There are many ways to take a country to Breca – and all always include foreign policy. The most remarkable of these is to start a war and lose it. In the electronic version of the American magazine “Foreign Policy”, Stephen M. Walt, professor of, has just published the article “How to Ruin to Country” (as ruining a country), which describes step by step the destruction of the foreign policy of those undertaken by.
According to the author, there are five lethal acts, all already committed by the holder of. The capable employees-with autonomy of thought-and replace them with incompetent, loyal sicophants to the marrow and totally dependent on the boss’s will. The second act is possible in countries, starting from allies.
The third is to ignore the strength of others, acting to wake him up in the countries that it harm and offend. The fourth is to violate standards, abandon agreements and be unpredictable, making it clear that international rules, the same ones that the United States has helped to create, are just a hindrance to the exercise of American power in the world. The use of external tariffs as a blackmail and intimidation instrument, now also including Brazil, is an obvious example of this.
Finally, the fifth step is to undermine the foundations of that power, investing a war tank to destroy the technological resulting from the knowledge produced by its large universities, currently under the siege of the executive.
The result, foresees Professor Walt, will make the United States poorer, more weak, less respected and influential around the world. Washington scholars agree that Trump government action diverges from the different models in the past: more or more open to the world; more realistic or more committed to promoting representative democracy and its values.
There are few, however, those who risk explaining this dramatic rupture with the past. Harvard economist Dani Rodrik suggested in an article transcribed in the Valor newspaper of 12/7, that it cannot deal with a government that does not move by calculating the cost/benefit of its action, but by ideology. Yes, ideology weighs, but either can explain the disaster of –bem as the domestic.
Undoubtedly, in Trump’s actions there is always reactionary ideology that fantasizes the return to an idealized past – a white United States and protected from abroad by customs barriers and the border police. Added to this is the defense of the great campaign funders-and the business interests of the. In addition to egolatry, patent ignorance about the world, but pure insania.
The same mixture we found here, embodied in Jair Bolsonaro and in pockets, in its family version or in the sequin of politicians, unable to understand the international game and always willing to put the petty interests of the boss above even those of his electoral bases, who will say what is important to the country.
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