The Bellicose and Bellicose Policies of America have Undermined the Democratic Process in the World

The Bellicose and Bellicose Policies of America have Undermined the Democratic Process in the World

U.S. Iran policy pleases Israel and Saudi Arabia, not the Iranian people who are suffering terribly from sanctions

Mujeeb Khan

 

Protest in Iran September 2022

Hong Kong, protest Aug30, 2019

Ukraine's war with Russia

  If it is said that America’s hawkish and war-mongering policy has damaged the process of democracy in the world, then it will not be an exaggeration, but this is a fact, and it is also seen in America and Europe. It was the policy of America that the process of economic reforms should continue in China. And the Chinese government promoted economic reforms. China was opening to Western investment and companies. Along with economic reforms, political reforms also started in China. Internet was becoming popular in China; social networking was on the rise. The strong grip on freedom of expression was also slightly loosened. Hong Kong was kept by China under the British era system; it is called the one country and two systems. And it was working very well. China had not interfered in Hong Kong as much as the United States had begun to interfere in Hong Kong. In view of this, China was forced to take measures to reduce the freedom of the media. US intervention in Hong Kong was in the interest of its short-sighted foreign policy, but in the long term, Hong Kong citizens had to pay a heavy price.  Their freedom was curtailed. China has never intervened in Taiwan. Mainland China is a major trading partner of Taiwan. China did not set any conditions for making Taiwan its trading partner. The current government of Taiwan has elected twice, strongly against China, by getting close to America, it became an enemy of China’s interests, but China did not try to install its own man in Taiwan by interfering in Taiwan’s elections. If America were in China’s place, it would have rigged the elections and installed its own man in Taiwan. But China respected Taiwan’s people’s democratic system and has not sabotaged their system in its own interests. America’s policy of confrontation with China has forced the Chinese government to roll back its political reforms, and political freedoms must curb. China’s Political reform has dealt a huge blow by America’s unwise policy. To promote our democratic values, it is necessary to have a democratic attitude.

  When the Iranian people come to the streets, they loot and burn. America supports them when the Iranian people overwhelmingly elect reformists for change while staying within the system through peaceful means. There is no meaningful change in America’s attitude even under a reformist government. Mohammed Fatemi a reformist elected president of Iran twice, did reforms. America should have relaxed the sanctions on Iran under his administration. This would have helped build a powerful base of moderates and reformists in Iran. Moderates and reformists failed to win the next elections, and this time the ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected, he was also elected for the second time as Iran’s President. After the Ultra-conservatives in Iran, the Iranian people once again elected a moderate and reformist Hassan Rouhani by a large majority. President Rouhani signed an agreement ‘with the United States and the European Union to end Iran’s nuclear program. Under this agreement, the economic sanctions on Iran would lift. Iran’s nuclear program was compromised by the Obama administration. But the Trump administration terminated the Iran deal at the insistence of Israel’s rogue Prime Minister Netanyahu. President Trump made the Israeli leader happy, but the far-reaching consequences of this mistake were unhappy. Hardline ultraconservatives in Iran strengthened. After the nuclear deal was terminated by the United States, Iran resumed work on its nuclear program. The US's stiff economic sanctions on Iran were strangling the Iranian people. America’s policy was to strengthen the hardline conservatives. Ebrahim Raisi Iran’s next president is the second hardline ultraconservative president in 22 years. America’s Iran policy pleased the Israeli hawkish conservative Benjamin Netanyahu and the Saudi conservative government. But this US policy is hurting moderates and reformists in Iran. It would be in the interests of the reformists if the economic sanctions on Iran were lifted. Iran’s democratic system has a tussle between two political sections hardline ultraconservatives and moderate and reformists, both are trying to dominate each other which is a good thing in a democratic framework. But nobody in Iran wants to go back to 1979.

  In Russia, President Putin’s interest was in political economy. Oil and gas were the pillars of this economy, with the development of the economy, political institutions would develop- democracy and freedom would spread in Russia. It may have had its difficulties, but it was the sure future of Russia. America and NATO’s political wars have damaged democracy and freedom in Russia. China has not damaged democracy and freedom anywhere in the post-Cold War world as America and NATO destroyed democracy and freedom in the world. On the performance of the Russian troops in the Ukraine war, pundits in America say that the Russian troops not trained are right, because no one thought that Russia would have to fight a war like the second world war in Europe one day. Most Eastern European countries had joined NATO, but Russia did not expect war. Russia was a major trading partner of the European Union. Russia was a major trading partner of Germany. Russia did not even think that when America was giving military training in Ukraine, these Ukrainian troops would fight against Russia.