“As for US reliability, I suspect it’s because we have no interests there.”
With that reasoning, the US has no interests anywhere, because we are seen as unreliable by pretty much everyone.
“With that reasoning, the US has no interests anywhere, because we are seen as unreliable by pretty much everyone.”
We are seen as unreliable due to all the blustering BS spewed by moralizing do-gooders about “red lines” and “sanctity of international borders” and “legitimate aspirations of the people” and the “sanctity of democratic process and norms”...when we have no intention of doing anything REAL about them.
We pump up countries and peoples all over the world, then deflate them. And more times than not, over some ephemeral moral issue that is none of our business. All while looking the other way when it happens somewhere else.
At best the US is feckless is this regard.
A national morality has caused us to over commit to a ludicrous degree without ever giving thought to the real repercussions...or what happens when the bet is called.