Whether you agree or disagree with Steve Bannon -and it's likely that the word "strongly" will be attached to either sentiment- it's clear that his track record reveals more than what his rather sparse words show. For all his enormous influence Bannon, like the young Kissinger, prefers to stay away from cameras and public statements.
After helping Trump win the US presidential election, Bannon fell out of good graces with him and turned to Europe to work as a self-appointed shadow Secretary of State. During his two years in "wilderness", Bannon managed to help seat Victor Orban in Hungary, Matteo Salvini in Italy, turn Brexit into the default position in UK politics and the rise of Marie Le Pen and the yellow vests protesters in France, Vox in Spain and build a formidable bloc to take over the European Union.
Kissinger would certainly envy such accomplishments, but Steve Bannon is a man on a mission and unlike his former boss and current ally President Trump, he's not running for or to stay in office. He's single-mindedly focused on politics and long-term, structural changes in the balance of power in the West, engaged and engaging in a crusade against what he sees as US's foes in a Second Cold War: China and Islamic fundamentalist powers, the Europe promoted by George Soros' Globalist Left.
In spite of his Breitbart, Far Right-, Tea Party- track record, Bannon remains in an almost cynical, pragmatic stance, providing critical views of all his current allies, including Trump, speaking at large to the most recent Martin Wolff's insiders' expose. Bannon's previous declarations in Wolffs book Fire and Fury precipitated his fallout with Trump and his ousting from Breitbart, turning him into his favorite role: a maverick and a loose cannon.
Unlike Kissinger, Bannon is not a prisoner of his former boss, nor he depends on a White House or DoS job. He runs his own operation, initially funded by the Mercer family and later with other wealthy donors coming from his newly acquired connections and fund raising ability. He's a maverick Kissinger rearranging the world order to the nationalist, anti-globalization Right as much as his arch rival George Soros is a Metternich trying to tilt the world order towards the progressive, cosmopolitan Left.
His Oxford speech shows his extreme ideological bent as well as his vision of a worldwide "war" between Left and Right in its extreme versions:
His Oxford speech shows his extreme ideological bent as well as his vision of a worldwide "war" between Left and Right in its extreme versions:
A force to be reckoned with, sooner better than later. Those who ignore or underestimate his influence do so at their own peril.
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