{"id":44950,"date":"2019-04-02T06:48:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44950"},"modified":"2019-04-02T06:48:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:48:37","slug":"is-the-world-already-multi-polar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44950","title":{"rendered":"Is the World Already Multi-Polar?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Is the World Already Multi-Polar?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A hefty case can be made that the Empire of Chaos currently has no allies; it\u2019s essentially surrounded by an assortment of vassals, puppets and comprador 5th <\/sup>columnist elites professing varied degrees of \u2013 sometimes reluctant \u2013 obedience. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration\u2019s foreign policy may be easily deconstructed as a crossover between The Sopranos and late-night comedy.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Pepe Escobar, in his recent Consortium News<\/em> piece: Empire of Chaos in Hybrid War Overdrive<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the U.S. empire\u2019s existed in various states of decline for much of the 21st century, I\u2019ve been opining on the topic with far more frequency and urgency since the election of Donald Trump. This isn\u2019t because he\u2019s fundamentally much different from the imperial managers (aka presidents) that came before him on foreign policy, but because his personality, style and overall boorishness serve to accelerate the pace of decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As many astute observers have noted, what really bothers establishment types on the \u201cNeverTrump\u201d right and the \u201cRussiagate conspiracy theory\u201d left is not so much what Trump does, but how he does it. These political cliques may disagree on many issues, but what they have in common \u2014 aside from Trump derangement syndrome \u2014 is a love affair with U.S. empire and an unwavering dedication to the maintenance of American geopolitical dominance at all costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the NeverTrump right and the Russiagate conspiracy theory left are concerned that Trump, unlike Obama, is a poor global salesman for empire. Obama had the rare quality of being able to bailout bankers and keep them out of prison, pass healthcare \u201creform\u201d only an insurance company could love, and expand American wars across the globe and still be revered around much of the world and celebrated as a liberal at home. That\u2019s the sort of person you need in charge to keep a corrupt and violent empire running smoothly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is the World Already Multi-Polar? A hefty case can be made that the Empire of Chaos currently has no allies; it\u2019s essentially surrounded by an assortment of vassals, puppets and comprador 5th columnist elites professing varied degrees of \u2013 sometimes reluctant \u2013 obedience.  The Trump administration\u2019s foreign policy may be easily deconstructed as a crossover between […]<\/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":[130,23681,4285,6174,694,827],"class_list":["post-44950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-empire-of-chaos","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44950","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=44950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44951,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44950\/revisions\/44951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}