Pepe Escobar Asia Times
This was no “deeply philosophical address”. And hardly a show of
“principled realism” – as spun by the White House. President Trump at
the UN was “American carnage,” to borrow a phrase previously deployed by
his nativist speechwriter Stephen Miller.
One should allow the enormity of what just happened to sink in,
slowly. The president of the United States, facing the bloated
bureaucracy that passes for the “international community,” threatened to
“wipe off the map” the whole of the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea (25 million people). And may however many millions of South
Koreans who perish as collateral damage be damned...
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...The Trump Doctrine has finally been enounced and a new axis of evil
delineated. The winners are North Korea, Iran and Venezuela. Syria under
Assad is a sort of mini-evil, and so is Cuba. Crucially, Ukraine and
the South China Sea only got a fleeting mention from Trump, with no
blunt accusations against Russia and China. That may reflect at least
some degree of realpolitik; without “RC” – the Russia-China strategic
partnership at the heart of the BRICS bloc and the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization (SCO) – there’s no possible solution to the Korean
Peninsula stand-off.
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