An Overview of the History and Future of US Foreign and National Security Policy

Including a full copy of my Powerpoint presentation.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill smiling along with Josef Stalin—the most murderous dictator in human history at the time—as they prepare to cravenly and unconditionally surrender central and eastern Europe to nearly half a century of tyrannical Soviet enslavement at the Yalta Conference in January 1945

Last night, I had the pleasure of briefing a large group of patriotic Americans to go over the history and future of US foreign policy and national security policy and what policies I believe US leaders need to change as soon as possible to assure America’s survival. During the presentation, I began by discussed the three major schools of foreign policy thought including neoconservatism, liberal internationalism and realism.

I talked about how realists differ from neoconservatives and liberal internationalists in that they see the world as it really is not as we might wish it to be. Realists champion a policy of peace through strength and recognize the importance of maintaining a strong nuclear arsenal and conventional military forces to deter would be aggressors. They seek to preserve the balance of power while recognizing the vital interests and spheres of influences of other nuclear powers, negotiating compromise agreements with reciprocal concessions when necessary to end unnecessary wars in which we have no vital national interests at stake, if not to prevent them from breaking out altogether. If US leaders were to abandon its policy of liberal hegemony and pursue a realist foreign policy instead, it would serve to promote greater international peace, stability and security while saving the lives of those who would otherwise die in needless wars and conflicts.

I also discussed how America is both a republic and an empire and that our tragic foreign policy mistakes beginning with US entry into the First World War have had ripple effects which have made the world we live in much more dangerous and left Americans far less safe and secure. I then spent the better part of an hour answering audience questions. The problem with empires is the tend to be unduly militaristic, invade other countries and fight endless wars. America is no exception. The British Empire was the largest empire in world history with perhaps the greatest propensity for war given the fact that a British historian recently noted that it had invaded 172 of the 194 nations in existence today. Likewise, the US has had about 250 military operations since the end of the Cold War in 1991 which is a total much higher than the number we had in the previous 215 years while Russia has had only a handful during the same period.

I also talked about how truth is the first casually of war as governments use war propaganda to increase popular support for wars which would be unpopular if the public knew the truth about them. History is written by the victors who often cover up the commission of their evil deeds and war crimes leaving us with a distorted history of past conflicts.

It is said that those who fail to learn from the mistakes of history are condemned to repeat them and that remains true today. While most Americans care little about US foreign policy, it is important that they realize that catastrophic foreign policy errors, such as America’s unholy alliance with the evil Soviet Empire during the Second World War, can potentially have ripple effects throughout history and unintended consequences that can risk the very existence of nations. Perhaps the best example of that is Austria-Hungary’s refusal to accept a British attempt to mediate a compromise solution to its dispute with Serbia following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 masterminded by Serbian military intelligence likely with French and Russian support following the completion of France’s preparations for war. Four to five years later, Austria-Hungary, which was then the second largest country in Europe, had ceased to exist with its territory carved up between eight countries and successor states.

Another less well-known example, which I am about to publish a comprehensive article about are Germany’s fatal errors of refusing to renew its 1887 Reinsurance Treaty with Russia that led it to ally with France and surround it, leading to the outbreak of World War One and its defeat at allied hands as well as its failure to negotiate a defensive alliance which the British offered it from 1898-1902 which had it done would have prevented Britain from allying with France and Russia entirely and ensured German victory with full British support in the First World War. Germany’s failure to align with either Britain or Russia resulted in it losing two world wars and being dismembered into six to seven pieces with a loss of over one-third of its territory and one-quarter of its population. These stark lessons of history help inform us as to what policies the US should implement do to ensure we don’t suffer the same fate as these former great powers in the realization that no empire endures forever not even our own.

Today, President Biden’s provocative foreign policy towards Russia and Communist China which I have denounced as a policy of national suicide has created the greatest existential threat the US has ever faced by pushing Russia and China into an ever-closer military alliance and provoking them to attack us by attempting to expand America’s sphere of influence into their backyards in Eastern Europe and Taiwan. Back in 2019, I toured the ruins of the ancient Roman Empire’s capital city. I sometimes wonder if one day foreign visitors will come to tour the ruins of Washington, DC the former capital of the American Empire. We would be foolish to delude ourselves into believing it can’t happen here in the false assumption that America is too powerful because history shows empires often collapse and end unexpectedly.

US leaders do not realize that we live in a largely unprotected glass house and believe they can continue to throw rocks at and poke the eyes of our more powerful nuclear superpower enemies and they will not retaliate by throwing rocks back at us and shattering our great country to such an extent that we will never be able to put it back together again. In this presentation, I detail diplomatic initiatives and national security strategies we can successfully utilize to avoid war with our nuclear superpower enemies and ensure the US endures for many decades to come.

While it is true that we have a powerful military, it is much weaker than it has ever been relative to our enemies than it has been at any time in our history. US intelligence now estimates Communist China spends $700 billion a year on its military in nominal dollar terms which equates to $1.19 trillion a year in PPP terms. While the Biden administration has requested $842 billion for the US Department of Defense appropriations, it is frustrating to realize that America has never been less safe and secure than it is today and remains almost entirely unprotected against the existential threats of nuclear missile and super-Electromagnetic (EMP) attack. Rather than invest the $200 billion we need for us to defend against these existential threats and save the lives of 275 million Americans who would likely perish in such an attack, the Biden administration has opted to send $196 billion to Ukraine to defend a nation half a world away with which we have no security commitment.

These are just some of the many topics I discuss in my thirty-eight slide briefing.

Here is a copy of my presentation: