4 finalists for Trump administration Secretary Of State (aka foreign minster). These are probably Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Bob Corker and David Petraeus. Which of these republicans gets the job must surely depend on:
1. Who knows their place.
2. Who will betray their earlier statements, and pursue the US elites’ imperialist objectives in partnership with the Putin and Xi Jinping regimes. Strange as this sounds, the goal of superpower conflict has always been to use this struggle to gain control over tame dictators in suzerain states, rather than to defeat your rival (unless public opinion stirs from apathy to intervene). Now US has given up on even a patchy commitment to democracy promotion, and Russia and China have similarly given up on an equally patchy commitment to communism, so the efficient path is to carve up the world and use economic or military muscle to undermine independent leadership in weaker states.
3. Who gives the appearance of gravitas, to continue the fiction that the Trump administration will be normal, and so delay international reaction against it.
4. Who has sufficient acumen to advance this new US foreign policy agenda.
Who wins, makes no bloody difference.
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SecDef Mattis may be more important than SoS.
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Thanks for the video. The interview was in 2013. Mattis would find it harder now to argue against the need to deal with Syrian and Russian airstrikes. His argument for US involvement rested on being able to ensure a reasonable political outcome. His main concern seem to be Iran’s geopolitical power. Cannot imagine any help for Syrian Opposition from Mattis.
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