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| 2020-12-05 |
| [NationalReview] During this strange "transition," it has been common now to assert that "multilateralism" is back — and with a vengeance. Joe Biden’s envisioned team allegedly will jettison the unilateralist idea of "America alone" and supposed soft neo-isolationism. Instead, the U.S. will resume its historic but neglected role as the leader of the enlightened world. It will supposedly recultivate allies estranged by Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo. It will now fix broken international organizations. It will eagerly reassume burdens that were neglected or repudiated during the Neanderthal Trump administration. The result, supposedly, will be a safer, more secure world. The administration will be staffed again by returning international experts from the Obama years. Their excellence is vouched for by their past government, corporate, military, and academic service and their branded education.I think all that is a fair summation of the lengthy published critiques, the preliminary giddy statements from designated Biden-administration officials, and the foreign-policy daily op-ed commentariat. |
| Posted by:746 |
#2  /\ If you are nice to the Dragon and purchase his beads, perhaps he will not attack your village. A program of appeasement which began with Kissinger and has morphed into a globalist imperative. Lots of money to be made in the process, as evidenced by Bill & Melinda, Bezos, Zuck, and others. Anyone who defies the imperative or follows the mandates of MAGA, must be silenced. The overlords of 'Airstrip One' will see to it. Compliance is mandatory. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-12-05 10:57 |
| #1 in the last quarter-century, that self-congratulatory status quo had not translated two decades of tactical success in Afghanistan into strategic resolution; somehow managed to unite nuclear Russia and China; allowed radical Islam to nearly overwhelm the Middle East; accepted as fate the Chinese hegemony in trade, finance, and (soon) politics; talked of managing decline; saw Turkey undermine the NATO alliance; empowered Iran; and made NATO both ever more provocative to its enemies and ever weaker. Plus fail to prevent the most devastating attack on CONUS in our history. And open us up to manipulation by the makers of chink flu. Most of these shitheada also opposed fracking, credit for which actually belongs to Presidents Ford and Carter. That's an astounding record of failure. Especially considering that Clintons-W-Obama inherited probably the greatest windfall of the modern era after Bush Sr and Reagan brought the Cold War to a peaceful conclusion. And the Clintons-W-Obama justification for staging a coup against Trump is that he's inept and chaotic? Talk about projection... |
| Posted by: Spike White3942 2020-12-05 09:31 |