Tag: Foreign policy

Written by billpoorman

We did it to ourselves

Remember how pretty much the entire principled argument for engagement with Communist China was that it would become more democratic as it got exposed to our multi-national corporations, freedom, values, etc.? Yeah, not so much. Assuming this hypothesis was ever more than just cover for increasing business profits, it’s been proven completely wrong. Xi Jinping […]

Written by billpoorman

Pot meet kettle

While I don’t want Russia – or anyone else, for that matter – interfering in our elections, don’t think for one second that we’re innocent actors. Here’s former CIA director James Woolsey pretty much admitting that we’re actively interfering with other countries right now. But it’s always for a “good cause”, of course – as […]