The United States is signaling an end to the “unipolar world” and acting accordingly. This sounds like diplomatic gobbledygook but it could actually be a major shift and the end of the U.S. policy to be the bully of the world.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has started to use the phrase “multipolar world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet.” He wrote this in the Wall Street Journal:
“It’s no accident that my first trip abroad as secretary of state, to Central America on Friday, will keep me in the hemisphere. This is rare among secretaries of state over the past century. For many reasons, U.S. foreign policy has long focused on other regions while overlooking our own. As a result, we’ve let problems fester, missed opportunities and neglected partners. That ends now. President Trump’s foreign-policy agenda begins close to home.”
He’s right, most Secretaries of State start off in Europe and the Middle East, telling them what to do and how to be.
The U.S. is also, in the words of Arnaud Bertrand, “dismantling foreign interference apparatuses (like USAID).” The Trump administration shut down USAID in one fell swoop and exposed all manner of funding corruption in so doing. When DOGE tried to enter USAID offices this weekend, two officials reportedly tried to physically stop them and were put on leave. DOGE leader Elon Musk said that this agency has been put “into the wood chipper.” Follow former State Department whistleblower Mike Benz for a summary of all the evils that USAID was guilty of, including funding gain of function research in China, funding fake news organizations as propaganda, funding online censorship, funding heroin production in Afghanistan, and more.
President Trump said that it was run by “radical lunatics” and it is hard to argue with that. Elon Musk said that the National Endowment for Democracy may be next and I would show up with popcorn to watch that organization hit the wood chipper next!
These organizations have been used to justify and start wars by bullying other countries around the world under the guise of “teaching them to be more like us.” It’s high time that ends and, in the words of Bertrand, “Hegemony was going to end sooner or later, and now the U.S. is basically choosing to end it on its own terms. It is the post-American world order – brought to you by America itself.”
