{"id":7310,"date":"2017-05-11T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=7310"},"modified":"2025-03-30T16:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T19:54:03","slug":"504-donald-trumps-big-stick-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/7310","title":{"rendered":"504 – Trump’s “Big Stick” foreign policy and France surrenders to Macron | Salim Mansur & Amir Farahi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Despite the establishment media\u2019s continuing hostility to the president, including attempts to paint him as radical and unpredictable, Trump is far more traditional than were his immediate predecessors.<\/strong> That tradition, simply put, is one of acting in his own country\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n

“Speak softly and carry a big stick\u201d reflects the Roosevelt foreign policy. It was described by past US president Theodore Roosevelt as \u201cthe exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amir Farahi<\/strong> of the London Institute and Western University’s Associate Professor of Political Science Salim Mansur<\/strong> join us to share their assessment of what Trump’s early days in office have revealed \u2013 both about the president\u2019s foreign policies and about some of the major crisis\u2019 brewing around the globe today.<\/p>\n

From America\u2019s actions taken against Assad in Syria<\/strong>, to the bomb dropped in Afghanistan <\/strong>and to movements against North Korea<\/strong>, our conversation connects the dots between what most believe are isolated and unrelated conflicts in distant parts of the globe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no doubt that the Americans have an interest in wanting to protect South Korea and Japan,\u201d says Amir. \u201cDestabilization is not good for any of the states in the area, especially China, because North Korea is unpredictable. We need to take action now\u2026 or else it\u2019s only going to get worse<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c(Korea\u2019s nuclear ambitions) are all about extortion<\/strong>,\u201d adds Salim, who cites the Cuban missile crisis as another famous example of the same strategy in action. \u201cThe matter of North Korea is not limited to the Korean Peninsula. It\u2019s Iran, Pakistan, other Middle Eastern countries, and we have a great mess on our hands. The elephant in the room is the Islamists. They\u2019re not being squeezed or curtailed. In fact, they are being appeased.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

To illustrate this global trend, newly elected French president Macron <\/strong>(falsely described by the establishment media as an \u201coutsider\u201d) favors the continued \u201cIslamization\u201d of France. And North Korea\u2019s connections to Iran, Pakistan, Libya and other Islamist nations are key to that country\u2019s growing nuclear capabilities and threat.<\/p>\n

To any country established on individual rights and freedom, these developments are clear threats to the world\u2019s only true culture of peace: Western civilization and Western values, continually under attack both externally and internally by those with sinister intentions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wikipedia notes that \u201cThe idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the “big stick”, or the military, ties in heavily with the idea of Realpolitik, which implies a pursuit of political power that resembles Machiavellian ideals.\u201d<\/p>\n

No doubt, Trump will continue to be described as a political \u201cstrongman\u201d and bully by those who would paint his \u201cAmerica first\u201d policies in a negative light. So far, efforts to produce any credible evidence of such a claim have been falling far short of the mark.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on his first few months in power, Trump\u2019s decision thus far to stick to America\u2019s ‘big stick’ tradition appears to be Just Right.<\/p>\n

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