The World Order Breaks Apart

[applegrove]

The World Order Breaks Apart

August 7, 2019 at 12:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 59 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/07/the-world-order-breaks-apart/

"SNIP......

Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of A World In Disarray, tweets that “disarray” may be “too restrained to capture the world’s deterioration.”

He points to the US-China trade war, the hottest July ever, Hong Kong on the edge, odds of a U.S.-Iran war, Turkish-Kurdish conflicts mounting, new India-Pakistan Kashmir crisis, Japan-South Korea confrontation and a looming Brexit.

Mike Allen: “None of those are passing events. All are long-term crises that require expertise and bandwidth that are lacking in the always short-staffed Trump administration.”

.....SNIP"

[jpak]

1. ...

[SunSeeker]

3. That picture makes my skin crawl.

[applegrove]

5. It reminds me of Moscow Mitch's smirk.

[smirkymonkey]

17. He is such an ugly little troll.

He makes my skin crawl.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Vlad has no nasty little nickname from his pal Donald

Vlad has no nasty little nickname from his pal Donald

[OMGWTF]

12. I'll bet Vlad the Poisoner has several nicknames for Trump

[keithbvadu2]

15. Puppet? Stooge? Flunky?

Puppet? Stooge? Flunky?

[pecosbob]

19. Fluffer in chief

[bdamomma]

20. He got his wish

didn't he??? you don't hear shit from him but tRump does.

[Hortensis]

2. It's destabilized, not broken apart.

If it does, none of us will need talking heads to tell us. Though, assuming our connections are working, we'll all be anxiously glued to our screens trying to find clues to what the next days and months will bring. And reassurance.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Here is something to add

to those Protests in Hong Kong and Singapore. As per our Niece's Son who was teaching in that area during the first demonstration,he said that the Government brought in the Triad Gang to beat up the Protesters. BTW,he left the area a couple days later for a job in Vietnam due to the intimations and harassment of Americans and Canadians working in China.

[applegrove]

6. Two canadians are in jail in china in retaliation for canada arresting the Huawei

vp. She lied to the american government and they want her extradited. So two completely innocent canadians have been in chinese prison for 6 months. That is some tin pot dictator stuff.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Yes they are.

The Niece's Son claims the Canadians were be hassled for the last two years and when Huawei went down,every non Chinese knew someone would be picked up and jailed.

The Young Man bailed to Vietnam the minute he got his Passport back from the Local Police Agency. He told them he was heading back to the US otherwise he would have never gotten his Passport back.

[Skidmore]

7. Haass

looks for new business opportunities.

[roamer65]

9. We sure are beginning to rhyme the 1930's.

Trade war, currency war...world war.

[erronis]

16. Maybe there is no other cycle? Cooperation, conscription, confrontation.

Maybe the idea of a million-year harmonious society is just a dream.

(I think I know the answer.)

[yaesu]

11. India and Pakistan would be my #1 concern. nt

[bdamomma]

22. both nuclear.

[Jopin Klobe]

13. "... long-term crises that require expertise ..." ...

... well, then ...

... Oopsie! ...

[gordianot]

14. Good accurate list would add American Democracy crumbling.

All of this has one root cause with our absence.

[Auggie]

18. +1

[pecosbob]

21. Reads like a bad Ludlum novel...couldn't we have gotten Le Carre to write it instead?

I so much more enjoy competent villians. It would be so much more literary for our world to end at the hands of a megalomaniac with nuclear weapons than for us to die poisoned by our own pollution and waste.