Cheerleaders for the Warfare State
Where to start? I just finished speed-reading a tedious tour d’horizon of our troubled world as seen through the cracked lens of an up-and-coming Neoliberal foreign policy mastermind by the name of Hal Brands.
Title: Can the US Take on China, Iran and Russia All at Once? Answer: Maybe and why not?
It was written in the middle of October for Bloomberg. Dr. Brands is a Bloomberg opinion columnist in addition to being the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.
Brands must know something, of course, but his long-winded rumination is unpersuasive, if not all wet. The obvious does not occur to him: that Washington must stop making enemies before it blows up the planet.
Somehow someway at some point I must have signed up for subscriptions to Bloomberg and to Foreign Affairs, perhaps the two most proactive Neoliberal fountainheads in existence, aside from the agitprop-driven New York Times.
Yesterday in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, I came across the latest outburst from the acclaimed Neocon ideologue Robert Kagan. He and Brands have been drinking Kool-Aid from the same punchbowl.
Title: A Free World, If You Can Keep It.
Kagan, as you may remember, is the husband of Victoria “Fuck the EU!” Nuland, who teed up the Russo-Ukraine war back in 2014 and didn’t look back. Kagan’s narrative is smooth and disarming. Call it cartoon history, the received version
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