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OUTLOOK

A 2024

From the failure in Afghanistan to the Ukraine adventure, Joe Biden and his coterie of globalists have exposed the Union to a crisis that will not be easy to resolve. Are the alternatives for 2024 better?

 

By Sidney Hey

The atmosphere is heating up in Washington on the eve of the next presidential elections in 2024 and the candidates with ambitions for the next White House presidency are already emerging. Among the most vociferous are Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, two politicians who, despite being members of the same Republican Party, have a very different vision of US politics. Because they represent clearly antagonistic sectors that use the party as a platform for advancement (https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/nikki-haley-the-most-reckless-candidate-for-president/ ).

The war in the Ukraine is the clearest issue that highlights the internal discord and contortions that are replicated among both Democrats and Republicans. On both sides there is a tug-of-war between those in favour of war and those seeking to end the foreign interventionism that has done so much damage to the country. It is clear that the next administration will decide whether there will be more war or respect for multilateralism.

As we know, there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to foreign policy. They both go over the heads of international humanitarian law and by virtue of that they can be extremely harmful as is already corroborated by the precedents in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan, not to mention all the implications against civil rights that ended up falling on their own citizens with all the repressive engineering under the argument of the war on terror.

It seems that the neocon Republicans have learned nothing. Protagonists of the war interventions of the last 30 years to the present, they have contributed to the current global crisis. Belligerence remains their policy of choice as if all the disastrous precedents for US policy and world peace were not bad enough.

The Democratic Obama administration and the actions of his Secretary of State John Kerry and his maaate employee Victoria Nuland were the seeds of the war that is tearing Ukraine apart today. Russia's invasion is a consequence of that interference, its failure to honour its commitments and its refusal to guarantee the strategic security of the Russian Federation.

So far the Biden administration has succeeded in making Ukrainians and human resources in several countries sacrifice themselves for the plans of its globalist agenda. But expectations in the upcoming elections are already raising counter-visions to this madness that, though they now quietly disavow, many supported the war effort.

But if things are bad because of the war, there are candidates who aspire to make them worse.

Nikki Haley, the former governor of Southern California and US representative to the United Nations during Donald Trump's administration, has been noted for her unabashed advocacy of aggression in Syria, and in particular for arguing at every turn about the hoaxes about chemical attacks in “Khan Sheikhoun” that tried to be pinned on the government of Bashar Al Assad.

As a staunch Zionist supporter, Haley is an enthusiastic and committed supporter of efforts to try to destroy Syria and Iran as an invaluable strategic asset to Israel.

Other qualities that she herself highlights is having as a model of feminism none other than former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who, as those who knew her well know, was anything but a feminist. Another of her self-confessed role models is Hillary Clinton, whose only feminist trait is her use of feminism as electioneering capital.

Haley criticises Joe Biden not for getting the US into a colossal war catastrophe in Europe, but for being too slow and weak in his decisions to support the ultra-nationalist regime in Kiev, and in that extremist view, that support has not been enough. But Haley does not seem to consider the reality of public opinion within the US that is reluctant to continue feeding the Kiev regime.

On the other hand, there is candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, a young billionaire businessman who stands on the opposite side of the fence between those who consider Biden's administration a disaster and especially Washington's involvement in the war in Ukraine, something that must end. He is also convinced that the US should distance itself from Volodymyr Zelensky who, as has already been made very clear, despite being Jewish and intending to turn his country -strategically and in terms of a perpetual arms deal- into “an Israel”, scandalously embarrasses a large part of the world Jewish community with his open links to the neo-Nazi sectors that control Ukraine.

For this candidate, Zelensky is an unpresentable character to say the least. He is not only a brazen and insatiable money-grubber, but also a repressive politician who is the antipode of democracy. In that sense he is the author of brutal censorship of his country's press, of eradicating opposition parties and arresting those who oppose the madness he unleashed and suspected of having ordered the murder of fractious officials, of having Russian language books and authors burned, and of a much discussed persecution of the Orthodox Church, arresting many of its members on charges of being pro-Russian.

As a presidential candidate, Ramaswamy also made it clear that the West, led by the US, was pushing Russia to the current outcome. From his perspective and if he reaches the White House, he proposes to end the war, a position that brings him closer to Donald Trump's declarations, who, if he manages to get rid of the judicial processes against him, could join him as his vice-presidential running mate. Even Trump himself, in an interview on Blaze TV, called Ramaswamy “a smart guy...A young guy who's very talented”, among other compliments.

RealClearPolitics polls seem to be polling him very well as they put him in third place behind Donald Trump and Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.

This makes it very clear that the Establishment, which responds to the “system” that seeks to leave everything as it is and in which the neo-conservatives and their close allies who live off the gestation of intrigues and wars take refuge, has begun to give them a migraine.