Trump’s “Soft Power.” The National Security Strategy

 

Video: Trump’s “Soft Power.” The National Security Strategy By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Drago Bosnic This video production focuses on President Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS), which consists in the repeal of the so-called Wolfowitz Doctrine formulated in the early 1990s in the wake of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. According to Wolfowitz, the United States had become “the world’s sole remaining superpower.”  Read here

Secondary Ally? US Diverts South Korea’s Missile Shield to Iran War By Uriel Araujo The ongoing war against Iran jointly pursued by Washington and Israel is already producing geopolitical ripple effects far beyond the Middle East. One of the most telling developments arguably emerged this week, with the partial redeployment of US missile defense systems from the Korean Peninsula to the Middle East. Read here

Costly and Depleting: The Growing Problems of “Operation Epic Fury” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark A war apparently already won (and not), against an adversary supposedly without means to fight back, its air force and navy destroyed, its missile capabilities blunted, is now drawing the clumsy colossus of American power into the Middle East with embarrassing effect. Read here

Pride, Power, and the Peril of Escalation: Why a U.S.–Israel War With Iran May Have No Real End By Prof. Ruel F. Pepa A sustained war between the United States, Israel, and Iran is unlikely to resemble a short, controlled campaign. Instead, it has actually unfolded as one of the most complex strategic confrontations of the modern era. Iran has spent more than four decades shaping its defense strategy around surviving and resisting technologically superior adversaries. Read here

The Inner Cabinet and the Outer Media. For Trump and Netanyahu “The Death of Those Children Is Joy…” By Edward Curtin The Jeffrey Epstein Files release, aside from diverting the public’s attention from Iran, Ukraine, etc., has caused many people to contemplate how certain rich and connected people conspire behind the scenes for nefarious sexual purposes but also to manipulate financial and political matters. Read here

The Pentagon Is a “Paper Tiger”: USAF KC-135 ‘Stratotanker’ (Aerial Tankers) Shot Down by Iran, Intelligence, Surveillance (ISR)Aircraft Forced to Replace Destroyed Ground-based Radars By Drago Bosnic The latest events during the American aggression on Iran demonstrate that the Pentagon is a paper tiger that can no longer rely on the myth of its “invincibility”. Namely, after numerous embarrassing losses of advanced strike and multirole fighter jets (specifically F-15s and F-18s), the United States is now losing strategic aircraft that enable its occupation forces to project power across the Middle East and beyond. Read here

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and the Dollar Price Gasoline Crisis: There Is a Number Nobody in Washington Will Say Out Loud By Eric Buesing Gasoline prices jumped nearly a dollar per gallon in a single week. Brent crude topped $100 a barrel overnight, even after the announcement. The International Energy Agency, responding to a Trump administration request, coordinated a simultaneous release of 400 million barrels from member nations’ reserves, the largest emergency release in the IEA’s more than 50-year history. Read here