The US foreign policy establishment is notorious for not having strategic empathy and not taking into account that other regional powers have national interests as well. These interests usually clash with the fantastical visions of the US Deep State.
Much to the chagrin of America First liberty conservatives, US lawmakers continue to ignore the truisms of a realist foreign policy. The reason why this happens is due to the outsized influence the military industrial complex has on the US political process.
In a recent episode of the Ron Paul Liberty Report titled “Ignoring Russian Warnings, Biden Administration Escalates In Ukraine”, former Congressman Ron Paul and Ron Paul Institute Executive Director Daniel McAdams discussed the present insanity taking place in US foreign policy circles.
Paul noted in this episode that “a big part of the deep state is the military industrial complex.” Throughout this episode there were references to a recent meeting of 8 arms manufacturers at the Pentagon, where discussions about arming Ukraine for a protracted struggle with Russia was at the top of the agenda.
This meeting reflects the desire of the American ruling class to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian in a drawn-out proxy war.
McAdams was correct in asserting that “something is driving this war” and “it’s not America’s interests.” Defense contractors and the arms industry are the primary actors pushing for war in this case, which McAdams observed are making “enormous money off of this war.”
In McAdams’ view, the US government is a “part of this war” despite not having ground troops present in the conflict. In this proxy war with Russia, the US government has already sent over $1.7 billion in military aid to Ukraine.
The US government is addicted to big spending on matters of “national defense”. McAdams cited a piece by Cato Institute Senior Fellow Doug Bandow which highlighted that “Last year’s military spending bill ran $768 bill”. Bandow put this spending in perspective: “Adjusted for inflation it was more than during the Korean War, Vietnam War, and entire Cold War, even with Ronald Reagan’s sizeable buildup.”
To sell the idea of getting the US involved in this conflict a “war to shape public opinion” has also been launched. Several former defense and intelligence officials have recently made the rounds in the corporate media pushing propaganda to get the American populace riled up against Russia.
As someone who understands the big picture issues, Paul is of the view that the real “winner” during this entire process is the “establishment”. Namely, the military-industrial complex and the broader Deep State who wants fatter defense budgets and large defense contracts. A prolonged Russo-Ukrainian conflict would help bring about this scenario.
Overall, the Russo-Ukrainian conflict is of no concern to Americans. There’s no pressing American interest at stake here. However, Deep State apparatchiks want to turn this entire affair into another quagmire that the US gets drawn into. All of this is being done against the will of the voters.
In America, politics has reached a post-democratic phase where bureaucrats and other unelected officials are increasingly calling the shots while elected officials are gradually reduced to figurehead status. No matter which party is in control, the Deep State house always wins.
It will take a genuine revolution in terms of electing a strong faction of liberty conservatives to Congress in order for the unaccountable bureaucratic state to be downsized.
