[Peace-discuss] Why it's good Clinton was defeated

[C. G. Estabrook]

...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...

...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. 

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. 

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. 

...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.

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. 

...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… 

Ful article at https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201611091047255659-trump-elected-president-geopolitical-nine-eleven/ <https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201611091047255659-trump-elected-president-geopolitical-nine-eleven/>

—CGE
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