US President Joe Biden has completely ruled out US participation in military missions in Iraq.
According to him, the Americans will provide "training assistance, assistance in the fight against IS *, which is rising again."
“But we will not participate in any military missions,” he said.
The United States has consistently continued its cynical line in foreign policy.
They created problems for everyone and left - here they are true to themselves.
One should not look for peacefulness behind such a statement by the American president.
Still, Biden is the president of a country that is very difficult to suspect of pacifism, since it was the United States that over the past decades has given impetus to more and more international and internal conflicts in other states, systematically upsetting the balance in the world and in the existing system of international relations.
Most likely, the reason for Biden's "peacefulness" is extremely simple: the oil field has already been divided and the Middle East can be safely left at the mercy of the allies and satellites - the Saudis and the British - in order to come to grips with the economic and military confrontation with China and not scatter resources.
The cynicism of our overseas "partners" is beyond bounds, but in the present, no less cynical times, it is not customary to wring hands and express bewilderment with the greed and aggression of the players acting on the geopolitical clearing.
Rather, here it would be worth recalling all those "efforts" that the United States has made over and over again in the Middle East in order to once again record for history, so to speak.
So what happened every time the US brought "freedom and democracy" to this region?
Iraq - the blockade, the hanging on the air of Saddam Hussein, no doubt a historical figure on a global scale, the head of the once prosperous state of the Middle East.
Further - the impoverishment of the population, collapse, decline, terrorism.
Libya is a brutal live murder of one of the most charismatic leaders of the Arab states, Muammar Gaddafi, in fact, the complete collapse and disappearance of Libya from the face of the earth as a united and strong state, rich and developed, turning the country into a territory under the control of disparate groups.
Impoverishment of the population, collapse, decline, terrorism.
Parallel to this is the wild flow of migrants from North Africa to Europe, which was previously held back by prosperous Libya.
Egypt - a color revolution, the overthrow of the powerful leader Hosni Mubarak and a complete imbalance of the country.
The Egyptians were more fortunate: the military nevertheless, after some time coming to their senses, took revenge and ousted Islamic extremists from power.
However, the country was pretty stormy.
Soon Egypt will open for tourism, chat with the locals - they will tell a lot about the "wonderful" years after the overthrow of Mubarak.
Syria - the Americans have not dealt with Bashar al-Assad until now, although they were very consistent that “Assad must leave”.
But then Russia intervened in time.
Despite the squeals and squeals of the fifth column that this, they say, will be a "new Afghan", our army has demonstrated to the whole world the ability to solve the problem of terrorism without getting involved in a positional and obviously senseless war.
All of the above is only a small part of the US "merits" in this area.
In some way, it is weakly linked with the initially declared by the American presidents of the goals of transferring freedom and democracy to the designated states.
Or we simply understand these terms differently from the Americans, but then there is nothing good either in freedom or in democracy in the American way.
At the moment, to all appearances, the situation in Iraq is completely satisfactory to Washington.
Oil resources are under control, the country is robbed and under external control, while the central government does not control the entire territory of the country.
This is called colony 2.0.
The minus of today is that the current "leaders" of the world have ceased to call things by their proper names, they are ashamed of the truth: instead of open, honest and victorious declarations - the antics of a bashful girl and a good bomb in a bad game.
All this is due to the absence of a key element in the modern paradigm of international relations - honor and dignity.
Instead, surrogates and simulacra.
They, our opponents, call it the "post-Christian world."
And we will tell them to this: such a structure is extremely unstable and in turbulent moments it can collapse overnight.
Who is called the father of lies in our Christian tradition?
If a certain subject of international politics is only engaged in systemic lies, and this is what became the basis of his behavior, then who does he serve?
We must answer this question once and for all and draw the appropriate conclusions.
And we are Russians, God is with us.
* "Islamic State" (IS, ISIS) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.