How Washington Has Lost Its Way
It should surprise no one that the Trump administration is packed with Israel-firsters from top to bottom.
It should surprise no one that the Trump administration is packed with Israel-firsters from top to bottom.
Even if Juncker et.al. are able to break the Italians again and keep them tethered to the euro, it will be a Pyrrhic victory.
The US Government initiated the ‘new Cold War,’ while Russia’s Government reacted to America’s aggression, which aims to place nuclear missiles in Ukraine, less than ten minutes flight-time from Moscow.
Germany and Russia are the neighbors God gave the Poles, with which they can be friends or enemies.
US-Russia enmity is here to stay. Cold War II is a fact of life for the foreseeable future. The only questions are where, when, and how it might turn hot.
The attack on Syria is not some 'bump in the road', easily passed, and after which, we may sigh, and slump back to business as usual. The trauma generated by secular western utopianism (European Enlightenment) being in dissolution is not something to be passed through quite so easily.
Western policy-makers and their media appendages are devoid of creative imagination. They can do little more than stick to the same, worn-out, constantly recycled templates.
President Trump's foreign policy has failed to embrace a friendly and constructive more accommodating partnership with Russia and to demonstrate a mature commitment to better and stronger relations with China as a strategic partner.
Johnson and Bolton are soulmates in heartless belligerence. They hate President Putin and are preparing for ultimate confrontation with Russia, a scheme that is backed enthusiastically by many figures in their respective governments.
Bolton is in place because his belligerent worldview coordinates very well with and validates that of the president, though it remains to be seen if that will translate into action.