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No longer the world's policeman? The United States after Afghanistan withdrawal

FRANCE24, 02 Sep 2021
The president of the United States Tuesday marked the departure of the final troops from Afghanistan with a speech where he insisted that foreign military intervention can solely be in case of vital national security threats. What does that mean for other theater of operation, like South Korea, the Sahel in Africa and all points where the largest army is deployed. The end of forever wars also the end of the U.S. acting as the world's policeman? 

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