'America First', 'Saving America' & 'America Is Back' But From Where & To What?

[G.L.R.]

US Tumbles From the First Place

July 4th, 2021



Recently, the phrase US President Joe Biden used during his June trip to Europe, "America is back"... So what did the US come back to?

The New York Times on June 23, 2021, the author expounds on his theory that the United States is lagging behind other nations in terms of "well-being at home and competitiveness abroad" and supports it with concrete examples. In his view, the country is in fact "sliding toward mediocrity". For instance, "high school graduation rates" are higher in Greece than in the US, and Chileans live longer than Americans do. In addition, "one-fifth of 15-year-olds" in the United States can not read "at the level expected of a 10-year-old". Fifteen-year-old teenagers "in Russia, Poland Latvia and many other countries" are better at Math than their American counterparts... Americans are taught to believe "the United States is the premier nation of the world"... The 73-year-old Linda In WV openly expresses her doubts about whether her homeland could be viewed as superior to other nations... admits that "each passing year brings a deeper awareness of all the lies" the United States is built on... "money buys power" and "truth is optional"... that hyperindividualism in the United States helps create "perfect conditions for billionaires" but does not "make for a healthy or desirable society for the average person". In his or her comments on the article, Ira Shorr states that USA's huge military budget "is not a strength" and that the "Pentagon's spending is so out of control it cannot even be audited".

The New York Times opinion piece, activists and US representatives "launched a visionary resolution," ... to end poverty across the United States by redirecting "spending away from the Pentagon and toward human needs". According to the article, "experts have identified up to $350 billion in defense spending cuts that would both save resources and keep the country safe and secure,"... For instance, $50 billion that will be saved "by withdrawing from Afghanistan" could permanently end homelessness... The reports also states that "United States' wars since 2001 have killed more than 800,000 people and displaced 37 million". What is more, "almost 38,000 veterans" in the US are homeless...

In 2021, according to the World Competitiveness rating, the United States took 10th place among 64 other nations. "A similar forward-looking study from the World Bank" ranked the United States No. 35 out of 174 countries. "America's chronic failure to turn its economic strength into social progress is a huge drag on American influence," ... "the liberal institutionalism that has dominated the strategic thought of the past three decades and drained American power on misconstrued projects and wars in secondary theaters is still wafting in the air". "Russia regained its footing, modernized its military and set about revising the post–Cold War" order in Eurasia. ... USA's industrial power has been depleted and "society destabilized". According to the latest study by the Eurasia Group Foundation, the United States and its democracy are not always viewed favorably around the world, especially in developed nations..."only 18 percent of Germans" thought the USA used its influence to good effect in Europe. ...

The Guardian published an article with the following title "US seen as bigger threat to democracy than Russia or China, global poll finds". Nearly half of 50,000 respondents surveyed in 53 countries were concerned that the US threatened "democracy in their country". According to the poll, since the previous year, "the perception of US influence as a threat to democracy around the world" increased significantly... In order to reach its political, economic and security-related objectives, American officials have a habit of imposing unilateral sanctions against other countries for all kinds of reasons... At the same time, US administrations use human rights among others as an excuse to incite interracial violence and conflicts between nations.... An increasing number of people are coming to the conclusion that the world order can not be imposed by a handful of leaders. It is no longer acceptable to interfere in internal affairs of other nations by focusing on human rights violations that may or may not have occurred within their borders...

This is what the US has noticeably been influencing and exporting to the world

According to a March 23 article published by RIA Novosti, Russian senator Aleksey Pushkov thinks that the Biden administration wishes to bring back US hegemony but its members do not know how to achieve this goal. The official reminded his readers that the US leadership carried out air strikes against Syria; insulted Vladimir Putin without good cause, and tried to intimidate Iran. Hence... Joe Biden and his team appear to act on impulse. The current US President's motto "America is back and ready to lead the world" may prove to be just as meaningless as "America first". The former supposedly shows that the United States is prepared to once again take on the role that it had after World War II ended... Its leadership was further eroded by disastrous outcomes of neoliberal globalization efforts spearheaded by the United States... Unfortunately, both slogans seem dated ... the US leadership has to deal with quite a number of challenges as soon as possible that include restoring faith in democracy...

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