When the world lives in anticipation of whether Trump’s second term brings promised peace and reduces the risk of nuclear WWIII, the war party is pushing its agenda. The magazine Foreign Affairs, the mouthpiece of the influential Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), warns about the heavy price of American retreat from the world stage and explains why Washington must reject isolationism and embrace primacy. In the article, signed by the outgoing Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell, there is plenty of criticism of his congressional opponents who insist that there be parity between increases in defense and those in nondefense discretionary spending.
McConnell or whoever wrote this article for him calls them isolationists who “unwittingly peddle the fiction that military superiority is cost-prohibitive or even provocative.” In the Senator’s inflated brain, “the United States’ security and prosperity are rooted in military primacy. Preserving that decisive superiority is costly, but neglecting it comes with far steeper costs.”
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