We hear there are two faces of US foreign policy, and that’s why it appears hypocritical.
There is just one face, one outlook. It is the face of Avril Haines, current Director of National Intelligence – and I will pause here for the laughtrack. Not only is there something called national intelligence… it has a Director? How could we have known?
Avril is accurately quoted below, from a presentation on Ukraine and how well it’s going, by none other than a government-allied fact checker:
We perceive a disconnect between Putin’s near-term military objectives in this area and his military’s capacity, a kind of mismatch between his ambitions and what the military is able to accomplish,..
This “mythdetector” piece was written to correct a separate Pravda “misinterpretation” of the US Director of National Intelligence. Haines’ actual speech, like the warmongering former Secretary Mike Pompeo’s linked above, are excellent examples of pot and kettle, a sociopathic inability for self-awareness and self-reflection, with a bit of bull-in-china-shop exuberance, all in one.
We on the other hand, people of the world and half of Americans over the age of 10, perceive that there is a real disconnect between the US government’s near-term military objectives, and our woke, wasteful, and wan corporate military system. We also perceive a mismatch between US government ambitions and the reality of an already-emerged multipolar world.
Realism informs that there are no friends among states, only allied interests, randomly coincidental objectives, fear of destruction and loss, and at the very weak end of the “state relationship” conundrum, financial debts owed.
Perversely and consequently, US foreign policy language is littered with terms like trust, friends, allies, strength through democracy, and the dollar as permanent world reserve currency. Each of these US projections and themes is misleading; none are substantiated by objective reality.
80% of the global population knows this, and many Americans know this. Americans sense that words from government officials, whether on foreign or domestic topics, are often outright lies. NEWSPEAK-style, state utterances inform only when inverted. Americans are bathed daily in chants of human liberty, the sound of freedom making us cozy and infantile, ensconced in our pods. But like growing humans everywhere, we all see and recognize truth long before we can describe and articulate it.
The rest of the world has experienced the American state directly, without the soothing daily body-wash of liberty-sounding words. The rest of the world has an accumulated generational awareness that provides a new global mythology – one that explains reality, rather than defying it.