Posted on 05/12/2022 4:33:55 AM PDT by FarCenter
This is the second part of a three-part series on ‘the Blob’ that runs American foreign policy. Read part one here.
WASHINGTON – The Russian war on Ukraine has seen ‘the Blob’ reassert itself with a vengeance in the 11 weeks since Russia announced the commencement of hostilities on February 24.
This article will examine the forces shaping President Joe Biden’s approach to the Ukraine crisis, and then move on to explore the state of foreign policy debate, or lack thereof, within Biden’s Democratic Party.
Former high-ranking military officials, intelligence analysts and diplomats who served at various points during the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump administrations paint a picture in recent conversations with Asia Times of the likely policy options being presented to President Biden as he faces the gravest crisis on the European continent since the Second World War.
The past month has seen the Biden administration, by fits and starts and then seemingly all at once, adopt a militarized, hardline approach toward Russia, declaring Ukraine’s “victory” over Russia as the only acceptable outcome.
While Biden remains steadfast in assuring the public that there will be no “boots on the ground,” in point of fact, current and former officials have suggested that US paramilitaries are indeed on the ground, with military assistance being coordinated by the new appointee to the Biden National Security Council, retired US Army Lieutenant General Terry Wolff.
According to retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as secretary of state Colin Powell’s chief of staff, the administration is planning for a protracted conflict in Ukraine.
Wilkerson says “they are extremely desirous of a protracted conflict because they want to effect regime change in Moscow, destabilize Russia and then take on China. That is their long-term geopolitical strategy.”
(Excerpt) Read more at asiatimes.com ...
$40 billion and more for a Biden controlled Ukraine and $0 to enforce our own border.
$40 billion is just openers. We appear to be back to another $100 billion a year war, which is what is needed to keep the MIC happy.
Taking along the feckless spineless republican hierarchy with them. We have a country you are suppose to take care of first and formost and your not.
The Russians would not hesitate to assist our enemies if the tables were turned. There’s more at stake this time around for them. I say keep the pressure up. Anything less would encourage them. It’s in the mindset of the Russian people. They need to learn their emperor has no clothes. The Japanese did.
2 can play at that game (proxy war).
The reality of a morning yet to come when most Americans awake to no power, no phones, no internet and no knowledge/information is closer than most will admit (those who don’t have their ears full of sand, anyway).
Didn't know Michael Moore got involved...
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