Reuters — Trump is shaping new ‘liberal’ order to block Russia, China, Iran, says Pompeo

Summary:
"Neoliberal order." There, fixed it for you. In a twist on Trump’s “America First” policy, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Trump was not abandoning its global leadership but instead reshaping the post-World War Two system on the basis of sovereign states, not multilateral institutions. “In the finest traditions of our great democracy, we are rallying the noble nations to build a new liberal order that prevents war and achieves greater prosperity,” Pompeo told diplomats and officials in a foreign policy speech. He actually said that and with a straight face.Translation: America will no longer "lead from behind" though proxies, but directly as the imperial power. Alluding to Trump’s policies in a speech on Monday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, EU foreign policy chief Federica

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: America First, neoliberal globalization, unipolarism, US global hegemony

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