"Today, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper: 'We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,' he said.
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"Today, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper: 'We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,' he said. 'These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/1https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-5-2026-monday
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"Today, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper: 'We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,' he said. 'These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/1https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-5-2026-monday
"That vision is a profound rejection of the principles of the rules-based international order, which was designed to use power for deterrence rather than domination. It is also a profound rejection of the principles of American democracy, a system of checks and balances to channel power into a government that could deliver stability and prosperity to all the people, not just a select few."
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
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"That vision is a profound rejection of the principles of the rules-based international order, which was designed to use power for deterrence rather than domination. It is also a profound rejection of the principles of American democracy, a system of checks and balances to channel power into a government that could deliver stability and prosperity to all the people, not just a select few."
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/2"WaPo: 'The WH is weighing giving Stephen Miller a more elevated role in overseeing post-Maduro operations in Venezuela, according to one person with knowledge of the conversations.'”
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/3https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-280-1526
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"WaPo: 'The WH is weighing giving Stephen Miller a more elevated role in overseeing post-Maduro operations in Venezuela, according to one person with knowledge of the conversations.'”
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/3https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-280-1526
"Stephen Miller is Trump’s most important and influential aide because he channels and shares the president’s worldview. ...
Miller’s cold-blooded assessment that might makes right is the one immutable law of history and is now the guiding concept behind US foreign policy must now be acknowledged as the one core Trump 'doctrine' from which all other ideas, foreign and domestic flow."
~ David Rothkopf
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence
/4https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/trump-chooses-the-path-of-hitler
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"Stephen Miller is Trump’s most important and influential aide because he channels and shares the president’s worldview. ...
Miller’s cold-blooded assessment that might makes right is the one immutable law of history and is now the guiding concept behind US foreign policy must now be acknowledged as the one core Trump 'doctrine' from which all other ideas, foreign and domestic flow."
~ David Rothkopf
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence
/4https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/trump-chooses-the-path-of-hitler
"It is a concept that eschews morality and values, kicks international and domestic law to the curb and invites disaster for the U.S., our neighbors and the world.
It is the same thuggish, blood-soaked approach to the international relations that guided Hitler, Stalin and virtually all of the great monsters of the past."
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
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"It is a concept that eschews morality and values, kicks international and domestic law to the curb and invites disaster for the U.S., our neighbors and the world.
It is the same thuggish, blood-soaked approach to the international relations that guided Hitler, Stalin and virtually all of the great monsters of the past."
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/5"Trump just gave Putin and Xi permission to redraw the map ... The global order, or all of its weak points, flaws, quirks, and injustices, has kept us out of a major-power war since 1945. A shake up in this system of alliances could lead to a rejiggering of economic alliances, military alliances, and, says Brian Daitzman of The Intellectualist, World War III."
~ Sam Osterhout and Brain Daitzman
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #Putin #Xi
/6https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-just-gave-putin-and-xi-permission
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"Trump just gave Putin and Xi permission to redraw the map ... The global order, or all of its weak points, flaws, quirks, and injustices, has kept us out of a major-power war since 1945. A shake up in this system of alliances could lead to a rejiggering of economic alliances, military alliances, and, says Brian Daitzman of The Intellectualist, World War III."
~ Sam Osterhout and Brain Daitzman
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #Putin #Xi
/6https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-just-gave-putin-and-xi-permission
"Trump’s domestic and foreign policies — ranging from his attempted coup against the United States five years ago, to his incursion into Venezuela last weekend, to his current threats against Cuba, Colombia, and Greenland — undermine domestic and international law. But that’s not all.
They threaten what we mean by civilization."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/7https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-threat-to-civilization
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"Trump’s domestic and foreign policies — ranging from his attempted coup against the United States five years ago, to his incursion into Venezuela last weekend, to his current threats against Cuba, Colombia, and Greenland — undermine domestic and international law. But that’s not all.
They threaten what we mean by civilization."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/7https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-threat-to-civilization
"The moral purpose of civilized society is to prevent the stronger from attacking and exploiting the weaker. Otherwise, we’d be permanently immersed in a brutish war in which only the fittest and most powerful could survive."
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
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"It is a concept that eschews morality and values, kicks international and domestic law to the curb and invites disaster for the U.S., our neighbors and the world.
It is the same thuggish, blood-soaked approach to the international relations that guided Hitler, Stalin and virtually all of the great monsters of the past."
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/5@wdlindsy Also: It's wrong. History, both the written human one & at an evolutionary scale, is unambigious; the world is governed by collaboration. Sure, a crazy person can twist that to also mean "governed by power" - but they're crazy, so we probably shouldn't listen to them.
The "powerful" is never more than a parasite, preying on collaborative systems without which they couldn't survive, but which would survive just fine without them.
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@wdlindsy Also: It's wrong. History, both the written human one & at an evolutionary scale, is unambigious; the world is governed by collaboration. Sure, a crazy person can twist that to also mean "governed by power" - but they're crazy, so we probably shouldn't listen to them.
The "powerful" is never more than a parasite, preying on collaborative systems without which they couldn't survive, but which would survive just fine without them.
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@daliarezk @wdlindsy That as well. There's really only two kinds of dictatorships - the majority, which ended violently for the dictator and/or his family, and a much smaller number that haven't ended that way yet, among which we can now count the US.
