<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">...What’s certain [in a Trump presidency] is priorities will deviate from regime change in Russia and containment of China ... The Global Times, reflecting what the Chinese leadership really thinks, got the basics right; “He did not only beat Hillary Clinton, but also the traditional elite politics’ convictions and authority [that] she stands for.” What’s left unsaid is that this is a man Beijing can do business with...<br class=""><br class="">...One cannot forget that Russia and China, in that order, remain the Pentagon’s top two “existential threats” ... Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley stressed a war, against one of those threats or both, is “almost guaranteed.” It will be up to President Trump to defuse this madness. <br class=""><br class="">Unlike Hillary, who is a true believer in the doctrinal “first-strike” nuclear policy, Trump at least promised, in one of the debates, he would not start WWIII ... there won’t be neocon/neoliberalcons around to advocate a “muscular”, “interventionist” policy, from the Russian borderlands to the South China Sea all the way to an al-Qaeda Air Force-style “no-fly zone” Syria. <br class=""><br class="">Trump does not seem inclined to build “order” in the chaos the Empire fomented – from “Syraq” to Libya, Yemen and Somalia. He has only pledged to bomb ISIS/ISIL/Daesh to smithereens. <br class=""><br class="">...Iran though will remain a flashpoint ... Yet don’t discount Trump proposing a – power-sharing — deal China simply won’t refuse, centered on respecting spheres of influence.<br class=""><br class="">The same could apply to Cold War 2.0 hysteria. It’s not far-fetched to see Trump accepting Crimea as part of the new status quo; a real Minsk II in Ukraine; and respecting Russia’s spheres of influence. In a flash, Cold War 2.0 will be gone. <br class=""><br class="">...Don’t count on Trump being seduced by an “economic NATO”. What this would all mean, in the long run, is something quite extraordinary; the progressive dissolution of the US-EU politico/economic/military bloc, in parallel to the inexorable ascension of Eurasian integration – ranging from the China-Russia strategic partnership to the interlinking with the SCO and the BRICS… <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ful article at <a href="https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201611091047255659-trump-elected-president-geopolitical-nine-eleven/" class="">https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201611091047255659-trump-elected-president-geopolitical-nine-eleven/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—CGE</div></body></html>