Trump was ideologically incoherent and crassly transactional. But the threat he posed to American empire and thus the gargantuan security state helps establish a motive for why the FBI and CIA intervened in both the 2016 and 2020 elections. As president, Donald Trump lavished the rich with tax cuts and deregulation. Yet, contradictorily, he also threatened the structure of American global hegemony that does so much to keep the American one percent tremendously wealthy. In fact, Trump undertook the most […]
I know it's Grayzone which has been cringe recently but this is Parenti's son and it's a very good read so.
Trump's foreign policy involved a genocide against Yemen and a re-implementation of the Cuban embargo. Foreign deaths by drone strike increased too. He also assassinated an Iranian general on Iraqi soil and very nearly started a war with Iran over it.
He also ramped up sanctions in Iran and Cuba and doubled down on support of Israel's settlements. Dronings increased under him. He just did a slightly different imperialism, albeit one that undermined support with important US client states. He still did warfare, just under different pretexts.
Eh I wouldnt go there, he didn't start any wars, didn't stop any either, and ramped up drone strikes A LOT since Obama. I honestly think Biden's better. He might be giving weapons to Ukraine but he got the US out of Afghanistan, ended America's "combat mission" in Iraq, and reduced drone strike attacks
I'd disagree. They are equally shit in completely different ways. Neither has done nor did anything to get rid of AFRICOM, which is where the bulk of actual U.S. military actions are these days. Biden has ramped up rhetoric and focus on both China and Russia, which are lose-lose military situations for us even if we did bother to actually engage it. As such the nuclear clock has never been closer to midnight, which is dangerous as shit. However, Biden has also been talking about lessening sanctions on Venezuela, but also ramping up sanctions on Cuba. They're not going to bring back the Iran deal and NK is still going to continue to fester.
At best what Biden has done is remove us from completely failed military actions and refocused them in things that are actually escalating.
Yes and no. Biden was the guy in Ukraine for his vice presidency. He controlled the money pump. His election was definitely a signal that they'd get unlimited support. Likely there were diplomatic channels that put the message across.
Would the conflict have escalated under Trump 2020? Probably in some way. But Biden deliberately put his thumb on the scale.
It’s a bummer Trump is a rightwing monster because if he just did fuck-all domestically in office then his foreign policy was actually decent.Unfortunately he wants to murder trans people and anyone who isn’t white. So that sucks.
Edit: i was horribly wrong about this. As always, death to amerika.
you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to US foreign policy
oh god, was not trying to do that. Barf.
Trump's foreign policy involved a genocide against Yemen and a re-implementation of the Cuban embargo. Foreign deaths by drone strike increased too. He also assassinated an Iranian general on Iraqi soil and very nearly started a war with Iran over it.
Verbally maybe somewhat, but it was the same as ever otherwise. Increased murder of people in other countries.
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He also ramped up sanctions in Iran and Cuba and doubled down on support of Israel's settlements. Dronings increased under him. He just did a slightly different imperialism, albeit one that undermined support with important US client states. He still did warfare, just under different pretexts.
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I agree with all of that. Which is why we need a competent president to manage our empire :biden-harbinger:
Eh I wouldnt go there, he didn't start any wars, didn't stop any either, and ramped up drone strikes A LOT since Obama. I honestly think Biden's better. He might be giving weapons to Ukraine but he got the US out of Afghanistan, ended America's "combat mission" in Iraq, and reduced drone strike attacks
I'd disagree. They are equally shit in completely different ways. Neither has done nor did anything to get rid of AFRICOM, which is where the bulk of actual U.S. military actions are these days. Biden has ramped up rhetoric and focus on both China and Russia, which are lose-lose military situations for us even if we did bother to actually engage it. As such the nuclear clock has never been closer to midnight, which is dangerous as shit. However, Biden has also been talking about lessening sanctions on Venezuela, but also ramping up sanctions on Cuba. They're not going to bring back the Iran deal and NK is still going to continue to fester.
At best what Biden has done is remove us from completely failed military actions and refocused them in things that are actually escalating.
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Yes and no. Biden was the guy in Ukraine for his vice presidency. He controlled the money pump. His election was definitely a signal that they'd get unlimited support. Likely there were diplomatic channels that put the message across.
Would the conflict have escalated under Trump 2020? Probably in some way. But Biden deliberately put his thumb on the scale.
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Droning Suleimani was pretty damn close to starting a war.