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Posted: Mar 1, 2023 - 6:35pm


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Posted: Mar 1, 2023 - 6:29pm


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Posted: Mar 1, 2023 - 4:38pm

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Perhaps but I hope we get to detente rather than ceding the turf to one side. It is in everyone's interest - especially the people living in the region.


I'm so sick of nationalism and all that comes with it.
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Posted: Mar 1, 2023 - 4:10pm

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Mobster turf war!



Perhaps but I hope we get to detente rather than ceding the turf to one side. It is in everyone's interest - especially the people living in the region.
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Posted: Mar 1, 2023 - 3:36pm

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China's expansionism in the South Pacific is very troubling so balance of power is about as good as we can hope for.

Mobster turf war!

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Posted: Mar 1, 2023 - 3:14pm

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Speaking as someone living in the region who has a friend living in Taiwan, this is an unfortunate but necessary thing. Australia went overboard in pandering to Trump during Scott Morrison's time as Prime Minister and could have been far more clever about playing them off against each other. China's expansionism in the South Pacific is very troubling so balance of power is about as good as we can hope for.

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Posted: Mar 1, 2023 - 12:06pm


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Posted: Mar 1, 2023 - 11:09am

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The Reckoning That Wasn’t

Why America Remains Trapped by False Dreams of Hegemony — Foreign Affairs

By Andrew J. Bacevich
March/April 2023
Published on February 28, 2023  

Good op-ed.  Possibly gated.

About the author:

ANDREW J. BACEVICH is Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at
Boston University and Chair of the Board of the Quincy Institute for Responsible
Statecraft, which he co-founded.


Ungated.

So far, U.S. policy on Ukraine has been pragmatic and arguably restrained. But President Joe Biden and his team routinely talk about the war in ways that suggest an outmoded, moralistic, and recklessly grandiose vision of American power. Aligning his administration’s rhetorical posture with a sober assessment of the true stakes involved in Ukraine might allow Biden to wean the establishment from its obsession with hegemony. Demonstrating that Americans do not need their country’s role in the world explained to them in the style of a children’s bedtime story would be a bonus.

The victory in World War II bestowed a new sense of purpose on U.S. policy, which was subsequently codified in NSC-68. But it also imposed a straitjacket. As the scholar David Bromwich has recently written, “The Second World War is the picture that has held us captive.” In important respects, the story of U.S. national security policy over the past seven
decades centers on an effort to preserve and update that picture. The overarching aim has been to engineer another such victory, thereby delivering security, prosperity, deference, and privilege—or, more broadly, a world run on American terms, a dominance justified by a self-assigned mission to spread freedom and democracy.

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Posted: Feb 28, 2023 - 6:11pm

The Reckoning That Wasn’t

Why America Remains Trapped by False Dreams of Hegemony — Foreign Affairs

By Andrew J. Bacevich
March/April 2023
Published on February 28, 2023  

Good op-ed.  Possibly gated.

About the author:

ANDREW J. BACEVICH is Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at
Boston University and Chair of the Board of the Quincy Institute for Responsible
Statecraft, which he co-founded.

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Posted: Feb 24, 2023 - 1:29pm

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U.S. Doesn't Accept 'Spheres Of Influence,' State Dept. Ghoul Says
If Blinken were to open his mouth, would it reveal a Forked Tongue and Vampire teeth?  

It is a foregone conclusion that he backs ethnic-cleansing terrorism.

Likely sleeps in a coffin and needs blood (of the poor and wretched) to nourish...

Used to be in a DoD house band called the Coalition of the Willing. Brings back memories.
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Posted: Feb 24, 2023 - 1:20pm

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Institutionalized/weaponized senility/amnesia




Gosh, yes. Let Russia invade and kill and rape and destroy. They felt threatened by NATO and an independent Ukraine so it's perfectly OK. 

Somehow this is America's fault and we should let a sovereign nation disappear. So let's suck our thumb and do nothing. 
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Posted: Feb 24, 2023 - 12:41pm

This could eventually be an issue in Canada (I am not kidding)  but was not sure where to post it.  This is PAINFUL to watch.  You are forewarned.  



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Posted: Feb 24, 2023 - 12:27pm

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Posted: Feb 24, 2023 - 11:46am



U.S. Doesn't Accept 'Spheres Of Influence,' State Dept. Ghoul Says


If Blinken were to open his mouth, would it reveal a Forked Tongue and Vampire teeth?  

It is a foregone conclusion that he backs ethnic-cleansing terrorism.

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Posted: Feb 24, 2023 - 10:37am


U.S. Doesn't Accept 'Spheres Of Influence,' State Dept. Ghoul Says
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Posted: Feb 23, 2023 - 2:30pm

Institutionalized/weaponized senility/amnesia

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Posted: Feb 19, 2023 - 11:55pm

Straight Talk on the Country’s War Addiction *
Behind a mind-set that invites the burden of policing a rules-based global order is a conventional assumption: War, though tragic, is a boon for economic vitality and patriotic vigor. This assumption is at best outmoded. The economy is no longer fueled by wartime industries in the same way. When wars are fought by a smaller corps of volunteers and financed by borrowing from financial institutions and foreign governments more than taxes and war bonds, a public spirit of common cause hasn’t materialized. In fact, America’s most recent military misadventures contributed to the steady accumulation of more than $30 trillion in debt — now being weaponized by partisans in Congress for political gain.

After Russia invaded Ukraine, Elliott Abrams, who led Middle East policy in the Bush administration and Iran and Venezuela policy in the Trump administration, insisted that the United States should seize the “new Cold War” opportunity to foster bipartisan consensus.

Blinken Warns Chinese FM Against Providing Military Support to Russia
Instead of attempting to de-escalate tensions, Blinken confronted his Chinese counterpart, accusing Beijing of "violating" US sovereignty with its balloon. Blinken said he received "no apology."

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Posted: Feb 17, 2023 - 6:24pm

Flummoxed by Russian talking points. Does. Not. Compute.

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Posted: Feb 17, 2023 - 6:00pm

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Well, I haven't seen the Labor Party spouting Russian talking points, not saying that they haven't. I mean some of the old timer's still call each other comrade. But yeah I'd say they still are overall left-leaning with the caveat that if something helps a heavily unionised business they tend to support it (I'm looking at you, coal companies).

But if you don't like left leaning then maybe "progressive?" "non-extreme right wing?" "woke"? I dunno, but I think even you get the idea of who I was trying to characterise in a general sense realising that generalisations are just that and are imperfect.

I don't care about your use of the term (being leveled at westslope, who may or may not identify), but the facile characterization of repeating/being susceptible to Russian talking points. I guess the flip side would be the vast majority of boring centrists repeating NATO/US talking points.

Labour parties aren't what they used to be.
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