James George Jatras — American Politics Is Now Just Civil War by Other Means

The de facto civil war in the US is obscuring two existential threats — climate change and nuclear war. Jatras mentions only the latter.

Still, the US remains addicted to ever-increasing sanctions, and despite warnings from both Russia and China that they are prepared for war – warnings virtually ignored by the US media and political class – the US keeps pressing on all fronts: outer space, the Arctic, Europe (withdrawal from the INF treaty), Ukraine, the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, Xinjiang, and elsewhere. Trump is expected to meet with Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping following the US election, but they may have to conclude that he is not capable of restraining the war machine nominally under his command and will plan accordingly.

Parlous times both domestically, internationally and environmentally and the US is not only not dealing with these threats but rather is exacerbating them. Indeed, the US appears to be incapable of dealing with them owing to extreme divisiveness and reality distortion ("gaslighting"). 

SNAFU (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya) has morphed into TARFUN (Syria, Ukraine, South China Sea) on the way to FUBAR (Iran, Russia, China). (See definition of SNAFU—these acronyms originated in the military).

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American Politics Is Now Just Civil War by Other Means

James George Jatras | Deputy Director of the American Institute in Ukraine, a privately funded American NGO, and former U.S. diplomat and foreign policy adviser to the Senate GOP leadership