How America could lose its allies | Election 2020

What is NATO? And why is he still there? This video was part of our 2020 US Election series. Watch more at http://vox.com/ElectionVideos For 150 years, the United States avoided formal alliances. It has occasionally gone to war – in the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, and World War I – but it has done so without getting entangled in promises to other countries. Then, after World War II, it abruptly changed course and began building an unprecedented network of alliances. Over the next decades, the United States used these alliances to maintain its close relations between countries around the world and to combat Soviet expansion, promising that it would go to war if any of its allies were defeated. attack. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the original purpose of these alliances disappeared, but the United States reiterated its commitment to these alliances, repeatedly signaling that the central promise of these relationships was still in force. This continued for the next 25 years. Then the United States elected a leader who took America’s international relations in a new direction. President Trump was skeptical that America’s network of alliances was still beneficial to the United States. He began to distance the United States from these alliances, raising doubts about whether America would actually keep the promise that was their basis if provoked. Some allies have moved closer to Russia or China, both of which had attempted to undermine U.S. alliances. Today, the future of these alliances is about to be voted on in the United States. One of the leading candidates in the 2020 presidential election wants to return the United States to its former status with its allies; the other finds his decades-old wedding rings expensive and heavy. The world is waiting to see which vision Americans prefer. This was the sixth in our series of 2020 election explainers, all based on viewer suggestions. Watch others covering election issues on: 1) Climate change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfAXbGInwno 2) Voting rights: https://www.youtube. com/watch? v=al3qY8ZMHEc 3) Reproductive health: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzuk13Ftxgo 4) Public schools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFJ37ri-Saw 5) Reform of the police: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHePglP28CM 6) America’s role in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5LrQv496Iw 7) Transport: https: //www.youtube. com/watch?v=-ZDZtBRTyeI 8) LGBTQ rights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRnpUptf7E0 9) The eviction crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F07yTI0J3Qk Sources and further reading: Alex Ward: https://www.vox.com/2020/8/18/21334630/joe-biden-foreign-policy-explainer Mira Rapp-Hooper, Shields of the Republic: https://www . amazon.com/Shields-Republic-Triumph-Americas-Alliances/dp/0674982959 Mark Webber and James Sperling: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/CECD6A4DA95D3C177531E8C10A6E562B/S0260210519000123a .pdf/trumps_foreign_policy_and_nato_exit_and_voice.pdf Joyce Kaufman: https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publications/ia/INTA93_2_01_Kaufman.pdf Jennifer Lind: https://americas.chathamhouse.org/article/the-future -of-americas-ailing-alliances/ Klaus Larres: https://archive.transatlanticrelations.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Larres-Donald-Trump-and-America%E2%80%99s-Grand- Strategy-US-foreign-policy-toward-Europe-Russia-and-China-Global-Policy-May-2017.pdf Fabrice Pothier and Alexander Vershbow: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2017 /05/NATO_and_Trump_web_0623.pdf Elena Atanassova-Cornelis: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03932729.2019.1665272 Shin Kawashima, Matake Kamiya, James L. Schoff: https://carnegieendowment.org/2019 /10/10/managing-risks-and-opportunities-for-us-japan-alliance-through-a-coordinated-policy-in-china-pub-80026 Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news site that helps you cut through the noise and understand what really drives the events that make headlines. Visit http://www.vox.com. Watch our complete video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o Or Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H

source