Joe Biden or Donald Trump? Or maybe, why not, Kamala Harris. The race for the US presidential elections is now in full swing, and as the electoral deadline approaches, Western public opinion tends to be increasingly divided. On the one hand, the iron Trumpians, ready to do anything to take the long-awaited revenge on Biden after the agitated defeat four years ago. On the opposite side are the Democrats, eager to repeat the success achieved in the last presidential elections and eliminate the cumbersome The Donald from the political scene once and for all.
And it matters little whether this happens through the re-nomination of the president in office or that of his ambitious deputy, eager, by his own admission, to give Biden a good trip and thus obtain the coveted nomination. Day after day, presidential election fever rises, and with it, the level of conflict between Republicans and Democrats around the world also grows, which, we can bet, will continue to heat up even more in the months to come. Who will win? It’s still too early to say. In any case, stadium cheering aside, there is a crucial question, closely linked to the verdict of the next American elections, which is worth reflecting on.
The approach of the Western world towards the choice of the new president of the United States of America is still today strongly linked to a unipolar reality, that is, fossilized on a model, now completely outdated for years, in which the USA, being the undisputed superpower in international geopolitical balances, they can also afford the luxury of wearing themselves out from within with life-or-death internal struggles aimed only at getting the better of the opponent in question. But no, many things have changed in the last decade. The Western BlocUse in the head, is increasingly retreating on the international geopolitical chessboard to make room for the striking force of the Chinese dragon and its allies. The United States, it is good to understand, has long been no longer the only superpower on the scene, as in the post-Cold War world.
Indeed, for some years now we have been witnessing a progressive (and apparently unstoppable) shift in global geopolitical structures towards the East. Not only that, because the Western world also finds itself having to deal with a series of situations which see two worrying war fronts open (Ukraine and the Middle East), with the NATO bloc committed to facing the specter of the Russian invasion of Eastern Europe, and at the same time the threat represented by the advance of the most radical Islam. Not to mention China’s expansionist aims on Taiwan.
Now, in such a delicate historical phase for the fate of the globe, which sees Western civilization perpetually under attack, tightened by the very harsh Russian-Sino-Islamic grip, it is not really the case to indulge in exhausting internal struggles and various partisanships. They would only benefit the West’s fiercest enemies. On the contrary, what the US would really need would be a strong and authoritative presidencyto try to recover the ground lost in favor of the other superpowers in recent years, and to try to save themselves and the entire West from a fate that already seems sealed.