Policymakers are preparing for the worst-case scenario from their perspective, the US’ expulsion from the Eastern Hemisphere, hence their new goal of urgently achieving strategic autarky in the Americas.
"Leading From Behind” seems to be what they are already doing all the time. By way of proxy wars, color revolutions and, we may suspect, their "unofficial representants" (as we may politely call them) in European governments. Thanks to the latter, Europe has now become a 100 % vassal of the United States - or a mere colony.
Herman, one have to consider that France became definitely an american colony in 2008 with Sarkozy.
Every eastern former sovietic area became american colony as soon as USSR fried theme in 1991.
Spain, Portugal, Sweden cried to death and begged on their knees to become an american colony just after the second world war.
Greece became an american colony after English serfs came in this land after war to help the former collaborationists of nazis to win their civil war with local communists in betraying the Yalta treaty.
Germany, Denmark, Austria, Italy was the loosers of war, they became serfs in 1945.
Belgium, Norge, Needeeland were invaded by USA ( it's the world of US history "invasion", not "liberation")to defeat Germans , so they are colonies since 1944.
Churchill, half American by his mother, offered UK hands and feet bounded to USA in 1942 in a still secret "perpetual treaty". We know it exist but only kings and first ministers in exercise can know the terms. So, UK is colony of USA since 1942.
As you can see, Europe reduced to an american colony has nothing new.
And UE was an idea promoted by a french bastard called Jean Monnet.
This SOB was an absolute anti Gaullist, he spent all the war in USA and came back in France with the US army lugages.
You have a point, mr. Darras, but there are nuances. Remember the Nord Stream pipelines that provided us with cheap natural gas from Russia? Something like that would not be possible anymore today. "Daddy" and his pawns in the EU Commission and the German government would not allow it. In other words, we are more vassals today than in 2011, when the first Russian gas began to flow through Nord Stream 1. We jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
NGO subversion now comes primarily from the EU. USAid is closed, and even the Old US pro-Democrat NGOs may be starting to feel the heat as antifa is declared terrorist. Moreover, EU is currently co-subsidizing subersive NGOs in the US. This is not a vassal relationship.
It's not about being expulsed from Eastern, Central or Western Europe. It's more that there is no realistic kinetic threat from Heartland countries Russia, India and China towards the NATO heartland (Old NATO plus Poland, Austria and Switzerland). So why should US expend its treasure on Russia?
I am surprised. This is imperial retrenchment, a pulling back from the world at large to concentrate on the half of it that includes the imperial core. It is an admission by our newly monikered War Department that global American hegemony cannot be achieved.
The thing is, the Empire cannot even maintain hegemony over the Western Hemisphere. Trump is looking for a short, victorious war with Venezuela or SOMEBODY to prop up his failing administration. You should know as well as I do that Venezuela is a tough nut to crack given those air defenses your countrymen provided to them.
If this is indeed America’s revised National Defence Strategy, it raises several glaring problems. For instance, what would the US do about China’s multibillion dollar investments in Venezuelan oil, gold and infrastructure; her huge investments in Brazil, particularly the proposed cross-continental railway or canal, joining the east coast of Brazil to the Pacific Ocean; or China’s shared port in Peru, built with Chinese money; or China’s current access to the Panama Canal?
Would the US force Venezuela to transfer China’s assets in that country to American ownership, or nationalise these assets in anticipation of a coup which replaced Maduro with a pro-American lackey?
Would the US force Brazil to withdraw from BRICS, using some sort of blockade perhaps? Or seize the port that China built in Peru, or Beijing’s investments in Chile?
Then again, what about the growing Chinese presence in several Caribbean and West Indian islands?
All these are serious questions, the answer to one or more of them being potentially explosive. In fact, all of them are incendiary just in the asking.
And they are incendiary precisely because the US has no intention of withdrawing from the so called IndoPacific, or the first and second island chains surrounding China. As per usual, this a cake and eat it strategy that will not pacify the Pacific.
Dumb take. The alternative is to put American blood and treasure on the line and permit other nations to benefit with only nebulous returns. The Cold War is over, this is America First. Use proxies and economic leverage when needed, first, to protect American interests. This isn’t a retreat.
Our feckless politician's dreamy eyed adoration of the AUKUS farce has ensured that Australia, being a tiny minnow in the US/UK strategy shark pool, is now a primary nuclear target when China or Russia is provoked into an all out "hot" war. Australian politicians don't realise how unpopular the AUKUS project has become with our citizenry. Persistence with AUKUS only adds further damage to what should be a mutually peace seeking relationship between USA, UK and Australia. The Colonial Era is over!
Politico is jumping to conclusions. Since Trump does not have a coherent, stable geopolitical plan whatever he says cannot be taken seriously. The Deep State would rather push for a nuclear war than giving up on global hegemony plans. I did not see anything coming out of the establishment that was even close to recognize the full spanking they suffered in Asia. The China, Russia, India, North Korea, Iran alliance cannot be reversed on the short to medium run. The united effort of the American Deep State and ‘The comedian with limited talents’ achieved the goal which is chaos in the West.
If China and Russia continue to be “Frenimies” it only makes sense to deal with countries that adhere to the same principles. The US has over 15 TRILLION of investment coming from countries and businesses. Major Chip companies are building foundries to make the most advanced chips in the world pushing AI. China has time and again stolen our tech and intellectual properties. They feel they can make the same within their own country now so let them. The US will lead in quantum computing and AI as they are making new deals daily. Just yesterday England signed 350 billion of new investment. Trump makes deals that will be good for America which all countries should of course but the fleecing of America is over. Russia had an opportunity to be part of it but pivoted to China. The east made its bed and will now have their BRICS Bloc to trade with. Good luck. The US is the number one consumer of goods across the globe and every country has wanted access here forever. Nobody even comes close. We have states that have bigger economies than a lot of countries. Doing this makes sense as it will make the East dependent on each other and those trillions the US spends will vanish leading to communist countries downfall. It’ll take some time of course but this is a smart course of action. The Dems are fucked here in the US and won’t smell the presidency for another 11 years. Buckle up.
"Leading From Behind” seems to be what they are already doing all the time. By way of proxy wars, color revolutions and, we may suspect, their "unofficial representants" (as we may politely call them) in European governments. Thanks to the latter, Europe has now become a 100 % vassal of the United States - or a mere colony.
Herman, one have to consider that France became definitely an american colony in 2008 with Sarkozy.
Every eastern former sovietic area became american colony as soon as USSR fried theme in 1991.
Spain, Portugal, Sweden cried to death and begged on their knees to become an american colony just after the second world war.
Greece became an american colony after English serfs came in this land after war to help the former collaborationists of nazis to win their civil war with local communists in betraying the Yalta treaty.
Germany, Denmark, Austria, Italy was the loosers of war, they became serfs in 1945.
Belgium, Norge, Needeeland were invaded by USA ( it's the world of US history "invasion", not "liberation")to defeat Germans , so they are colonies since 1944.
Churchill, half American by his mother, offered UK hands and feet bounded to USA in 1942 in a still secret "perpetual treaty". We know it exist but only kings and first ministers in exercise can know the terms. So, UK is colony of USA since 1942.
As you can see, Europe reduced to an american colony has nothing new.
And UE was an idea promoted by a french bastard called Jean Monnet.
This SOB was an absolute anti Gaullist, he spent all the war in USA and came back in France with the US army lugages.
You have a point, mr. Darras, but there are nuances. Remember the Nord Stream pipelines that provided us with cheap natural gas from Russia? Something like that would not be possible anymore today. "Daddy" and his pawns in the EU Commission and the German government would not allow it. In other words, we are more vassals today than in 2011, when the first Russian gas began to flow through Nord Stream 1. We jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
No more colonies. Just serfs
Europeans like being slaves.
I think it's became true.
NGO subversion now comes primarily from the EU. USAid is closed, and even the Old US pro-Democrat NGOs may be starting to feel the heat as antifa is declared terrorist. Moreover, EU is currently co-subsidizing subersive NGOs in the US. This is not a vassal relationship.
In a way, the Biden government survives in the EU, and is still active.
Yep, but that is what mendocius moldbug aka Curtis Yarvin calls the Cathedral. There is a US part of it, a UK part of it and a EU part of it.
It's not about being expulsed from Eastern, Central or Western Europe. It's more that there is no realistic kinetic threat from Heartland countries Russia, India and China towards the NATO heartland (Old NATO plus Poland, Austria and Switzerland). So why should US expend its treasure on Russia?
I am surprised. This is imperial retrenchment, a pulling back from the world at large to concentrate on the half of it that includes the imperial core. It is an admission by our newly monikered War Department that global American hegemony cannot be achieved.
The thing is, the Empire cannot even maintain hegemony over the Western Hemisphere. Trump is looking for a short, victorious war with Venezuela or SOMEBODY to prop up his failing administration. You should know as well as I do that Venezuela is a tough nut to crack given those air defenses your countrymen provided to them.
Mere tightening of the leash on a rabid mongrel.
All we want is to find some part of the world we can beat up on and they won't fight back.
"defuse global tensions", now that really is prescious; and that'd be coming from all the spose beaters hiding in Congress.
If this is indeed America’s revised National Defence Strategy, it raises several glaring problems. For instance, what would the US do about China’s multibillion dollar investments in Venezuelan oil, gold and infrastructure; her huge investments in Brazil, particularly the proposed cross-continental railway or canal, joining the east coast of Brazil to the Pacific Ocean; or China’s shared port in Peru, built with Chinese money; or China’s current access to the Panama Canal?
Would the US force Venezuela to transfer China’s assets in that country to American ownership, or nationalise these assets in anticipation of a coup which replaced Maduro with a pro-American lackey?
Would the US force Brazil to withdraw from BRICS, using some sort of blockade perhaps? Or seize the port that China built in Peru, or Beijing’s investments in Chile?
Then again, what about the growing Chinese presence in several Caribbean and West Indian islands?
All these are serious questions, the answer to one or more of them being potentially explosive. In fact, all of them are incendiary just in the asking.
And they are incendiary precisely because the US has no intention of withdrawing from the so called IndoPacific, or the first and second island chains surrounding China. As per usual, this a cake and eat it strategy that will not pacify the Pacific.
Dumb take. The alternative is to put American blood and treasure on the line and permit other nations to benefit with only nebulous returns. The Cold War is over, this is America First. Use proxies and economic leverage when needed, first, to protect American interests. This isn’t a retreat.
Our feckless politician's dreamy eyed adoration of the AUKUS farce has ensured that Australia, being a tiny minnow in the US/UK strategy shark pool, is now a primary nuclear target when China or Russia is provoked into an all out "hot" war. Australian politicians don't realise how unpopular the AUKUS project has become with our citizenry. Persistence with AUKUS only adds further damage to what should be a mutually peace seeking relationship between USA, UK and Australia. The Colonial Era is over!
Politico is jumping to conclusions. Since Trump does not have a coherent, stable geopolitical plan whatever he says cannot be taken seriously. The Deep State would rather push for a nuclear war than giving up on global hegemony plans. I did not see anything coming out of the establishment that was even close to recognize the full spanking they suffered in Asia. The China, Russia, India, North Korea, Iran alliance cannot be reversed on the short to medium run. The united effort of the American Deep State and ‘The comedian with limited talents’ achieved the goal which is chaos in the West.
If China and Russia continue to be “Frenimies” it only makes sense to deal with countries that adhere to the same principles. The US has over 15 TRILLION of investment coming from countries and businesses. Major Chip companies are building foundries to make the most advanced chips in the world pushing AI. China has time and again stolen our tech and intellectual properties. They feel they can make the same within their own country now so let them. The US will lead in quantum computing and AI as they are making new deals daily. Just yesterday England signed 350 billion of new investment. Trump makes deals that will be good for America which all countries should of course but the fleecing of America is over. Russia had an opportunity to be part of it but pivoted to China. The east made its bed and will now have their BRICS Bloc to trade with. Good luck. The US is the number one consumer of goods across the globe and every country has wanted access here forever. Nobody even comes close. We have states that have bigger economies than a lot of countries. Doing this makes sense as it will make the East dependent on each other and those trillions the US spends will vanish leading to communist countries downfall. It’ll take some time of course but this is a smart course of action. The Dems are fucked here in the US and won’t smell the presidency for another 11 years. Buckle up.