1/ “Even if a new president proposes sweeping reforms, Congress would block or severely #weaken them. In #foreignpolicy, however, a new president could reshape the world with a few strokes of the pen. @StephenKinzer
@stephenkinzer 2/ “A president could bring the U.S. back into the Iran nuclear deal; lift sanctions on Venezuela; offer to begin peace talks with Russia & China; pull American troops out of the ME; stop promoting the overthrow of foreign governments @StephenKinzer
@stephenkinzer 3/ 3 candidates are fully wedded to the paradigm of #conflict & #confrontation that shapes American #foreignpolicy: #JoeBiden, #AmyKlobuchar, & #PeteButtigieg.
@stephenkinzer 4/ “As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, #Biden was a key promoter of the #IraqWar. He sees #Russia as America’s eternal #enemy. @StephenKinzer
@stephenkinzer 5/ “#Biden’s world view, encapsulated in his warning that ‘when we create the vacuum, the bad guys step in,’ is a recipe for eternal #conflict. @StephenKinzer
@stephenkinzer 6/ “#Peace lies in precisely the opposite direction: allowing countries to shape their own futures rather than insisting on dominating them. @StephenKinzer
@stephenkinzer 7/ “#Klobuchar’s credentials as a Cold Warrior are most evident in her full-throated support for nationalists in Ukraine, motivated partly by connections to the Ukrainian community in her home state of Minnesota. @StephenKinzer
@stephenkinzer 8/ “Pouring #weapons into #Ukraine & pushing that country toward #confrontation with Russia is one of #Klobuchar’s few FP priorities. The other is ‘to bring in American support in a big way for #Israel.’ In a recent interview she was unable to name the president of Mexico.”
@stephenkinzer 9/ “#Buttigieg visited #Israel in May, arriving just four days after Israeli soldiers killed dozens of Palestinians protesting the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem. He praised the Israelis for being ‘very effective when it comes to security.’”
@stephenkinzer 10/ “#Buttigieg also supports #overthrowing the government of #Venezuela, asserting that it ‘has lost the legitimacy to govern.’ He shares the #Biden-#Klobuchar view that the United States has the right to decide which foreign governments may live and which must #die.”
@stephenkinzer 11/ “The billionaire candidate, #MikeBloomberg, not only supported the #IraqWar, but endorsed the re-election of George W. Bush in 2004.
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@stephenkinzer 12/ “#ElizabethWarren’s #foreignpolicy platform is remarkably #undeveloped. She mouths appealing platitudes, but her list of FP advisers is loaded with veterans of the Pentagon, the State Department & Washington think tanks that support #sanctions & military #intervention.”
@stephenkinzer 13/ “No one, perhaps not even #Warren herself, knows what a Warren foreign policy would look like.” @StephenKinzer
@stephenkinzer 14/ “#Bernie pledges to take the U.S. out of ‘the business of regime change.’ Yet he has said he will view #Russia as an adversary or #enemy if it does not change its policies; @StephenKinzer
@stephenkinzer 15/ “would consider a pre-emptive strike on #Iran or #NorthKorea to prevent them from testing a #nuclearweapon & might use #militaryforce for “#humanitarianintervention. @StephenKinzer
@stephenkinzer 16/ ”Major @TulsiGabbard of the Army National Guard, who is also a member of Congress, her #foreignpolicy views are so far outside the mainstream that she has been frozen out of most television coverage of the campaign & demonized as a near-lunatic.”
@stephenkinzer @TulsiGabbard 17/ “Those views, as summarized in one supporter’s tweet, terrify almost everyone in Washington: “End wasteful wars; Bring troops home; Reduce military budget; Use #peace dividend for people; Non-interventionism; Respect sovereignty of nations.” @StephenKinzer
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