The Allied State of Play at Sea with Kori Schake - on Midrats
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From moving grain to the world markets from the Black Sea to global trade through the Red Sea, and the People’s Republic of China’s unabashed bullying of The Philippines and the nations surrounding the South China Sea – the US Navy is not large enough to carry the burden of maintaining the international order at sea.
We have a series of alliances with most of the top-10 maritime powers on the globe, but are they being effectively harnessed toward maintaining this order?
Returning to Midrats to discuss these and related topics in a wide-ranging conversation will be Kori Schake.
Kori leads the foreign and defense policy team at the American Enterprise Institute. She is the author of Safe Passage: the Transition from British to American Hegemony, and a contributing writer at the Atlantic, War on the Rocks, and Bloomberg.
I can't seem to get the podcast to play on my Edge browser. I'll give it a listen if I can.
That said, the American Enterprise Institute is, to borrow their comment on Trump, the reason we are at the end of the "road to ruin." We are talking about the Mos Eisley cantina of bad advice here, a rogue's gallery of neocons who have blundered the last 30 years away, the "industrial policy" institute (which they are correctly against) of bad advice, short sighted elitist enrichment and culture war apathy with a perverse fixation on open borders, cheap labor and free rider gifts to everyone but the USA.
I'm sure Ms. Schake is a pleasant, erudite, and charming analyst, researcher and policy maven. I'm sure we share beliefs in a strong US economic base and a US military capable of safeguarding our vital national interests. I don't think she shares my belief that we have just Hapsburged the last 30 years away and that the lunatics are running the asylum.
Follow your site and postings with faithful interest. Had to look this person up to see her background and opinions. Upon reviewing her writings, I'll give this one a hard pass.