Trump Picked This Fight With Maduro. He Can’t Back Down.

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Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it
On the same day that Donald Trump received his made-to-order “peace prize” from his newest pal, Fifa president “Johnny” Infantino, his administration published an equally gaudy national security strategy. The relatively short document oozes Trump and Trumpism. It starts out with the typically modest claim that the president has brought “our nation – and the world – back from the brink of catastrophe and disaster”.
Even if the strategy mostly formalises the ongoing actions and statements of Trump and his administration, it should be heeded as a warning for the world, and Europe in particular.
Cas Mudde is the Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia, and author of The Far Right Today
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President sought to rehab image after criticism of being out of touch, but speech aimed at midterms took different turn
Donald Trump has sought to reboot his ailing US presidency at a rally-style event with a blitz of false claims about the economy and xenophobic attacks on immigrants and “shithole countries”.
In the wake of Republican election defeats and criticism that he is out of touch with America’s affordability crisis, Trump’s speech at the Mount Pocono casino in north-eastern Pennsylvania on Tuesday was billed as an opportunity to reclaim the economic narrative.
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Trump had further said Nicolás Maduro’s ‘days are numbered’ as military has targeted alleged drug boats
Two US fighter jets circled the Gulf of Venezuela on Tuesday, in what appeared to be an escalation of the Trump administration’s ongoing hostilities toward the South American country and its leftist leader, Nicolás Maduro.
Venezuelans and South American media followed the flights in real time using websites like FlightRadar24, which showed a pair of F/A-18 Super Hornets flying together into the narrow Gulf of Venezuela for about 40 minutes. The jets flew just north of Maracaibo, Venezuela’s most populous city.
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Le commerce des semi-conducteurs entre les États-Unis et la Chine connaît un rebondissement inattendu. Après des mois d’hésitations et de revirements politiques, l’administration américaine vient d’accorder son feu vert pour l’exportation de composants électroniques sophistiqués vers le géant asiatique. Le département du Commerce a validé cette décision qui bouleverse les équilibres géopolitiques établis récemment dans ... Lire plus
L'article Washington autorise Nvidia à vendre ses puces avancées en Chine est apparu en premier sur Fredzone.
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