Inflection EP30: America’s Growing Confrontation with the World

The United States finds itself behind multiple and growing conflicts stretching from Latin America, across Africa and Eastern Europe, through the Middle East and Central Asia, and all the way to the Pacific.

We are watching an empire in terminal decline resort to extreme measures to delay what seems to be the inevitable.

References:

Ukraine

Angelo Giuliano – Interview of Patrick Lancaster from Donbass:
https://youtu.be/xA8or91FbwU

Australian MP Anthony Albanese on Twitter – Meeting with Stefan Romaniw
https://twitter.com/AlboMP/status/149…

BBC – Aukus: UK, US and Australia launch pact to counter China (2021):
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58564837

Atlantic Council – Russia may dodge sanctions by using Putin proxies to invade Ukraine:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs…

HRW – New Language Requirement Raises Concerns in Ukraine:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/01/19/n…

The Diplomat – China’s Effort to Silence the Sound of Uyghur:
https://thediplomat.com/2019/05/china…

Beijing 2022

Olympics Yahoo News – Eileen Gu’s Instagram comment causes fury in China:
https://sports.yahoo.com/eileen-gus-i…

Will Glasgow, The Australian – tweet on PPE restaurant service:
https://twitter.com/wmdglasgow/status…

Buzzfeed – People Are So Mad About Chinese Americans Competing For China’s Olympic Team While There Are Entire White Men On The Team Too:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/…

NBC News – Anti-Asian hate crimes increased 339 percent nationwide last year, report says:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-am…

The American Prospect – Congress Proposes $500 Million for Negative News Coverage of China:
https://prospect.org/politics/congres…

Climate Home News – Cooling towers, fake snow: What the Beijing Winter Olympics says about climate change:
https://www.climatechangenews.com/202…

Martin Luther King, Jr. Beyond Vietnam — A Time to Break Silence:
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/spee…