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There is an influential Russian textbook that emerged after the collapse in the Soviet Union by Aleksandr Dugin that received a lot of attention in Russian military and intelligence circle called "foundations of geopolitics". It actually outlines an entire foreign policy agenda for Russia in a post soviet world, arguing that it must still vie with the west in a great game for spheres of influence. Key objectives cited as part of this agenda include:-
The United Kingdom should be cut off from Europe.
Ukraine should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics".
The book stresses the "continental Russian–Islamic alliance" which lies "at the foundation of anti-Atlanticist strategy". The alliance is based on the "traditional character of Russian and Islamic civilization".
Russia needs to create "geopolitical shocks" within Turkey. These can be achieved by employing Kurds, Armenians and other minorities.
China, which represents a danger to Russia, "must, to the maximum degree possible, be dismantled". Dugin suggests that Russia start by taking Tibet–Xinjiang–Mongolia–Manchuria as a security belt.
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".
Does any of this ring a bell? Putin is literally going down the checklist.
This textbook is widely circulated at the academy of the general staff, an elite military academy whose students enter at the rank of at least lieutenant-colonel having already distinguished themselves as officers. Most enrolled here enter aged in their early 30s. These are the top military talent of Russia and this vehemently anti-western geopolitical treatise is considered essential reading.
He's too busy giving the world to China on a silver platter. Who do you think the Europeans and Canada are going to move closer to as the US leaves a void?
EU and Canada can have China if they want. African countries are dealing with China and, if the NY Times and the BBC are to be believed, most have serious regrets.
China isn't another version of the US. Chinese commerce is all about bleeding the other party white; that's why the US and the west are in this situation. Under Mao, China developed a complete disregard for the rule of law and substituted it with a winner-take-all attitude mixed with outright lies and obfuscation. The Russians are crazy for getting in bed with China.
The US has always stood for relatively benign large-company commerce with a large dose of cultural values that rubbed many foreign elites as boorish and crass. Enjoy China my friends. Send a postcard.
increasing numbers of individuals lack the skills necessary to perform today’s jobs. Rising incarceration rates have left growing numbers of Americans with criminal records.
"Simply relying on the unemployment rate as an indicator of the health of the job market masks underlying problems, many of which have persisted for decades."
You just made the case for Trump.
"increasing numbers of individuals lack the skills necessary to perform today’s jobs." Do you think everybody is cut out to be an electronics engineer, a python programmer, an accountant, a chemist. There are lots of people who are simply not good at book learning. They deserve jobs, too, or are we going to condemn them to a life of flipping burgers and taking government handouts.
There used to be jobs for these people. It was in a factory assembling products; but the elites sent those jobs to China and Vietnam in the name of progress.
It was mowing a lawn, but everyone in those jobs only speaks Spanish now and carries some sort of fake ID.
Get over it. Global trade impoverished America and the poor and unskilled are the first to feel it.
The WAY I see it is..Until Trump "Negotiating" tactics" and bullying// tending to align with "DICTATORS".. that will detonate any possibilities for cooperations between US& Allies!!
Sure HOPE DJT doesn't cause some sort of catestrophic war .. because once Allies use too stand "Shoulder to shoulder" with US as well as "NATO" countries..will evaporate..
The mercurial POTUS is doing what Putin wants..and as long as GOP congress cower under his daily bullying .... I suspect, as ALL Allies may suffer.. BUT there will be Zero support for America as long as a Bullying POTUS continues to cow-tow to the enemies. WHY the H3$$ should any of them ( G-6) invest into a reckless dictatorship governing POTUS???
Let him stand up to his Allies.... WE are as a group actually more powerful than him. He will cause so much damage to everyday American's THEY will rebelled actually vote .. Trolls/Cultists/Partisans.. who constantly re-werite history and claims lies as truth..will be doing one thing.. "Putin's agenda to divide all semblance of cooperations between nations!!
After G7 meeting.. It's apparent that It's going to be G6 who collaborate..and move foreword ..Meanwhile .. DJT's America will explode into total chaos!! Tariffs' will cause pain to ALL..BUT, better to endure that costs and pain so that (DJT) also causes great pain on his "Conned -Cultists'" and finally voters will vote in their better interests..NOT vote on a " Possibility" and fall for "Con-Job rhetoric" by any politician!!
As for Pence.. I don't trust him either.. He too is part and parcel of DJT's autocracy .. He lies.. Kisses Bu$$ and actually supports DJT's antithetical behaviours!! He's a fraud and charlatan too! I won't even into GOP Congress and so many who stay silent.. and some who go out of their way to promote LIES.. and refuse to confront "foreign attacks" on their Country.... In my mind.. Thats plain and simple "Complicit" in that Russian and other Foreign entities who wish HARM to any" Free Republic" .. I see now.. USA is leaning A repressed " Free-Republic "today... TY DJT.. Mission accomplish.. and Putin is a "Happy Camper" !!
Congress best be prepared that IF something happens and needs support... the Normal fellow supporters ( G06) will say... Sure.. LOL.. You caused it.. YOU deal with it.. WE will do ONLY what we have to do.. BUT no way we will put OUR forces in harms way to support YOU!! !!
Isolationism, will DOOM "Trumpian Beliefs" because of self-inflated EGO Self-Importance/Power they believe they are. Diss Allies and chum with Dictators.. LIE to your Tweeter followers.. allow FAUX Conservative sites spread "Propaganda" and spews false facts... It's unfortunately going to come back and haunt +++
There is an influential Russian textbook that emerged after the collapse in the Soviet Union by Aleksandr Dugin that received a lot of attention in Russian military and intelligence circle called "foundations of geopolitics". It actually outlines an entire foreign policy agenda for Russia in a post soviet world, arguing that it must still vie with the west in a great game for spheres of influence. Key objectives cited as part of this agenda include:-
The United Kingdom should be cut off from Europe.
Ukraine should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics".
The book stresses the "continental Russian–Islamic alliance" which lies "at the foundation of anti-Atlanticist strategy". The alliance is based on the "traditional character of Russian and Islamic civilization".
Russia needs to create "geopolitical shocks" within Turkey. These can be achieved by employing Kurds, Armenians and other minorities.
China, which represents a danger to Russia, "must, to the maximum degree possible, be dismantled". Dugin suggests that Russia start by taking Tibet–Xinjiang–Mongolia–Manchuria as a security belt.
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".
Does any of this ring a bell? Putin is literally going down the checklist.
This textbook is widely circulated at the academy of the general staff, an elite military academy whose students enter at the rank of at least lieutenant-colonel having already distinguished themselves as officers. Most enrolled here enter aged in their early 30s. These are the top military talent of Russia and this vehemently anti-western geopolitical treatise is considered essential reading.
You couldn't make this stuff up.
Interesting list. Meanwhile a former factory worker in Dayton is collecting 'disability' for an injury that may not exist while the crew mowing the landscape at the med center barely speak English. A kid in an urban ghetto sees high school grads not finding steady work. A designer has his products copied by a factory in Shenzheng.
That's reality. Some 5th dimensional chess exercise by some Russian academic 30 years ago coming true is speculation. If he knew so much, why didn't he buy a few shares in the stock market?
The WAY I see it is..Until Trump "Negotiating" tactics" and bullying// tending to align with "DICTATORS".. that will dentate any cooperations between US Allies!! Sure HOPE DJT doesn't cause some sort of catestrophic war .. because once Allies use too stand "Shoulder to shoulder" with Allies as well ass "NATO" countries..will evaporate.. The mercurial POTUS is doing what Putin wants..and as long as GOPvcongress cower under is daily bullying .... I suspect, as ALL Allies may suffer.. BUT there will be Zero support for America as long as a Bullying POTUS continues to cow-tow to the enemies. WHY the H3$$ should any of them ( G-6) invest into a reckless dictatorship governing POTUS???
Let him stand up to his Allies.... WE are as a group actually more powerful than him. He will cause so much damage to everyday American's THEY will rebelled actually vote .. Trolls/Cultists/Partisans.. who constantly re-werite history and claims lies as truth..will be doing one thing.. "Putin's agenda to divide all semblance of cooperations between nations!!
After G7 meeting.. It's apparent that It's going to be G6 who collaborate..and move foreword ..Meanwhile .. DJT's America will explode into total chaos!! Tariffs' will cause pain to ALL..BUT, better to endure that costs and pain so that (DJT) also causes great pain on his "Conned -Cultists'" and finally voters will vote in their better interests..NOT vote on a " Possibility" and fall for "Con-Job rhetoric" by any politician!!
As for Pence.. I don't trust him either.. He too is part and parcel of DJT's autocracy .. He lies.. Kisses Bu$$ and actually supports DJT's antithetical behaviours!! He's a fraud and charlatan too! I won't even into GOP Congress and so many who stay silent.. and some who go out of their way to promote LIES.. and refuse to confront "foreign attacks" on their Country.... In my mind.. Thats plain and simple "Complicit" in that Russian and other Foreign entities who wish HARM to any" Free Republic" .. I see now.. USA is leaning A repressed " Free-Republic "today... TY DJT.. Mission accomplish.. and Putin is a "Happy Camper" !!
Congress best be prepared that IF something happens and needs support... the Normal fellow supporters ( G06) will say... Sure.. LOL.. You caused it.. YOU deal with it.. WE will do ONLY what we have to do.. BUT no way we will put OUR forces in harms way to support YOU!! !!
Isolationism, will DOOM "Trumpian Beliefs" because of self-inflated EGO Self-Importance/Power they believe they are. Diss Allies and chum with Dictators.. LIE to your Tweeter followers.. allow FAUX Conservative sites spread "Propaganda" and spews false facts... It's unfortunately going to come back and haunt +++
"After G7 meeting.. It's apparent that It's going to be G6 who collaborate..and move foreword"
You mean the way the UK is in the midst of Brexit and leaving France, Germany, and Italy to deal with the 10 year perpetual crisis of the EU alone?
The way that Italy and France and UK don't want to take migrants while Germany feels a humanitarian duty?
You mean the way Canada, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom cozying up to Japan's main rival, China?
You mean the way France, Germany and Italy cut each other's throat during EU's agricultural policy negotiations?
You mean the way Canada and the UK will soon negotiate separate trade deals with the same party and get played off each other?
You know, I was thinking a bit about it today - and just in case it informs any of the Trumpies out there....
Our problems do not come from trade deficits....just like they don't come from low wages, terrible benefits, etc.....
Firstly, some are relative peanuts...secondly, what really put us behind are really really YUGE expenditures that eventually get passed onto ALL of us. Here are some fairly recent examples:
The Vietnam War partially caused the Nixon Shock and the decoupling of our money from Gold. We simply spent money we didn't have - and have been spending it since (Vets, etc.).
The Wars of Choice have cost many TRILLIONS.
Health Care costs us at least an extra TRILLION per year...over and above what civilized countries pay for better care.
Add to this unlimited money for the Security State and populist notions like "tax cuts" (from debt and deficit) and the brainwashing of the masses to make them feel as if it's all their fault of the fault of brown, black or Muslim people somewhere else.
Trump has absolutely no idea what he is doing...NONE of it is the least big conservative, liberal or centrist. It is simple Populism (doing what he thinks will make uneducated people cheer him)....and it is chaos.
There truly is a world order and much of it is a GOOD thing. It's strange how all the same people who have said that free trade is the real answer to constant wars....many of them support Trump! These people sell out (Kudlow) or change so quickly it makes your head spin.
We have real problems in this country starting with the medical costs and the Military Industrial Complex...and then extended to the Wall Street con men and banksters. But, no, it's some Mexican somewhere making things bad......right?
That's not the case. Regarding GDP PPP, which is the preferred way to compare different countries, China is already the biggest economy today, with its lead becoming bigger and bigger. It's logical as China has more than 4 times as many citizens and as the country is catching up, the giant population will make the difference.
And no, a country which accounts for only 4% of the world population, can not afford to alienate other countries.
Fortune 50 is an irrelevant measure because the real strength of an economy comes from its small and medium-sized firms, not the big ones.
Yet you feel it's perfectly acceptable for Trump to publicly ridicule and insult any person large or small that suits him?
It's his style. I am simply grateful the fundamental economic problems of this country are being addressed.
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