By Adam Dick | Ron Paul Institute | November 10, 2021
Back when the Soviet Union fell apart, there was much talk of a peace dividend — a big reduction in the United States government’s spending on militarism. The peace dividend did not arrive. Instead, the US government proceeded to spend big on the military and engage in a series of military actions across the world, including, as the dissolution of the Soviet Union proceeded, the US military’s first of two invasions of Iraq.
No Peace Dividend Again
Tag: Nation Building
From Russia, with (Taliban) Love
Asia’s powerbrokers dropped an Afghan bombshell in Moscow today: ‘the country’s reconstruction must be paid for by its military occupiers of 20 years.’
From Russia, with (Taliban) Love
The US Never Intended to Create a Self-Reliant Afghan Government
August 22, 2021 (Brian Berletic – NEO) – The Western media talks about the “shocking” developments in Afghanistan, as a government the US spent two decades “building up” is swept from the country in mere days.
The US Never Intended to Create a Self-Reliant Afghan Government
Useful Idiots: Reactionary Leftists Propagate The Destruction of Sovereign Nations
Useful Idiots: Reactionary Leftists Propagate The Destruction of Sovereign Nations
Palestinians are victims of oppression and genocide, whilst the Kurds in Syria and Iraq in fact are separatists, insurgents, using terror and land-theft for achieving their aim of a Kurdish state on annexed land. By this, they do play in the hands of those powers who perform genocide and who oppress the Palestinians to secure the further existence of the Zionist entity.
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President Biden Plans a Foreign Policy for the Middle Class: He Should Promote Peace, Which Would Benefit Them and Everyone Else
Still, wanting one’s foreign policy to serve the middle class – and the working class, and the entrepreneurial class, and everyone else – isn’t necessarily a bad way to evaluate foreign policy. However, rather than trying to turn everything into an economic measure, there is a much simpler approach that would fulfill the same goal. Follow a policy of peace. Ultimately, more is required for a sophisticated, comprehensive foreign policy. However, the best, most solid, ultimately essential, foundation is peace.
Admittedly, Biden, as well as Sullivan and the others, have been in Washington, D.C. too long to know what peace actually is. Most policymakers call today’s world “peacetime” even though the US has been at war for the last two decades. The Blob appears to define peace as meaning that there is no combat on American soil. Washington can be droning, bombing, invading, and occupying other nations, and denizens of the imperial capital will contend that there is no war going on. Certainly no “endless” war, insist the Neocons, who recognize their serious loss of credibility in having repeatedly misled the public about both the cause and duration of conflicts.
Nebenzia: Western states reject to participate in reconstruction in Syria under flimsy pretexts
Nebenzia: Western states reject to participate in reconstruction in Syria under flimsy pretexts – Syrian Arab News Agency
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