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Part of Trump’s Freedom and Fair Trade Grand Strategy

PDF version securitystudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/SSG-New-Way-Forward-in-the-ME-01142019.pdf

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The essential idea is to align all facets of America’s power, economic and technical, political and cultural, as well as diplomatic and military, in order to help America’s friends and harm her enemies. Former enemies who decide they would prefer to benefit from American power can enjoy forgiveness under certain circumstances, as can allies who have strayed. This complies with a winning strategy from game theory, sometimes called ‘tit for tat plus forgiveness.’