tactics, like what we’re going to do, who we’re going to sanction, what letter we’re going to send or whatever. I think it really has to start with strategy: What is the strategic objective? What’s the purpose, the mission? And I think the mission of American foreign policy – and this may sound sort of obvious, but I think it’s been lost. The interest of American foreign policy is to further the national interest of the United States of America, right? I mean, every —
QUESTION: America first.
SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, and that’s the way the world has always worked. The way the world has always worked is that the Chinese will do what’s in the best interests of China, the Russians will do what’s in the best interest of Russia, the Chileans are going to do what’s in the best interest of Chile, and the United States needs to do what’s in the best interest of the United States. Where our interests align, that’s where you have partnerships and alliances; where our differences are not aligned, that is where the job of diplomacy is to prevent conflict while still furthering our national interests and understanding they’re going to further theirs. And that’s been lost.
And I think that was lost at the end of the Cold War, because we were the only power in the world, and so we assumed this responsibility of sort of becoming the global government in many cases, trying to solve every problem. And there are terrible things happening in the world. There are. And then there are things that are terrible that impact our national interest directly, and we need to prioritize those again. So it’s not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power. That was not – that was an anomaly. It was a product of the end of the Cold War, but eventually you were going to reach back to a point where you had a multipolar world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet. We face that now with China and to some extent Russia, and then you have rogue states like Iran and North Korea you have to deal with.
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