By Caitlin Johnstone
June 23, 2020 "Information
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Joe Biden keeps trying to out-warmonger Donald
Trump, and by Joe Biden I of course mean the team of
handlers who are animating the dementia-ravaged corpse
of the Biden campaign like a ventriloquist operating a
wooden dummy.
In response to Trump
suggesting an openness to scaling back his
administration’s
murderous Venezuela policy and meeting with
President Nicolás Maduro, whoever runs Biden’s Twitter
account for him seized upon the moment to assert that
the former vice president will be doing no such thing if
elected commander-in-chief.
“Trump talks tough on Venezuela, but admires thugs
and dictators like Nicolas Maduro,” tweeted Biden
Incorporated. “As President, I will stand with the
Venezuelan people and for democracy.”
“Translation: if Trump retreats from his current
policy of trying to sanction and suffocate Venezuelan
into submission, Biden will make sure to revive it,”
journalist Aaron Maté
said in response.
“To be clear, Joe Biden is now attacking Donald Trump
from the right on Venezuela,”
said journalist Walker Bragman.
As FAIR.org’s Alan MacLeod accurately
observed last year, this phrase “the Venezuelan
people” is only ever invoked by the political/media
class of the US-centralized empire for sloganeering
purposes in support of US-led regime change
interventionism in that nation, despite an
overwhelming majority of Venezuelans opposing all US
interventionism including sanctions.
This tactic of attacking Donald Trump for being
insufficiently warlike is nothing new for Biden Inc, nor
is it limited to Venezuela.
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During the primary debates Biden attacked Trump for
being
insufficiently hawkish toward North Korea, claiming
the president was wrong to meet with Kim Jong Un because
it gives the leader “legitimacy”, whatever that means.
An
April Biden campaign ad accused the president of
being too soft on China by failing
to force Beijing to allow US government officials into
Wuhan to monitor the governing of a sovereign nation
during a pandemic outbreak.
“Trump praised the Chinese 15 times in January and
February as the coronavirus spread across the world,”
says the ad’s narrator in an ominous voice. “Trump never
got a CDC team on the ground in China. And the travel
ban he brags about? Trump let in 40,000 travelers from
China into America after he signed it. Not exactly
airtight.”
Biden has attacked Trump’s
partial troop withdrawal from Syria, using talking
points from the so-called war on terror to absurdly
claim during a primary debate that the president is
putting America at risk of a terrorist strike from ISIS.
“We have ISIS that’s going
to come here,” Biden said. “They are going to damage the
United States of America. That’s why we got involved in
the first place.”
And of course Biden & Co
have been attacking Trump for being too soft on Russia,
despite this administration’s many, many
dangerously hawkish new cold war escalations against
Moscow.
“We need a President who
will stand up to the Kremlin, push back against Putin,
and take immediate steps to ensure the security of our
elections,” Biden’s Twitter account
said last year.
This line of attack is so
ubiquitous in the Biden campaign that it sometimes just
takes the form of a vague, general swipe at Trump’s
unwillingness to be more warlike, with
an April tweet reading simply “Donald Trump says
he’s a wartime president — it’s time for him to act like
one.”
Again, this is Donald Trump these people are talking
about. The same president who imprisoned
Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes, killed
tens of thousands of Venezuelans with starvation
sanctions, vetoed
attempts to save Yemen from US-backed genocide, is working
to foment civil war in Iran using starvation
sanctions and CIA
ops with the
stated goal of effecting regime change,
nearly started a full-scale war with Iran by
assassinating its top general, occupied
Syrian oil fields and implemented devastating
sanctions with the goal of preventing Syria’s
reconstruction, greatly
increased the number of troops in the Middle East
and elsewhere, greatly increased the number
of bombs dropped per day from the previous
administration, killing record
numbers of civilians, and reduced
military accountability for those airstrikes.
The second-to-last thing the world needs is political
pressure placed on Donald fucking Trump to be more
warlike. The very last thing the world needs is a US
president who ends up being even more warlike than
Trump.
America is a war machine on top of a police state on
top of a mass media psyop. Only people who are willing
to keep these psychopathic mechanisms in place are
permitted to ascend to presidential candidacy. While all
the news cameras focus on the relatively minor
differences between presidents and presidential
candidates, you can learn a lot more about America and
what drives it by looking at their similarities.
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