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heb je eigenlijk de oorspronkelijke publicatie gelezen?
Over de Koreaanse crisis:
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Bannon said he might consider a deal in which China got North Korea to freeze its nuclear buildup with verifiable inspections and the United States removed its troops from the peninsula, but such a deal seemed remote.
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“There’s no military solution [to North Korea’s nuclear threats], forget it. Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about, there’s no military solution here, they got us.”
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over de handelsoorlog met China:
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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.”
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“I’m changing out people at East Asian Defense; I’m getting hawks in.
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Bannon explained that his strategy is to battle the trade doves inside the administration while building an outside coalition of trade hawks that includes left as well as right.
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over etno-nationalisten (niet far right, niet white nationalists):
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“Ethno-nationalism—it'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.”
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Persoonlijk denk ik dat hij hier gelijk heeft. Hun aantallen zijn verwaarloosbaar klein (ook al mogen ze zeer vocaal zijn), en door de massale media-aandacht worden deze elementen disproportioneel uitvergroot. Verder lijkt hij elke vorm van etno-nationalisme te veroordelen, niet enkel de white nationalists.
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“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.”
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en daar gaan we Bannon op kunnen afrekenen, te beginnen al met de midterms volgend jaar
http://prospect.org/article/steve-bannon-unrepentant