At the United Nations this past week, the figurehead of the US Joe Biden talked about a “remarkable sweep of history,” which was somehow not refer

Rethinking US Foreign Policy for a Multipolar World

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2024-09-29 19:00:44

At the United Nations this past week, the figurehead of the US Joe Biden talked about a “remarkable sweep of history,” which was somehow not referring to a descent into a WWIII hellscape but an optimistic vision of the future world led by the US.

It was a fitting final UN address for Biden who has put an exclamation point on the US’ decades-long run as chief planetary scourge — from NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine and the ongoing encirclement of China to the support of Israel’s genocidal rampage across the Middle East to the endless coups, assassinations, drone attacks, and the never ending global war on terror.

Is there any hope for change? Aurelien has an engrossing piece asking what lessons might be learned in the West from the impending loss in Ukraine. In the US at least, where learning lessons that don’t involve more conflict is mostly verboten, it’s hard to see it.

Think tanks, those buzzing plutocrat-funded shadow government hives, are week after week pumping out content on how to tinker with the lumbering leviathan. Most of these tweaks to existing strategy involve the recycling of old ideas, e.g., Ukraine is the new Afghanistan for Russia/USSR, revive the Kennan containment strategy, etc.