Friends + Interlocutors,

Here’s an especially important and informative update by Professor Mearsheimer on the two long-running Washington-generated and enabled conflicts, the war over Palestine and the war in Ukraine. Many facts and insights. Both wars I regard as evidence of U.S. foreign policy failure, ghastly train wrecks. 

American neocons and neoliberals, on the other hand, regard the conflicts as successes because they demonstrate Washington’s indispensable world leadership. As usual, I ask, to what end? Washington's so-called leadership is clearly misguided.

The clips [starting at 17:20 on the video] show Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (whose family is from Ukraine) addressing his domestic audience about the true nature of Israel's actions in Gaza. His remarks vindicate what Mearsheimer and a handful of others have been saying all along. 

Mearsheimer notes that Smotrich’s, “honest description…stands in marked contrast to what Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel’s supporters in the United States are saying about Israeli policy. Smotrich’s remarks are both sickening and illuminating.”

True to form, when it comes to Israel and Ukraine, the Washington foreign policy elite and Washington's venal politicians are taking advantage of America to further hidden agendas. It is an international scandal.

Patrick

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