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Hoe gaan dit met die imperiale projek?

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President Barack Obama sal by die Verenigde Nasies hierdie week sy laaste geleentheid hê om sy globale buitelandse beleid na te jaag, wat tans nuwe uitdagings bied.

Die toenemend komplekse dinamika in die geteisterde Midde-Ooste het Obama se langtermyn beleidsdoelwitte aan byna onoplosbare probleme blootgestel.

Rusland se bewegings in Sirië en Irak sal Obama se drie dae in New York voor die Algemene Vergadering van die VN oorskadu.

Terwyl hy Maandag geskeduleer is om vir die eerste keer in meer as twee jaar met president Vladimir Poetin te ontmoet, worstel hy ook met die Amerikaanse rol in ‘n globale migrantekrisis wat deur Sirië se burgeroorlog geskep is.

Obama se verwagte toespraak sal dien as ‘n padkaart vir hoe hy van voornemens is om die oorblywende 16 maande van sy termyn te benader.

Hy sal na verwagting weer volgende herfs verskyn, maar sal dan slegs ‘n paar maande in die amp oorhê.

Poetin is ook geskeduleer om die Algemene Vergadering Maandag toe te spreek, en die Midde-Ooste sal sentraal tot hoëspanningsgesprekke tussen die VSA en Russiese leiers wees.

Israel, Jordanië en Turkye het reeds die aftog teen Rusland geblaas. Die VSA se militêre magte erken nou, na vele ontkennings, dat sy huursoldate wapens en ander voorrade aan al-Qaeda verskaf.

Daardie feit is ‘n ander argument teen die aggressiewe “kenners” wat met die oorlog oor Sirië wil voortgaan.

Ernstige ontleders het reeds alle vertroue in hul oordeel verloor. Die ongelukkige CENTCOM-bevelvoerder generaal Lloyd Austin sal die prys betaal vir hul mislukte strategie.

Dit is bekend dat die ISIS-bevelvoeders vlot Turks en Russies praat.

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6 responses to “Hoe gaan dit met die imperiale projek?”

  1. Guest Avatar
    Guest

    This is how the US plans to continue: http://fusion.net/story/204316/darpa-is-implanting-chips-in-soldiers-brains/

  2. Maddox1 Avatar
    Maddox1

    Praag,
    Ek wil net dankie se dat julle altyd die “snuffel werk” so goed doen met hierdie tipe van artikels. Die hoofstroom media sal dit nooit so aandui nie, maar hier by julle kry mens werklik ‘n gebalanseerde insig op wereld gebeure.
    Wel gedaan, en doet so voort Praag!!!!

  3. G Avatar
    G

    Die Rooinekke hardloop ook nou: “David Cameron will remain open to the possibility of Bashar al-Assad remaining President of Syria in the short term when he goes to New York to address the UN on Sunday.”

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-crisis-david-cameron-raises-prospect-of-assad-staying-in-power-to-win-russian-support-for-anti-a6668896.html

    1. Guest Avatar
      Guest

      There are about 450 think-tanks in Europe and the US currently focusing on international relations, war, peace, and economic security. Of these, about one hundred regularly analyse Russian affairs. And of these, less than ten aren’t committed antagonists of Russia, barely two percent of the intellectual materiel which can be counted as non-partisan or neutral in the infowar now underway between the NATO alliance and Russia. In this balance of forces, credibility is everything. When one sells an ‘independent non-profit economic and public policy research institution’ which is nothing of the sort, it becomes a little difficult to hold sway.

  4. ThysH Avatar
    ThysH

    Netjiese opsomming van die situasie. Dis duidelik dat Putin die Amerikaners en veral Obama weer ore aangesit het. Ek vermoed dat die Britte en die Franse vir Amerika gaan druk om Putin se pogings te steun – al is dit op verbloemde wyses – soos om op te hou om geld en wapens aan die Assad-rebelle te verskaf. G hieronder is reg.

    Ek kan nie ophou met lekkerkry oor hoe Putin hierdie Obama op sy plek sit nie!

    1. Peter Avatar
      Peter

      It comes with practice. The Russians have the ability to deny access up into the Baltic Sea through anti-ship missiles which NATO hopes to exploit.

      An Iskander missile has a range of 300km, a nuclear-capable system which could easily hit Riga.

      The last time Russia was obliged to teach strategy to the ruling powers of the Baltic Sea — in the 18th century, they were the Swedes – at the Battle of Grengam so the Swedish navy could no longer hope to bottle up the Russian fleet in the Gulf of Finland.

      For the next three hundred years, there have been two constants in Russia’s Baltic Sea strategy:

      One is that Russia must find as many alternatives as possible around, under, or over the NATO-controlled chokepoint of the Danish Straits. They have ticked that box.

      The second: eliminating Russian dependence on the non-Russian ports of the Baltic. Ticked too.

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