Trump’s Announcement of Syrian Troop Withdrawal Opens Doors to a New Peace of Westphalia
... effort to establish a collaborative strategic partnership with Russia and China, in a decisive break with the geopolitical doctrine of confrontation explicit in the unilateralist post-Cold War liberal order, has been at the center of the fraudulent Russiagate attacks on him, as has been evident again in the attacks on his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria. For example, James Clapper, President Obama's Director of National Intelligence, when asked on CNN whether American's are "less safe" due to Mattis' exit, said yes, adding that the sequence of events leading to the resignation is "disturbing,...