Thread by @KurtHackbarth

So @ewarren is a #progressive, you say? Only if you are willing to pretend that foreign policy doesn't exist (or, like most of the Beltway bubble, you're a reflexive apologist for American exceptionalism).

Let's break it down in a nice, meaty thread.

#ThursdayThoughts

@ewarren Despite all of her criticisms of Trump as unfit for office, she's had no problems in giving such a menace everything he's asked for -and more- in military spending. She only voted against the most recent defense budget when she decided to run for prez.
leftvoice.org/Elizabeth-Warr…

@ewarren And with regards to the military she's voted to overfund, Warren wants to "green" it, but not reduce it - that is, make it a more climate-friendly tool for aggression and global dominion. That's about as bizarre a policy contortion as you can make.
commondreams.org/news/2019/05/1…

@ewarren In 2013, Warren voted in favor of John Brennan - a proponent of drone strikes and targeted killings - to be head of the CIA. But at least any future operations in this area would be "green."

(Bernie voted against.)

foreignpolicy.com/2012/09/19/the…

@ewarren On Israel/Palestine, she supported the brutal 2014 War on Gaza, emergency funds for the "Iron Dome" missle system, opposed a UN resolution condemning illegal settlements, and has been so close to AIPAC that she's been called a "surprising Israel hawk."
forward.com/news/343539/el…

@ewarren On #NorthKorea, Warren has been part of the general "liberal" tendency to goad Trump into being even more belligerent than threatening to destroy them, to the fury of Korean peace activists. Here, she rattles sabers with the Commander of US Forces Korea.

https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/979457592975134720?s=20

@ewarren In fact, Warren voted in favor of a 2017 bill bundling sanctions against North Korea, Russia, and Iran, despite their potential to undermine both the Korea peace process and -according to John Kerry- the Iran deal.

thehill.com/blogs/blog-bri…

@ewarren Warren has also "come around" to supporting sanctions on #Venezuela, which have killed tens of thousands, and failed to call out bipartisan drumbeats - including from the likes of @JoeBiden- for war back in May. In contrast, Sanders was doing this:
commondreams.org/news/2019/05/0…

@ewarren And while Warren has, to her credit, opposed what is perhaps the largest humanitarian crisis on the planet - the war in #Yemen - she has not led on the issue. Sanders, in contrast, has spearheaded the effort to invoke the War Powers Act to stop the war.
edition.cnn.com/2019/04/23/pol…

@ewarren In short, as Sarah Lazare argues, Warren's failure to apply progressive principles abroad follows "in a long line of liberal chauvinists who elevate their compatriots over the rest of the world."
inthesetimes.com/article/21890/…

@ewarren What would a Warren presidency look like, then, in foreign policy? From what we can see, maintaining the military-industrial complex, more sanctions, no justice in the Middle East, more belligerence. In other words, more of the same.

We've run out of time for more of the same.