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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Anti-Trump NYT Blasts His Foreign Policy Anti-Trump NYT Blasts His Foreign Policy by Stephen Lendman Hes a serious presidential contender with unorthodox views on some issues - making him appear anti-establishment, worrying duopoly power brokers and media scoundrels supporting them. Wide-ranging interviews with NYT and Washington Post editors, as well as opinions expressed separately, showed his foreign policy views differ considerably from other candidates. I want to get along with Russia, he said, calling good relations very good
Id get along very well with Vladimir Putin. I want to get along with all countries, and we will, he said, calling his approach to world affairs unabashedly noninterventionist. He opposes expensive worldwide nation-building projects while Americas infrastructure deteriorates. Hes against massive US military buildups in Europe and East Asia. We certainly cant afford to do this anymore. NATO is costing us a fortune
Why are we (risking) potentially (a) third world war with Russia? He questions involvement in protecting allies like Japan and South Korea, wanting them to do more on their own. US intervention abroad caused more problems than solutions, notably in the Middle East, he said. Every bad decision that you could make in the Middle East was made. If Obama and Bush just (went) to the beach and enjoyed the ocean and the sun, we wouldve been much better off
than all of this tremendous death, destruction, and
monetary loss. Its just incredible, he stressed. He called NATO obsolete, preferring an alternative organization focusing on counterterrorism. He questioned the benefit of Americas global empire of bases. He called nuclear weapons the biggest problem the world has, saying hed use them only as an absolute last step, instead of renouncing them altogether. The New York Times is Americas leading establishment media organization - supporting policies favoring wealth and power interests exclusively. It editors called Trumps foreign policy views dangerous babble, uneasy about an administration under his stewardship curbing its warmaking appetite - hyping nonexistent Russia(n) aggressive movements in Ukraine and threats to the Baltics
Saying this is no time (for) Washington to restrain its global militarism. Trumps views are contradictory and shockingly ignorant. Times editors support US military involvement worldwide, its wars of aggression in multiple theaters. They call todays world dangerous, failing to explain Washington allied with Israel and other rogue states bear full responsibility for its deplorable state. Trump if elected president will differ from traditional candidates largely in style. At the same time, if he favors more cooperation and less confrontation with other nations, thats a good thing as he puts it in his own words. Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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