Thread by @AlanRMacLeod

[Thread] Saagar Enjeti presents himself as a pro-worker, conservative populist. But his history suggests otherwise.

My new @MintPressNews investigation.

mintpressnews.com/saagar-enjeti-…

2. Enjeti studied security studies at Georgetown and counter-terrorism at an IDF-linked Israeli university where Mossad spies are trained.

3. He then went to work for the neocon think tank, the Institite for the Study of War, founded by the Kagan dynasty, the intellectual driving force behind the Iraq War. How he can square that with being an anti-war outsider I just don't know.

4. He also worked for the conservative Hudson Institute, full of high Bush-era neocons who are demanding we go to war with China right now.

Hudson is funded by all the usual weapons contractors and giant corporations who would make a killing from a new Cold War with the PRC 🇨🇳.

5. For quite some time he has been laundering Hudson's ultra-hawkish talking points on China, passing them off as populist to his progressive audience.

6. Undisclosed in all this is the gigantic conflict of interest inherent in the fact that Enjeti’s salary at the Hudson Institute came courtesy of piles of cash donated by the anti-China govts of Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.

7. Unfortunately, Rising/Breaking Points is going all in on the lab leak theory, making their coverage on this issue indistinguishable from Fox News (or the Hudson Institute for that matter).

(ht: @SamSacks)

8. Ultimately, looking at his background & professional history, it appears far more likely that he's a standard conservative who's pivoting to the same populist schtick his former boss Tucker Carlson did a few years ago (& which other Hudson fellows have tried with less success)

9. Here is Saagar supporting a global US empire