#Biden calls #America’s democratic values the “grounding wire of our global power” & its #alliances “our greatest asset.” …#Trump, called for withdrawing American forces in #Europe & #Asia & has promised… to cut loose even our closest #allies if they don’t do as he tells them. …Trump sees all countries as unreliable, the relations between them #transactional. That sentiment has spread throughout a #GOP that once championed America’s values abroad…
During his 40 months in office, events have tested #Biden’s vision of American world leadership. #Alliances haven’t been enough to win a new European #war in #Ukraine. US #power & leverage haven’t prevented a #humanitarian catastrophe in the #MiddleEast, marked by alleged #WarCrimes. #Putin is trying to assemble an axis of #autocrats from #Tehran to #Beijing. In #China, the US faces an adversary potentially its equal in economic & military power intent on tearing down the American #GlobalOrder.
#Biden, who is the most experienced #ForeignPolicy President in a generation, believes that role is in #America’s interest. “When we strengthen our #alliances, we amplify our #power as well as our ability to disrupt #threats before they can reach our shores,” he said…. To judge the merit of Biden’s plan to sustain American world leadership, voters can look to his record: what he has accomplished, where he has fallen short, & how he intends to build on his work in a 2nd term.
…#Biden responds to a question about America’s relationship w/ #SaudiArabia by saying that the #US has 2 kinds of #alliances: “There are #values-based, & there are #practical-based.”
…One of his first moves in office was to cut off certain #arms supplies over the kingdom’s #war in #Yemen, which has #displaced 4.5M people & #killed 377k, including 11k children…. Soon after, the de facto Saudi ruler… #MBS, met w/ #China’s FM & proposed greater cooperation on #nuclear energy & #security….
…#Trump’s affinity for authoritarians represents a defining issue for the #UnitedStates as the #2024election approaches. Several of his own fmr advisers believe, in a 2nd term, he would bring a fundamental shift in the US’ vision of itself & its role in the #world, including potentially pulling the US out of #NATO & reducing the US’ commitment to other defense #alliances.
“NATO would be in real jeopardy,” Bolton told me. “I think he would try to get out.”
#MitchMcConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his #power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the #RepublicanParty for ~2 decades, will step down from that position in Nov.
McConnell, who turned 82 last week, was set to announce his decision Wed in the well of the Senate….
"One of life's most underappreciated talents is to know when it's time to move on to life's next chapter," he said in prepared remarks obtained by The AP. "So I stand before you today...to say that this will be my last term as #Republican leader of the #Senate."
His decision punctuates a powerful #ideological transition underway in the #RepublicanParty, from #RonaldReagan's brand of traditional #conservatism & strong international #alliances, to the fiery, often #isolationist#populism of Trump.
2ème partie de l'#entretien avec la merveilleuse Sandra Guimarães
Elle parle notamment de son expérience #militante pour construire des #alliances fructueuses avec des collectifs initialement non véganes, pour faire advenir les conditions matérielles d'un monde #antispeciste