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Antony Blinken | |
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| Born | 16 April 1962 (aged 61) Yonkers, New York, United States |
| Political orientation | Neoconservatism |
| Political party | Democratic |
Antony John Blinken (born 16 April 1962) is a Statesian politician and the current U.S. Secretary of State. He described China as the "most serious long-term challenger to the international order."[1]
Blinken supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2011 assault on Libya.[2]
Blinken co-founded the company WestExec Advisors in 2017, which is involved in helping "Silicon Valley start-ups to land contracts at the Pentagon" and enabling the Department of Defense in accessing cutting-edge commercial technology to adapt it to military purposes, among other activities relating to the military-industrial complex.[3][4]
In the 1980s, Blinken interviewed Henry Kissinger for his Harvard senior thesis about the trans-Siberian pipeline,[5] which the U.S. attempted to sabotage by various unilateral economic means in the early 1980s to prevent the pipeline's construction between Russia and Western Europe.[6] Regarding the pipeline issue, Blinken wrote the 1987 book Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe, and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis in which he explores the inherent and persistent fractures in the Western alliance which stem from the fundamental difference between US and European economic interests in trading with the Eastern Bloc, which he explains are particularly inflamed in peacetime and by megaprojects, such as gas pipelines, and that future megaprojects are likely to raise continued inner tensions among the Western allies.[7]
Disinformation
Blinken claimed that the Soviet Union covered up the 1941 Babi Yar massacre, the largest single massacre of Jews during World War II, in which German Nazis and Ukrainian Nazi collaborators murdered more than 34,000 Jews as well as tens of thousands of Roma and Communists. In reality, while Soviet media didn't place as much emphasis on the Jewish aspect of Babi Yar as it should have, the Soviets did liberate Babi Yar in 1943 and they did try 15 German policemen for the crime in 1946.[8]
References
- ↑ Amanda Yee (2023-04-13). "Containment, encirclement, and suppression: U.S. policy and the new Cold War on China" Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2023-09-25.
- ↑ Johnson, Jake. “Biden’s Secretary of State Pick Showed Support of Iraq and Libya Invasions.” Truthout. November 23, 2020. Archived 2023-06-10.
- ↑ “The Secretive Consulting Firm That’s Become Biden’s Cabinet in Waiting.” POLITICO. November 23, 2020. Archived 2023-07-15.
- ↑ Fang, Lee. “Former Obama Officials Help Silicon Valley Pitch the Pentagon for Lucrative Defense Contracts.” The Intercept. July 22, 2018. Archived 2023-09-14.
- ↑ Guyer, Jonathan. “I Crashed Henry Kissinger’s 100th-Birthday Party.” Intelligencer. June 8, 2023. Archived 2023-08-29.
- ↑ Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, Angela Romano. “The Iran Nuclear Deal Crisis: Lessons from the 1982 Transatlantic Dispute over the Siberian Gas Pipeline.” Bruegel. May 28, 2018. Archived 2023-08-16.
- ↑ Blinken, Antony J. "Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe, and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis." Praeger, 1987.
- ↑ "Blinken factchecked: X users give U.S. Secretary of State history lesson". Al Mayadeen. Retrieved 2023-10-05.