Vietnam, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan. The USA’s involvement and involvement in various countries’ conflicts and politics has a long history criticized and the US has been derisively called the “world police”.
Today consider a majority of Americans that they no longer want to be “world police”, according to opinion polls conducted in recent years.
The new way of looking at foreign policy and the role of the United States in the world has already had effects and, for example, more and more American voters now oppose continued support for Ukraine.
In this year’s presidential election expected foreign policy will once again take center stage, and the United States will have to balance its support for Israel and its allies in NATO with the increasingly common idea of ”America First” among American voters.
Their father was sent to Iraq 20 years ago. Now SVT’s Stefan Åsberg visits the same family again. How has the idea of the United States’ role as “world police” changed and should it interfere in more countries’ wars?
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