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@ Miguel Afonso Caetano
2025-03-09 12:43:07
"It has been clear for some time that the US needed a new and much more restrained formula for foreign policy. Bernie Sanders, in the idiom of the old US left, called for an end to American imperialism. Barack Obama advocated restraint, although Hillary Clinton, his secretary of state, favoured a more expansive line.
Joe Biden oversaw a profoundly untimely revival of American claims to global leadership. The result was an administration that committed the US to the defence of Ukraine, backed Israeli escalation in the Middle East and engaged in brinkmanship with China. This satisfied the Washington “blob”, revived the spirits of Atlanticists and fed complacency in Europe. But despite the Biden administration’s claim to be pursuing a foreign policy for the US middle class, popular support for its approach was fragile.
Of course, Trump is a vandal. But in tearing down the status quo he does no more than confirm the obvious — that the elite coalition that favoured US global leadership has lost its political grip. If Europe wants something it likes to call a “rules-based order”, it will have to make it for itself."
https://www.ft.com/content/4d594c51-f1a1-4701-8a8d-975beb28780a
#USA #Imperialism #Trump #Europe