Surprise! America Is Getting Another Psycho For Secretary Of State by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-11-23 at 05:16:20 )

Surprise! America Is Getting Another Psycho For Secretary Of State by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Did you know the United States Department of Defense used to be called the Department of War? It would be a much more honest label today for a military which virtually never operates in any way that could be described as defensive, with its operations focusing far outside of the nations borders against targets who pose no threat whatsoever to ordinary United States of Americans. An even more suitable name would be the Department of Eternal War.

The State Department was meant to be the counterpart to the War Department, focusing on diplomacy and peace. What ended up happening as the United States government morphed into a globe-spanning empire dependent on endless violence and aggression is that the State Department wound up focusing more and more on manufacturing interventionist narratives on the world stage to gin up international support for starvation sanctions, proxy wars and war coalitions.

So in practice the United States ended up with two war departments: the DoD and the State Department. Which is why you have seen the nations Secretaries of State becoming more and more jingoistic and psychopathic, to the point where some sort of antisocial personality disorder is almost a job requirement for the position.

Breaking News: President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Antony Blinken, a defender of global alliances and a close adviser, as secretary of state.-The New York Times November 23, 2020

Bloomberg and The New York Times are reporting that the incoming presidential administration has chosen longtime Joe Biden advisor Tony Blinken for the role of Secretary of State. Mr. Blinken is a liberal interventionist who has supported all of the most disgusting acts of United States mass military slaughter this millennium, including the Iraq invasion which killed over a million people and ushered in an unprecedented era of military expansionism in the Middle East. So needless to say he will fly through the confirmation process.

"Mr. Blinken was a key adviser to Joe Biden when the senator voted to authorize the use of force against Iraq," Nonzero reports. "Mr. Blinken has tried to recast the vote as merely "a vote for tough diplomacy," but post-invasion remarks by Joe Biden make that claim implausible. In a recent Washington Post op-ed that Mr. Blinken co-authored with Robert Kagan, one of the chief architects of neoconservative foreign policy doctrine, he implied that the problem with the Iraq War was poor execution ("bad intelligence, misguided strategy and inadequate planning for the day after") rather than the very idea of invading a country in violation of international law even after it had admitted weapons inspectors to assess the claims motivating the invasion."

How true can Joe Bidens claim be that he regrets his pivotal role in facilitating that unforgivable act of mass military butchery if he is continued employing the man who advised him about it as an advisor ever since, and is now appointing him to Secretary of State? If someone advises you to do something that you truly regret, do you continue seeking out that persons advice on the same subject and give them even more power and control over it?

We can expect the next secretary of the United States of Americas second war department to help the United States death machine ramp up world-threatening cold war escalations with China and Russia.

In a July interview with Mr. Blinken, The Wall Street Journals Walter Russell Mead was told of the Joe Biden 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 United States of American military and a willingness to use it."

"A Joe 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 John F. Kennedy administration."

All you really need to know about Tony Blinken has been summed up nicely in a must-see new Behind the Headlines report by Dan Cohen. Mr. Blinkens career has been a pendulum between expanding the United States empire and helping corporate power knit itself more deeply into that empire.

Within the Barack Obama administration he backed the unforgivably devastating interventions in Libya and Syria as well as the 2014 Ukraine coup, he was a major proponent of backing the Saudi-led mass atrocities in Yemen, and he says such proxy conflicts will be the new model for United States interventionism going forward.

Mr. Cohen quotes Mr. Blinken arguing in favor of replacing old-school Bush-era conventional ground invasions with "discreet, small-scale sustainable operations, maybe led by special forces, to support local actors.. In ending the endless wars I think we have to be careful to not paint with too broad a brush stroke." In other words, the continuation and expansion of all of the Obama administrations most depraved policies.

So we can expect a strengthening of the python-like strangulation strategies the United States empire now favors, with the same number of dead children, the same amount of destabilization and suffering, and the same amount of resource consumption, just without all those pesky news headlines and footage of flag-draped coffins coming home on jet planes. A photogenic mask on the blood-spattered face of the United States empire which has been so troublingly exposed in the age of Donald Trump.

Are you excited about that Return to Decency yet??

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