Volume 13 Moral Controversy Chapter 5 The Age of Change
In March, the Syrian-Israeli Armistice Agreement and the "Shierarchy War Armistice Association" and the "Shierarchy War Armistice Association flattered less than a month. Pei Chengyi visited six Arab countries including Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan and Libya as the Minister of Defense of the Republic, and discussed with the defense ministers of the six countries in Damascus, Baghdad, Amman, Cairo, Khartoum and Tripoli in Damascus, Baghdad, Amman, Cairo, Khartoum and Tripoli in the establishment of the "Military Trust and Mutual Assistance Committee of the Arab League and the Republic", which is the predecessor of the "China-Arab Military Friendship and Cooperation Organization".
Two other things happened before Pei Chengyi's six Arab countries.
It was when the US Senate was deliberating on two armistice agreements. Because a group of Republican senators turned against each other and voted against them in the vote, Landers had to exercise the president's special powers, demanding that the Senate and House of Representatives reconsider the two armistice agreements and let Mrs. Lobring go to lobby for several senior Democratic senators. Finally, with the help of the Democratic Party, the two armistice agreements were supported by the US Congress and officially took effect.
Second, the negotiations between the Republic and Iran on natural gas and oil transit costs were shelved indefinitely, resulting in the "Gulf Republic oil and gas integrated transportation pipeline project" from the Port of Basra to Guadatang Port was forced to stop work. The Republic is seeking cooperation with Kuwait, that is, to invest in the construction of an oil and gas transportation pipeline from Basra, Iraq to Bubiyanwu, Kuwait, and spend a huge amount of money to build a port in Sebiyerburg specifically for supertankers and liquefied natural gas transport ships. The relationship between the Republic and Iran has also cooled down sharply. The new address of this site has been changed to: Sishanao and 8 Si. Please log in to read
It can be said that neither of these things surprised the outside world.
Because the US government completed the armistice negotiations with the Republic under the pressure of the midterm election, and it was not Landes but Mrs. Lobring, the leading role was not the one who played a leading role, but was closely related to national interests by hawks, but actually made concessions on the interests of arms dealers, energy dealers and financiers, which was completely expected by the outside world, and was also considered the "Allorios' heel" of the two armistice agreements. As early as the end of the year, before the armistice negotiations ended, many American news media believed that because the federal government made concessions on many issues that should not be concessions, these two armistice agreements are unlikely to be supported by the majority of parliamentarians. According to US laws, any foreign-related agreements, treaties, etc. need to obtain the support of Congress and are considered to be officially effective.
It is by no means the Republican hawks who really play a positive role, but the Democratic dovish discussions
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To put it into consideration, Landers, who has always been the symbol of the neoliberal Republican Party, was a Democratic president when he signed two armistice agreements.
That's right, when the two armistice agreements were submitted to the House of Representatives twice, nearly one-third of Democratic lawmakers voted in favor, the two armistice agreements were not obstructed in the House of Representatives and were both submitted to the Senate very smoothly.
Compared with the House of Representatives, the situation in the Senate is more complicated or more rigid.
According to US law, each state has a senator's term of office of 6 years and can be re-elected indefinitely. In this way, senators have almost become a "lifelong profession". For example, Edward Kennedy, the younger brother of former US President Robert Kenny, was elected as a federal senator in Massachusetts for eight consecutive times. When he died, he worked as a senator. This nearly lifelong situation not only determines the senator's political life in the United States.
The important position in the city also determines that the Senate is a relatively closed and relatively stable political institution. On the bright side, the continuity and stability of the Senate ensure the continuity and stability of the United States in major policies. After all, any policy must pass the Senate level. From the bad side, the closed and rigid Senate is definitely the base of interest groups and the base of traditional conservative forces will inevitably have a negative impact on the development and progress of American society.
It must be admitted that the U.S. federal government has indeed abandoned some national benefits during the armistice negotiations
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Although American politicians learned to look at problems in a dialectical way before the New Year, that is, after the US military suffered a defeat on the battlefield in Iran, that is, if they want to gain, they have to give up. The United States cannot take advantage of it and behave well. However, in the eyes of the top leaders of American society, especially those pampered social elites, the United States is still the most powerful, most dynamic and most promising country in the world. The United States should not consider problems like second-rate countries, nor should it deal with problems like second-rate countries, that is, to do its best to defend the national interests of the United States.
I have to say that transformation is a very painful thing, and changing ideas is even more painful.
In the early 1990s, the United States had similar experiences, but the conditions at that time were very beneficial to the United States.
With the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the powerful red empire suddenly collapsed, and the United States became the only superpower in the world overnight. The American elites who still held the Cold War thoughts did not know where to go. As a result, President Bush, who had participated in World War II, who was carrying the power of the Gulf War, was defeated by the young boy from Arkansas, who was born after World War II. Even during Clinton's administration,
The US authorities still have not been able to adapt to the days without opponents. It was not until the beginning of the century that with the son of Bush, the son of Bush, who had been involved in the anti-hot war, used the extreme Ruan Dow to entangle the United States in the anti-hot war. The U.S. elites understood the meaning of "the high place is not as cold as cold". This transformation. It took about 10 years for American society to fully adapt. And after Sun Nian, we won a new era.
The disastrous defeat of the Iran War and the Peninsula War has put the United States in a second transformation.
If the United States has to do in the ten thousand years before the New Year, what it is to do is how to adapt and how to take advantage of the international situation where there is only one superpower, then after that, the United States has to adapt to another international situation, and another superpower emerges, and this superpower does not intend to compete with the United States using conventional means.
Beauty is not afraid of your opponent, but is afraid of your disobedient opponent.
In a sense, the Red Empire of the past was not a real opponent. According to some confidential information gradually released after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, during the entire Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, even in the first half of the 2nd era, that is, the Soviet Union in the Bonezhrev era was not an opponent of the United States in all other fields except heavy industry. Especially in some areas related to the long-term development of society, the Soviet Union lags behind the United States in the old years, and under the policy of military military power, it was only a matter of time before the fall of the Soviet Union.
Since winning the throne of the world's number one power after World War I, the first real opponent the United States encountered was the Republic. Even in the old year, the total economic output of the Republic was only about one-third of that of the United States, and the per capita income level was less than one-tenth of that of the United States, because it mastered several key technologies; especially the room temperature superconducting technology that promoted the power revolution. Therefore, the Republic already has the capital to challenge the United States, and before challenging the United States, it only needs to accumulate strength. The new address of this site has been changed to: Sishanao plus 8 acres of attention. Please log in to read
It can be seen from the series of actions of the United States after the old year that the Republic poses a fatal threat to the United States.
Suddenly losing the opponent made the United States very uncomfortable. Suddenly meeting the opponent made the United States even more uncomfortable.
This discomfort will naturally have an impact on US policies and a negative impact.
About the old year after the old year, the United States' policy toward China was mainly "blocked", that is, blocking the republic in international strategic direction and encircling the republic in geopolitical direction. There are many specific measures, such as insisting on an arms embargo on China and strictly prohibiting all high-tech technologies from flowing into the republic; for example, in the surrounding areas of Zhenghe Country, a strategic encirclement controlled by the United States was established from Afghanistan in Central Asia to the Korean Peninsula in the Western Pacific.
Before the Chinese New Year, these measures of the United States had good results. Take the technology blockade as an example. Although the United States has always restricted the export of cutting-edge technology to the Republic, whenever the Republic is about to make a breakthrough in a certain scientific research field, the United States will relax restrictions, or even lift restrictions, and use "technical dumping" to limit the Republic's independent research and development, so that the Republic will never be able to make breakthroughs in key scientific and technological fields.
After the force occupied the year, these mistakes in the United States were useless. Take the technology blockade as an example. Although the United States has raised its technical barriers several times in several years, at the most extreme, even some industrial production technologies that are about to be eliminated were prohibited from being sold to the Republic. For example, in 2-7 years, the US Congress rejected the cooperation agreement to open a 0-concave nano semiconductor production line in the Republic.
However, this extreme blockade has given the Republic's national enterprises greater room for development, and has forced the Republic's government to invest more efforts and resources in protecting intellectual property rights, basic scientific research, technological development, etc., thus prompting the Republic's overall scientific and technological level to rapidly improve. "After the Chinese New Year, in addition to surpassing the United States in areas related to the power revolution, the Republic also approached the United States in other fields, and the gap in other fields has also shortened to around the year. In the words of a Democratic senator who has always advocated cooperation with the Republic rather than confrontation with the Republic, the Republic can be underestimated, but the vitality of the Chinese nation must not be underestimated. As the Chinese nation that has lived on the earth for thousands of years, what it does not lack is its resilience in difficulties and its spirit of upward struggle in adversity.
The disastrous defeat of the Peninsula War made American social elites realize the problem, and the policy toward China also changed from "blocking" to "provoking and killing". In the popular words at the time, what the United States had to do was to drive the Republic to continue to accelerate and eventually let the Republic fall on the track. What happened in the past year was basically the result of the United States' "provoking and killing" policy. Whether it was the Japanese War or the Indian War, the United States' attitude was mostly not to participate. Obviously, the United States' "provoking and killing. The policy of "provoking and killing" still failed to achieve good enough results, at least it failed to make the "Republic" tank overturn before slowing down, but instead caused the United States to lose two carefully supported allies.
It can be said that from the Fourth India-Pakistan War in the Old Year to the Indian War in the Shu Year, the series of disastrous defeats the United States suffered when encircling the Republic forced the American social elite to reflect. As mentioned earlier, the US Senate is a relatively closed institution, and senators can be re-elected indefinitely, so many senators have experienced the disastrous defeats the United States suffered during the Old Year to previous years.
The thug senator entered the standoff before the thunder of the year, and 10,000 of them had never left. In other words, Wei's senator experienced everything between what the Americans called "lost twenty years."
Facing two armistice agreements equivalent to betraying Türkiye and Israel, the attitude of these senators can be imagined.
Of course, there are also many "emerging aristocrats" in the US Senate. In fact, most senators are a new generation of American social elites with more open minds. Just as many people cannot keep up with the transformation of American society. In the era of great changes, there will naturally be some people who can gain benefits from social transformation.
Ironically, the Republican Party, which boasts of "neoliberalism," is more conservative.
Of course, "neo-Zhiranism" is actually a "conservatism" with a different name. Among the two major political parties in the United States, the Republican Party's political tendency has always been more conservative, but the Democratic Party is more open-minded.
That's exactly what happened. When the two armistice agreements encountered obstacles, Mrs. Lobring had to ask Democratic lawmakers for help.
At this time, the choice made by the Democratic senators just reflected the impact of the transformation of American society. In a sense, between the Likou and Lili Year, the Democratic Party's ruling power year only lost two elections. The key is that the Democratic Party's relatively open political tendency is better able to adapt to the era of great change and protect the interests of the United States. It can be said that if Westwood and Brandino had not stabilized the US economy during the Great Depression and adopted the correct economic development policy after the Great Depression, allowing the US economy to enter the highway lane before the New Year, it would have been difficult for the Republican Party to defeat the Democratic Party in the previous year's election.
Of course, losing the presidential throne does not mean losing the entire political influence.
Because American society has serious differences on the issue of "expansion and "contraction", the Democratic Party did not lose a crushing defeat in the general election of the Year of the Oral Year, and more than 80% of the traditional election still supported the Democratic Party. Even in the Likou Year, the Democratic Party lost in the mid-term election, and its influence was very huge. If we consider the serious differences within the Republican Party, then Democratic lawmakers play an important role in both houses of the US Congress.
The Republican president's request for help from Democratic lawmakers is perhaps the biggest irony of the American political system.
To put it in comments, when Mrs. Lobring made a request to the Democratic senator, the political situation in the United States entered a new era.
It can be said that it was from this time that the basic political form of the two parties taking turns to rule began.
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Although from a time perspective, even after the Holland, it is still impossible for a thug to appear. A president like Theodore Roosevelt who did not rely on the support of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party to enter the White House, if this trend continues, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party will definitely reshuffle and form two more extreme parties in basic policies. During this period, no one can guarantee that there will be no third party, and that it is the most likely party to lead the United States through difficulties.
As for when this political party will be born, I'm afraid few people can say it correctly.
In any case, the two armistice agreements related to the international reputation of the United States were finally approved by the U.S. Congress at the end of February 2012. Because before that, the supreme authority of the Republic and other countries had approved two armistice agreements, the Syrian-Israeli Armistice Agreement and the Turkish War Armistice Agreement officially came into effect on February 2012, and in accordance with the previous agreement, they were jointly submitted to the United Nations by the Republic and the United States on March. That is to say, these are not two ordinary armistice agreements, but an armistice agreement recognized and supported by the international community. Although the United Nations has long been dead in name only.
Not to mention the two superpowers, even many small countries do not take the United Nations seriously, and not even many people are interested in the Secretary-General of the United Nations. However, before the Republic and the United States break up, most countries have to abide by the rules of the game of the international community and respect the United Nations' voice in international affairs. With the submission of the two armistice agreements to the United Nations, if one side violates the armistice agreement, it will not only be an enemy of the other side, but an enemy of the whole world. Of course, how many countries will stand up to punish countries that violate the rules of the game is probably an unknown number.
Pei Chengyi visited six Arab countries in March, which clearly promoted the influence of the Republic.
In fact, before him, the US Secretary of Defense had visited Israel and Turkey, and when he returned home, he visited Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Kata and the UAE. Like Pei Chengyi's mission, what the US Secretary of Defense had to do was to expand the influence of the United States.
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Although the struggle between the Republic and the United States in the Middle East has not stopped due to the two armistice agreements and has even become increasingly fierce, relatively speaking, some of the conflicts between the Republic and Iran after two years of disposal have been more valued by Western news media.
From a long-term perspective, the relationship between the Republic and Iran has a greater impact on the Middle East.
Chapter completed!