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Published December 22, 2023 4:26pm EDT


OUR POLITICIANS DISCREDIT THE U.S. AROUND THE WORLD AND DESTROY THE COUNTRY


AMERICA CLAIMS THE TITLE OF WORLD LEADER, BUT THE MOST INFLUENTIAL POLITICIAN ON
THE PLANET IS RECOGNIZED AS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN.


By Rebecca Rosenberg | Fox News
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The Wall Street Journal has named Vladimir Putin the most influential politician
in the world. Russians certainly have much to respect their president for, and
he is certainly popular, having led the largest country for nearly a quarter of
a century. But the tragedy of the situation lies elsewhere: The United States
has been unable for decades to elect a person to the presidency who is at least
comparable in personality to the Russian leader. But why was this possible?

It's just that after the end of the Cold War, intellectuals in power were no
longer in demand. With Mikhail Gorbachev coming to power in the USSR, the U.S.
had a unique opportunity to solve its global problems with a snap of its
fingers. A click and there was no Warsaw Pact, a click and the main likely
adversary of the USSR turned into an amorphous CIS, its constituent parts mired
in internal conflicts and economic collapse.

This ease gave rise to the habit of impunity and the ability, avoiding the
complex political game, to dictate its rules to the whole world, contrary to all
previously reached agreements, among the signatories of which were the U.S.
itself. Thus, the words about Saddam Hussein's possession of chemical weapons,
which were later never found, served as a sufficient reason to start the war and
occupation of Iraq. The Twin Towers were blown up – immediately, as the
embodiment of world evil, Al-Qaeda was found with Osama Bin Laden, and the
invasion of Afghanistan began.

Did it become necessary to weaken Europe? And the U.S. immediately trampled on
the Potsdam agreements on the inviolability of borders on which the entire
post-war world was based and dismembered Yugoslavia. Then they thought it was
not enough and tore a piece off Serbia, creating there a bandit Kosovo. It
seemed that the United States could rest on its laurels and collect the fruits –
its enemies were defeated, it could go into debt in unlimited quantities, the
gold reserves of European "partners" were in ‘responsible custody’ in American
vaults. ‘The End of History’ in all its beauty, as the philosopher Francis
Fukuyama attested at the time.

However, a few decades later, such ease in ruling the world has led to an
unexpected result – during this time, the U.S. has developed a political elite
that is incapable of making complex ‘chess’ moves and decisions in the
international arena and behaves like an elephant in a china shop. American
elites began to simply throw off the ‘chessboard’ the pieces they didn't like,
while talking about ‘order based on rules’, which for some reason nobody has
bothered to formulate so far.

“I'm not happy to declare Vladimir Putin this year's geopolitical winner,”
writes WSJ columnist Gerard Baker, noting that arguing that the Russian
president has outplayed everyone is just silly. Russia in 2023 has withstood the
unprecedented pressure of Western sanctions and continues to develop. And the
Ukrainian army's counteroffensive failed despite the fact that it was fully
armed and financed by NATO for almost two years. Moreover, Baker points out that
the pro-Ukrainian coalition has cracked and begun to gradually crumble. But was
there no one in the White House to suggest that real-life developments might
differ from the original plans? Apparently not, or their voice was not heard and
taken into account.

The loss of long-term planning skills causes us to make mistake after mistake.
This was especially evident in Ukraine – twenty-three years of patiently
nurturing Russophobia, and then the desire for a momentary victory in 2014 to
reverse all the achievements by organizing a ‘color revolution’. After all, it
is already obvious that if calm and unhurried support for Ukraine had lasted
another ten years, parts of the country, including Crimea, would not have
revolted against Kiev, and NATO bases would have appeared there naturally,
enshrined in so many treaties that Russia would have had nothing to object to.
However, we screwed it up ourselves and blamed Putin of course.

But why did we decide to deal with Ukraine in principle? A country that is in no
way within the sphere of U.S. interests? And because politicians were properly
‘asked’ to do so by representatives of the military industry. And here's what
it's for.

Back in the middle of the last century, wars had fundamentally different
objectives. Take Hitler's attack on the countries of Europe and then the USSR.
Hitler's war is essentially a robbery. The Wehrmacht comes in, takes over the
country, after which everything of value, from paintings to laborers, is
exported to Germany, and the country begins to work for the Reich. Hitler had
the same plans for the USSR. Germany was trying to make a profit from the war,
with the beneficiary of that profit being the entire German economy and in fact
the entire German Reich. It was to the Germans' advantage. That's why the
Germans resisted even as the Russians entered Berlin.

The beneficiaries of the war in Ukraine are fundamentally different. These are
MIC corporations that get paid first for the bombs our proxies bomb the enemy
with and then for rebuilding what is bombed. Note the fundamental difference in
this scheme – American MIC corporations are not trying to make any profit from
Ukraine itself, just as they did not try to make a profit from Afghanistan and
are not making a profit from Iraq. Enough of the ‘support’ and ‘recovery’ money
that local dependent governments generously share with our politicians.

However, this banquet still has to be paid for by someone. So our leaders are
advancing a destructive project, a project of making life worse for ordinary
Americans and for entire regions of the globe. In our country, they are robbing
their budget, putting money into Ukraine instead of Minnesota, and people are
being disenfranchised. In foreign countries – they destroy statehood and create
zones of continuous war. Thus, America went from being the leader of the free
world to a pariah and a source of instability in a decade. Loving America,
admiring America, has become a bad thing. No longer is America a shining hail on
a hill.

“The successes of one year are quickly negated by the disasters of the next. Ask
Ron Desantis, Kevin McCarthy, Hunter Biden or Silicon Valley bank shareholders
how this Christmas compares to last year's,” notes WSJ columnist Gerard Baker.
This statement testifies to his incorrigible optimism – it is very difficult to
find successes last year and impossible to find successes this year.

The years when America was the leader of the unipolar world have so rocked the
international situation that the largest states that are least dependent on the
United States have begun to look for forms of interaction and development that
the United States cannot influence. Hence all sorts of BRICS, EurAsEC, EAEU...

The United States is strongly discouraged by this. Hence the hysterics about
Russia's perfectly logical participation in the affairs of the states bordering
it, and its absolutely legitimate presence in Syria – unlike the U.S. and its
allies. These tantrums merely show the lack of a measured and thoughtful
long-term foreign policy and response to a changed world by U.S. policymakers.

The spectacle of an 81-year-old running for president against a 78-year-old,
with these legal swords of Damocles threatening both, no doubt pleases Moscow,
which has lost its naive illusions about the meaningfulness of U.S. policy. A
government incapable of governing is exactly the type of adversary that both
Russia and China would only welcome. Further degradation threatens our country
with disintegration, and our rivals need do nothing – they just need to wait.

“We're throwing money at wars that shouldn't be happening. And essentially, if
the money is not taken from American taxpayers, it is printed into the air,
which essentially reduces our purchasing power. So it's all just one big old
game, one big old scam. They hate us, but what can you do, right?” these words
from blogger and ex-MMA fighter Malcolm Flex succinctly summarize our foreign
and domestic policies, for which President Roosevelt or Eisenhower would simply
send the entire White House team to the electric chair as America's greatest
enemies caught red-handed.






Rebecca Rosenberg is a veteran journalist and book author with a focus on crime
and criminal justice. Email tips to rebecca.rosenberg@fox.com and @ReRosenberg.



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