M.K.Bhadrakumar
13th June, 2018
Some statesmen by their sheer force of personality and unorthodox ways of politicking arouse disdain among onlookers. US President Donald is perhaps the most famous figure of that kind in world politics today.
Posts Tagged ‘retreat from empire’
The Art of the Deal worked on Sentosa Island
Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2018
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Trump tries to destroy the West
Posted by seumasach on June 11, 2018
“A secret plan to break up the West would also have the United States looking for new allies to replace the discarded ones. The most obvious would be Russia”
The most obvious would be China. Trump wants the factories back home which means in practice Chinese inward investment: China would invest directly into the USA rather than sell directly. This makes sense of Trump’s tariffs which would otherwise just be destructive. It’s true that the USA has a tradition of developing industry behind tariff barriers but that requires investment. At the end of the 19th century that came largely from Britain: now it can only come from China. At the same time, if the peace process with North Korea is successful China will come out in good light facilitating the above process. Trump has turned the world upside down. Can he put it together again?
10th June, 2018
The alliance between the United States and Western Europe has accomplished great things. It won two world wars in the first half of the 20th century. Then it expanded to include its former enemies and went on to win the Cold War, help spread democracy and build the highest living standards the world has ever known. President Trump is trying to destroy that alliance.
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Putin and Abe agree to move forward on economic cooperation
Posted by seumasach on May 27, 2018
The noisy American retreat from the post-war international system which it itself dominated has opened multiple opportunities for the creation of a new international order and the resolution of geopolitical problems frozen in time. Here we are seeing the possibility of finally getting a Russia-Japan peace treaty for the second world war. Along with the emergence of an independent Europe. the sinking into irrelevance of NATO, the convergence of Germany and Russia /China and the definitive end of the cold war the ground is being laid for the unification of Eurasia, the world island as Mackinder put it. In other words, the end of the Anglo-American maritime empire as they themselves defined it.
Frank Sellers
27th May, 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, met in Moscow today to discuss a trio of topics, namely economic cooperation, the North Korea peace agreements that might be in the works, which both parties support, and the Southern Kuril islands issue.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: End of empire, Kuril islands, retreat from empire, Russia- Japan peace treaty, russia-japan relations | Leave a Comment »
Deconstructing the sacking of Rex Tillerson
Posted by seumasach on April 2, 2018
“We will never know whether Trump actually intended the denouement we have seen, but he has broken the axis between the state department and the Pentagon by introducing Mike Pompey into the equation as his new secretary of state. Pompey is a political associate of the Tea Party movement who can be trusted to ensure that Trump retains the final word on the US foreign policies, especially on Russia.”
Sure enough, Trump does seem to have created some foreign-policy space for himself – he has just announced the withdrawal of US troops from Syria to the horror of the US media.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
15th March, 2018
The surprising part of US President Donald Trump’s move to sack Rex Tillerson as secretary of state is that it took place a full six months after the latter called him a “f***ing moron” at a Pentagon meeting. Tillerson should have thrown in the towel and walked away then. That’s probably what Trump would have preferred.
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The OIC Declaration enables Russia to lead the Two-State Solution
Posted by seumasach on December 14, 2017
Andrew Korybko
13th December, 2017
The OIC Summit in Istanbul saw its members agree to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine, implying that West Jerusalem exists and could potentially be the capital of Israel following its formal recognition, which is in essence exactly what Moscow proposed in April of this year and thus enables Russia to take the lead in seeking a two-state solution to the long-standing conflict.
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Trump says US will stop arming Kurds in phone call to Turkey’s Erdogan
Posted by seumasach on November 25, 2017
Trump has just moved to disengage from Syria!
24th November, 2017
According to the Associated Press, US President Donald Trump has issued a commitment to Turkey’s president Recep Erdogan, that the US will cease arms shipments to Kurdish fighters in Syria.
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The possible education of Donald Trump
Posted by seumasach on September 4, 2017
Robert Parry
25th August, 2017
Despite the chaos and ugliness of the past seven months, President Trump has finally begun to turn U.S. foreign policy away from the neoconservative approach of endless war against an ever-expanding roster of enemies.
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China gets its way on North Korea despite resistance in Washington
Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2017
Alexander Mercuris
7th august, 2017
The latest UN Security Council resolution on the North Korea crisis shows that it is China’s approach which is prevailing.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Chinese soft power, North Korea, retreat from empire | Leave a Comment »
How China can gain after Trump muddies the waters with Australia
Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2017
“With the US and Europe now retreating, China should seek to draw Australia closer and build a [political] partnership with Australia,”
21st March, 2017
Australia is likely to tread an increasingly delicate path in balancing its relations with China and its traditional ally the United States amid sometimes erratic behaviour and unclear policy direction under US President Donald Trump, according to analysts.
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Taking the long view
Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2017
Justin Raimundo
24th January, 2017
The other day on Twitter someone tweeted me the news of the latest drone strike in Yemen, with the taunting message: “Congrats, @JustinRaimondo.” I had to laugh, and bemoan my fate: “I am now to be held responsible for everything the Trump administration does, especially their failure to go full pacifist!” Of course, you don’t have to be a pacifist to oppose our drone campaign, in Yemen or elsewhere, as I do, but the comment and my response underscore a basic flaw in the thinking of Trump’s anti-interventionist critics.
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What would an ‘America First’ foreign policy look like?
Posted by seumasach on December 3, 2016
Justin Raimundo
23rd November, 2016
As Donald Trump takes the reins and we all prepare for the next four years, the need to translate rhetoric into reality comes to the fore. Trump spent the campaign repeating a phrase that horrified the elites – especially the foreign policy Establishment – even adopting it as his official campaign theme: “America first.”
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