Joe Biden looks like a model democrat against Donald Trump.
But the ARD magazine Monitor has researched Biden's network - and found something dubious.
Joe Biden
*
will be
the next
US President
after
Donald Trump *
.
Many of the consultant positions are already clear.
As research by the
ARD magazine Monitor
shows, there are people in it who could have dubious agendas.
Even the past of the future US president does not exactly give hope for a peaceful foreign policy.
Mainz - "Vote him out" was one of the mottos of the American voters that
helped
Joe Biden
to win against
Donald Trump *
.
And sometimes it doesn't matter who Joe Biden actually is and what politics can be expected from him.
However, what the ARD magazine Monitor has researched suggests that the
US
under
Joe Biden will take
a tough course in foreign policy and send troops to conflict regions.
In his network there are not only military hardliners, but also people with economic interests in the
armaments industry
.
Joe Biden as US President: Experiences as a warmonger under Barack Obama
The Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and the Nagorno-Karabakh region are hotspots of conflict - certainly even when
Joe Biden takes
office as
US President
.
In the past, it was he who, first as a senator, then as vice-president in the government under
Barack Obama,
strongly advocated and pushed for military interventions - for example in
Serbia in
1999, in
Afghanistan in
2001 and when
Saddam Hussein was
overthrown
in Iraq under the Bush administration.
Many of his companions speak of a hardliner.
Even if Biden in the Obama administration described the war in Iraq as a mistake, he stuck to his tough military course in the fight against international terrorism.
Joe Biden's Advisory Network: Double Agenda?
Working for the US defense industry
The fact that he
spoke of troop withdrawal
during the
election campaign
could be deceptive in terms of his true views, according to Monitor.
According to
ARD research
, at least three people belong to Biden's closest network, whose lives speak a completely different language.
Michelle Flournoy
, who had called for significantly higher military spending budgets in the Obama administration
Anthony Blinken
, Biden's closest foreign policy advisor, who advocated the war in Yemen - one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in recent history
Nicholas Burns
, supporter of the
Iraq war,
which later turned out to be illegal under international law
Particularly spicy: Both Flournoy and Blinken as well as Burns are top-class consultants for large arms companies.
It can hardly be denied that they could have a double agenda.
Jonathan Guyer, US journalist, speaks in the Monitor report of a "clear conflict of interest" of the consultants.
Biden's
selection of advisers thus confirms those
Trump supporters
who
accuse
the
Democratic Party of
being an elitist network.
A supporter of the "
Libertarian Party
", one of the largest third parties in the US, expresses her fears on Twitter: Biden's focus on military briefings suggests that "bombs will be dropped in the spring."
Have you noticed the push for military briefings for Joe Biden.
This is an establishment priority disguised as “safety”.
The sooner he has the briefings the sooner he as the ammo he needs to make a case to start a new war in the Middle East.
We'll be dropping bombs by spring.
- First Female VP-Elect Josie ™ (@TRHLofficial) November 13, 2020
Biden's selection of advisors clearly shows once again what dilemma the citizens of the USA find themselves in.
(kat)
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