After the US election: Biden's past overshadows hopes - will his advisors be dangerous?

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 a dubious agenda.

• Even the past of the future US president does not give much hope for a peaceful foreign policy.

Update from November 17, 8:47 p.m.:

A good two months before his inauguration, the elected US President

other members of his team to the

.

The former campaign manager of the Democrats,

, is to become deputy chief of staff, and Congressman

is to take the position of senior advisor, Biden announced on Tuesday.

The previous lawyer in charge of his campaign team,

, should also lead the legal team in the White House.

The campaign team's previous chief strategist,

, should also take on the role of a senior advisor in the future.

Biden also wants to bring

to government

in Washington

as a consultant

.

He already supported Biden during the election campaign and had already worked for him when Biden was

Vice President

under President

.

The current deputy campaign manager

should be responsible as director for relations with those responsible for the states, districts, municipalities and tribes.

Biden announced last week that he would

bring

to the White House as chief of staff.

Klain was Biden's first chief of staff as Vice President from 2009 to 2011.

He later worked in the White House as coordinator of the operation against the

in West Africa (2014-2015).

After the US election: Trump and Miller withdraw soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq

Meanwhile, Defense Minister

on Tuesday that the troop strength in

from around 4,500 to 2,500 by mid-January.

The number of soldiers in

is to be reduced by around 500 to 2500 by January 15.

US President

, whose term of office ends on January 20, has been pushing for a rapid

from Afghanistan

for some time

.

This has led to criticism and concerns among

and Trump's Republicans.

It is feared that the radical Islamic

, who are currently holding peace talks with the Afghan government

, will regain strength

.

After the US election: Biden's past overshadows hopes - will massive military interventions follow?

First report from November 14th:

Mainz - "Vote him out", was one of the mottos of many American voters that

helped

to win against

.

Sometimes it was irrelevant who Joe Biden and what politics can be expected from him.

However, what the ARD magazine Monitor has researched suggests that the

under

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

.

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

office as

.

In the past, it was he who, first as a senator, then as vice president in the government under

strongly advocated and promoted military interventions - for example in

1999, in

2001 and when

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

could be deceptive as far as his true views are concerned, according to Monitor.

According to

, at least three people belong to Biden's closest network, whose lives speak a completely different language.

• Michelle Flournoy

  , who 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

  , proponent of the

  Iraq war,

  which later turned out to be contrary to 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

who

the

being an elitist network.

A supporter of the "

", one of the largest third parties in the USA, 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 the dilemma in which the citizens of the USA find themselves.

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