{"id":36639,"date":"2018-08-14T08:31:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36639"},"modified":"2018-08-14T08:31:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:31:28","slug":"the-end-of-the-us-unipolar-moment-is-irreversible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36639","title":{"rendered":"The End of the US Unipolar Moment Is Irreversible"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The End of the US Unipolar Moment Is Irreversible<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

The past weeks have shown how part of the American establishment is weighing the pros and cons of the Trump administration\u2019s strategies around the world.\u00a0I have a strong feeling that in the coming weeks we will see the destabilizing effects of American politics, especially towards its closest allies.<\/em><\/p>\n

A disastrous flip of events appears to be on its way, in case Trump were to lose the November midterm elections (the House and Senate elections). If this were to happen, the Trump administration would probably exploit the Russia gate conspiracy claiming that Moscow had now acted in\u00a0favour<\/a>\u00a0of Democrats. Trump could argue that Moscow was disappointed by the lack of progress in softening US sanctions against Russia; indeed, by Trump\u2019s measures against Russia (expulsions, sanctions, property seizures) and its allies (China, Iran and Syria).<\/p>\n

Trump would not hesitate to claim Russian interference in the midterms to aid the Democrats, citing\u00a0intelligence reports<\/a>. He would say that Russia aims to create chaos in the US by placing roadblocks in the way of attempts to \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d and handing the House and Senate to the Democrats. He would use the electoral defeat to blame his accusers of getting aid from Russia. In doing so, he would be accelerating the implosion of his administration in an all-out war with the establishment. The mainstream media would dismiss Trump\u2019s accusations against the Democrats of collusion with Russia as a\u00a0conspiracy theory<\/a>\u00a0of an unravelling presidency. All this, summed up, would lead to the Democrats having majority in both houses, easily proceeding to the impeachment of Trump.<\/p>\n

Italy is piggybacking on the US, operating side by side with Washington to expand its role in North Africa, especially in Libya. However, Rome will have to offer something in return to please Trump.<\/p>\n

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The End of the US Unipolar Moment Is Irreversible The past weeks have shown how part of the American establishment is weighing the pros and cons of the Trump administration\u2019s strategies around the world.\u00a0I have a strong feeling that in the coming weeks we will see the destabilizing effects of American politics, especially towards its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14453,13939,8203,15908,827],"class_list":["post-36639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-federico-pieraccini","tag-multipolar-world","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-unipolar-world","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36640,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639\/revisions\/36640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}