{"id":65655,"date":"2023-08-20T04:59:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T09:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65655"},"modified":"2023-08-20T04:59:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T09:59:53","slug":"summer-of-the-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65655","title":{"rendered":"Summer of the Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SUMMER OF THE HAWKS<\/a><\/h3>\n

Wishful thinking is still the rule among Biden’s foreign policy team, as the slaughter in Ukraine continues<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Oval Office at the White House on June 22. \/ Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

It\u2019s been weeks since we looked into the adventures of the Biden administration\u2019s foreign policy cluster, led by Tony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Victoria Nuland. How has the trio of war hawks spent the summer?<\/p>\n

Sullivan, the national security adviser, recently brought an American delegation to the second international peace summit earlier this month at Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The summit was led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, who in June announced a merger between his state-backed golf tour and the PGA. Four years earlier MBS was accused of ordering the assassination and dismemberment of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, for perceived disloyalty to the state.<\/p>\n

As unlikely as it sounds, there was such a peace summit and its stars did include MBS, Sullivan, and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. What was missing was a representative of Russia, which was not invited to the summit. It included just a handful of heads of state from the fewer than fifty nations that sent delegates. The conference lasted two days, and attracted what could only be described as little international attention.<\/p>\n

Reuters reported that Zelensky\u2019s goal was to get international support for \u201cthe principles\u201d that that he will consider as a basis for the settlement of the war, including \u201cthe withdrawal of all Russian troops and the return of all Ukrainian territory.\u201d Russia\u2019s formal response to the non-event came not from President Vladimir Putin but from Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov. He called the summit \u201ca reflection of the West\u2019s attempt to continue futile, doomed efforts\u201d to mobilize the Global South behind Zelensky.<\/p>\n

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SUMMER OF THE HAWKS Wishful thinking is still the rule among Biden’s foreign policy team, as the slaughter in Ukraine continues National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Oval Office at the White House on June 22. \/ Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images. It\u2019s been weeks since we looked into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5340,821,827,834,862],"class_list":["post-65655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-seymour-hersh","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65657,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65655\/revisions\/65657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}