![]() ![]() ![]() Yet by dropping out of the 1987 INF Treaty on August 2 nd 2019, President Trump has initiated Round II of the “Butter Battle”―an action that intensifies the post-Cold War “insecurity-security dialectic” and that will now prove even more difficult to wind down. Seuss had satirized as the “Butter Battle” arms rivalry. The 1987 INF Treaty had verified the elimination of 2,692 US and Soviet missiles based in Europe, thereby putting an end to the Cold War and to what Dr. Seuss, the children’s author, had written The Butter Battle Book as a satirical protest against the US-Soviet arms race and against the real possibility of nuclear war in 1984. II.Īs I had discussed in a previous WSI post, Dr. Part II, to be published in October, will discuss the “insecurity-security dialectic” in the Indo-Pacific in relationship to Iran, North Korea, Russia and China, as well as India, and show how that “dialectic” relates to the new US trade war with China and the potential for military conflict in that region. This essay will show how US strategic policies toward Iran have helped to generate an “insecurity-security dialectic 1 and “Butter Battle” arms rivalries throughout the wider Middle East and with Russia as well. While these disputes existed prior to President Trump’s arrival to power, the Trump administration’s “Peace through Strength” doctrine has exacerbated the real possibility of global war. In addition to interfacing with the ongoing “global war on terrorism” with the Islamic State, Al Qaeda derivatives and others, such as the Houthis in Yemen, seen as backed by Iran, these major disputes and conflicts have begun to provoke new “Butter Battle” arms rivalries―that could soon draw regional and major powers into direct conflict. Iran in the Arab-Persian Gulf and throughout the ‘wider Middle East’-among other disputes in the Indo-Pacific and Eurasian regions. Russia and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) over eastern Ukraine and Crimea the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel vs. These conflicts include that of the US and NATO vs. Inter-state geopolitical and economic tensions have been mounting in intensity over key focal points of dispute. The countdown to World War Trump began on August 2 after the Trump administration dumped the 1987 INF Treaty that had helped to put an end the Cold War by eliminating all US and Soviet land-based intermediate range missiles. ![]()
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