Codevilla's last words on America's Asia-Pacific policy
Posted By: Judy W., 7/26/2022 7:49:14 AM
Encounter Books has just published (posthumously) Angelo Codevilla's last book, America's Rise and Fall Among Nations, which is a fierce and unvarnished criticism of U.S. foreign policy in the 20th and 21st centuries. (Snip) Washington warned against perpetual alliances with any power but understood that temporary alliances for specific circumstances may be necessary. Codevilla contends, for example, that NATO has been obsolete since the fall of the Soviet Union, and that NATO expansion has exacerbated tensions with Russia and, more important, pushed Russia into the arms of China. But one region where Codevilla counseled America's leaders to be more forward-leaning is to form an alliance with Taiwan,
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Encounter Books has just published (posthumously) Angelo Codevilla's last book, America's Rise and Fall Among Nations, which is a fierce and unvarnished criticism of U.S. foreign policy in the 20th and 21st centuries. (Snip)
Washington warned against perpetual alliances with any power but understood that temporary alliances for specific circumstances may be necessary.
Codevilla contends, for example, that NATO has been obsolete since the fall of the Soviet Union, and that NATO expansion has exacerbated tensions with Russia and, more important, pushed Russia into the arms of China.
But one region where Codevilla counseled America's leaders to be more forward-leaning is to form an alliance with Taiwan,
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Angelo Codevilla wrote his long article, The Ruling Class, in 2010. Rush Limbaugh publicized it and I think read the whole thing on his show. It had a huge influence, and we can see now how sharp was Codevilla's thinking. What he described has only gotten worse, in the process causing millions of Americans to become aware and move to the right. His death last year was a tragedy.