{"id":35393,"date":"2018-06-23T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T13:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35393"},"modified":"2018-06-23T08:17:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T13:17:19","slug":"the-eagle-the-dragon-and-the-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35393","title":{"rendered":"The Eagle, the Dragon, and the Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Eagle, the Dragon, and the Bear<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Does Trump recognize the limits of US power?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s new world order comes straight from The Godfather. There are three global powers: the US, Russia, and China. None of these powers can militarily defeat either of the other two, and even an alliance among two of them would have trouble defeating the third.<\/p>\n

Like Don Corleone, Trump is dividing up the larger territory into smaller, great-power controlled sub-territories. He is tacitly recognizing Russia and China\u2019s dominance in their own spheres of influence, and holding them to account in their territories. The implicit agreement among the three is apparently that each power will, in their, \u201csphere of influence\u2026enforce peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s New World Order<\/a>,\u201d SLL 3\/20\/18<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In one week President Trump confirmed that his first concern is the United States, that he has what may be a workable vision for its place in the world, and he loathes globalism and the globalists. A good measure of his efficacy is the outrage he generates. By that measure, that week was his finest hour\u2026so far.<\/p>\n

Europe won\u2019t have a seat at Trump\u2019s great-power table. Its welfare states are addicted to their handouts, deeply in debt, rely on uneven trade arrangements with the US, and have below-replacement birth rates. They are cowed by Soros-sponsored propaganda\u2014Immigration is the answer!\u2014and haven\u2019t shut off the immigrant invasion. Refusing to spend on their own militaries, they\u2019ve used what they save on defense to subsidize welfare spending and state bureaucracies.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re ignoring a lesson from history: nations that rely on other nations for their defense generally come to regret it. Instead, they\u2019re wedded to the globalist acronyms: NATO, EU and UN. They have frittered away their power and their glory\u2014Europe\u2019s heritage and civilization\u2014opting for overrun masquerading as assimilation by dogmatic and implacable foes.<\/p>\n

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