Analyst Warns of More U.S. Wars Under Neo-Imperialists Trump, Rubio

More than any other individual today, Marco Rubio represents the relationship between the Washington consensus on foreign policy and the approach of Donald Trump—assuming there is a coherent approach to speak of—lawyer David S. D’Amato wrote in an analysis for CounterPunch.

Both Trump and Rubio have implemented a view of the supposed rules-based international order that permits the U.S. to aggress against sovereign states with impunity. (Photo: Marco Rubio)

Both of these schools believe with religious passion that the U.S. should—and indeed must—dominate the world militarily and economically.

Both have implemented a view of the supposed rules-based international order that permits the U.S. to aggress against sovereign states with impunity.

If this is a mask-off moment for many Americans, then at least they now know the stakes. They are beginning to see what critics of the government’s lawless aggression and naked imperialism have been pointing out for decades.

Trump’s unapologetic aggression has given Americans an opportunity to better understand their history.

This episode is part of a pattern in which the U.S. either invades a country or supports, in one way or another, the ouster of democratically elected leaders in order to install dictators friendly to U.S. geopolitical interests and U.S. companies.

Americans should not be surprised that Congress was not notified prior to the weekend’s attacks on Venezuela’s sovereignty.

The executive branch has attacked and invaded dozens of sovereign countries without congressional authorization in the roughly 80 years since World War II. The U.S. government long ago stopped respecting either the Constitution or international law in its foreign policy decisions.