im still thinking this one through.
ive always seen our foreign policy as an economic ( and sometimes security ) issue.
to me it seems we undermine africa, and the middle east, and venezuela because it’s the best way to extract resources, and to enrich powerful people. we’re nominally friendly with a place like turkey - despite their government - because they’re a throughway, not resource rich.
where folks like those in the bush administration can use racism to further their agenda, they do. but their goal isn’t white supremacy.
im saying this poorly, but it feels to me like our foreign policy is based on short term interests, and while racism bends those interests, the policies arent primarily about race. ( and this differs from trump, imo. )
that’s just my take. im still to process a lot from close friends who see no difference between trump and clinton, because they feel both are racist, one’s just more explicit about it than the other.
