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American foreign policy may have fallen victim to excessive political correctness, to the "woke" culture. Let me explain: During the Cold War, Washington did not choose its friends and allies based on who upheld human rights and protected minorities; its priorities were devoid of such concerns, driven purely by geopolitical expediency. This is why the US had such close ties with the Greek dictatorship, disregarding its brutal suppression of democratic rights.

Washington viewed the Middle East and its powerful dictators through exactly the same prism for several decades.

Then the Cold War ended and with it, for many, came the end of history. There was no rival anymore. The Americans believed they had secured their ideological hegemony forever. They started to look at the rest of the world as a well-tended "garden" that would grow according to US values and economic and...