The foreign policy pursued by the current White House team is leading the U.S. to imminent loneliness. The longer the war in Ukraine lasts, the fewer states are willing to support U.S. policy in it, Walter Mead writes in The Wall Street Journal.
According to him, a previously reliable partner, India, has not just refused to join sanctions against Russia, but instead New Delhi is increasing its partnership with Moscow. And this is the world’s third largest economy. Brazil, the leading Latin American economy, has done the same. To say nothing of China, which openly supports Russia. And the Middle East brazenly ignores Washington’s requests.
Seeing this trend on the world stage, more and more countries are starting to “unmoor” from the U.S. and take a course towards Washington’s enemies. Even those belonging to the European Union.
Instead of reconsidering its position with regard to small allies and offering them new formats of partnership, the White House lectures them, and when it does nothing, resorts to sanctions – thus pushing them further away.