brochiller
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This is just coming out from a phone call he had with a reporter yesterday. Some choice quotes below but I'd suggest reading the whole thing. Lots on his views of China and North Korea as well.
http://prospect.org/article/steve-bannon-unrepentant
http://prospect.org/article/steve-bannon-unrepentant
Were at economic war with China, he added. Its in all their literature. Theyre not shy about saying what theyre doing. One of us is going to be a hegemon in 25 or 30 years and its gonna be them if we go down this path. On Korea, theyre just tapping us along. Its just a sideshow.
Contrary to Trumps threat of fire and fury, Bannon said: Theres no military solution [to North Koreas nuclear threats], forget it. Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul dont die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I dont know what youre talking about, theres no military solution here, they got us.
To me, Bannon said, the economic war with China is everything. And we have to be maniacally focused on that. If we continue to lose it, we're five years away, I think, ten years at the most, of hitting an inflection point from which we'll never be able to recover.
He dismissed the far right as irrelevant and sidestepped his own role in cultivating it: Ethno-nationalismit's losers. It's a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, uh, help crush it more.
These guys are a collection of clowns, he added.
From his lips to Trumps ear.
The Democrats, he said, the longer they talk about identity politics, I got em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.