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“Biden is a senile warmonger” – veteran US Diplomat Chas Freeman
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“Our foreign policy is diplomacy free.”
As he watches the escalating crises in our world today, this is the main takeaway for Chas Freeman, who, as the US ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War, knows a thing about diplomacy.
“It’s a lot cheaper and more effective to sit down and talk to someone than to pull a gun on them and shoot them,” he says. “But that’s what we seem to have substituted for our normal course of diplomatic interaction.”
Freeman explains the leading cause of forever wars: “There's nobody quite as bloodthirsty as a civilian with no experience of war.” As shown in the episode thumbnail above (side note: you know it’s a bad crew if the most likable character in the picture is Matthew Miller), the warmongers in charge of foreign policy are all civilians. When the top US general Mark Milley called for peace talks in Ukraine, it was these bad actors who shut it down.
“The military know that they can die in a war, that their comrades will die,” says Freeman. “They know that you should never enter a war without figuring out first how you're going to end it, on what terms, and with whom.” But the ‘leaders’ we do have never had to fight. “Civilians typically define no end state, have no war termination strategy, which is why we get forever wars.”
And the future only looks bleaker.
“Here we have an election which is between someone who is widely regarded as a senile war monger and somebody who has been correctly diagnosed as a malignant narcissist.”
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“South Africa was on the verge of having a race war but it never had one. Israel is having a race war.”
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00:00 Intro
00:51 The Four Food Groups of News
08:49 Chas Freeman interview
09:29 Uncommitted shocks Biden
14:01 Our foreign policy is diplomacy-free
20:33 Does Israel have a right to exist?
23:43 Israel vs South Africa
28:08 Aaron Bushnell
33:23 Has this ever happened before?
36:47 Palestine vs Ukraine
41:19 Diplomats kill peace in Ukraine
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