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Proposals for “economic NATO” & all sorts of supply chain and energy transitions have to face domestic #doorstep realities that @JLPartnersPolls did for #AFF22 (@FutureAtlantic) that such proposals are harder to move when majorities in both 🇬🇧 & 🇺🇸 feel financial insecurities 1/
both at the personal level (52% in 🇬🇧 & 66% in 🇺🇸) but also at the country-national level. This suggests major new initiatives for regionalization will face political headwinds. 2/
Tying this to the ongoing discussion between @Judah_Grunstein @PatPorter76 & @EmmaMAshford about a U.S. global role and its link to the dollar, #AFF22 (@FutureAtlantic) convos must connect these expansive plans to domestic fault lines & skepticism about the #doorstep benefits. 3/
UK ambassador Dame Karen Pierce, at #AFF22 (@FutureAtlantic): U.S.-UK tech partnership in 21st century could be just as significant as military cooperation was in 20th century. 1/
And PM Liz Truss’s message to #AFF sounds themes @ashjain50 has stated: economic partnership of like-minded nations to advance an agenda of liberty. In other words the #DTEP (democratic trade and economic partnership). 2/
Sets the agenda for what they are terming #reglobalization … because of impacts if #fracturedglobalization - rethinking institutional arrangements and supply chains, and necessary items for securing this. 3/
This is a critical #doorstep operation--with implications for the U.S. & other countries as well. The #doorstep bargain in Russia was for citizens to passively acquiesce to the government's policies in return for largely being left alone and guaranteed a middle class lifestyle.1/
Putin is upending that bargain. Russians already dealing with sanctions pressure now face (if they are reservists) the prospect of going to Ukraine. Does this lead to more cracks in popular passivity? 2/
Now to the U.S. implications. For years, the U.S. bargain was to find ways to minimize the #doorstep impact from interventions around the world. Use of drones, the volunteer force, etc. When foreign policy starts to affect domestic issues, though ... 3/
Reading through the comments on @radiofreetom's tweet, with a number of very good questions raised, thought, since I did not see a longer thread, to give my take. 1/
In 1990, in order to contest the Russian elections, a variety of liberal and anti-communist forces coalesced around the "Democratic Russia" movement. Candidates running under this banner swept most of the competitive seats for the Russian Congress of People's Deputies. 2/
"Democratic Russia" (DR) was the main base of political support for Boris Yeltsin in his fight with Gorbachev and the Soviet system. It was a national, grass-roots movement. Its broad-based agenda was to create a democratic system & to create conditions for a market economy. 3/
Always great to talk with @ashjain50 & to discuss the work of the @AtlanticCouncil's Shaping a New Democratic World Order. In particular, focusing on steps that can be taken to enhance U.S. global leadership @ rebuild a robust community of democracies across ... 1/
both the Pacific & the Atlantic, but also will generate concrete #doorstep benefits. He is a proponent of closer cooperation among democratic allies to facilitate efforts to harnessing new technologies so that the democratic world prevails in the race for advanced technology. 2/
(In this, he echoes points made by @nilschmid in a recent issue of @FPRI_Orbis). 3/ fpri.org/article/2021/1…
Far be it from me to dispute @RadioFreeTom, but a quibble. Russian casualties and losses reveal not only incompetence, poor logistics and lack of motivation, but the realities of Ukraine's defense preparations. U.S./NATO in Afghanistan is an apples/oranges comparison. 1/
The Taliban never had the ability to contest Afghan airspace, meaning not only U.S./NATO control of the skies but also ability to airlift wounded and keep casualties low. Taliban had no air defense systems, planes, tanks, armored vehicles, patrol boats. 2/
The Taliban had the tools of an insurgency: mortars and short-range rockets, IEDs, truck and motorcycle attacks, suicide bombers. Plus no major security alliance able to keep up a continuous resupply effort of equipment. They went after "soft" targets. 3/
I have my students watch @micheleflournoy's 2019 Drell lecture & wrestle with @josef_joffe's hub and spokes concept for the current international order. Watching the response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, points both make have real salience. 1/
Despite all the hype about China's rise and multipolarity, the U.S. still sits at the central node of the global economy & when united with key partners in Europe & Asia, can "excommunicate" even a major country from that system. Moscow gambled on its indispensability ... 2/
to the world economy to shield itself, a gamble that so far has not paid off. China's willingness to shield Russia has also been far more hesitant that Russia expected (one of my "Vladimir's Delusions"). 3/
What will be the #doorstep reactions in the U.S. and around the world as the first impacts of major sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine begin to impact markets. Will public support for taking strong measures against Moscow for its invasion be sustained? 1/
What are traders and analysts noting today? 2/
First reactions ... 3/
As we exit 2021, how has the #doorstep figured in discussions of U.S. foreign policy? And has the Biden/Harris administration laid the foundations for a new narrative for U.S. global engagement? Our last podcast with @MoElleithee starts the discussion. 1/ carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multime…
Colin Dueck raised concerns about the "say/do" gap--that rhetoric would outpace actual action. We've had a number of statements: foreign policy for the middle class, America is back, build back better ... how is that translating? 2/
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@MoElleithee The new administration came in with a full agenda. @ashjain50 noted both the work needed to rebuild alliances and partnerships and to ground America's position in the world at the head of a democratic coalition. 3/ carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multime…
