John Batchelor Aug 20 HRC Grand Strategy mp3 torrent

HRC Grand Strategy 2017. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affair
“…But the prospect of a Clinton election victory has reverberations in US policies toward Europe and the European Union, the UK, Asia, and the Middle East, where a continuation of the Obama/Clinton policies of the past eight years would be assumed to continue. This would imply:

1. Continued pressure on, and isolation of, Israel;

2. Continued economic sanctions against Russia, and pressures on the European Union to support those sanctions;

3. Continued US isolation from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and a continued US reliance on Qatar as the major US “instrument” for conducting indirect warfare in the region;

4. Continued support for Turkey, even in the face of short-term mutual disagreements; certainly a determined effort by a Clinton White House to bolster NATO in its present form, with Turkey as a cornerstone component of the Alliance, regardless of whether or not Turkey acts as a reliable partner. That would also imply a refusal to help resolve the issue of the northern Cyprus occupation by Turkey;

5. Continued support for Muslim Brotherhood groups and Brotherhood-linked governments given that this was largely a priority of Pres. Barack Obama, and given Mrs Clinton’s deep ties to, and reliance on, Muslim Brotherhood-linked advisors;

6. Continued commitment to a program to use proxy jihadist fighters to remove Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad from office;

7. Continued degradation of the relative position of the Defense Dept. within the US strategic posture, implying ongoing stress on “political correctness” within the Defense establishment, and a constraint on any radical new thinking to overturn the decline of efficacy of US military doctrine to meet the new era;

8. A continuing degradation in the relative military position of the US vis-à-vis the People’s Republic of China (PRC) would be assumed to continue, based on the performance of both powers over the past eight years, and based on Hillary Clinton’s historical policy of curtailing professional leadership of the US Dept. of Defense and placing the State Dept. in a position of strategic policy ascendancy; and, among other things,

Continued polarization of the US electorate, leading to increasing social disorder and a continuation of economic trends of the past eight years…”

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