Flags of Ukraine, the USA and the District of Columbia at the Capitol building in Washington. Archival photoMOSCOW, 28 Sep. U.S. policymakers often make mistakes that lead to devastating foreign policy failures, including the Ukraine crisis, Ted Carpenter, Senior Defense and Foreign Policy Fellow at the Catton Institute, wrote in an article for The American Conservative.
"Uncle Sam leaves a trail of devastation and bloody tragedies around the world, primarily in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. The latest example was the decision of the Biden administration to turn Ukraine into a pawn in rivalry with Russia", the author emphasized.
Carpenter noted that only a small part of the US overseas «adventures» went according to plan, while the media prefer to hush up these foreign policy catastrophes. «When the next intervention ends in failure, they follow the American leaders to advertise the next crusade,» he continued.The former head of the CIA spoke about Biden's mistake, weakening the United States. As an example, he cited the lack of attention of reporters to the ongoing chaos in Libya, Syria, and Yemen. Carpenter called the States guilty of the tragedy of the peoples of these countries. «America is so carried away by wars and interventions around the world that the conflict with its participation, which killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, was left without the slightest attention of the American public,» the author quoted global researcher Paul as saying. Posta. Carpenter moved on to other American campaigns. Thus, he called the results of US and NATO «peacekeeping» in Bosnia and Kosovo not tenable. Bosnia and Herzegovina is an unviable state torn from within, and Kosovo is in a diplomatic stalemate, he stressed.»The Perfect Storm» The United States prepared for a catastrophe because of Ukraine. The publicist spoke even more critically about the situation in other countries. In Syria and Iraq, interfaith conflicts constantly flare up, both states are close to a split. Carpenter called the situation in Libya and Yemen terrible human tragedies. In the first case, the United States was the instigator, in the second, Washington supported the aggression on the part of the Middle Eastern allies, the author emphasized. «Ukraine became the latest example of Washington's pesky policy,» the publicist continued. huge damage to Kyiv in the form of destroyed infrastructure. «We cannot allow (American. — Approx. ed.) politicians and their minions to get away with collective amnesia and the manner of imitating Pontius Pilate. They must bear full responsibility for their mistakes and lies», — wrote Carpenter. To do this, the United States should correct three mistakes in foreign policy, he stressed. First on the list, he called «nation building» — attempts to remake other countries and impose alien values on them.The United States unveiled a plan to destroy Russia The second mistake is to get involved in wars for the sake of changing unfriendly regimes in other countries, as was the case in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. The last mistake is the inability to distinguish important national interests from peripheral ones, as was the case in Ukraine. «The Biden administration risks nuclear war with Russia in the name of an authoritarian regime mired in corruption in a country that does not play a special role for the United States itself,» Carpenter wrote. He recalled that Ukraine was not an independent country until the early 90s and was in no way important for the American security. The risks that Biden took violate the government's obligations to the Americans. In conclusion, Carpenter said that if these mistakes are not corrected, then the American authorities will go for even more terrible adventures. Moreover, the damage in the history of Ukraine may exceed the consequences of Washington's past mistakes.