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The US can’t deal with China while it’s mired in the Middle East
Posted By Brahma Chellaney on January 24, 2020 @ 14:30
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[1] declared: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-state-union-address-2/
[2] source: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MTTEXIN1&f=M
[3] military campaigns: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/01/18/commentary/world-commentary/obama-war-peace/
[4] hailed: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/world/middleeast/12diplomacy.html
[5] refusing: https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/08/obama-administration-wont-call-egypts-coup-a-coup/
[6] claiming: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/live-updates/trump-white-house/live-fact-checking-and-analysis-of-trumps-2019-state-of-the-union-address/the-u-s-has-not-spent-more-than-7-trillion-in-the-middle-east/?arc404=true
[7] $6.4 trillion: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2019/US%20Budgetary%20Costs%20of%20Wars%20November%202019.pdf
[8] said: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/04/03/trump_it_is_time_to_get_out_of_syria_i_want_to_bring_our_troops_home.html
[9] subsequently replaced: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amid-trade-war-trump-drops-pretense-of-friendship-with-chinas-xi-jinping-calls-him-an-enemy/2019/08/23/2063e80e-c5bb-11e9-b5e4-54aa56d5b7ce_story.html
[10] strategy: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Free-and-Open-Indo-Pacific-4Nov2019.pdf
[11] stretching: https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/1535808/pacific-command-change-highlights-growing-importance-of-indian-ocean-area/
[12] described: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/world/middleeast/pompeo-trump.html
[13] titled: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/opinion/to-stop-irans-bomb-bomb-iran.html
[14] additional troops: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-01-06/trump-iran-war-powers
[15] aircraft-carrier strike group: https://apnews.com/713dce1fbe51478abc393f3676160eb0
[16] import: https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/iran-oil-china-steven-mnuchin?fbclid=IwAR2kr-Krt9-xJ2VCr0ehMQQzN-M3zg1mUC7p_Bcesc3ADgZyRu0N-3Ey_Pw
[17] invest: https://www.petroleum-economist.com/articles/politics-economics/middle-east/2019/china-and-iran-flesh-out-strategic-partnership
[18] worst humanitarian crisis: https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/02/1032811
[19] order troops: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/world/middleeast/us-troops-syria-trump.html
[20] Faustian bargain with the Afghan Taliban: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/trumps-gift-to-the-taliban/
[21] military mission: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/475924-top-adviser-to-syrias-president-warns-of-operations-against-us-troops-guarding
[22] endorse: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/world/middleeast/trump-libya-khalifa-hifter.html
[23] lose credibility: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/americas-feeble-indo-pacific-strategy/