Trump’s threat is purely economic, employing the power of coercion and open blackmail, to keep a ‘servant’ perpetually under subjugation from attaining economic independence.
While Trump is a powerful force within the Republican Party, his polarising presence is creating substantial challenges for the party in appealing to a broad enough coalition to secure consistent, nationwide victories beyond his core base.
The reconciliation culminated in Al-Sharaa’s visit to the White House last week, the first by a Syrian president, and the announcement that Syria had become the 90th member of the US-led Global Coalition Against Daesh.
President Barak Obama has promised Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, that he will push the US Senate to ratify START – the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, this month. This would reduce the limit on strategic warheads in both The US and Russia and set up procedures to inspect each other’s arsenals to verify compliance.
In the meantime, Israel, who has yet to admit to possessing any nuclear weapons but is estimated to have secretly amassed an arsenal of up to 450 nuclear warheads, carries on enlarging that arsenal of WMD without any restriction whatsoever.
It does not take much to appreciate the total idiocy of this policy and the danger to world peace.
President Barak Obama has promised Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, that he will push the US Senate to ratify START – the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, this month. This would reduce the limit on strategic warheads in both The US and Russia and set up procedures to inspect each other’s arsenals to verify compliance.
In the meantime, Israel, who has yet to admit to possessing any nuclear weapons but is estimated to have secretly amassed an arsenal of up to 450 nuclear warheads, carries on enlarging that arsenal of WMD without any restriction whatsoever.
It does not take much to appreciate the total idiocy of this policy and the danger to world peace.