Xinhua News Review: The United States loses power in the Middle East due to people's hearts. Iraq | losing power | people's hearts

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 14th (Xinhua) - The "loss of power" in the United States and the Middle East lies in people's hearts

Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Wencheng

Recently, when international public opinion discusses the US Middle East policy, "failure" has become a common keyword. Al Jazeera commented that the United States is "losing power" in the Middle East. The reason behind this is that the United States has been interfering in regional affairs for a long time, provoking conflicts and confrontations, creating wars and poverty, and all kinds of hegemonic and hegemonic behaviors have caused it to lose all its hearts in the Middle East, making it inevitable to lose power.

The United States has lost its power in the Middle East, losing its dominance. 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 and even launches wars in the Middle East, directly promoting regime change, leading to multiple countries in the Middle East being embroiled in conflict and security dilemmas, and creating serious humanitarian disasters. The most typical example is that in 2003, the United States launched the Iraq War with fabricated reasons without authorization from the United Nations Security Council and strong opposition from the international community. According to global statistical databases, from 2003 to 2021, approximately 209000 Iraqi civilians died in war and violent conflicts, and approximately 9.2 million Iraqi people became refugees or were forced to leave their homeland. The United States has long supported the infiltration of non-governmental organizations and agents into Middle Eastern society, repeatedly using the "color revolution" to disrupt the political situation of multiple countries and cause social unrest. The White Gloves of the US government, such as the National Democratic Foundation, incited the "color revolution" in countries such as Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Algeria, and Syria, and were important masterminds behind the "Arab Spring". The Arab Policy Research Center, headquartered in Doha, Qatar, conducted a public opinion survey of 14 Arab countries last year, and 78% of respondents believed that the biggest threat and source of instability in the region was the United States.

The United States has lost power in the Middle East and is losing out on rampant bullying. The United States has indiscriminately imposed unilateral sanctions in the Middle East, causing serious economic losses and a decline in the quality of life of the people in relevant countries. For over 40 years, the United States has imposed increasingly severe sanctions on Iran, attempting to use pressure to promote change and overthrow the Iranian regime. The US sanctions have been condemned by Iran as "criminal and terrorist acts" and have been criticized by international public opinion as "weapons of mass destruction" that endanger the right to survival and health of the Iranian people. The United Nations Special Rapporteurs on the Negative Effects of Unilateral Coercive Measures on Human Rights, Alaina Duhan, assessed the impact of US sanctions on two "serious" aspects: serious negative effects on the Iranian economy and serious violations of human rights. The United States has also imposed illegal unilateral sanctions on Syria for a long time, seriously exacerbating the economic and livelihood crisis in Syria. After a strong earthquake occurred in the southern part of Türkiye near the Syrian border in February this year, the unilateral sanctions of the United States greatly weakened Syria's disaster response capability and hindered the 72 hour gold rescue in Syria. The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has complained that "there are Syrians digging barehanded in the ruins, and Syrians using the simplest tools to rescue trapped compatriots who shout for help. They do not have the necessary supplies and equipment because they have been punished by the United States." In addition, the United States has also suppressed, insulted, and bullied Middle Eastern countries. Some American politicians even use insulting terms such as "lowly people" to describe regional countries, repeatedly threatening them when they are not satisfied, ignoring the national self-esteem and strategic autonomy of the Middle Eastern people.

The United States lost power in the Middle East due to selfishness. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as other regional countries, refuse to follow the United States to exclude Russia, major oil producing countries do not listen to American lobbying when formulating oil production plans, regional allies improve relations with Iran, the "number one enemy" of the United States in the Middle East... Faced with the declining influence, US high-ranking officials have visited Middle Eastern countries to "extinguish the fire", but what they have thrown out are fallacies such as the "power vacuum filling theory", constantly using the logic of group confrontation and hegemonic game to interpret the changes in the situation in the Middle East, attempting to entangle the Middle East in the chessboard of the US major power game. The United States has even attempted to establish a "Middle Eastern version of NATO" with Iran as its hypothetical enemy in the Middle East, using the old tactic of "pulling one faction against another" to provoke conflicts, manipulate regional affairs, and profit from it. The Washington Post believes that US foreign policy has "lost its flexibility" and is now "dominated by a group of narrow-minded elites" who "seem unable to sense the changing world outside.".

Saudi Arabia and Iran have resumed diplomatic relations under China's mediation, Saudi Arabia has broken the ice with Syria, which is hostile to the United States, and Syria has returned to the League of Arab States... Looking at the Middle East, it is now a wind of peace. However, facing the situation of regional reconciliation, the United States not only has a strange and often criticized it publicly, but also continues to launch airstrikes on Syria. After the escalation of the situation between Palestine and Israel, the United States has pulled a chord and openly contradicted the endogenous needs of regional countries for peace and development, which has been disliked by regional countries and people. UAE observer Ibrahim Hashim said, let the Americans complain and protest, Arabs don't need to look at their faces. "Arabs do not listen to the words of foreigners who have played a destructive role in the Arab world in recent decades."

The actions of the United States have exposed the essence of its hegemony and made people around the world more aware of its hypocrisy. It can be foreseen that as the world's call against hegemonic hegemony continues to rise, the United States will find itself increasingly lonely on the international stage.