Show Notes
Tena Koutou Katoa welcome to a new series of A View from Afar. For this, the sixth series of A View from Afar, political scientist and former Pentagon analyst Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning deep-dive into geopolitical issues and trends to unpick relevancy from a world experiencing rapid and significant change.
And, in this episode, the topic will be: How to Define A Way Forward When the World is in Chaos. Since the re-election of the US President Donald Trump, Paul has been doing a lot of work… a lot of reading… and a huge amount of thinking. Today we hear from Paul about:
The US Trump Administration’s “Authoritarianism at home, Imperialism abroad” currency. How to deconstruct the entire “spheres of Influence” nonsense. About United States fears of the rise of the Global South in a poly-centric world. And Paul and I will lean-forward and consider; what to expect in the medium and longterm.
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OK, let us know what you think about this discussion. Let the debate begin! ******* SIGNIFICANT QUOTE PAUL G. BUCHANAN: “The sad fact, though, is that the US is the center of our earthly geopolitical universe, serving as the first rock to drop in the global pond whose ripple effects are extensive, negative, and washing up in unexpected and unforeseen ways. That rock, in fact, is a black hole sucking the remnants of the rule based order into oblivion, or if not oblivion, irrelevance in a new age of power politics (might makes right, etc.). It is a dark force from which things as they exist cannot return.”
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