Meet Samantha Power: a true believer in "humanitarian intervention" who was jointly responsible in destroying Libya while serving on Obama's National Security Council.
She is now head of @USAID and recently visited Budapest, Hungary to destabilize its government.
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She is now head of @USAID and recently visited Budapest, Hungary to destabilize its government.
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In short, she's a very, very powerful woman who is plugged into the US foreign policy blob:
She did her undergrad at Yale, and then finished Law at Harvard. She also wrote a book called "A Problem From Hell" that took 20th century US governments to task for not intervening to stop genocide abroad (Armenians 1915, Holocaust, Rwanda, etc.)
Her book got her plenty of accolades and awards, including a Pulitzer for Non-Fiction. Her arguments were used to create the International Law concept known as "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P), an argument for military intervention to "protect" those under threat of "genocide".
Rising rapidly through the ranks of the foreign policy set, Obama hired her first as a foreign policy advisor for his 2008 campaign, and then appointed her to his National Security Council (NSC), where she went on to agitate for bombing Libya.
Alongside Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, she convinced Obama to bomb Libya, an act that he later admitted to be the biggest mistake of his Presidency.
R2P was the main thrust of her argument in favour of bombing.
R2P was the main thrust of her argument in favour of bombing.
Even though the USA succeeded in its efforts at regime change in Libya, the fallout was a disaster.
Libya descended into anarchy, slave markets popped up, Salafis moved in, and the migrant spigot closed by Gaddafi and Berlusconi was reopened.
Samantha washed her hands of it.
Libya descended into anarchy, slave markets popped up, Salafis moved in, and the migrant spigot closed by Gaddafi and Berlusconi was reopened.
Samantha washed her hands of it.
Despite this disastrous outcome, she was promoted to US Ambassador to the UN (thanks to support from neo-cons like John McCain and Lindsay Graham, where she did her best to bully the UN into doing the same thing to Syria. This time Obama rejected her advice.
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She ended her posting by viciously attacking Russia in the most undiplomatic language possible for a senior diplomat:
She waited out the Trump Admin by going back to a gig at Harvard, but was immediately named head of @USAID by Biden in Jan of 2021.
What is this woman, the "Typhoid Mary" of international affairs, now doing in Budapest, the capital city of a US ally?
What is this woman, the "Typhoid Mary" of international affairs, now doing in Budapest, the capital city of a US ally?
https://twitter.com/PowerUSAID/status/1623788521369501696
Click here to read the first entry in my new series on regime change and colour revolutions where we will:
take a look at the history of colour revolutions
who the players were/are
the justifications for them
philosophical aspects
and how they were done
niccolo.substack.com/p/regime-chang…
take a look at the history of colour revolutions
who the players were/are
the justifications for them
philosophical aspects
and how they were done
niccolo.substack.com/p/regime-chang…
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