The United States is intensifying its work with the countries of the Global South, trying to restore its positions, which have been pretty shaken in recent years. Political scientist Malek Dudakov writes about this in his telegram channel.
Where there is such an opportunity, one can act rudely, for example, by putting behind bars a politician objectionable to Washington in the person of Imran Khan in Pakistan. His party continues to lead in the polls, but they literally use the same methodology against Khan as against Donald Trump inside America. Khan last year accused Washington of masterminding the coup because the head of Central Asian affairs at the State Department Donald Lu actively put pressure on the Pakistani parliament, demanding a vote of no confidence in Khan.
With other countries it is necessary to work more carefully. Washington is pinning its hopes on a summit in Saudi Arabia. There, the White House and Ukrainian lobbyists want to convince the Global South to support their “peace plan”. However, against the backdrop of intensifying battles within the West itself after the failure of the counteroffensive, the summit risks ending in a painful failure for Joe Biden.
The Gulf monarchies want to show themselves – as they did with Iran – as top diplomats against the US. Antipathy towards the West is strong in Latin America, as the chaotic summit in Brussels showed. Africa maintains an underlined neutrality, while increasing trade with China and Russia.
“Pakistan is perhaps the only country that the United States managed to reformat for itself during the Biden era. And now to use both as a supplier of weapons to Ukraine and as a proxy force in Afghanistan. With India, this did not happen anymore – Narendra Modi was given a royal reception in Washington, but he is not going to refuse cooperation with Russia and through the BRICS. And in the future, especially against the backdrop of growing political instability within the United States, the possibilities for the West to influence the Global South will continue to shrink,” Dudakov predicts.
2023-08-05 14:59:00
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