Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is your host, Abby Martin. This is the audio of our show.

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For the past four years, we've been covering Trump's dramatic and belligerent escalations in the Empire's wars. But there's a new dawn on the horizon.

President-elect Joe Biden is being celebrated as a return to sanity on the world stage.

Who will restore peaceful cooperation between allies of democracy?

But those words like most everything else from Team Biden are just a bunch of meaningless rhetoric.

Now we can clearly deduce what a Biden foreign policy will look like,

since he's chosen all the major positions for his war cabinet these past weeks. Although not everything

has been filled, he's appointed enough people to let us know exactly how he plans to manage

the empire. Let's look at his key foreign policy picks so far, starting with Anthony Blinken

for Secretary of State. Blinken served as deputy secretary of state under Obama, where he was a hardline

advocate of the war in Libya and tried to push Obama into launching the same type of an all-out war

against Syria. Although Biden campaigned on ending U.S. support for the war in Yemen, Blinken

sped up weapons shipments to Saudi Arabia for his old boss.

But the biggest indicator of his vision, one that's been totally ignored, is that Blinken

was also Biden's closest foreign policy advisor when Biden championed and voted for the invasion

of Iraq, a criminal decision that haunts Biden to this day. Pretty much any politician who championed the Iraq war in those years

has no credibility on foreign policy today.

And all of them must issue apologies and retractions.

But somehow, Blinken has been immune to this,

despite his role being absolutely critical

to getting the Democratic Party support needed to launch the war.

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