US Diplomacy: Still Unipolar, Just Ignoring the Unpopular
Al Jazeera's take on the 'end of unipolar diplomacy' feels less like a prophecy and more like a delayed observation. The United States isn't ceding its unipolar power; it’s simply opting to wield it through vetoes and blank checks while the rest of the world screams into the void. Remember the 2003 Iraq War, opposed by millions globally yet launched anyway? That wasn't a failure of unipolarity; it
was its brutal demonstration. Fast forward to today, and the US has cast four vetoes against UN Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza since October, unilaterally enabling continued violence (UN documents, S/2023/836, S/2023/941, S/2024/92, S/2024/168). This isn't the sunset of American influence; it’s the strategic refusal to use it for anything other than 'aligning' with
Israel’s stated goals, regardless of international consensus. When President Biden bypasses Congress to send emergency weapons to Israel, as he did in December 2023 and again in March 2024 (AP News, Congressional Research Service reports), he isn't witnessing a decline in unipolarity. He's actively reinforcing it by demonstrating that global opinion is, at best, a suggestion. The age isn't ending;
it's simply evolving into a less polite, more overt assertion of power by ignoring inconvenient realities.