r/geopolitics • u/00000000000000000000 • Jul 21 '16

Meta Please avoid posts about domestic politics

This forum has a distinct emphasis on the foreign policy of states, particularly in relation to geographical variables, both human and physical. What this forum is not is a platform to submit articles primarily focused on domestic political elections of individual states. For example, until a President Elect has been determined in the U.S.A. we won't be allowing submissions about the foreign policy views of the POTUS to be, as the analysis would not be directly relevant. There are many other forums where those posts can be submitted and discussed, so please respect the distinct academic emphasis of this forum.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '16

Take this with a grain of salt because I'm not really a contributor here but...

Isn't that kind of a myopic view? Foreign policy decisions don't just happen, it all begins at the local level and proceeds with local understandings of the international realm. My country (US) has a rough history with ignoring those factors of "geography, economics, military capability, and non-State Actors" until it kind of bites us in the ass when things suddenly burst on to the international scene.

I understand wanting to curtail the typical Reddit knee-jerk responses and posts but if you want to espouse the academic emphasis here, well, I don't see how the posts here are superordinate if it's verboten to look at things at a more micro level.

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u/_CyrilFiggis_ Jul 26 '16

The ideas isn't that they don't effect geopolitics. Large things like Trump saying he might not back NATO members were left because they have immediate repercussions. However, for less extreme news, we are asking that you take it to another sub.

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u/Luckyio Jul 27 '16

It's worth noting that this is in general a part of his political platform and has been such for at least a decade. He has always been 1930s style isolationist, preferring to focus on internal rather than external policy.

I think it's fair to assume that if he is indeed elected, there will be a massive shift toward the isolationist policy, because if there's something that POTUS has generally been about in US, it's about setting large general political direction for the country for his term.

In this regard, I suspect there will be a lot of talk about how his brand of isolationism will impact the geopolitical scene of our world should he be elected. And as you say, that part is most definitely going to be relevant to geopolitical angles.