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Americas beat: Pressure Builds on Maduro
The deployment of “the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group” to the southern Caribbean reveals that the United States has “changed its deterrence and diplomacy” as effectively its basic “approach to narco-dictators” in Latin America, notes Arturo McFields at The Hill. The US Navy’s most superior plane provider “is not just a powerful tool of war; it’s the full toolbox,” and can “support the president’s directive to dismantle transnational criminal organizations.” While “dictators like Maduro aren’t going to go away just by destroying a couple of boats,” the Venezuelan strongman has flaunted “threats and misbehavior” however “his options seem to be running out.”
Conservative: Peace Through Energy Dominance
Not solely does “the maintenance of American power” require “energy security,” it additionally “requires energy dominance,” argues Clifford D. May on the Washington Times. US energy dominance — past fossil fuels manufacturing — contains controlling “the critical minerals used in military and commercial applications, from fighter jets to cellphones.” China, which controls “about 70% of the mining of rare earths” and “up to 90% of the processing,” just lately “imposed export restrictions on products” containing these minerals. “America is in an energy arms race” and might’t afford to come back in second to China. “Energy dominance is about prosperity at home and peace abroad,” as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has said. Unlike previous administrations, cheers May, Team Trump is developing “these essential instruments of American national power.”
Urbanist: Rise of New Economic Centers
“For decades, as the American economy tilted toward white-collar work, big urban counties thrived” and huge cities like New York “boomed on the back of fast-growing service industries,” explains City Journal’s Steven Malanga. But post-pandemic, “freed by remote work, many workers and their families left big cities” for smaller communities. “States once plagued by brain drain are now luring educated professionals from elsewhere.” Remote work and “reindustrialization” in “Republican-led states” is “giving rise to new economic and political power centers.” “Rising social disorder,” plus “extended school closures” additionally triggered the “dramatic shift in migration patterns.” Since the pandemic, rural areas have grown because of “lower crime, better schools” and “more natural amenities.” Without reform, “big cities won’t regain their populations.”
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Media watch: The Left Turns on KJP
“Sneering mockery” and “blistering criticism” of former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre “from the left and center left” is a “little too convenient,” observes National Review’s Jim Geraghty since in those self same circles it was long “considered rude, and perhaps even racist or sexist” to note that she was a “thoroughly ineffective communicator.” But now that she’s “on her book tour and defending her and Joe Biden’s record,” her previous allies savage her as a “walking disaster area.” Why is it all of a sudden “safe to do so”? Her “idiocy was conveniently discovered” by reporters as quickly as she had no entry to offer. And by nonetheless insisting “Biden could have served another four years,” she’s embarrassing Democrats by repeating claims they now need “memory-holed.”
Democrat: Find Common Ground To Beat China
“If we want to win the competition with China, we need to think well beyond the next election and even the next decade,” warns Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (NH) at The Wall Street Journal. We’ll “need to rebuild a durable bipartisan consensus over how to approach the world’s most consequential relationship.” Alas, “as traditions of bipartisanship have eroded, especially in foreign policy, our global position has weakened. Adversaries have taken note.” The new consensus should acknowledge “neither a go-it-alone strategy nor a policy of accommodation has proved effective” in coping with China, and deal with financial and diplomatic in addition to navy shortfalls. Finding common ground won’t be straightforward, however “getting this relationship right matters,” as it is going to “define America’s place in the world for the rest of the century.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
