The Role of the United States in the Ukrainian Crisis ( (The presidential institution as a model )

Abstract

Abstract :

The United States of America is one of the most influential powers that were surprised by the Ukrainian-Russian war, but the American performance accompanying the war indicates beyond any doubt that something hit the American decision machine and made it move slowly at times and stumbled at other times. However, the nature of the decision system in the US National Security Council, which is based on plans, mechanisms of analysis, assessment and alternatives, and depends on a large team of experts and analysts and enormous information resources, mitigates the impact of slowdown and stumbling so that the observer from abroad almost does not touch anything big unless he understands the nature of the work of the US National Security Council, its powers and its executive capability. From the foregoing, it appears from this small sample of stumbles (which we mentioned in the previous evaluation paragraph) that the US administration could not manage the Ukraine crisis well, due to the existence of weaknesses regarding the US strategic decision in Europe and the world, and that all that was done in the National Security Council of simulations and putting forward alternatives and hypotheses were largely theoretical tests and when they collided with reality, errors began to appear and accumulate. Does the war on Ukraine constitute the beginning of a variable?