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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was NOT excellent: Trump’s various peace plans had been “subdued, slow-rolled, and detoured by military leaders” throughout his presidency.

Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, an opponent of forever wars in the Middle East, describes the institutional barriers he encountered preventing the troops from coming home.

“They literally would not give you any information. And the information they gave you was bullsh*t,” Bannon said. “In every presentation, they say you’re 18 months away from turning the war around. Always. You’re always 18 months away.”

Jim Jeffrey, Trump’s special envoy to Syria and the anti-ISIS coalition, proudly boasted about he and other colleagues committed treason throughout Trump’s presidency so troops could keep dying for the profits of defense contractors.

“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey told DefenseOne after the Biden coup, adding that the troop number in Syria is “a lot more than” the approximately 200 that Trump authorized to stay there in 2019.

Additionally, hawks like Secretary of Defense Mike Pompeo aided in the plot – either wittingly or as a hapless dupe of deep state saboteurs. Pompeo boxed out foreign policy expert Will Ruger from the administration in early 2020. Ruger was a McEntee favorite who wanted troops removed from Afghanistan. Pompeo, a war hawk who rolled out the red carpet for neocon Never Trumpers to enter Trump’s White House, kept Ruger out at a time when Trump desperately needed an ally. https://bigleaguepolitics.com/revealed-how-pentagon-agents-subverted-trump-and-committed-treason-to-keep-troops-dying-overseas/

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Disgusting that both parties are involved in this.

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The woke/ (selective)human rights/ democracy supporting rhetoric for foreign policy is usually just a fig leaf for US imperial interests and the big defense contractors' feeding frenzy. I am guessing, that he woke language just makes everyone feel good but it doesn't really mean anything or drive policy in a meaningful way. We can't say we are waging war with Russia cause we need another war now that Afghanistan is over and because we don't like anyone to be number two or number three. China is clearly global number two but my guess is that they are cleverly buying off policy wonks, academics, think tankers so we are picking on Russia instead.

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The woke/ (selective)human rights/ democracy supporting rhetoric for foreign policy is usually just a fig leaf for US imperial interests and the big defense contractors' feeding frenzy. I am guessing, that he woke language just makes everyone feel good but it doesn't really mean anything or drive policy in a meaningful way. We can't say we are waging war with Russia cause we need another war now that Afghanistan is over and because we don't like anyone to be number two or number three. China is clearly global number two but my guess is that they are cleverly buying off policy wonks, academics, think tankers so we are picking on Russia instead.

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Unlike TR.........the Biden approach is more, "speak softly and then suck a lot of dick".........and with the Saudis that most apparently did not work.

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all part of the planned destruction of our nation.....so very sad

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At least someone on Fox is asking the Ukrainians tough questions! Good for Dagan and you.

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