Obama in Vietnam: Diplomacy Or Deep State Duplicity?

by | May 23, 2016

President Obama’s visit to Vietnam was more about bringing this former adversary into the US sphere of influence against China than about truly developing further mutually-beneficial trade and other relations. The opening of weapons sales to Vietnam will be a boon to the US military-industrial complex (Lockheed-Martin and Raytheon are already eyeing juicy deals) and is designed to cut out the Russians. Pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership is to the benefit of the “deep state” and a new world order of non-elected global governing bodies. And the implied US support for a more confrontational Vietnamese relationship with China shows the “Pivot to Asia” as nothing more than an Asian version of NATO’s policy of encircling Russia. It is a shame that in his “farewell tour” Obama is carrying such dangerous baggage…

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  • Daniel McAdams

    Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and co-Producer/co-Host, Ron Paul Liberty Report. Daniel served as the foreign affairs, civil liberties, and defense/intel policy advisor to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul’s retirement at the end of 2012. From 1993-1999 he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, and traveled through the former communist bloc as a human rights monitor and election observer.

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