The UnitedStates’ withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty or ABMT) and the recent mutual withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty have been important milestones in Russia’s perception and assessment of strategic competition and balance of power.
The most striking example of this new international structure manifests itself in how Saudi and Emirati national interests dictated and enabled these Gulf monarchies to respond to the Russian attacks in Ukraine more cautiously and openly refusing an automatic alignment with the UnitedStates.
The idea behind this move was to mend the UnitedStates’ containment policy to create a solid resistance to a possible Soviet expansion towards the warm waters of the Mediterranean.
Leaving a military- and security-based foreign policy and adopting active diplomacy is likely to help Saudi Arabia balance its security reliance on the UnitedStates as an external guarantor and hail the Kingdom as a initiator of a new security architecture.
turns from a net energy importer to a net energy exporter
The UnitedStates is one of the most outstanding countries among today’s oil and gas suppliers.
lmost 70 years after the establishment of the United Nations (UN), the aim to protect international peace and security remains as relevant and urgent as ever.
The idea of global messianic universalism under Western leadership—especially that of the UnitedStates—is fading away as the world grows more diverse and unstable in the wake of Western ascendency after the outcomes of the Cold War.
Read: Iran's Proxies in the Middle East: A Halted Transition to Politics?Although the UnitedStates joined the nuclear negotiations in April 2021, the negotiations stalled in May.
As the global shipping slowed because of COVID19-related restrictions, manufacturing industries were also urged to relocate their factories from China to the UnitedStates and Europe.
During the UN Security Council vote condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one of the UnitedStates’ most important partners in the Gulf, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), ignored Washington’s pleas and abstained from condemning the invasion.
mid the Russia-Ukraine war in Europe, the UnitedStates has reaffirmed its commitment to counter China in the strategically vital Indo-Pacific region, by putting $2.
Read: China Beware, Russia-Ukraine War Unified EU and NATO As Never Before
The second decade after the Cold War
The second decade following the end of the Cold War was sealed by 9/11 when the UnitedStates’ “war on terror” and NATO’s activation of Article 5 for the first time in its history brought the alliance into Afghanistan.
What makes Russia a suitable supplier of arms to certain Southeast Asian countries is that it offers cheaper equipment, barter as a payment alternative, and does not consider human rights records unlike Europe and the UnitedStates.
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The UnitedStates: double standards?
The UnitedStates has been publicly accusing the Russian military and civilian leadership of war crimes.