In Saudi Arabia Trump Rejects Interventionism, Regime-Change Schemes
Foreign policy statements by the Trump administration continue to surprise.
At the end of January Secretary of State Marco Rubio made remarks that strongly diverged from decades of U.S. policy. He did away with ‘unipolarity’ – the assumed leading role of the U.S. in global policy – and acknowledged and endorsed a multi-polar world.
He set a limit to U.S. intervention by acknowledging the legitimate interests of others:
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.
Rubio wants to reintroduce that concept:
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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