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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: guest5 Date: February 15, 2021, 3:48 pm
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Biden aims to rebuild NATO trust after Trump era
[quote]The U.S. will use a NATO summit this week to emphasize
Washington's sharp departure from the stance of the Trump
administration
#News​ #Politics​ #JoeBiden​ #Trump​
#NATO[/quote]
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: guest5 Date: February 17, 2021, 2:34 pm
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China rising, Europe reluctant - Can America lead again?
[quote]Joe Biden says “America is back,” all set to lead the
democratic world in a major pushback against authoritarian
China.
But is America still in a position to lead? China’s power and
wealth are now greater than ever before. And the US is
profoundly weakened, by failed wars overseas and failed politics
at home.
As the two superpowers drift further into geopolitical
confrontation, US allies in Europe face a fateful choice: do
they go all-in with America, or do they try to hedge their bets
by keeping strong relations with China?
It’s a choice that will have massive consequences for the future
of America in the world. Because how can it lead, if nobody will
follow?
DW Chief International Editor Richard Walker meets some of the
world’s leading experts on international relations and US
politics, and asks Angela Merkel herself: why does she seem so
reluctant to embrace American leadership?[/quote]
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: guest5 Date: February 19, 2021, 6:17 pm
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Biden breaks with Trump, affirms transatlantic ties
[quote]Seeking a sharp break from the "America First" policies
of his predecessor -- which often manifested in bitter
disagreements, escalating trade wars and rejection of the
systems established to prevent conflict -- President Joe Biden
on Friday reaffirmed the US position of global leadership, the
power of its alliances and the resilience of democracy in the
United States and abroad. He made passing reference to Iran,
saying the US was ready to reengage in negotiations on the
nuclear deal, but did not provide a timeline. And while he said
the US remained committed to ensuring Afghanistan does not again
become a safe haven for terrorists, he did not outline plans for
a US troop withdrawal. Instead, his remarks were meant as a
broad statement of support for US-Europe ties after four years
in the wilderness.[/quote]
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: guest5 Date: February 26, 2021, 7:33 pm
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Moment of truth for transatlantic relations?
[quote]The leaders of Germany and France will discuss the future
of transatlantic relations with US President Joe Biden during a
virtual mini-edition of the Munich Security Conference. DW's
Richard Walker gives his take on some potentially thorny
issues.[/quote]
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: guest5 Date: February 26, 2021, 9:19 pm
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EU presents new trade strategy | DW News
[quote]China has overtaken the US as the EU's biggest trading
partner. Statistics agency Eurostat says the bloc's trade volume
with China reached 586 billion euros last year. That's compared
to 555 billion with the US. China had suffered badly from the
coronavirus pandemic during the first quarter. But it recovered
rapidly - in 2020, consumption rose year on year. That also
drove sales of many European products.[/quote]
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: guest5 Date: March 12, 2021, 9:27 pm
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US approves $1.77 BILLION sale of advanced Boeing spy jets to
Germany amid increased NATO activity at Russian border
[quote]The US State Department has approved the sale of five
P-8A Poseidon planes, advertised by Boeing as one of the “most
advanced” weapon systems in the world, and other equipment to
Germany at the cost of $1.77 billion.
On Friday, the State Department’s office of Political and
Military Affairs announced the approval of Germany’s request to
buy the five patrol aircraft. They list engines, sensors,
radars, communications equipment, countermeasures, spare parts,
software and training as being part of the package presently
valued at almost $1.8 billion. [/quote]
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 29, 2021, 12:25 am
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Our enemies are trying to psychologically divide NATO:
HTML https://vdare.com/articles/patrick-j-buchanan-boris-johnson-defies-vladimir-putin-s-claim-to-crimea
[quote]Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government and the Royal
Navy have declared it to be their right to use warships to send
a message to Moscow that Crimea belongs to Kyiv. Moscow has
responded: Send that message again, and you may find your
warship at the bottom of the Black Sea.
This is not an unserious matter.
If the Brits repeat this exercise, which they see as a right, a
duty and a mission, we could witness a Russian attack on a
British warship.
This would trigger Article 5 of the NATO treaty that requires
all member nations to treat an attack on one as an attack on
all.
Britain's challenge to Russia, a few kilometers off Crimea,
could have resulted in a shooting incident that could have
forced a U.S. response against Russia. And that raises some
serious questions:
Did Johnson inform us he was about to issue this direct
challenge to Moscow? Or were the Americans left in the dark?
Did President Joe Biden or the Pentagon tell Johnson that if
Defender were attacked, U.S. forces would have their back?
With this clash off Crimea, a peninsula Russia regards as vital
and we have never regarded as vital, we could have been drawn
into a conflict by our ally, Britain, which could not prevail
against Vladimir Putin's Russia without the military assistance
of the United States.[/quote]
Whatever Russia regards as vital, we should regard it vital to
prevent Russia from acquiring it. That is anti-Duginism.
[quote]Also, Monday was the first day of the 12-day Exercise Sea
Breeze 2021 in the Black Sea, hosted by the U.S. Sixth Fleet and
Ukrainian navy.
These exercises have been held yearly since the end of the 20th
century, and the 2021 roster of participants is the largest yet
The exercises will involve 32 nations, 32 ships, 5,000 troops
and 40 planes. Among the participants are 17 NATO nations,
including all three NATO allies on the Black Sea—Romania,
Bulgaria and Turkey—and two aspiring NATO nations on the Black
Sea—Ukraine and Georgia.
Are warships from any of these 32 nations going to follow the
example of HMS Defender and sail close to the Russian naval base
of Sevastopol? Are the Brits going to challenge Putin's claim to
Crimea again? Or will they, chastened, avoid a confrontation?
The U.S. does not recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea in
2014, but we have not threatened or used force to alter that
reality.
For no vital U.S. interest is imperiled in Russia's control of
Crimea and its 2 million people. After all, czarist and
Bolshevik Russia controlled that peninsula from the time of
Catherine the Great to the time of Mikhail Gorbachev.
The U.S. should tell Boris Johnson that if he wants to provoke
the Russian navy in the Black Sea, he should not assume that, if
a collision comes, the U.S. Sixth Fleet will pull his chestnuts
out of the fire.[/quote]
No, the US should tell Johnson that the US intends to take back
Crimea whether the UK wants to help or not, but their decision
will be on the historical record forever.
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 8, 2021, 11:52 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/europe-becoming-wing-continent-120428970.html
[quote]For a certain kind of American liberal, it's almost a
reflexive gesture to wish the United States were more like
Europe. [/quote]
False Leftists (especially social democrats) only.
[quote]I wonder how it will feel when Europe becomes distinctly
more right-wing than the United States.
It's not an inconceivable prospect. The United Kingdom has a
Tory government right now, and based on current polling their
position looks increasingly secure. France's centrist president
Emmanuel Macron would likely be re-elected if the election were
held today, but Marine Le Pen's right-wing National Rally party
polls considerably higher today in a one-on-one contest with
Macron than it did in 2017. Italy's fragile coalition could be
followed by a right-wing coalition of Matteo Salvini's Lega and
the neofascist-derived Fratelli D'Italia.
...
the overall political climate in Europe has been trending
rightward for some time. After the financial crisis, and the
austerity that followed, the traditional left-wing parties began
to collapse, and more nationalist and extreme-right alternatives
to the mainstream — the AfD in Germany, National Rally in
France, UKIP in England — began to arise. The surge in
immigration that followed Syria's and Libya's collapse into
civil war were further sources of fuel. These parties and
movements — critical of the European Union, strongly opposed to
immigration, frequently more friendly to Russia — were initially
and in many cases still are opposed by all the mainstream
parties, but that opposition did little to stem their growth.
Eventually, in countries like Hungary and Poland, they began to
win elections and assume the powers of government.[/quote]
This is what we have been warning about for a decade, and what
Dugin has been scheming towards for longer.
[quote]In Europe today, the most viable traditional parties are
often mainstream right-wing parties that have sought to coopt
the nationalist right's issues — most notably Boris Johnson's
Tory Party, which eclipsed UKIP by adopting Brexit for itself —
or parties self-consciously constituted around the technocratic
center so as to unite the mainstream against the far right. True
left-wing parties like Jean-Luc Mélenchon's in France or Jeremy
Corbyn's Labour have largely fizzled. Meanwhile, the far right
continues to produce new phenomena, most recently France's Eric
Zemmour, who has outflanked Le Pen on the right by being even
more [s]nationalist[/s] than she is.[/quote]
We predicted this too.
[quote]Nothing is more useful for promoting national unity than
a foreign threat. And while America's foreign policy
establishment would likely prefer that China be that threat, it
makes far more sense for a Europe turning inward to decry
pernicious American influence on their social fabric than
China's threats to Taiwan or its oppression of the Uyghur
people.[/quote]
It would make just as much sense for an America turning
non-Western to decry Western influence on its social fabric (and
even encourage China to do the same, so that America and China
become allies against Western civilization).
[quote]The question then would be whether America's left will
take a lesson from the demise of their European cousins, and
rethink their own approach to politics before they face a
similar eclipse, and downgrade cultural questions in favor of
bread and butter issues. Or, perhaps, whether Europe's turn to
the right will inspire America's left to see unique promise once
more in our own country's distance from nationalism of the Old
World, and redefine their own vision of a culturally egalitarian
future not as a necessary redemption of our nation's sinful
history, but as a hoped-for fulfillment of distinctively
American promise.[/quote]
We need the latter. Except:
1) What is happening across the Atlantic is identitarianism, not
"nationalism". It is America by rejecting identitarianism which
will demonstrate nationalism.
2) We do not want a "culturally egalitarian" future. We want a
future which sees Western civilization as the most inferior
civilization known to all of history, which logically first
requires rejection of egalitarianism in order that any judgement
of inferiority be possible. Western civilization is to blame for
the historical evils perpetrated by the US. Redemption requires
becoming anti-Western. Egalitarianism, which means considering
Western civilization neither better nor worse than other
civilizations, falls far short of what is needed for redemption.
What we want is a culturally anti-Western future.
3) The fulfillment of America's promise is to use the US
military to defeat all countries which refuse to surrender to:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/operation-gaddafi/
As I always say, it is the highest poetic justice to unleash the
full destuctive power of modern weaponry upon the civilization
which brought it into existence in the first place.
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What is Going on Here?: France and U.S. Relations?
By: guest55 Date: September 16, 2021, 8:43 pm
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Bit odd that both of these stories popped up together in my
feed. Something's going on here? Definite signals....
French military says ISIS leader killed
[quote]French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed ISIS commander
Adnan Abou Walid Al-Sahrawi was killed in a drone strike in late
August.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuYP4CM78VI
France angry after U.S. strikes deal with Australia for nuclear
subs
[quote]NBC's Global Affairs Correspondent Dan de Luce reports on
the new nuclear-powered submarine deal between the U.S., U.K.
and Australia. France is not happy about the deal.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltOP5BCwA-Q&list=TLPQMTcwOTIwMjEzPJwxMiJJBQ&index=2
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Re: Brexit
By: guest55 Date: October 8, 2021, 9:24 pm
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France-UK relations strained after Brexit
[quote]Tensions between Paris and London have been escalating
after #Brexit.
Here’s a look at what happened recently.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvbIGda4Cik
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