If you remember in December 2020 and January 2021 I called the Biden Ivy League groupies as Spoiled prep school children of wealth and family connected top American colleges but a bunch idiots who lack basic grasp of Africa or Ethiopia. I was talking about the Susan Rice, Blinken, et al ... Sure some of you might have considered me to be arrogant and too much air. No, I have bee to one of those places and I know those prepies so well. Now here is from a magazine our of the Veri Tas - Harvard itself - FP!
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/30/is ... y-failing/
Re: I Horus, A Year Ago Told You Why Biden's Foreign Policy was a Failure - Harvard Based FP Confirms My Fears
When I talked about the end of American hegemony and the reality of multipolarity, this is what I exactly meant...
"For starters, the unipolar moment is over, and we now live in a lopsided multipolar world. As international relations theorists have long understood, relations among the major powers in multipolarity are inherently more complicated, contingent, and hard to manage than relations in bipolarity or unipolarity. With more than two major powers, the interests of significant actors are less likely to line up in a consistent and predictable fashion, and the twin dangers of abandonment and entrapment loom larger. Instead of the clear “us versus them” alignments typical of bipolarity (e.g., NATO versus the Warsaw Pact), one expects looser arrangements where partners agree on some issues but not others." - FP
"For starters, the unipolar moment is over, and we now live in a lopsided multipolar world. As international relations theorists have long understood, relations among the major powers in multipolarity are inherently more complicated, contingent, and hard to manage than relations in bipolarity or unipolarity. With more than two major powers, the interests of significant actors are less likely to line up in a consistent and predictable fashion, and the twin dangers of abandonment and entrapment loom larger. Instead of the clear “us versus them” alignments typical of bipolarity (e.g., NATO versus the Warsaw Pact), one expects looser arrangements where partners agree on some issues but not others." - FP
Re: I Horus, A Year Ago Told You Why Biden's Foreign Policy was a Failure - Harvard Based FP Confirms My Fears
When I said that this was a global situation with so much opportunity for Ethiopia, this is what I meant ...
"One sees a similar dynamic with countries like Turkey or India. Although each shares a number of strategic concerns with the United States, both are also happy to buy arms from Russia and to hedge their bets in other ways. The existence of several great powers gives other states more options and increases their ability to drive harder bargains or to stand up to U.S. pressure, as both Venezuela and Iran have demonstrated. Countries that don’t want to rely on assistance from the United States or the World Bank can always explore what Beijing or Moscow might be willing to provide them instead."
"One sees a similar dynamic with countries like Turkey or India. Although each shares a number of strategic concerns with the United States, both are also happy to buy arms from Russia and to hedge their bets in other ways. The existence of several great powers gives other states more options and increases their ability to drive harder bargains or to stand up to U.S. pressure, as both Venezuela and Iran have demonstrated. Countries that don’t want to rely on assistance from the United States or the World Bank can always explore what Beijing or Moscow might be willing to provide them instead."
Re: I Horus, A Year Ago Told You Why Biden's Foreign Policy was a Failure - Harvard Based FP Confirms My Fears
Remember, I always use karambola or billiard table as a metaphor for global diplomatic struggle, you hit one ball and then all the ball move and chaRnge psition. Only idiots like TPLF and Susan think they can hit Ethiopia and then everything stays the same!! No, here in black and white what Ethiopia needs to do --- agility, agility, agility !!!!
"Which brings us to a fourth, closely related problem. Given America’s many commitments and still considerable ambitions, it is simply impossible to devise a foreign-policy strategy that is free from internal contradictions. As Robert Wright reminds us, steps taken to advance one cherished objective can make other goals harder to achieve; what one hand knits the other unravels. Getting out of Afghanistan freed up resources to balance China, but it complicated relations with other allies and undercut the administration’s human rights position. The new AUKUS deal heralds a stronger position in the Asia-Pacific, but it angered a longtime ally and could undermine nonproliferation efforts. Rallying the world’s democracies could strengthen the U.S. position at home and abroad, but it will also make it harder to cooperate with Russia and China on issues of mutual concern such as climate change. The more goals we try to achieve, the greater the danger that success in one area leads to failure somewhere else"
"Which brings us to a fourth, closely related problem. Given America’s many commitments and still considerable ambitions, it is simply impossible to devise a foreign-policy strategy that is free from internal contradictions. As Robert Wright reminds us, steps taken to advance one cherished objective can make other goals harder to achieve; what one hand knits the other unravels. Getting out of Afghanistan freed up resources to balance China, but it complicated relations with other allies and undercut the administration’s human rights position. The new AUKUS deal heralds a stronger position in the Asia-Pacific, but it angered a longtime ally and could undermine nonproliferation efforts. Rallying the world’s democracies could strengthen the U.S. position at home and abroad, but it will also make it harder to cooperate with Russia and China on issues of mutual concern such as climate change. The more goals we try to achieve, the greater the danger that success in one area leads to failure somewhere else"
Re: I Horus, A Year Ago Told You Why Biden's Foreign Policy was a Failure - Harvard Based FP Confirms My Fears
Democrats are fighting for their political survival and one may culprit is Blinken .... read this
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bidens-slide ... 39167.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bidens-slide ... 39167.html
Re: I Horus, A Year Ago Told You Why Biden's Foreign Policy was a Failure - Harvard Based FP Confirms My Fears
Horus, thank you for your insight and posting these information