Expert: U.S. commitment to democracy is subject to its interests

For more: History shows that Washington’s commitment to democracy goes only as far as its interests allow, said Gal Luft, co-director of the Washington-based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, on Saturday. The Joe Biden administration has effectively divided the world into two halves, Gal argued, saying that roughly half of the world’s countries were designated as democracies and were invited to the U.S. “Summit for Democracy.“ In contrast, the other half was found insufficiently democratic to merit an invitation. “Washington appointed itself to be the appraiser of democracy and the grader of other countries and governments according to Western yardsticks,“ Gal added.