The $1.5 trillion in military outlays each year is the scam that keeps on giving—to the military-industrial complex and the Washington insiders—even as it impoverishes and endangers America and the world.

On the surface, US foreign policy seems to bIn the past 20 years, every major US foreign policy objective has failed.e utterly irrational. The US gets into one disastrous war after another — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and Gaza.

“To understand the foreign-policy scam, think of today’s federal government as a multi-division racket controlled by the highest bidders.”

The puzzle is solved by recognizing that American foreign policy is not at all about the interests of the American people. It is about the interests of the Washington insiders, as they chase campaign contributions and lucrative jobs for themselves, staff, and family members. In short, US foreign policy has been hacked by big money.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corruption-of-us-foreign-policy?