Guest Post by Joe Kent
We are teetering at the edge of major escalations in both our war against Iran and our proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. An unanticipated event could easily spark a major incident that would have catastrophic consequences for our nation & the world.
The tragedy of both these conflicts is that neither was necessary nor embarked upon for the sake of our national interest. Instead, the deeper we get sucked into chaos, the clearer it becomes that foreign lobbies & defense contractors have effectively captured our leaders, while the needs & wellbeing of the American people are flagrantly dismissed.
Right now, we have an ever-shrinking window of opportunity to end both conflicts, but it will take aggressive diplomacy and an honest & unapologetic revision of our own national security apparatus to achieve it.
In the Middle East, the Israelis remain dominant in driving our operations & policies. In Ukraine, our own intelligence & defense establishment created a behemoth to absorb all of the funding & career development that had previously flourished for them on the battlefields of the GWOT.
Ending the Israeli influence & military/intel industrial complex’s grip on our policy—at every level—is the fight we must have right now if we are going to avert disaster.
President Trump needs to look at who he’s surrounded by—who he’s taking advice from, who got him into these messes—and make major changes now, before it’s too late.
I discussed all of this with Tucker:
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[ H/T The Burning Platform ]
We are teetering at the edge of major escalations in both our war against Iran and our proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. An unanticipated event could easily spark a major incident that would have catastrophic consequences for our nation & the world.
The tragedy of both these conflicts is that neither was necessary nor embarked upon for the sake of our national interest. Instead, the deeper we get sucked into chaos, the clearer it becomes that foreign lobbies & defense contractors have effectively captured our leaders, while the needs & wellbeing of the American people are flagrantly dismissed.
Right now, we have an ever-shrinking window of opportunity to end both conflicts, but it will take aggressive diplomacy and an honest & unapologetic revision of our own national security apparatus to achieve it.
In the Middle East, the Israelis remain dominant in driving our operations & policies. In Ukraine, our own intelligence & defense establishment created a behemoth to absorb all of the funding & career development that had previously flourished for them on the battlefields of the GWOT.
Ending the Israeli influence & military/intel industrial complex’s grip on our policy—at every level—is the fight we must have right now if we are going to avert disaster.
President Trump needs to look at who he’s surrounded by—who he’s taking advice from, who got him into these messes—and make major changes now, before it’s too late.
I discussed all of this with Tucker:
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Continue reading...
[ H/T The Burning Platform ]
