Every Second Counts America First Essay 2022

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Introduction
The unipolarity that had characterized the world politics post 1991, which marked the end
of the Cold War and the disintegration of the USSR, had made USA shine as the most powerful
nation of the world. That justifies the fact that America stood first at the international sphere in
terms of economy, politics, military, technology, development. In the contemporary times though
there are quite a lot of regional organizations and confederacies that have been set to check the
globally spread influence of USA, even the on an overall basis, the position of USA in world
politics is still the first. The position of being the first is something which USA seeks to maintain
even at the face of several adversities that she faces from China especially as well as from
Russia, and the current President of the USA, Donald Trump had made that very clear in his
inaugural speech when he said, "It's going to be only America first." To that end President
Trump has taken several steps which can be most accurately appropriated as a policy of
protectionism that Trump has undertaken, to “make America great again (Huber, 2016).”
The most notable ways in which President Donald Trump has sought to, “make America
great again” has been the; building of the wall between USA and Mexico to check the influx of
Mexican immigrants; deportation of Mexican immigrants back to their nation; intervention in
Syria to combat terrorism along with checking the influence of Russia in the Transjordanian
political affairs; checking the nuclear proliferation programmee of Iran by jeopardizing the
nuclear deal; tightening the economic sanctions on Iran along with the undertaking of military
programmes to prevent the belligerence of the nation from proliferating; and most importantly
the recent trade war with China by blocking the access to Google Playstore feature in the
smartphones manufactured by Huwaei (Huber, 2016). The political aspirations of the USA to be

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the first however has not been well received by many nations and that is pretty much clear by the
satirical jibe taken by Dutch late night show Zondag Met Lubach which mockingly had made an
appeal to President Trump to consider Netherlands as second atleast citing Dutch as the best
language in Europe which justifies the national pride and the fact that Netherlands too has built a
causeway named Afsluitdijk to protect Netherlands from the waters entering Netherlands from
Mexico (Irshaid, 2017).
German comedian Jan Boehmermann has made a satirical video titled, ‘America First
Germany Second’ and Switzerland had followed suit by making a satirical video titled ‘America
First Switzerland Second’ which said that Switzerland is safe as there are no Mexicans. Iran had
made a satirical video saying, "America First, but can we say Iran before Iraq?" to which
Slovenia had retaliated in favour of Iran and had made a video saying that they have the word
‘Love’ in the name of their nation (Irshaid, 2017).
The thesis statement for this particular essay thus shall be how the world actually feels
about the rhetorical statement that ‘every second counts America first.’ The aim of this particular
essay shall be to judge the validity of the rhetorical statement that ‘every second counts America
first’ in light of adjudging the following research questions which shall be the structure of the
research paper:-
- Whether the secondmost and the thirdmost powerful nation of the world, Russia and
China actually acknowledges the supreme position of the USA (Baker, 2019),
- What steps are they undertaking to counter the supreme position of USA, and
- How is USA, under the Trump regime retaliating to it in order to preserve her supreme
position

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In the various sub sections of the essay, the discussion shall primarily be focused upon the
various political moves taken by Trump to maintain the first position of USA in world politics in
a brief and synoptic manner following which the discussion based on the research questions shall
be undertaken in order to justify the relevance of the rhetorical statement that ‘every second
counts America first.’ The methodology followed shall be qualitative and the data and
information collected shall be from the study of the available literature.
This particular research paper is relevant from the practical perspective as USA under the
Trump regime has taken several steps to maintain her position of supremacy on the grounds that
two terms of Presidency under President Obama had made the nation lose its sphere influence
and thus Trump has taken it upon himself to resurrect the position of supremacy by means of
making America militarily, economically and politically strong yet once again. Hence the
research shall also be a critical analysis of the political rhetoric of making America great again
apart from answering the research questions. From the theoretical perspective, this paper shall
serve the function of providing a compact vision of the relational dynamics that exists between
USA vis-à-vis Russia and China, which in existing literature is provided in an isolated manner by
making use of the theory of international relations, data and also providing the research gap.

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References
Irshaid, F. (2017). 'America First'. Who will be second?. Retrieved 19 August 2019, from
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-38921918
Huber, L. P. (2016). Make America great again: Donald Trump, racist nativism and the virulent
adherence to white supremecy amid US demographic change. Charleston L. Rev., 10,
215.
Baker, S. (2019). 2. Russia. Retrieved 19 August 2019, from
https://www.businessinsider.in/RANKED-The-most-powerful-countries-on-earth/2-
Russia/slideshow/68230986.cms