Grand Bargain
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The President Changes. The Strategy Doesn’t
American Primacy, Structural Entrenchment, and the Path to Permanent Conflict On 8 March 1992, the New York Times published a front-page report under the headline “U.S. Strategy Plan Calls for Insuring No Rivals Develop,” based on a leaked draft of the Pentagon’s Defense Planning Guidance for fiscal years 1994 to 1999. The document, drafted under… Continue reading
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Trump’s Beijing Delegation Exposed the Real Structure of American Power (Short Version)
The Beijing visit exposed how transnational corporations, financial institutions, and technology monopolies now operate openly as the permanent power structure beneath American electoral politics. This is the short version analytical examination of Donald Trump’s state visit to China and its implications for the emerging multipolar order. See link at the bottom for the extended version.… Continue reading
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