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Caitlan Johnstone gets the policy, strategy and tactics right, in line what we have been saying here for some time. It's about the US maintaining and extending global hegemony in face of the challenge of China's rise. The 2018 US National Defense Strategy all but spells it out. We are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order… Translation: The so-called international liberal order that held sway in the West since the end of WWII is fracturing, challenging Western hegemony under "US leadership." China is a strategic competitor using predatory economics to intimidate its neighbors while militarizing features in the South China Sea. Russia has violated the borders of nearby nations and pursues veto power over the
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: global hegemony, US foreign policy, US military policy
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Caitlan Johnstone gets the policy, strategy and tactics right, in line what we have been saying here for some time. It's about the US maintaining and extending global hegemony in face of the challenge of China's rise. The 2018 US National Defense Strategy all but spells it out. We are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order… Translation: The so-called international liberal order that held sway in the West since the end of WWII is fracturing, challenging Western hegemony under "US leadership." China is a strategic competitor using predatory economics to intimidate its neighbors while militarizing features in the South China Sea. Russia has violated the borders of nearby nations and pursues veto power over the
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: global hegemony, US foreign policy, US military policy
This could be interesting, too:
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It's about the US maintaining and extending global hegemony in face of the challenge of China's rise.
The 2018 US National Defense Strategy all but spells it out.
We are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order…Translation: The so-called international liberal order that held sway in the West since the end of WWII is fracturing, challenging Western hegemony under "US leadership."
China is a strategic competitor using predatory economics to intimidate its neighbors while militarizing features in the South China Sea. Russia has violated the borders of nearby nations and pursues veto power over the economic, diplomatic, and security decisions of its neighbors....
The central challenge to U.S. prosperity and security is the reemergence of long-term, strategic competition by what the National Security Strategy classifies as revisionist powers. It is increasingly clear that China and Russia want to shape a world consistent with their authoritarian model—gaining veto authority over other nations’ economic, diplomatic, and security decisions.
Translation: Other countries are no longer doing what the US tells them to do as global leader. That is unacceptable under the Wolfowitz doctrine, that the US will brook no rivals.
The Greanville Post
Russiagate Isn’t About Trump, And It Isn’t Even Ultimately About Russia
Caitlan Johnstone