Michael Hersh says that under Donald Trump, the world began to behave as though the United States does not exist, even though this superpower has been the principal arbitrator for most conflicts in the world since the beginning of the 20th century.
In an article in Foreign Policy, Hersh explained that many countries have turned their backs on the United States that these countries have increasingly shown that under Trump Washington is only interested in its own interests and has no desire to even recognize the interests of others.
He said Washington's approach only to its interests has been seen by all in East Asia, with Trump ignoring North Korea's threats of new missile tests and insufficient attention to the recent dispute between Japan and South Korea, a dispute that Washington once prevented merely from appearing.
Clumsy deal
He also cited Trump's clumsy deal with the nuclear dispute between India and Pakistan. The US president told the cameras and the presence of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to mediate.
He added that there is certainly no Indian leader - not to mention the fanatical nationalist Modi - has previously agreed to mediate a third party in the Kashmir issue, which India regards as one of its states.
He pointed out that Trump's remarks angered Narendra Modi and prompted him to make his controversial decision to annex Kashmir to India, and it is no longer any benefit from Pakistan.
Floundering and random comments
What has become clear to all observers is that Trump and his haphazard comments on South Asia's most complex issues have one goal: to urge Pakistan to help America pull its troops out of Afghanistan, and Trump is likely to know nothing about Kashmir other than that, he said. People sometimes wear him Kashmiri wool.
Shashi Tharoor, a former UN diplomat in India, said he believed Trump had no idea what he was talking about.
Hersh went on to say that the world now sees how most countries have refused to participate in a US-led tanker protection force in the Persian Gulf, and how they have refused to support Trump in his battle against China's Huawei.
He added that Trump's famous slogan "America first" has now turned to "America only", and it is good to say that there is a crisis of credibility in the United States, because this credibility no longer exists in many regions of the world suffering Critical.