What Martyanov describes as “the deadly combination of contemporary American elites’ ignorance, hubris and desperation,” though, cannot be underestimated.
Already during his election campaign, Trump announced multiple times that he would contest the post-Cold War international (dis)order. Helsinki was a graphic demonstration that now Trump’s “drain the swamp” faces a massive immovable object, as the swamp will take no prisoners to preserve its trillion-dollar power.
In contrast, Russian diplomacy, as explicitly reaffirmed once again this week by Putin himself, is adamant that anything is permitted when it comes to avoiding Cold War 2.0....The fundamental issue is a switch from foreign policy idealism (Wilsonian foreign policy characterized by liberal internationalism under US leadership) to foreign policy realism (Jacksonian foreign policy, focus on US national interests). The Foreign policy idealism was furthered by Zbigniew Brzezinski, and foreign policy realism by Henry Kissinger.
It’s crystal clear that President Trump is applying Kissingerian divide-and-rule tactics, trying to reduce Russian political/economic connectivity with the two other Eurasian integration poles, China and Iran....Here’s the real reason the US must talk to Russia
Pepe Escobar
