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Biden’s Foreign Policy Needs a Course Correction — Charles A. Kupchan

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By defining today's geopolitics as a clash between democracy and autocracy, the Biden administration risks both empowering America's adversaries and undercutting its allies. And an us-versus-them approach will make it impossible to confront shared global challenges.…Biden's foreign policy is determined by the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex). Strategic blunder. These are the same types that gave the US Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. Why expect something different from doing the same thing? "This time it will be different. We've learned. We're the best." Right.Project SyndicateBiden’s Foreign Policy Needs a Course CorrectionCharles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is Professor of

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By defining today's geopolitics as a clash between democracy and autocracy, the Biden administration risks both empowering America's adversaries and undercutting its allies. And an us-versus-them approach will make it impossible to confront shared global challenges.…
Biden's foreign policy is determined by the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex). Strategic blunder. These are the same types that gave the US Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. 

Why expect something different from doing the same thing? "This time it will be different. We've learned. We're the best." Right.

Project Syndicate
Biden’s Foreign Policy Needs a Course Correction
Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University

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The letter concludes with a grim prediction as to where the former military leaders believe the nation, should it continue along its course, is heading: “Under a Democrat Congress and the Current Administration, our Country has taken a hard left turn toward Socialism and a Marxist form of tyrannical government which must be countered now by electing congressional and presidential candidates who will always act to defend our Constitutional Republic.

“The survival of our Nation and its cherished freedoms, liberty, and historic values are at stake.”

And Biden is not even a progressive.  Moreover, his foreign policy is that of the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex).

Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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