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Pulling the Plug
[SmallWarsJournal] Foreign policy in the Trump era is a tug-of-war, a test of wills between national pragmatists and global utopians. Binary equations might be simplistic, but if it has done nothing else, the Trump agenda has exposed the venal politics and pratfalls of "social" democracies, here and in Europe. The contest is a struggle, as irony would have it, between voices arguing for change and the "business as usual" crowd.Conventional strategy in the west is nothing short of Kafkaesque. Imperial NATO expands and picks fights with Russia whilst sponsoring regime change fiascos in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, and Libya, just to name a few. Absurd attempts to suppress Muslim tactics in the field have become a game of "whack-a- mole while Islamic state sponsors are feted as allies or "partners." Persian, Arabian, and Pakistani terror sponsors now enjoy a kind of kinetic immunity while the rest of Mohamed's flyover country has become a free-fire zone for American nerds. An exceptionally written opine. Posted by: newc 2019-01-01 |
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