Famous American analyst: American parties are useless in foreign policy
Democrats and Republicans have preseed their policies to voters in statemes, but the day after the election, no preside will follow through on the written promises he made to the people of the United States.
According to RCO News Agency, “Kamala Harris” and “Donald Trump”, the Democratic and Republican candidates in the US presideial elections, have published official statemes in which they explain their policies for the four-year presideial term, but “Steven Walt”, an expert in political science and The professor of iernational relations at Harvard University believes that these statemes do not represe the real policies of the candidates and do not help voters make decisions.
Steven Walt wrote an article in the American media “Foreign Policy”, poiing out that some people think that it is possible to understand the real positions of politicians by reading these statemes: “I have read both statemes, I tell you that you should bother reading them. do not give “At least in the realm of foreign policy, these documes do not provide much information about the outlook for eves in 2025 and beyond.”
This analyst says that Donald Trump’s stateme has no sign of a political vision docume and is more like the messages that he publishes in an angry tone in cyberspace. According to this analyst, Trump’s stateme is so vague that it is completely useless and does not provide an explanation about the relations of the US governme with the couries of the world.
On the other hand, this analyst says that the stateme of the Democratic candidate is long, serious and somewhat boring and makes many promises that no preside will be able to fulfill. This docume praises the policies of the Joe Biden governme in crises such as the war in Gaza and Ukraine and coains a lot of information, but there is no meion of what the foreign policy of Kamala Harris will be if she wins the election.
According to Walt, to understand how to ierpret these statemes, we need to understand that these documes are more indicative of who within each party has enough political power to write down and publish their views in these documes. The analyst says the docume released by the Republican Party shows that the party, once a “proud and principled” political organization, has now come under the complete corol of Donald Trump.
On the other hand, the Democratic docume shows that the foreign policy of the candidate of this party supports the ierests of ierest groups and key stakeholders of the Democratic Party. That’s why the docume praises Biden’s patchy performance record while criticizing trade policies that weaken the middle class.
According to Walt, the Democratic docume represes the ierests of the various groups that support the party, which is why, although the docume rejects endless wars, it still portrays a world in which the United States “must take a leadership role on the world stage.” keep it.”
Why should you not take these statemes seriously?
The American analyst says that American presides have a lot of freedom of action in the field of foreign policy and will not be bound by the election documes that were compiled to attract voters.
Although presides cannot ignore what big donors or ierest groups ask of them, they will not be bound by their wishes, especially in the first mohs of their tenure when they do not yet need their support to win the next election.
On the other hand, this report states that congressional committees and promine figures of the ruling parties do not play an influeial role in the defense and foreign policies of the governme based in the White House, stating: “Presides need the support of Congress to approve the budget and approve their domestic policies.” But what a preside does in the field of foreign and defense policy depends more on him.
In the Foreign Policy report, the significa support of Senator “Bernie Sanders” for Biden’s candidacy in the 2020 elections is meioned, but the American media has reminded that after Biden’s victory, none of Sanders’ close associates in his governme got importa jobs and the views of this senator American is always ignored in the field of foreign policy.
In addition, the argumes and positions that seem attractive before the political prospects and attract atteion in the elections, are often examined from a differe angle after the elections and when the new governme takes office.
For example, during the 1992 election, Democratic Party candidate Bill Clion repeatedly asked George H.W. W. Bush criticized him for turning a blind eye to what Clion called “human rights abuses in China,” but when he came to power, he realized that he had little power against Beijing and was better off downplaying the issue.
The American analyst also poied out that in the 2020 election, Biden strongly criticized Trump’s reliance on tariffs and his withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran, but when he came to power, he maiained many of the economic restrictions of the Trump era and never to His election promise to revive the JCPOA did not work.
The report states: “Parties’ political statemes are also misleading because they overpromise and under-deliver.”
“These manifestos are a list of demands that a party promises to deliver, so they don’t downplay or announce all the political obstacles that make those goals difficult to achieve,” says Steven Walt.
On the other hand, although American presides have significa personal powers in foreign policy, they not only face competing curres, but also have to satisfy differe curres in their supporters. Time and political capital are limited, and politicians are forced to postpone or completely abandon some of the ambitious goals they put forward in their pre-election political statemes.
In addition, no party or candidate can predict what eves will happen after taking office and what decisions will have to be made. The United States is not the only power in the world, and many unexpected eves are ahead of the next American governme.
According to the American analyst, “George Bush” did not predict the attacks of September 11, “Barack Obama” could not predict the Arab Spring, the Corona epidemic confused Trump, and Joe Biden also faced 2 major wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
Steven Walt says that the documes published by the Republican and Democratic parties are useful to attract the atteion of the supporters of these two parties, but it should be kept in mind that no preside will review these documes and perspectives after the end of the election and coming to power.
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