{"id":3835,"date":"2025-11-17T21:35:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/does-america-first-make-the-us-weaker\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:35:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:35:36","slug":"does-america-first-make-the-us-weaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/does-america-first-make-the-us-weaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Does \u2018America First\u2019 make the US weaker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former US diplomat Michael McFaul says US foreign policy is stuck between Cold War memories and \u2018America First.\u2019<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>In the 1990s, the US had no competition in global affairs, and Americans supported the ideas of globalisation, alliances and \u201cspreading democracy.\u201d But today, many Americans prefer to isolate themselves from the rest of the world, and the West is becoming less democratic, argues Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>McFaul tells host Steve Clemons that long-term prosperity and security won\u2019t be achieved if the US thinks it \u201ccan act like cowboys and bully whoever we want\u201d. And the US won\u2019t be a role model for other nations when it \u201cacts like the other autocracies in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US diplomat Michael McFaul says US foreign policy is stuck between Cold War memories and \u2018America First.\u2019 In the 1990s, the US had no competition in global affairs, and Americans supported the ideas of globalisation, alliances and \u201cspreading democracy.\u201d But today, many Americans prefer to isolate themselves from the rest of the world, and &#8230; <a title=\"Does \u2018America First\u2019 make the US weaker?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/does-america-first-make-the-us-weaker\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Does \u2018America First\u2019 make the US weaker?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}