Tom Cotton Admits The U.S. Doesn't Actually Care About Spreading Democracy

Tom Cotton Admits The U.S. Doesn't Actually Care About Spreading Democracy

Feb. 1, 2025

U.S. EMPIRE - FOLLOW THE MONEY

Caitlin Johnstone

It’s not very often you hear a U.S. empire manager come right out and admit they only care about planetary hegemony and that their whole schtick about spreading freedom and democracy is a sham.

Warmongering senator Tom Cotton made an interesting comment during the confirmation hearings for Tulsi Gabbard the other day which acknowledged the mostly unspoken truth that the U.S. government cares less about whether the nations it partners with are free and democratic than how well they serve U.S. interests.

“In a fallen world, we have to take our friends where we find them,” Cotton said. “No question, stable democracies make the most stable friends, but what matters in the end is less whether a country is democratic or non-democratic, and more whether the country is pro-American or anti-American.”

“I’ll confess that those views may be somewhat unconventional, but look at where conventional thinking has got us,” Cotton added.

Far from being unconventional, the senator from Arkansas is simply stating out loud the standard foreign policy orthodoxy which all Beltway swamp monsters share but tend to keep between themselves. It’s not very often you hear a U.S. empire manager come right out and admit they only care about planetary hegemony and that their whole schtick about spreading freedom and democracy is a sham. They’ll pick a U.S. crony dictator over a sovereign democratically elected leader ten times out of ten.

Just something to keep in mind the next time U.S. warmongers start clamoring for more regime change interventionism in a strategically valuable country in order to liberate its people from tyranny.

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