"America First" und das Ende des "Pax Americana", Trump und die Folgen für Europa und die Welt Einstellungen

[Nite]

Nachdem es im anderen Topic eher um den Wahlkampf und innenpolitische und soziologische Folgen für die USA geht soll es hier um Veränderungen im globalen Gefüge, insbesondere im Hinblick auf Europa gehen.

WEF 2017
«Die Welt hat keine Führung mehr»

NZZ AM SONNTAG von Alain Zucker, Davos 26.1.2017, 13:22 Uhr

Ian Bremmer, Experte für Geopolitik, hält es erstmals seit dem Kollaps der Sowjetunion für denkbar, dass es zu einem Krieg zwischen grösseren Mächten kommt.

NZZ am Sonntag: Donald Trump ist seit Freitag neuer Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten. Die Wirtschaftselite in Davos ist der Meinung, es komme schon gut. Sehen Sie das auch so?

Ian Bremmer: Ich frage mich, ob die Leute dies wirklich finden oder einfach nur sagen, weil – eine andere Wahl bleibt ja nicht. Doch Fakt ist: Trump ist der unberechenbarste und am wenigsten qualifizierte US-Präsident, den wir je hatten, was die Weltpolitik betrifft. Und dies in einer Zeit, in der das Verhältnis Amerikas zu seinen Verbündeten bereits in einem schlechten Zustand ist.

War die bisherige Weltordnung schon am ­Auseinanderfallen, bevor Trump Präsident wurde?

Der Weg war vorgespurt. Und nun kommt einer, der für das Gegenteil dessen steht, was die amerikanische Aussenpolitik bisher kennzeichnete. Er will weder Freihandel vorantreiben noch den globalen Sheriff spielen. Die Pax Americana ist seit Freitag vorbei – die Welt hat keine Führung mehr.

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NZZ

Passend dazu, auch wenn schon mindestens einmal hier im Forum verlinkt:
Amerika, du wirst uns fehlen [Debattenbeitrag auf SpOn]

[Schwabo Elite]

The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned

By Josh Rogin January 26 at 11:02 AM

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-ro...m=.f88393b9d92b

US State Department's entire senior management team quits as Secretary Rex Tillerson takes up post

The move was part of an exit of officials who do not want to work under Donald Trump

Andrew Buncombe, New York

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/am...t-a7547916.html

Das State Department ist ein Scherbenhaufen.

[Dave76]

The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned

By Josh Rogin January 26 at 11:02 AM

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-ro...m=.f88393b9d92b

US State Department's entire senior management team quits as Secretary Rex Tillerson takes up post

The move was part of an exit of officials who do not want to work under Donald Trump

Andrew Buncombe, New York

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/am...t-a7547916.html

Das State Department ist ein Scherbenhaufen.

Bei abc liest sich das gleich ganz anders:

A handful of senior management staff at the State Department have resigned this week, department officials said today -- representing an unusually large exodus for a change of administrations on C Street.

Among six politically appointed officials at the State Department to hand in their resignations was the Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy, who has worked at the department for over nine years and was first appointed to the job by President George W. Bush, officials said.

"Kennedy was an institution," as one senior State Department official put it.

Kennedy helped lead the transition at the State Department for the incoming Trump administration and was a well-respected figure within the building. Yet many Republicans associated Kennedy with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's tenure, and dragged him into the fallout from the Benghazi terror attack as well as Clinton's private email controversy, making his departure somewhat unsurprising.

Senior State Department officials familiar with the circumstances insisted these resignations occurred not as a protest of the incoming administration, but said that they were essentially asked to leave, though they were technically not fired.

By nature of their positions, these people would have been made to submit a resignation letter, but the administration doesn't have to accept it. Indeed some resignations were not.

"As is standard with every transition, the outgoing administration, in coordination with the incoming one, requested all politically appointed officers submit letters of resignation," Acting State Department Spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement today.

"The Department encourages and advocates for senior officers to compete for high level offices in the Department. These positions are political appointments, and require the President to nominate and the Senate to confirm them in these roles," Toner added. "They are not career appointments but of limited term. Of the officers whose resignations were accepted, some will continue in the Foreign Service in other positions, and others will retire by choice or because they have exceeded the time limits of their grade in service."

President Trump's selection to be the next Secretary of State, former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, is expected to be confirmed by the Senate next week.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/larger-usua...ory?id=45070354