More NATO Liberals: From the End of the Cold War to War in Ukraine (G&R 152)

Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · Apr 5, 2022 · 48m

Part two of our deep background on the NATO liberals.

In this episode, we get into the post-Cold War presidencies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The post-Cold War Clinton era is particularly instructive for U.S. foreign policy and empire today. Keeping Europe divided, Russia weak and flexing the military industrial complex muscle (i.e. massive defense budgets) on "teacup wars" in places like the former Yugoslavia and Iraq are all part of the American hegemonic project. They maintained stability and allowed markets to grow.

The Obama administration continued the Clinton and Bush…