Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. — Killing the US Republic — and Empire

Excellent analysis by an old hand.

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Killing the US Republic — and Empire

Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.) | senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

William R. Polk — Losing the American Republic

Decades of letting neocons dictate a hawkish foreign policy have put the American Republic in profound danger, just as presidents from George Washington to Dwight Eisenhower predicted, warnings that Americans must finally take to heart, says ex-U.S. diplomat William R. Polk.

The American republic is already gone. The conversation needs to be about recovering it, or the great American experiment is over. The republic has become an empire ruled by the deep state and plutocracy.

A long, sad story, this is the first of two parts in which William Polk relates the gory details and lots of fascinating background. These are lessons that George Washington taught and Dwight Eisenhower expanded on. These are also lessons the US should have learned from the bitter experience of humiliating defeat in Vietnam. But the leadership has not listened nor has it learned.

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Losing the American Republic
William R. Polk

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