New York Times: Biden speaks at the General Assembly amid deep distrust of America’s role in the world

According to RCO News Agency, the assistants of US President Joe Biden have promised that his speech at the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly will be full of announcements about America’s role in shaping the future. In his speech, they say, Biden will reaffirm American leadership, spark global action and offer his vision for how the world should come together on its most pressing challenges.

But the truth is that President Biden will be speaking amid deep uncertainty about the future of America’s role in the world, including the war in Ukraine, escalating conflicts in West Asia, and growing economic competition with China.

Biden has promised a cease-fire that could end the Gaza war, and his national security aides are feverishly trying to prevent a wider Israeli war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah. In Ukraine, he still faces urgent decisions, including whether to allow Kiev to use long-range American weapons to strike deep into Russia.

According to the New York Times, however, there is a sense of insecurity when it comes to America’s long-term intentions. Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris largely applauds his views on the importance of strategic alliances, but former President Donald Trump is promising a return to his “America First” brand of isolationism while boasting his diplomatic skills.

World leaders gather at the United Nations as multiple global crises clash with American policy in ways that could change how the United States confronts the world’s toughest problems.

John B. Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said: “For a world that is currently witnessing the war in Ukraine and the war in Gaza and the possible expansion of the war in Lebanon, the issues that the United States cares about, (Washington’s role) is both deeply important and deeply out of control.

According to Alterman, for other heads of state, figuring out where America is headed after the November election is “one of the most important parts of their strategic calculations, and that’s why they’re trying to travel to New York with both the president and the two candidates.” The upcoming presidency will meet in this country.

The American newspaper further pointed to the separate meetings of the heads of different countries with Biden, Harris and Trump in the past days and noted: Now European, Asian and African leaders are speculating to see if they can predict the future that will probably happen. .

Will this future be Kamala Harris’s interpretation of what Biden called a “collective hope” for cooperation with the world? Or will it be a return to threats by Donald Trump, who once told the United Nations that he may have “no choice but to completely destroy North Korea”?

The New York Times emphasized that “there is a lot at stake,” adding: As the Ukraine war enters its third year, Europe is actively grappling with questions about its own security and whether it should distance itself from long-term reliance on American power as a guarantor. It is facing Russia far away. Another term of Trump’s presence in the White House accelerates the need to answer this question.

Joe Biden is also scheduled to attend a Security Council meeting on Ukraine on Tuesday, which will also include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This will be the moment that will determine how far Biden has been able to rally the world on Ukraine’s side after the start of the Ukraine-Russia war in 2022.

In relation to West Asia, he has become more isolated among his allies due to his unquestioning and decisive support for Tel Aviv.

His diplomatic efforts to broker a cease-fire in Gaza have failed and the escalation of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, including rocket attacks and pager blasts that have injured thousands of Lebanese, has fueled fears of a wider war.

White House National Security Spokesman John Kirby said the President’s speech at the United Nations outlines his vision for how the world can come together to solve these big problems and defend fundamental principles, such as the United Nations Charter.

John B. Alterman also clarified: But for the leaders present at the speech, the question is whether this vision will continue beyond January 20.

He added: In my opinion, the general attitude towards “how the world works and what role the United States should play in the world?” is similar between Harris and Biden and fundamentally different between Biden and Trump.

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