A Lost America First Foreign Policy
Jeffrey Sachs articulates the roots of America's disastrous foreign policy towards Russia and beyond since the end of the Cold War and before.
Good Morning - with tensions rising fast in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and beyond as we begin to rapidly ascend the escalator to regional war (or worse) it is imperative to contextualize what is happening. In short, diplomacy has been completely abandoned by the DC elite.
Year to date, war is raging on in Ukraine where millions have been displaced from homes, global supply chains have been structurally disrupted, and perhaps a million have died in the fighting on both sides, though disproportionately suffered by Ukrainians sent to their deaths by DC bureaucrats.
At the same time, Israeli bellicosity in Lebanon in a shameless gambit to bait the United States into war with Iran shows who in fact has a stranglehold over American foreign affairs.
In a powerful interview below, Professor Jeffrey Sachs reviews decades of reckless, bellicose, and strategically adrift US Foreign Policy hijacked by dangerous ideologues who know virtually nothing about the shift in balance of power happening around the world, and have nothing but disdain for any nuance of opinion on the use of force against the non-Western world.
Simultaneously, they ignore the emergency collapse of the US-Mexican border, and flatly do not understand the devastating effects of deindustrialization ("globalization") on the US economy, a death blow to a now hollowed out middle class.
Looking forward:
The only way to deescalate and avert a broader, potentially global war is for the US to split with Israel and withdraw military support from Ukraine. To accomplish such a shift requires a categorical opposition to and replacement of the entire US Foreign Policy establishment dominated by NEOCONs, defense contractors, and war hawks.
Such a feet is beyond any POTUS election. If the American people fail to mount organized opposition to DC warmongers, wider war is inevitable and consequences could be dire for the US and the world.
Be safe, stay alert, stay liquid.
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