Showing posts with label US leadership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US leadership. Show all posts

Monday, September 11, 2017

Christian Reiermann — A Shrinking Giant: EU Worries Grow over U.S. Economic Chaos

Under Donald Trump's leadership, the U.S. is in the process of forfeiting its position of economic supremacy. An internal EU document shows that the Europeans are worried.
Translation: Germany is worried about its trade surplus.

Spiegel Online
A Shrinking Giant: EU Worries Grow over U.S. Economic Chaos
Christian Reiermann

Sunday, July 16, 2017

Stephan Richter — The liberal international order: Just who shredded it?

Smackdown.
To see where we are — the United States needs to take a look at it's recent past.…
The truth is that it wasn’t Putin — or even Trump now — as much as George W. Bush and his reckless foreign policy cowboys — remember Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, all names that should live in infamy — who did most of the shredding of that liberal international order.
They committed acts of war that were clearly criminal in nature. Their only saving grace was — and is — that they have a U.S. passport.
Otherwise, they would all find themselves in the dock at the ICC in The Hague, where indeed they belong.…
Still, Obama did not break with his predecessor’s Bush league approach. Deliberately obscure mandates in Iraq simply changed topic, gone were the torture memos, in where drone strike memos.
Put yourself into the shoes of a Russian or Chinese policymaker for a moment – and ask any one of these four questions:
Salon
The liberal international order: Just who shredded it?
Stephan Richter | the publisher and editor-in-chief of The Globalist