The Atlantic has the article It’s Foreign Policy That Distinguishes Bernie This Time.
He’s challenging American exceptionalism in a far more radical way than his 2020 competitors are.
Yes, Bernie has done some fine things with foreign policy. This is probably why I am so disappointed in the areas of foreign policy that he flubs. Read the article to see all the good stuff, and they didn’t even mention his stance against the war in Yemen.
My complaints with Bernie are on three issues. He uses “The Russians are coming!!!” hysteria about their interference in our elections in 2016. without even thinking of comparing their lack of impact to the impact of our own oligarchs’ news media interfering in our elections with all the lies they tell.
He conceded far too much of the oligarchs’ lies about Venezuela as if he doesn’t know that the USA has been fighting an economic war on Venezuela for 20 years. Our main issue in our unlawful war is that Chavez and Maduro have been too nice to the poor and working class in Venezuela at the expense of Venezuelan and USA oligarchs. What the oligarchs are doing to Maduro in Venezuela is a textbook lesson on what the oligarchs will do to Bernie Sanders after he is elected.
He also seems to accept too many of the oligarchs’ news media lies about Assad in Syria. Our illegal interference is mainly because Assad chose not to build the pipeline that Saudia Arabia wanted through Syria, but instead opted for the pipeline that Russia wanted. Fortunately, Russia saved Obama’s bacon when he was about to take foolish action over the false flag chemical attacks in Syria that Obama accused Assad of perpetrating.