Here is timely food for thought from Andrew Bacevich:
The United States needs to make a major overhaul of its alliances and partnerships in the world, and it needs to rethink which of its existing commitments truly protect the vital interests of the United States.
In light of the devastating effects of the pandemic on the country, including the loss of more than 600,000 people, we cannot afford the conventional understanding of national security that has prevailed up till now. Above all, we have to shed the self-congratulatory and self-justifying notion of American exceptionalism that has so warped our thinking about our foreign policy.
You can read the rest @
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/06/18/bacevich-get-out-of-nato-shut-down-combatant-commands/
I agree 100 percent. We're on a path to national bankruptcy, and it's about time we admit it and reassess what the hell we've been doing.
Unfortunately, with a brain dead president we're unlikely to do such a thing any time soon.
By the way, if we had followed the Trump agenda instead of fighting it tooth and nail, we'd already be on the right path ... or at least a better one than Biden's.
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