{"id":26698,"date":"2023-12-08T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=26698"},"modified":"2023-12-07T22:32:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:32:24","slug":"policy-foreign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/policy-foreign\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Foreign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our foreign policy is run by people whose plan seems to be destabilizing the whole world.\u00a0 They have simultaneously provoked crises in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Far East and now South America.\u00a0 That is impressive by any standard.\u00a0 They haven\u2019t managed to piss off the Pope but only because he happens to be an atheistic pedo-protecting commie like them.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the most interesting thing about this situation is that they don\u2019t seem at all alarmed that a lot of it is going badly for the sides they allegedly support.\u00a0 Ukraine seems to be failing in its war with Russia.\u00a0 The West African nations that revolted against the Western approved leaders have seemingly triumphed over the response from France and the United States.\u00a0 The United States has given such mixed signals in the Gaza war that both the Israelis and the Arabs are angry at Dementia Joe.\u00a0 China has basically shrugged its shoulders and walked away from any negotiations about Taiwan.\u00a0 And now Venezuela has sized up the United States\u2019 depleted military condition and decided to annex the oil-rich two thirds of its neighbor Guyana.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela is most probably causing trouble at the suggestion of Russia.\u00a0 Putin is looking to punish the United States for forcing the Ukraine war.\u00a0 While Donald Trump was in office the world mostly got a break from the color revolution Neo-Con skullduggery that was the order of the day during the Obama years.\u00a0 Relations with our adversaries was respectful and quiet.\u00a0 But now that Biden has allowed the Kagans and their allies to once again destabilize an unsuspecting world, we can expect all our enemies like Iran, North Korea, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, Cuba and the rest of them to align with Russia and China and cause us grief wherever they can.\u00a0 And they are.<\/p>\n<p>But worse, the actions of this administration have even driven India, Turkey and Saudi Arabia into the Russians\u2019 arms too.\u00a0 Now this takes a very special kind of stupid.\u00a0 The only thing they haven\u2019t done yet is radicalize the Canadians.\u00a0 But the year isn\u2019t quite over yet so who knows.<\/p>\n<p>You know, it\u2019s hard to understand if there is some method to this madness.\u00a0 They legitimately seem more interested in the public relations victories around LGBTQ inclusion in places like Afghanistan than in the legitimate priorities of the American people. \u00a0The only thread that seems to connect all of the radical foreign policy adventures is that the Neo-Cons assume that the United States is still the unipolar hegemon over the whole planet and no other power can resist any of our actions at all.\u00a0 So, Russia and China are playthings for us to swat around with no consequences to fear.\u00a0 And smaller countries like Iran and Venezuela don\u2019t even merit military consideration and can be controlled by economic sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the fact that we\u2019ve just finished with twenty years of failed nation building in the Middle East and no longer can get enough recruits to keep our armed forces at full strength doesn\u2019t even register with the adventurers in the State Department and the CIA.\u00a0 They\u2019re raring to go at other borders of the Russian sphere of influence in Central Asia and beyond.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to imagine that these people are really as blind as they seem to be.\u00a0 They don\u2019t seem to care that they may unleash a war that will have very serious consequences for the citizens of this country.\u00a0 Even a major nuclear exchange is hardly an impossibility in the brinksmanship environment that they\u2019ve created.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I understand that this is a dangerous world and the United States must play hardball with countries that are ideologically committed to destroying us.\u00a0 Iran has been such a state for over forty years and China and Russia are major global adversaries of ours for many reasons.<\/p>\n<p>But I almost feel that the Neo-Cons that have been in charge of our foreign policy for the last couple of decades are more dangerous to this country than all of the rest of the world put together.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s practical or even possible to clean house at the CIA and the State Department but if I were Donald Trump, I\u2019d clean out those two viper\u2019s nests as one of the first orders of business.\u00a0 Well maybe right after the FBI.\u00a0 But definitely pretty soon after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our 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