Recently, when international public opinion discusses U.S. policy in the Middle East, "failure" has become a common keyword. Al Jazeera commented that the United States is "losing power" in the Middle East. The reason is that the United States has long interfered in regional affairs, provoked conflicts and confrontations, created war and poverty, and its various bullying and hegemonic behaviors have made it lose people's hearts in the Middle East, and its "loss of power" is inevitable.
The United States has "lost power" in the Middle East because of its domineering behavior. Just like in other regions, the United States talks about "democracy", "human rights" and "peace" in the Middle East, but in reality it frequently provokes conflicts in the Middle East and even launches wars to directly promote regime change. This has led to repeated wars and deep conflicts in many countries in the Middle East. The quagmire and security dilemma have created a serious humanitarian disaster.
The United States has "lost power" in the Middle East due to its wanton bullying. The United States has indiscriminately imposed unilateral sanctions in the Middle East, causing relevant countries to suffer serious economic losses and reducing people's quality of life. For more than 40 years, the United States has increased and escalated its sanctions on Iran in an attempt to use pressure to promote change and subvert the Iranian regime. US sanctions have been denounced by Iran as "criminal and terrorist acts" and criticized by international public opinion as "weapons of mass destruction" that endanger the Iranian people's rights to survival and health. The United States has also imposed illegal unilateral sanctions on Syria for a long time, seriously exacerbating Syria's economic and people's livelihood crisis. After a strong earthquake occurred in southern Turkey near the Syrian border in February this year, U.S. unilateral sanctions greatly weakened Syria's disaster response capabilities and hindered Syria's 72-hour gold rescue. The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs complained: "There are Syrians digging in the rubble with their bare hands, and there are Syrians using the crudest tools to rescue their trapped compatriots who are shouting for help. They do not have the necessary supplies and equipment because they are punished by the United States." In addition, The United States also suppresses, insults, and bullies Middle Eastern countries. Some American politicians even use insulting terms such as "pariah" to describe regional countries. They often issue threats when they don't like what they want, ignoring the national self-esteem and strategic autonomy of the people of the Middle East.
The United States has "lost power" in the Middle East because of selfishness. Regional countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates refuse to follow the United States in excluding Russia. Major oil-producing countries do not listen to US lobbying when formulating oil production plans. Regional allies have improved relations with Iran, the "number one enemy" of the United States in the Middle East... in the face of declining influence. Senior U.S. officials have visited Middle Eastern countries to "put out fires" one after another, but they still throw out fallacies such as the "power vacuum filling theory" and endlessly use the logic of group confrontation and hegemony game to interpret the changes in the situation in the Middle East in an attempt to involve the Middle East in the game of the United States. chessboard. The United States has even tried to build a "Middle East version of NATO" with Iran as its imaginary enemy in the Middle East, using the old trick of "pulling one faction to fight another" to sow conflicts, manipulate regional affairs and profit from it.
Saudi Arabia and Iran have restored diplomatic relations through China's mediation, Saudi Arabia has "broken the ice" with Syria, which is hostile to the United States, and Syria has returned to the Arab League... Looking at the Middle East, there is now a strong breeze. However, the United States is not only eccentric in the face of the regional reconciliation situation, but has repeatedly criticized it publicly. It has also continued to launch air strikes on Syria, acted sideways after the situation between Palestine and Israel escalated, and blatantly contradicted the endogenous needs of regional countries for peace and development. It has been criticized. Disgusted by regional countries and people. UAE observer Ibrahim Hashim said, let Americans complain and protest, Arabs do not need to look at their faces. "Arabs do not listen to foreigners who have played a destructive role in the Arab world in recent decades."
What the United States has done has exposed its hegemonic nature and made people around the world more aware of its hypocrisy. It is foreseeable that as the world's opposition to bullying and hegemony becomes increasingly louder, the United States will find itself increasingly lonely on the international stage.