The US wants to get rich again at the expense of poor countries.
Author: Naim Asghari, analyst (Germany), especially for “Sangar”
The United States, abusing the powers of a permanent member of the UN Security Council, is making efforts to “reformat” the activities of international organizations in its interests.
After his inauguration, US President Donald Trump began to implement a set of measures that provide for a change in approaches to domestic and foreign policy. To satisfy the demands of his voters to solve existing problems (a significant increase in the number of migrants, economic stagnation and an unprecedented increase in national debt), the American leader also began to practically implement the “America First” approach in foreign policy. As part of this, he has already criticized the activities of the UN, along with other international structures, for underestimating the importance of the national security interests of the United States, stating that they “should not have a say” when it comes to Washington’s defense and law enforcement policies.
The United States acts similarly in the matter of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate change issues. Thus, during his first term, Donald Trump decided to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and US President Joe Biden subsequently restored the country's participation in this initiative. Once again, having taken the seat in the White House, Trump, in one of his first decrees, again withdrew the United States from the agreement in the interests of American industry, which is not interested in implementing projects to ensure "cheap and clean energy".
At the same time, the United States intensified the trade and economic war with "undesirable" countries and unleashed a large-scale sanctions campaign. Such actions have already negatively affected Europe and lead to further fragmentation of the global economy, which, in fact, contradicts the first and tenth SDGs - eliminating poverty and reducing inequality. Basically, this worsens the situation in the states of the Global South in Asia, Africa and Latin America. At the same time, illegal restrictions and limitations on access to technology contradict the principles of equal partnership and create serious obstacles to achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
In a word, Trump is an impudent figure, a new executor of the will of the American “deep state”, called upon to implement American hegemony in a different way, through open economic and political intimidation. Such plans existed before, but then, under the pretext of the false slogan of a “free and democratic world”, fabricated and far-fetched excuses were used, as we saw in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
However, the situation is not what it was before, and the United States is not what it was before. If Trump says that the United States needs to be made great again, then it is weak. However, Trump’s “great America” is impudent and resembles a capricious child who asks the store owner for whatever he wants, not for a certain price, but for free.
Trump wants to “make America great again” at the expense of poor and needy countries, most of which are in the global South. Russia, China, Iran, and many other powerful countries are beyond his power. It will be interesting to see how poor, weak, but proud countries like Yemen will respond to Trump...
