The empire strikes back - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine
Monday 21 December 2020, by Ashley Smith Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to win the presidency in a contest almost entirely focused on domestic policy. Biden ran on overcoming the pandemic and restoring bourgeois “norms,” while Trump ran on keeping the economy open and stoking up white nationalist bigotry. During all the debates about the election, the socialist Left had little to no serious discussion of the two candidates’ foreign policy. [1]” That Biden’s first act after securing victory was to announce nominees for his national security team has finally forced this conversatio...