A few disclaimers before I get into the meat of things. First, I am not a Trump apologist; I think a Trump presidency would be uniquely catastrophic compared even to the godawful Mrs. Clinton, or to any U.
And third, I consider it quite disturbing that Russian intelligence may have hacked into the servers of a major U. You told Saakashvili to step off? The CIA would never intervene in the internal political affairs of another country, right? But the simple and inescapable fact of the matter was that Georgia initated the dispute by invading a province whose autonomy had been guaranteed by treaty β with Russia as a guarantor.
In every case, whenever the U. And when the U. They got a lot of help. They are the cumulative result of Western intervention in the region going back to the Sykes-Picot Treaty which divided the former territories of the Ottoman Empire between Britain and France and the Balfour Doctrine which officially invited the Zionist colonization of Palestine.
Wahhabism, the ultra-fundamentalist doctrine promoted by Al Qaeda and ISIS, was originally the official religion of the House of Saud, whose unification of the Arabian peninsula was actively supported by the U.
It is, in other words, the cumulative blowback from a century of Western and U. As for Russia and China, they are certainly attempting to expand as regional powers and to exert greater power over their neighbors, at the expense of American desire for a unipolar world under its own hegemony. Specifically, the regional expansionism genocide against the native population, in addition to conquest by which the United States established itself as a continent-sized nation in the first place, claimed a unilateral sphere of influence under the Monroe Doctrine, and overthrew virtually every single government in Latin America at least once, are measures Putin would be hard-pressed to match.
