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Jim "Mad Dog" Mattis co-authored [with three others] a column calling for an end to President Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy. The "Dog" forgot to mention that he's with the Cohen Group, (TCG) an international business firm with deep pockets in Communist China, the country that spread the coronavirus throughout the world and blamed it on America.
The column was published by Foreign Affairs and entitled “Defense in Depth: Why U.S. Security Depends on Alliances—Now More Than Ever.” It called for an increase in international cooperation [aka appeasement] with Communist China to counteract their influence "which could potentially undermine the American way of life."
The column was published by Foreign Affairs and entitled “Defense in Depth: Why U.S. Security Depends on Alliances—Now More Than Ever.” It called for an increase in international cooperation [aka appeasement] with Communist China to counteract their influence "which could potentially undermine the American way of life."
The column showed Mattis' roles at the Hoover Institution and former Secretary of Defense, but never mentioned his work as "senior counselor" since September 2019 with the Cohen Group. They merely advise clients on international business deals and have two offices in China.
[H/T The Washington Times]
TCG describes China in positive terms: "a market of enormous opportunity and complexity." Perhaps the complexity comes from their currency manipulation and government-owned businesses.
“TCG enables Fortune 500 Companies, as well as small- and medium-sized enterprises, to achieve their commercial goals in China through tailored government, business, and media relations strategies,” the website claims.
When President Trump began his first term in 2016 he took a patriotic, hardline stance on Communist China as he placed a series of tariffs on Chinese-made goods which started a trade war.
The Mattis column states that the USA should “maintain robust alliances in Asia,” return to a leadership role in international organizations and seek to diversity global supply chains to reduce reliance on Chinese-made goods.
The article called on the presumptive President-elect Joseph Robinette Biden’s leftist administration to “quickly revise the national security strategy to eliminate “America first” from its contents, restoring in its place the commitment to cooperative security that has served the United States so well for decades.”
Since being escorted out the door of the Trump administration in 2019, Mattis has been critical of the "Bad Orange Man."
Upon seeing the article, Trump, never one to censor whatever ran through his mind, tweeted that he "should have fired him [Mattis] sooner" and predictably called him the "world's most overrated general."
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also pushed back on Mattis’ remarks:
"I have a lot of respect for Jim, but he's just dead wrong on that," Pompeo told Fox News' "Special Report" host Bret Baier. "'America First' has been at its heart, a recognition that when America is secure at home, when America does good things for our own economy, for our own prosperity, that America will be a force for good.”
"I have a lot of respect for Jim, but he's just dead wrong on that," Pompeo told Fox News' "Special Report" host Bret Baier. "'America First' has been at its heart, a recognition that when America is secure at home, when America does good things for our own economy, for our own prosperity, that America will be a force for good.”
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