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This article seems to be implying that all is normal in the world with a few minor changes in policy observed lately.
It’s not Washington’s departure from a years long policy of isolation; it’s the US government’s leadership’s departure from policy, period.
I expect plenty more visits to strong man states in the near future.
This article seems to be implying that all is normal in the world with a few minor changes in policy observed lately.
I see you're familiar with the New York Times.
Belarus is a shithole and their leadership is authoritarian, something Trump likely wants to emulate
The potash exports should probably be seen as an attack on Canada. Canada supplies nearly all US imports of potash and increasing Belarusian imports will both give the US another tool to damage the Canadian economy and limit Canada's ability to strike back in a trade war.
it isn't a "trade war", it's an operation to force Canada into bankruptcy, so that it can be claimed & the people currently populating Canada suddenly become "illegal aliens in America", & deported.
The Liberal Party handed Trump the near-bankruptcy of Canada, & now all Trump has to do is finish the job.
He meant it when he identified that he wants Greenland, Canada, Panama, etc, as possessions..
he's got the clout, & neither political-parties nor moneyarchy cares, really, who the current string-pullers are: all they care about is that nobody & nothing compete successfully with political-parties or with moneyarchy, respectively, so they have that as their alliance..
Oligarchy, lobbying owning the "representatives", & political-parties which couldn't put national-health 1st if it was ordered by G-D.
I wouldn't be surprised if, in a future escalation, he put sanctions on any corporation or country which did significant trade with Canada, just to enforce the collapse, that his guns could then come in "saving".
"war by other means" is all it is.
Same as his not bothering allowing Ukraina to have any say in the negotiations over Ukraina's release from Russia's genocide-war..
it's normal, now, this kind of only-authoritarianism-has-any-say "governing", in the countries "rising"..
Considered-reasoning's being extinguished, globally: only extremism's going to remain, within 3 years?
it's looking more & more like that..
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He’s coming to take it.
They are coming to take it.
The geopolitical hostage bazaar is open for business again, and Lukashenko’s circus just added new clowns. Of course a dictator with a crumbling economy and a grip on power thinner than his mustache would dangle foreign prisoners like piñatas—authoritarians only understand the currency of desperation.
Meanwhile, the State Department’s “diplomatic channels” resemble a toddler negotiating with a hornet’s nest. Soft power crumbles when your opponent’s playbook was written by the KGB. Every concession fuels the next shakedown, a parasitic cycle where principles get traded for photo ops. The West keeps feeding the crocodile, hoping it’ll eat them last.
But hey, at least someone’s thriving in this dystopian barter system.