Notas del episodio
The United States is an imperial power, driven by predatory capitalism with a foreign and security policy aimed at supporting the maintenance of an American Empire. So runs the controversial thesis of Colonel Larry Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell. He asserts that the long running wars which the US has fought in the wake of September 11,2001 have been waged for the deep state and the maintenance and extension of Empire. In his view, US support for Ukraine is motivated by a desire to maintain US hegemony over Europe.
In an extended conversation with Discern This host Lonzo Cook, Colonel Wilkerson shares his independent view of US defense spending, a view at variance with establishment orthodoxy one might expect from a former senior military and government official. He charges th ...