×
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Weaknesses Of The National Security Strategy 2022 - Part 8: The ... - Countercurrents.org

In this series I’ve been identifying and refuting the claims made in the National Security Strategy 2022, which I refer to as the Sullivan & Biden NSS, even though it’s not known whether or not Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, took part in writing the document. He himself states that Tom Wright, Sasha Baker, and Rebecca Lissner were “instrumental in putting together” the NSS.[1]

It has been very unpleasant for me to work on this toxic thing called the NSS, but I feel it’s important to let people know about it and I don’t think US policymakers should be able to get away with saying the types of things they say in the NSS without refutation. NSS weaknesses come in different forms: illogical statements, untruthful statements, poor strategies, and the omission of good ideas. In this last essay, we’ll focus especially on the statements made about Russia.

I began my youtube channel with an essay and video about the Cultural Script. A nation that believes in a Cultural Script feels compelled to act out a certain role in a certain drama, year after year.[2] Unfortunately, the US has been engaged in adhering to this belief in a Cultural Script since Day 1 with the Native Americans. In conflict after conflict for 245 years, the USG has portrayed itself as a noble hero rescuing innocent victims from an evil, malicious persecutor, against which it must use violence and force for goodness to win. It’s a recipe for self-righteous, hateful violence.

Belief in this...



Read Full Story: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMitQFodHRwczovL2NvdW50ZXJjdXJyZW50cy5v...