Let Us Be Real: President Biden Would Probably Be More Hawkish Than Trump by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-09-14 at 09:15:36 )

Let Us Be Real: President Biden Would Probably Be More Hawkish Than Trump by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

People who dislike Donald Trump are often reluctant to talk about this, but it looks likely that a Joe Biden administration would be more warlike than its predecessor.

In a recent interview with United States Department of Defense newspaper Stars and Stripes, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said it is important to keep troops in the Middle East to fight terrorism, and that it is likely that the United States of Americas bloated military budget will not only remain at its current size but may actually increase under his presidency due to the need to focus on "near peer" threats like China and Russia.

This is not a deviation in messaging from Joe Biden and his crack team of beltway string-pullers, but a continuation of already established patterns. His campaign has been consistently out-hawking Donald Trump on foreign policy by attacking him for insufficient aggression toward Venezuela, China, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, and of course Russia, as well as criticizing Donald Trump for not acting like a "wartime president".

Biden Says Stay in Mideast, Increase Military Spending
Biden wants refocus on fighting Russia-Antiwar.com September 12, 2020

In a July interview with Joe Biden foreign policy advisor Anthony Blinken, The Wall Street Journals Walter Russell Mead was told of the campaigns plan to "tame China, Russia and woke Democrats" using "Cold War-era Democratic policy", including "a liberal multilateralism-supplemented when absolutely necessary by the American military and a willingness to use it."

"A Biden administration will not be looking for a reset, a grand bargain, or anything more than a businesslike relationship with Vladimir Putin," Mr. Mead wrote after the interview. "Democrats have not been this hawkish on Russia since the Kennedy administration."

"While Chinas rise and Russias turn to the dark side complicate foreign policy, the ideas and institutions of the liberal internationalist order are failing not because the world is fundamentally changing but because the global liberal system has been starved of a critical ingredient in the Donald Trump years: American support," Mr. Mead writes.

Again, these are the positions that Joe Biden Incorporated is campaigning on. Because war is a horrific evil which people naturally abhor, United States presidents reliably campaign as doves and govern as hawks; Donald Trump did it, Barack Obama did it, even George Bush did it. Joe Biden has paid occasional lip service to the need to end the "forever wars", including in the aforementioned Stars and Stripes interview, but overall he has been campaigning for his first term far closer to the militaristic end of the spectrum than any president in recent memory.

This to me spells trouble, and I am not the only one.

In a Jacobin article titled "Expect More Military -Liberal Interventionism- Under a Joe Biden Presidency", Derek Davidson and Alex Thurston write that "The liberal establishment is desperate to return a centrist to the White House in November and reestablish the countrys more stable military dominance of the world order, disrupted only briefly by Donald Trump. Joe Bidens terrible track record on foreign policy - including his championing of war in Iraq - suggests a return to Obama-style strong military interventions abroad."

In a Japan Times article titled "On foreign policy, Joe Biden is worse than Donald Trump", Ted Rall contrasts Donald Trumps relatively dovish campaign trail promises to "stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we should not be involved with" against Joe Bidens consistent attempts to out-hawk the sitting president, noting Joe Bidens horrible track record on Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia and all Barack Obamas wars.

But overall Joe Bidens extensively documented love of war is not something people generally want to think about if they despise the current president. Indeed Donald Trump has been a horrible warmonger in his own right, and it is hard to imagine how Joe Biden could not be at least a slight improvement in some tense areas like Iran and Yemen, to say nothing of his spectacular faceplants and authoritarian abuses at home.

Still it is hard to look at all the sabre rattling Joe Biden and his team of ventriloquists have been doing on the campaign trail without getting the distinct impression that some major international escalations are being planned.

The liberal establishment is desperate to return a centrist to the White House in November. And Joe Bidens terrible track record on foreign policy-including his championing of war in Iraq-suggests a return to Barack Obama-style military interventions abroad.-Jacobin June 8, 2020

I do not point this out to tell United States of Americans to vote for Donald Trump in November; Donald Trump is a ghoul and I am not going to tell people not to do what they think they need to do in response to his presence. Indeed if wars are planned it seems entirely likely that they will happen regardless of what oligarchic puppet happens to be sitting in the Oval Office after January 20th, just like the escalations that were scheduled to begin against Russia under Hillary Clinton ended up getting rolled out anyway under Donald Trump despite his vocal opposition to them. The war pigs are doubtless planning for any contingency, and it is very possible they can get around any inertia Donald Trumps befuddled orneriness might throw in their way.

I mainly point this out to say that wars are planned, and we should plan accordingly. The fact that there is a nominee spouting hawkish vitriol for one of the United States of Americas two oligarchic parties is more a symptom of these preexisting oligarchic agendas than an organically arising phenomenon, so those who love peace and oppose warmongering and world-threatening nuclear escalations should be ready to stand against something very ugly in the near future.

In an even remotely sane world, war would be something everyone avoids with all their might and uses only as a very last resort. In a world that is dominated by an empire driven by the agenda of unipolar hegemony, wars are sought and planned for as an end in themselves, and excuses are invented to get into them.

War is the single most crazy and self-destructive behavior our species engages in, and the presence of armageddon weapons makes it infinitely more so. Our survival depends on peace finding some way to get a word in edgewise before it is too late.

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