{"id":374100,"date":"2018-08-20T07:17:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T06:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/an-interview-with-richard-falk-2\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T07:17:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T06:17:14","slug":"an-interview-with-richard-falk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/an-interview-with-richard-falk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"an Interview With Richard Falk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><em>At least, Donald Trump\u2019s approach has so far avoided the drift toward Cold War 2 that might have happened had Hillary Clinton become president, but Trump\u2019s trade war mentality may hasten the advent of a different kind of second Cold War, with China and Europe at its epicenter, that is, if the Trump presidency is not undermined in the November elections or otherwise. We should be puzzled by the seeming passivity of the deep state in the U.S. Does it not exist after all?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Daniel Falcone: What are the reasons for Trump\u2019s insistence that NATO is just another extension of corruption and an institutional burden for the United States?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Richard Falk:\u00a0It is difficult to evaluate Trump\u2019s particular moves from coherent rational perspectives. He seems driven by narcissistic motivations of various sorts that have little to do with any overall grand strategy, and a diplomatic style that he has managed to impose on the conduct of American foreign policy that consists of provocative bluster and insults of respected foreign leaders, a continuation of the sort of vulgar irreverence that brought him unexpected success on the presidential campaign trail in 2016 and earlier celebrity in the deal-making world of real estate, gambling casinos, beauty pageants, professional boxing, and reality TV (\u201c<em>The Apprentice\u201d)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining Trump\u2019s recent confrontational focus on financial contributions by NATO members seems as simple as this at first glance, but of course, such assessments&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/08\/17\/the-future-of-nato-an-interview-with-richard-falk\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least, Donald Trump\u2019s approach has so far avoided the drift toward Cold War 2 that might have happened had Hillary Clinton become president, but Trump\u2019s trade war mentality may hasten the advent of a different kind of second Cold War, with China and Europe at its epicenter, that is, if the Trump presidency is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}