Trumps Iranian cul-de-sac: 'not so much strategic as political'
· 33 min · S1 E8
Episode Trumps Iranian cul-de-sac: 'not so much strategic as political'
Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective.“I want to quote from the speech itself…“The speech begins with a familiar critique. Anti-free trade, anti-mass migration…anti-welfare state, a critique of deindustrialisation in the West. And then Rubio says:“‘ Four, five centuries before the end of the Second World War, the West had been expanding its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe.“‘But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, it was contracting. The Great Western empires had entered into terminal decline. Against that backdrop, then, as now, many came to believe that the West's age of dominance had come to an end and that our future was destined to be a saint and feeble echo of our past.“‘But together, our predecessors recognized that decline was a choice, and it was a choice they refused to make. This is what we did together once before. And this is what President Trump and the United States want to do again now, together with you.”
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