Friday, July 1, 2022

Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster — Jeffrey D. Sachs

The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement. The Biden administration is packed with the same neocons who championed the U.S. wars of choice in Serbia (1999), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Syria (2011), Libya (2011), and who did so much to provoke Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The neocon track record is one of unmitigated disaster, yet Biden has staffed his team with neocons. As a result, Biden is steering Ukraine, the U.S. and the European Union towards yet another geopolitical debacle. If Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these U.S. foreign policy debacles.…

European leaders have no sense, let along insight. 

Good brief summary of the rise of the necons to preeminence in American foreign and military policy, and the consequences of this.

Consortium News
Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster
Jeffrey D. Sachs | University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also president of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the U.N. Broadband Commission for Development. He has been adviser to three United Nations secretaries-general and currently serves as an SDG advocate under Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Originally at Common Dreams
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/07/01/ukraine-is-the-latest-neocon-disaster/

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