This article, while on its surface is about Foreign Policy, its really about trade policies with China.
Will O’Brien be Trump’s Secretary of State?
//”But Washington should, in fact, seek to decouple its economy from China’s”//
“The Return of Peace Through Strength
Making the Case for Trump’s Foreign Policy
By Robert C. O’Brien
July/August 2024”
“Si vis pacem, para bellum is a Latin phrase that emerged in the fourth century that means “If you want peace, prepare for war.” The concept’s origin dates back even further, to the second-century Roman emperor Hadrian, to whom is attributed the axiom, “Peace through strength—or, failing that, peace through threat.”
U.S. President George Washington understood this well. “If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for war,” he told Congress in 1793. The idea was echoed in President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous dictum: “Speak softly, and carry a big stick.” And as a candidate for president, Ronald Reagan borrowed directly from Hadrian when he promised to achieve “peace through strength”—and later delivered on that promise.
In 2017, President Donald Trump brought this ethos back to the White House after the Obama era, during which the United States had a president who felt it necessary to apologize for the alleged sins of American foreign policy and sapped the strength of the U.S. military. That ended when Trump took office. As he proclaimed to the UN General Assembly in September 2020, the United States was “fulfilling its destiny as peacemaker, but it is peace through strength.””
Russia acerbating an already shrinking labor pool.
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Kremlin snuff box, 07/24/24
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/4413
The State Duma confirmed two of our insights at once
State Duma deputy Sergei Karginov proposed to Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev to introduce a system of rewards in the amount of 100 thousand rubles for reporting the places of residence of illegal migrants.
Karginov emphasizes that in this way ordinary citizens will be able not only to earn money, but also to stop the flow of illegal migrants to Russia. Thus protecting yourself from possible crimes. In fact, Deputy Karginov is talking about paid denunciations, which we wrote about just the other day.
The second confirmed insider - the authorities of our country have taken a clear course towards ridding the Russian Federation of migrants. Of course, it will not be possible to catch everyone and send them home, but the trend is obvious.
Our source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, by the way, fears that if Kolokoltsev approves of Karginov’s idea, this could provoke a real witch hunt.
“In Moscow alone we have millions of migrants. Imagine if we received real complaints about each of them. A real madhouse will begin,” our interlocutor said.