It's high time the world stuck together and turned its collective back on the #USA in every way.
(While watching out for their backstabbing attempts, of course.)
Even if the #US makes it through this #Trump nightmare, the US must NEVER be trusted again. The US is neither reliable or safe.
#power #democracy #RulesBasedOrder #greatpowers #nato #un #us #Europe #newworldorder #middlepowers
As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the 'middle powers' face a grave new challenge
#power #democracy #RulesBasedOrder #greatpowers #trump #carney #nato #un #us #Europe #newworldorder #middlepowers
#PowerPolitics is the new normal, falling out of Trumps zero-sum view of (international) relations. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-phillips-obrien
Only the #GreatPowers matter. This will make the world poorer, not just materially, but in joy, creativity, liveable lives.
Small countries, like Norway, have benefited hugely from the international order that Trump is tossing aside. Paul Krugman looking back at what we are losing: https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/decline-and-fall-of-the-american .
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)
The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully? In clear, eloquent prose, John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#politics
#GreatPowers
#China
#US
When the #GreatPowers drew the map of the #MiddleEast after #WWI, they set aside #religion and #ethnicity as the basis, but religion was fundamental to the political existence of #Shia #Iran and #Sunni #Muslims of #Egypt, #Syria, and elsewhere
1915: #Kitchener decided to partition #ME, leading to #SykesPicot Agreement
1917: #Lenin's #Bolshevik colleague Leon #Trotsky blew up Sykes-Picot
1918: #WWI ends
1919: Treaty of #Versailles following WWI
1922: #PointOfNoReturn…
🤔“This stunning revelation of Russian weakness calls into question not just Moscow’s status as a great power but also the very concept of a great power.“
#superpowers #power #greatpowers #fullSpectrumPower #Russia #Ukraine #USA #China #JohnMearsheimer #BarryPosen #StephenWalt #RussiaInvadedUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/theres-no-such-thing-great-power
I didn't really know
@Prof_BearB very well, but I blogged about missing the chance to talk to him here in Berlin about #digitalGovernance, #GreatPowers and the end of war.
https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2023/05/life-academia-and-great-powers-missing.html
"#Japan on Friday unveiled its biggest military build-up since World War Two with a $320 billion plan that will buy missiles capable of striking #China and ready it for sustained conflict, as regional tensions and #Russia's Ukraine invasion stoke war fears.
The sweeping, five-year plan, once unthinkable in pacifist Japan, will make the country the world's third-biggest military spender after the #UnitedStates and China, based on current budgets."
Japan on Friday unveiled its biggest military build-up since World War Two with a $320 billion plan that will buy missiles capable of striking China and ready it for sustained conflict, as regional tensions and Russia's Ukraine invasion stoke war fears.
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Ramesh #NotGoingBack
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