Posted on 01/17/2023 8:31:16 AM PST by Navy Patriot
A military veterans group is launching a seven-figure campaign to inform Americans about U.S. involvement overseas and question the fairness within alliances such as NATO, the Washington Examiner reported.
The Concerned Veterans for America Foundation (CVAF) plans to spend more than $1 million in the next year on digital, grassroots, and classroom-style programming, the Examiner reported.
The goal is to promote a broader discussion about the nature of U.S. defense agreements toward advancing U.S. interests.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Part of the campaign will focus on NATO and its role since the Cold War ended.
Yes. In the past this group has been a leftist echo chamber opposing use of US armed forces against communist or Islamacist state or group as well as opposing military spending per se. The latter was always described as some sort of ‘spend smarter’ advocacy. Now they are a Kock sort of libertarian outfit. My guess that when wokeist interventionism became the new left-lib normal they found themselves looking at bankruptcy so the Koch outfit became ‘an any port in a storm’. For all I have posted, I view this group with some skepticism.
Gonna spend a million dollars a year…
Eh
Follow the money
Koch-aligned group launches seven-figure grassroots foreign policy campaign
A modern version of vietnam vets against the war? Most interestingly, many highly visible members were not even vets...then there was kerry...
Back before the ed of the Cold War I believe this group was around and yes, they had started out as Viet Nam Vets Against the War which had become just Vietnam Vets Against War after the communist won in Viet Nam.
Yes, the Headline referencing the money to be spent was curious, so I found a Washington Examiner article headlining Koch which I posted at comment #4.
Yes, VVAW was a sort of grassroots group that still had local chapters in places like NYC, Madison, Wi, and Berkeley, Ca. They were spirited enough back in the 80’s to turn an anti-US involvement in El Salvador demonstration at Ft Monmouth into a brawl. The Revolutionary Communist Party was on hand and started to burn a US flag which generated a fist swing response from the anti-war vets. The vets kicked ass, retrieved the flag, and presented it to the Monmouth base commander. The picture of the Hirsute vets presenting the flag with handshakes all around to the base commander appeared in the Monmouth base paper , but no where else.
“Follow the money”
My first thought when I read this; how much are the officers of this organization paid and by who?
The working-business-economic framework promoted by purist Libertarians like Koch is not far off from Soros open borders agenda, which is seen in Kock support for illegal immigration and amnesty. It is very much an anti-sovereignty ideology, yet pretends to be ultra-nationalist when it comes to foreign alliances. To keep us out of wars? No, its just that wars are bad for business prefers policies that ignore that economic and business matters are not on equal moral and philosophical terms between democracies and dictatorships.
Thanks. So to libertards ever support defense of the United States?
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