Meet Antony "Blinkered" Joe Bidens Choice for Americas Top Diplomat by Finian Cunningham!
(2021-01-27 at 01:43:34 )

Meet Antony "Blinkered" Joe Bidens Choice for Americas Top Diplomat by Finian Cunningham!

Mr. Blinken does not seem to have repented from his fundamentalist belief in American imperial goodness, notwithstanding his appeal for "humility".

Barring an earthquake in Washington,D.C., Antony Blinken is set to become the new United States Secretary of State and Americas top diplomat. The youthful and telegenic Mr. Blinken (58) takes over from Mike Pompeo who was Americas representative to the world under the last Donald Trump administration.

The contrast could not be more stark. In place of Mr. Pompeos thuggish, rough-edged style, Mr. Blinken has the appearance of consummate diplomat. He is fluent in French owing to a European education, he is urbane and sophisticated and comes from a family which has diplomacy in its genes. His father was an ambassador to Hungary and an advisor to President John F Kennedy. An uncle was ambassador to Belgium.

Mr. Blinken has Hungarian and Russian Jewish ancestry. His mother remarried a Polish-American Jewish survivor of the Nazi holocaust. During his confirmation hearing in the Senate this week, Mr. Blinken told the story of how his stepfather escaped from a Nazi death march in Bavaria and was eventually rescued by an American tank driven by an African-American officer.

That story has shaped Mr. Blinkens worldview of Americas prestige and international role. He is a proponent of United States military interventionism with a presumption of moral duty. He is an advocate of the United States of America working with European allies and upholding the transatlantic alliance - in contrast to Donald Trumps boorish America First sloganeering. Understandably, Mr. Blinken is imbued with an unshakable belief in "American exceptionalism" and "manifest destiny" as a world leader.

The Senators at his confirmation hearing this week swooned as Mr. Blinken spoke. He is certain to be confirmed as the new Secretary of State in the coming days. That is because he is seen to be perfect for the task of restoring the United States of Americas international image which has been so badly tarnished under Donald Trump and his grumpy gofer Mike Pompeo. The Europeans will lap up Mr. Blinken and his transatlantic romanticism.

Mr. Blinken has said that the United States of Americas foreign policy must be conducted with "humility and confidence", which may sound refreshingly modest. But it is not. Underlying this "quiet American" is the same old arrogance about United States imperial might-is-right and Washington,D.C.s presumed privilege of appointing itself as the "worlds policeman".

If Mr. Blinkens record is anything to go on, his future role as the United States of Americas top diplomat is foreboding.

Previously, he was a senior member in the Barack Obama administrations serving as national security advisor to both the president and Joe Biden who was then vice-president. Mr. Blinken rose to become deputy Secretary of State in the final years of the second Barack Obama administration. In those roles he was a key player in a series of foreign interventions which turned out to be utterly disastrous.

He was a big proponent of United States military intervention in Libya in 2011 which led to the toppling and murder of Muammar Gaddafi. That intervention along with other NATO powers has left a ruinous legacy not only for Libya but for North Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe.

Mr. Blinken was also a point-man in Barack Obamas intervention in Syria where the United States (and other NATO powers)) supplied weapons to anti-government militants. The so-called "rebels" were in fact myriad terrorist groups affiliated with Al Qaeda and other extremist Islamists.

Up to half a million people have been killed in the decade-long Syrian war and much of that blood is on Americas hands from its de facto support for terror gangs. Maybe Mr. Blinken genuinely thought he was supporting "pro-democracy rebels". But even if we give him the benefit of doubt, the upshot is still a disaster of United States of American interventionism.

Another catastrophic consequence of Mr. Blinkens policymaking is Yemen.

Under his direction, the Barack Obama administration backed the Saudi war on its southern neighbor beginning in March 2015 and continuing to this day. Yemen has become the worst humanitarian crisis in the world with millions facing starvation amid Saudi aerial bombardment carried out with United States warplanes and logistics.

The new Joe Biden administration has indicated it will withdraw military support for Saudi Arabia in its war on Yemen. But that does not absolve the United States, and Mr. Blinken in particular, for having created the horrendous quagmire from which it is belatedly trying to extricate itself from.

What is rather perplexing, however, is that Mr. Blinken does not seem to have repented from his fundamentalist belief in United States of American imperial goodness, notwithstanding his appeal for "humility". During his Senate hearings, he showed little regret about the United States of Americas illegal bombing of Libya and its arming of jihadists in Syria.

He described the world with the conventional brainwashed United States of American ideology as being a place where China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are enemies that must be confronted. He also told Senators he was in favor of increasing supplies of lethal weaponry to the Ukraine and its rabidly anti-Russian regime in Kiev. Recall that it was the Barack Obama administration which instigated a coup d etat in Kiev against an elected president in February 2014. The new regime was and is dominated by far-right nationalists who laud past links to Nazi Germany. If Mr. Blinken has his way the war against ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine will escalate and could ignite a bigger confrontation between Russia and the United States.

One of the hallmarks of the United States-backed regime in Kiev is its espousal of Neo-Nazi traditions and in particular antisemitic hatred.

Given Antony Blinkens own Jewish ancestry and his own intimate connection to the Nazi holocaust, you do have to question his competence if he becomes the United States of Americas foreign policy leader. His boss President Joe Biden has fondly lionized Mr. Blinken as a "superstar" of diplomacy. Superficially perhaps, he has finesse and intelligence. But in much the same basic way of adhering to American imperialism, Mr.Blinken is as crude and thuggish as his predecessor Mike Pompeo. He just projects a more plausible look and sound, which is most desirable as a moral cover for the United States of Americas criminal imperialism.

Mr. Blinken is known to self-deprecate his "insatiable habit" for making up bad puns. For example, on one occasion when he was addressing an audience on policy regarding the Arctic, he began by joking he would be "breaking the ice". Given his ability to pursue destructive dead-end policies, he might therefore appreciate the moniker "Secretary of State Tony Blinkered".

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