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- usnews@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- usnews@beehaw.org
Richard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests
For Donald Trump, he is “my envoy”, the man apparently anointed as the former US president’s roving ambassador while he plots a return to the White House.
To critics, he is seen as “an online pest” and “a national disgrace” – and most importantly, the dark embodiment of what foreign policy in a second Trump administration would look like.
Meet Richard Grenell, vocal tribune of Trump’s America First credo on the international stage and the man hotly tipped to become secretary of state if the presumed Republican nominee beats Joe Biden in November’s presidential election.
A senior executive in the rightwing Newsmax cable channel, Grenell, 57, has crafted a persona as the archetypal Trump man, keen and ever-ready to troll liberals, allies and foreign statesmen in public forums and social media.
Grenell – who served as a rambunctious ambassador to Germany and acting director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term – has carved a niche as the articulator-in-chief of a Maga approach to global affairs that appears to echo his political master’s voice.
Probably through the International Democratic Union, headed by Canada’s ex prime minister, Stephen Harper.
When I first learned about the IDU I was pretty horrified. Why are there all these big money right wing groups dedicated to pushing the world to be more right wing and zero left wing counterparts for it?
I KNOW!!!
Maybe because normal people with empathy don’t want to start a new world order where they can take control over their fellow humans to have power over them. Capitalism enables and rewards sociopathy. And sociopaths like to deceive and manipulate others. They get aggressive when they don’t get their way.
Corporations only obligations are to make profits. The left has been and will always be a threat to corporate power and as such has always and will continue to rely on the power of the people. There is simply no incentive for corporations to align against their purpose.