A senior Trump administration official has publicly critiqued global geopolitical discussions about a “middle powers” strategy, calling it a distraction.
In a series of X posts uploaded on Tuesday, U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby also rejected the idea that countries may look away from purchasing American military equipment.
“There is a lot of commentary that, due to alleged frustrations with the United States, the American defense industrial base will lose out on the market for weaponry. But this is neither feasible nor accurate,” Colby wrote.
“From our point of view, a collective middle powers strategy is based on a faulty understanding of international relations. We are flexible realists. So, we view the international scene through the prism of interest, geography, economics, military power, etc. ‘Middle powers’ don’t have a coherent basis for alignment.”
He also added that access to the U.S. defence industry “is a privilege, not a right.”
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While Colby did not name any countries or political leaders in his posts, Prime Minister Mark Carney frequently mentioned middle powers in his speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year, which focused on nations coming together to advance their interests and avoid being subjugated by global superpowers, which are increasingly volatile.
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“Our view is the middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu,” Carney said on Jan. 20.
“But I’d also say that great powers can afford, for now, to go it alone. They have the market size, the military capacity and the leverage to dictate terms. Middle powers do not.”
Carney also mentioned middle powers again in Australia earlier this year.
“Middle powers have more power than many realize,” he said on March 4.
David Lametti, Canada’s United Nations ambassador, said on July 2 that Carney’s speech has already begun to take shape.
“We have set up a number of different kinds of relationships that work for specific issues,” said Lametti. “And that’s precisely the manner in which I think Prime Minister Carney has envisaged this, for areas outside of the UN.”
Carneys idiots lap it right up though
Another Trump-approved doofus
Carneys “Davos” speech is total rubbish.
I mean, the Americans are doing everything in their power to collapse the petrodollar, it makes sense that they would grasp at straws to try and retain the last shreds of their dignity. But not a one of them can ask why us “Middle Powers” should trust military equipment manufactured by and primarily for a nation that has threatened us with annexation and extortion? Would America buy military jets from China? From Iran? No, of course not. Time for Americans to wake up, the old world is dead, and they killed it.
Countries are slowly moving away from relying on the US and the US is not a privilege it’s a disaster
Of course he would try say this. Moving away from the USA as a supplier reduces business for there manufacturers. By the middle size countries demonstrating that can move on from the USA does not bode well for moving forward.
He’s not invited.
zzz zzzz….but give trump time and the US will be closer to a middle power.
to hell with the yankee dogs