On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Brian J. Cavanaugh, a former special assistant to President Donald Trump and a former member of Donald Trump and President Joe Biden’s National Security Council. He discusses the deteriorating international security situation under Biden, Julian Assange finally being freed and reaching a deal with the Biden administration to plead guilty under the Espionage Act, the decline of the US’ image as a democratic ‘shining city on the hill’ given the domestic political turmoil, Assange’s revelations that the US was on the side of Al-Qaeda in Syria and that the US created ISIS, Trump’s foreign policy in his first term and the merits of his approach, what has gone wrong with Biden’s foreign policy concerning the Ukraine proxy war and the Afghanistan withdrawal, the growing alliance between Russia, China, North Korea and Iran, Biden and Blinken’s assertions that the Ukraine proxy war is good for the US economy, the failure of neoliberalism and globalism in international trade and supply chains, the recent event of the Russian warships docking in Cuba and ‘Russia’s willingness to bring limited nuclear warfare to the US’ doorstep’, and much more.
