"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
/11
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
/10
https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-first-salvo-of-world-war-iii
"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
/11
"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
/12
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/fourth-and-democracy-narco-terror
"Across the globe, leaders are rediscovering an old idea: that power itself is legitimacy."
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/13
"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
/14
"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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