LONDON -

The stage of the American invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan is linked to the military alliance with Britain, which led the two wars together.

With the end of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the world will enter a new phase of confrontation over influence between China and the United States.

The duo, George Bush and Tony Blair, are remembered for being the godfathers and architects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and many accuse them of being the main reason for the deterioration of the situation in the two countries.

Recently, the US-British alliance is entering a new phase, with the signing of the AUKUS security agreement with Australia to build nuclear submarines, the purpose of which is to counter Chinese influence.

It is as if history is repeating itself, as many American and British analyzes believe. Once again, Washington and London return with a military alliance to confront a new threat.


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US-British relations reached their lowest levels during the withdrawal from Afghanistan, due to the American unilateral decision and the lack of coordination with the United Kingdom, which is Washington's closest ally in that war.

The state of discontent with the US administration became public in the British Parliament, when British MPs accused US President Joe Biden of taking the decision hastily, abandoning their country and not coordinating with it.

Military sources told the British newspaper, The Times, that British military leaders were excluded from important negotiations between America and the Taliban, “and so we found ourselves in the dark, not knowing what happened when they decided to withdraw,” one of the leaders in the British army told the newspaper.

Tensions increased between the two countries when President Biden rejected British demands to delay the withdrawal from Kabul airport.

Washington has resisted all pressure from London to delay the withdrawal by a week, to ensure the evacuation of Western citizens from there.

After this crisis, many accusations were leveled against Biden that he was destroying the security and military relations with Britain.

The Okus agreement between America, Britain and Australia provokes European and Chinese protests (British Royal Navy)

The legacy of Brexit and Trump

The tripartite security agreement between Britain, the United States and Australia came at the right time for both London and Washington, both of whom are trying to exit a critical stage in their history: Trump's legacy in America, and the fallout from the Brexit agreement.

The winds of the security agreement took place as desired by the ships of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who - for the first time - has witnessed the decline in the popularity of his party compared to the Labor Party since 2019, so that the agreement came and perpetuated what Johnson had been promoting for years, which is the "Global Britain" project that will emerge from narrowness European Union for the vastness of the world.

Johnson's close circles present the tripartite agreement as one of the biggest fruits of Brexit, as it gave Britain the freedom to negotiate and conclude huge security and military deals away from the European Union.

And it appeared in Britain's strategic report, which lays out the features of the country's general policy during the next two decades, that the Kingdom's first goal is to preserve the United States as the country's first ally, and this is reinforced by the "Ocos" security agreement.

The agreement contributes to the revival of the strategic alliance between London and Washington, which retreated under the slogan launched by President Trump, "America First."

It also eases Britain's anger at the US administration after the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The United States and China are in confrontations that call for major international alliances (Getty Images)

new enemy

As former US President George Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair stood 20 years ago to divide the world into two axes: with America and its allies or against them, US President Joe Biden said - during the announcement of the submarine deal - that publishing it would be a barrier between the world of freedom and democracy. And the world of oppression.

In the same language, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke, and said that all these moves are to confront the threat to Western values ​​of democracy and freedom of expression.

As for the new enemy this time, it is China, which is following everything that is happening in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, knowing that they are directed against it.

To move the center of the conflict towards the Far East, which is reinforced by the British military moves that return - for the first time since the tripartite aggression against Egypt - to the Black Sea and the Indian Ocean.

According to American media reports, the US-British agreement is a division of tasks, so that Britain will confront Russian influence, while Washington focuses on its conflict with Beijing.


at its best

On the other hand, European countries are confused, especially NATO countries, which do not yet know their position in these new transformations, to the extent that France is considering withdrawing from the alliance, according to the New York Times.

The dedication of the British-American alliance appeared during the meeting between British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden at the White House.

Johnson stressed, during which, that "the task of any British prime minister is to maintain relations with Washington at their best," adding that "a decade ago, the relationship with Washington was not at its best as it is now."

Thus, the "Washington-London" dichotomy will once again be at the fore in the global conflict that will be staged in the Far East, after they were the protagonists of conflicts in the Middle East for decades.