Link - https://www.reddit.com/r/VaushV/comments/way9nt/gravel_institute_barely_focuses_on_national_issues/
Some cool comments.
Because they are fucking Tankies funded by Russian interest groups. Their agenda is to sow discontent and distrust in America. Divide and conquer.. They should be removed from YouTube for their Ukraine coverage. We need a purge.
Dirt? No? But it’s plain to see. They produced a video justifying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They also only really focus on how America was terrible in the past, and all the crimes they’ve done and other bad shit. Yet refuse to focus on the modern problems that we face.
I miss the 2020 primaries when leftist conversations were dominated by domestic policy. I hate foreign policy with a burning passion
And the thing is, it isn't even realistic. Domestic and foreign policy are inextricably linked. The enclosure of the global south is a very fundamental part of the immiseration of the imperial proletariat. Every time we topple a people's republic and replace it with a band of gangsters. Every time we knock off some once in a generation labor leader so the extractive industries can be marketized and bought out by finance imperialists, we create the conditions which drive deindustrialization and put the imperial proletariat at a disadvantage.
How is some handlebar mustached auto plant worker from Detroit supposed to compete with sweatshop laborers literally living under the boot of a collaborationist military dictatorship. How is a small family farm in Pennsylvania supposed to compete with some big agra factory farm in New Mexico running entirely on exploited migrant labor? Our foreign policy, along with immigration policy and trade agreements are absolutely fundamental to producing the status quo we live in. If we want to have programs like the Green New Deal or Medicare for All, first we need to have leverage. We have none as long as the one trillion dollar a year war machine is able to crush any progress made towards this in the global south.
The entire point of US foreign policy is to ensure any superior alternative to our way of life is strangled in the crib. If we ignore that simple fact, they will strangle us just as easily.