Trump's New US Mission Statement: Strength, Force, Power

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... "We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else," deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told CNN's Jake Tapper. "But we live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power," Miller said.

"These are the iron laws of the world."

Any US allies still in denial after the first wild year of Trump's second term should listen to something else Miller said. "We're a superpower.

And under President Trump, we are going to conduct ourselves as a superpower."

His comments came in the context of questions about Trump's claims to be running Venezuela following the daring US special forces raid that snatched President Nicols Maduro and sent him to a Monday court hearing in New York. ...

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So... Might, and only Might, makes Right?

So, Deputy CoS Stephen Miller is saying that the United States can do anything it wants to anyone or any Country because the US military is the most powerful on the planet?

@#4 ... "These are the iron laws of the world."

This world died a century ago. ...

... and they died because they led the us into two world wars.

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@#7 ... This is a conversation Republicans can't have. ...

I agree.

In the past they seemed to have shied away from it.

But, this is now.

Let's see how many chime in.

Or will we see the usual [crickets]?

Who knows ...

@#10 ... Frat boys playing war. ...

I'd be reluctant to degrade Fraternities to that level.

OpEd: What's Really Driving Trump's Moves in Venezuela and Greenland
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... Many Americans seeking to understand what drives President Donald Trump have looked back to the history of the 19th century, to when the world was carved up into spheres of influence dominated by a handful of "great powers."

But an influential new paper argues that we should cast our eyes further back, beyond the swaggering statesmen of the imperialist era to the age of absolute monarchs if we really want to understand the world Trump is shaping.

Wellesley College's Stacie Goddard and Georgetown University's Abraham Newman call this emerging order "neo-royalism," and describe it as a global system dominated by rivalries between a small group of leaders and allied "hyper-elites," all looking to gain wealth or status. ...

The idea of great power competition and spheres of influence, the traditional way of understanding that era, actually doesn't make sense of what's happening now. We understand there's all this stuff about the "Donroe Doctrine" and this Western hemispheric stance.

But why it doesn't make sense is that a lot of the moves that you're actually seeing the Trump administration make aren't necessary. They're costly, and they undermine United States security. ...

@#18 ... Wellesley College's Stacie Goddard and Georgetown University's Abraham Newman call this emerging order "neo-royalism," and describe it as a global system dominated by rivalries between a small group of leaders and allied "hyper-elites," all looking to gain wealth or status. ...

"Hyper-elites" a.k.a. the billionaires that Pres Trump surrounds himself with.

And the donors to his 2024 campaign and to him elsewhere.