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"That post-war bargain held for decades not because leaders became more kind, but because breaking it was understood to be catastrophic to humanity. War between major powers didn’t disappear – it was constrained, contained, laundered through diplomacy and proxy conflict rather than open conquests.

That restraint is eroding before our eyes."

~ Evan Fields

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/fourth-and-democracy-narco-terror

Fourth & Democracy | Narco Terror and Oil, Where's Congress, & Is Cuba Next?

Welcome to another edition of Fourth & Democracy – where the playbook meets the public square.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 5 days ago

Julie Roginsky sees what Trump has just done as "the first clear salvo of World War III":

"It is a geopolitical declaration that the United States claims not just security prerogatives, but territorial and economic dominion over an entire hemisphere."

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-first-salvo-of-world-war-iii

The First Salvo of World War III

The removal of Nicolás Maduro was not an isolated act of hemispheric housekeeping.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 5 days ago

"And in declaring such dominance, the United States is signaling to China and Russia that they have no choice but to respond in kind — to control their own spheres of influence, by force if necessary."

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 5 days ago

That restraint is eroding before our eyes."

~ Evan Fields

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/fourth-and-democracy-narco-terror

Fourth & Democracy | Narco Terror and Oil, Where's Congress, & Is Cuba Next?

Welcome to another edition of Fourth & Democracy – where the playbook meets the public square.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 5 days ago

"Across the globe, leaders are rediscovering an old idea: that power itself is legitimacy."

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 5 days ago

"Nearly a year ago, I heard an American woman tell a large room full of people that the recently inaugurated US president was going to bring about world peace. Implying that she had special links to the new administration, she explained that Trump, Putin and Xi Jin Ping were going to divide the planet into three spheres of influence."

~ Anne Applebaum

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
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https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/spheres-of-influence

Spheres of Influence

Venezuela and the end of Pax Americana

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 5 days ago

"The US would control the Western hemisphere, China would control Asia, Russia would control Europe. A pact between the three great powers would then prevent future war. ...

That vision, of a world divided into three spheres of influence, run by three great powers, has been kicking around for some time, mostly promoted by Russians who want to exaggerate the strength of their weak economy and justify their bloody war in Ukraine."

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #Putin
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