According to the author, the behavior of the US authorities does not correspond to the changed circumstances and looks like Washington is running a unipolar world.
Walt writes that future historians will debate why the "unipolar moment" was so brief.
“However, you need to understand that we are back in a world of competing great powers and rising stakes, where mistakes can have really big consequences,” he said.
He also said that the United States needs the ability to clearly prioritize and stick to them.
Earlier, Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, said that the origins of the crisis in Ukraine lie in the arrogance of the West and the desire of the United States to be the world's gendarme.