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Hard Power and Soft Power

sevenhelmet

sevenhelmet

Quaint ideas from yesteryear
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PhrogPhlyer said:
Is it just me, but I sure miss the Soviet Union of the '80's.
At least I understood them and their strategies, as bad as they were.
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They used psyops then too. We were just less gullible, or maybe it’s that we were more principled. Interesting to see how the far left fell for it then, and whole swaths of the right are falling for it now.

Sad times.
 
wink

wink

War Hoover NFO.
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Brett327 said:
Vance has been at the President's side in a lot of these engagements. He's there to do the heavy lifting when the President lacks the intellectual capacity to understand complex issues... which seems to be most of the time.
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Duc'-guy25 said:
Would you have supported giving the same amount of money for food aid or something directly labeled HIV/AIDS treatment/prevention?

It’s a fair point Wink.
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Actually, not a point, fair or otherwise. It is a pejorative question. My comment was based on the effectiveness of soft power spending on any given program. I am critical of investing money on the program in question because of the unlikely chance it quantifiably fluences the Indian government or people. in favor of the US. Other than that, I have no opinion on the subject of the program. I thought that was clear. In fact, I rather thought my post would have indicted I would support money for food and even HIV/AIDS medicine if USAID, or whoever, could justify the return on investment. I believe your reason for using HIV/AIDS treatments as an example, rather than, say, malaria or COVID19, was to show contempt for a knee jerk assumption that anyone critical of the expenditure was homophobic or hateful.
 
CommodoreMid

CommodoreMid

Whateva! I do what I want!
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Ventus said:
I mean it kind of pays to attempt to understand why your rival is doing things.
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Yup. And side note/public service announcement, NPS has a great powers competition distance learning certificate that I recently just started. If you don’t want to commit to the full 3 courses, part of the curriculum includes a standalone asynchronous class with a lot of good recent strategy and policy readings and lectures. The standalone class definitely doable by anyone on active duty in terms of workload.

GPC Single Course Enrollment - Department of National Security Affairs - Naval Postgraduate School

nps.edu nps.edu
 
Griz882

Griz882

Frightening children with the Griz-O-Copter!
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MIDNJAC said:
I actually don’t know a single part of that to disagree with. Please enlighten me?
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We’ll start with Carlson. Total clown that is absolutely in bed with Putin - an absolute puppet.

Trump? The case appears weaker because of how Trump works. You’ll see and hear what you want to see and hear but Trump’s history doesn’t suggest he has any deep love for Russia. He layered sanction after sanction on Russia in his last administration, all the while grinning at Putin. Since returning to office he hasn’t rescinded a single one. He clearly has sociopathic tendencies so no one is safe with him and he only listens to people until he feels he is no longer in control. To point, I wouldn’t be surprised if Elon eventually gets put on the shelf by Trump for taking too much of the limelight.

The entire Republican Party? No. A recent poll shows the majority of republicans and democrats do not favor Russia or Putin. Of course there are republicans in there who like Russia, but there is also a smaller number of democrats in there who see Russia as a friend - nothing in polling is 100%. The same poll shows more support for Ukraine than Russia and most seeing our European allies as just that.
 
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