Empire..

Never in U.S. history has the country had a president with the voluminous paper trail that followed Biden into the White House, since the Vietnam War.

The picture that emerges is of a man who is dedicated to the U.S. as an Empire, who believes that preserving U.S. national interests and “prestige” on the global stage outweighs considerations of morality or even at times the deaths of innocent people. 

It also reveals a politician who consistently claims to hold bedrock principles but who often strays from those positions in support of a partisan agenda or because he wants a policy adopted regardless of the hypocrisy or contradictions. Nowhere is this dynamic more pronounced than on U.S. wars.

[Jeremy Scahill. April 27 2021]