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The reason that Donald Trump is considered so outré is that he is replacing the genteel veneer of "soft power" of the ascendant American imperium with hard power. America the "liberator" is showing its colors as the bully. Elite critics of Trump don't disagree with what he is doing, but rather how he is doing it. No one is supposed to see it, and Trump is making things obvious.CounterpunchThe US Imperium Comes Out Binoy Kampmark
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: American Empire
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The reason that Donald Trump is considered so outré is that he is replacing the genteel veneer of "soft power" of the ascendant American imperium with hard power. America the "liberator" is showing its colors as the bully. Elite critics of Trump don't disagree with what he is doing, but rather how he is doing it. No one is supposed to see it, and Trump is making things obvious.CounterpunchThe US Imperium Comes Out Binoy Kampmark
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: American Empire
This could be interesting, too:
Mike Norman writes “America Exists Today to Make War” — Lawrence Wilkerson on Endless War & American Empire
Mike Norman writes The Empire, Trump and Intra-Ruling Class Conflict — Gary Olson
Mike Norman writes The Great Switch: The Geo-Politics of Looming Recession — Alastair Crooke
Mike Norman writes Pepe Escobar — How to kill 10 million Afghans and not win
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