America Aggressive Approach to a Multipolar World
Max Blumenthal, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
I had a conversation with Max Blumenthal and Alexander Mercouris about the US approach to multipolarity. In a multipolar world, security is enhanced by reducing the security competition between the great powers, while a mutually beneficial peace can exist under a balance of power and acceptance of the status quo. Even small- and medium-sized states can obtain more political autonomy from the great powers by cooperating with all great powers to diversify their economic connectivity. However, the US appears to be attempting to defeat China as its main rival, and coerce small and medium states into spheres of influence to ensure political and economic obedience.
As expected the adjustment to a different reality of geopolitical stability will be painful in the beginning but it will be sweet in the end. But for the Europeans this will be very painful in the end because they refuse to accept and adapt.
This is not unique to "Trump". At all.
The Biden admin with its "Inflation reduction Act" aimed specifically to compete better with China by basically subjucating Europe and sucking it dry of investment, forcing European capital to put its money in the US,
The same Biden Admin, with the elimination of the Nordstream pipeline, replaced cheap piped gas sold by Russia with expensive LNG shipped in to europe from the US and from Qatar's joint venture with US based ConocoPhilips. That was was specifcally done to kneecap Europe and subjugate it economically. By force.
The Biden adminstration also used its control over the EU admistration of Von der Leyen to force it to decouple from China, under such ideas as "derisking" and under the false guise of supply chain standards, making false claims about forced labour and so on. This is partly what lay under the EU Due Diligence Directive.
The Biden admin even had the EU sign a joint action agreement with the EU
If you go back to the Obama adminstration, this theme of economic vassalhood and ringfencing vassals, to compete against China, was what lay behind that administration's 1) military "Pivot to China" and 2) the failed attempt to force in the "free trade agreements" TTP/TTIP or whatever that alphabet soup was.
This agenda and actions towards it, have been a VERY consistent theme across many US governments, and we dont need to name it after "Trump". In fact to do so is misleading