Gareth Porter, independent historian and investigative journalist for IPS News and Antiwar.com, discusses the themes in his article ‘Georgia War Rooted in US Self-Deceit on NATO,’ how the national security bureaucracy dominates American policy to the detriment of the rest of Americans’ interests, the rise of the empire after World War II, how American Cold War policy pushed China toward Russia until the 1970s, the imperial bureaucrats desire to expand NATO up to the Russian border to weaken them, the often conflicting views between the American military and corporate policy ambitions and the multitude of excuses given to retain our many hundreds of military bases around the world.
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