US President Joe Biden speaking in Warsaw, PolandMOSCOW, 13 Apr. The statements by American experts that the aggravation of the Ukrainian crisis could have been prevented by Washington's active intervention in the affairs of Ukraine demonstrate that for 20 years the United States has not realized how wrong their imperial ambitions remain. Historian Andrew Bacevich writes about this in an article for The American Conservative magazine. The author was outraged by the words of Robert Kagan, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's project on international order and strategy, who is sure that the role of «world hegemon» is prescribed for America from above: «The United States has played and continues to play to play a major role, and Americans must come to terms with this fact».In the United States, a close ally was doubted because of a parody of Biden as he explains, it is benign and does not involve domination or exploitation, but voluntary submission is “more a condition than a goal.” However, scratch the surface, he offers the imperative of militarized US global domination, whatever the cost, without much attention to who pays it,” Baseevich believes. The historian recalled that in the imperial narrative of the United States there is always constant criticism of Moscow and Beijing, comparing them with militaristic Japan or pre-war Germany, but the sins of Washington itself are hushed up. “No matter what happens in the real world , he is ready to explain how events confirm the indispensability of assertive American leadership. In Washington, this is always welcome. <…> However, about the US wars in Afghanistan in anistan and iraq after september 11, he is silent. They don't claim to be mentioned — not a single one, zero, zero, no,» Bacevich stressed. «The death of the American» world order «The author of the article said that the policy of preventive aggression, which resulted after September 11 in the doctrine of Bush Jr., only strengthened America's faith in its right to interfere in the life of states that, in its opinion, are insufficiently correct. «Now, even two decades later, Kagan cannot bring himself to admit the grotesque immensity of this mistake, as well as its side effects,» the article concludes. Earlier, The Washington Post called US policy towards Ukraine «hypocritical» due to the use of anti-Russian sanctions for unprecedented economic pressure on its own «sphere of influence» in the Western Hemisphere. your sphere of influence
