ArmInfo. The world is gradually entering a qualitatively new stage in international relations and politics. This stage no longer implies the leadership of the United States and any other country or center of power in general. Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Academician Ruben Safrastyan, expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.
"The United States will simply be deprived of the opportunity to spread its own potential in various parts of the world by ensuring a military presence there very soon. A similar forecast has quite objective prerequisites. The desire of US President Trump to reduce the American military presence in various regions of the world also looks objective, " he emphasized.
According to the academician, Trump sought to reduce the US foreign presence, starting with his election campaign, which he repeatedly and quite explicitly stated, voicing the United States as his only priority: " America First approach>. However, the president's similar strategy is not shared by most of the American establishment. It is these contradictions that Safrastyan explains the failure of most of Trump's isolationist initiatives, for example, the withdrawal of the American army from Syria that did not end there.
According to the academician, the United States does not have a clear, unambiguous and unified goal setting even for Iran, although it has a fairly serious military presence in the Middle East. According to his estimates, in fact, Iran is practically surrounded by American troops. And in such circumstances, Tehran clearly declares its intention to make every effort to eradicate the US military presence in the Middle East.
A similar statement made by the Iranians in such conditions, according to the academician, indicates the transition of the Iranian-American confrontation from a tactical level to a strategic level. And at the latter, the parties will face more serious tasks. "And the statement by the Iranian leadership of a task of this magnitude allows us to predict the absence of peace and tranquility in the Middle East, at least in the next year or two," Safrastyan summed up.