After 40 years in the US Senate, Republican Mitch McConnell, Kentucky, has finally retired. He made the announcement on the month anniversary of President Donald Trump's second term, February 20th.
McConnell has good reasons to retire, most obviously his poor health. He's literally frozen like a computer that malfunctions multiple times while talking. However, in his farewell speech, he did not mention his worsening health, which was revealed in 2023. But he suggested his dissatisfaction with the changing winds of Republican politics.
Like fellow neoconservatives, the voting records of Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkovsky of Alaska, and perhaps modern-day neoconservative poster boys Mitt Romney of Utah and McConnell are the ones who are the voting records of them. It is a major disappointment for constituencies that prefer representatives of the. McConnell scored a 56% lifetime score on the New American's Freedom Index, one of the best tools to accurately assess legislators' fidelity to the US Constitution, or their lack of it.
Anyone who wants to be a member of the Neoconvative Club seems to have to support, first and foremost, a constant war. “The Enduring War for Enduring Peace” is a game plan, and Wayne Allensworth observed in his Chronicle essay entitled “Return of the War Geek.” Retired CIA analyst, Allensworth points to the absurdity of a strategy that calls for everyone to bombardment into obedience until there is peace and “democratic” value around the world.
Harris' neocon
A parade of neocons came out in support of Kamala Harris before the 2025 presidential election. Mainstream media didn't get enough of it. Among the Republican exiles were the father-daughter Cheney team and more than 200 Republicans who worked for both President Bush, Senator John McCain and Romney. Allensworth believes that they supported Harris because they viewed the Trump presidency as a threat to war machinery.
For globalists, victory in the Cold War was merely a prelude to conquer the entire planet. … Patriots simply believed that the collapse of communism meant that America could refocus on domestic issues and address the demographic, cultural and moral erosion of our country. . These are not relationships about what neocons share. Just as Republican membership is merely a means of ends, America is nothing more than a platform for epic design.
“National Security”
McConnell's voting records support war and other interventionist policies. He is not openly saying he supports the creation of one world order. Rather, he justifies his position on the noble façade of “national security.” In his farewell speech, he cheated fellow senators for not prioritizing national security. He justified the endless war in the context of issues that Americans actually care about.
There is no place to hide from Article 1 obligation on this floor. Our role in equipping the unique relationship between the Senate and Article 3, or Article 2 powers. Here, all discussions on agriculture, infrastructure, education and taxes are downstream of the national security obligation. All issues of policy at home are subject to the obligation to provide a common defense.
Everyone agrees that without domestic security, other issues are secondary. But neocons want to chase after all the bad guys in the half-world who get in the way of Western-led “rule-based orders.” The United States has built around 750 military bases around the world, with at least 2,000 military personnel deployed. What other reasons are there to do this besides building a global empire?
Meanwhile, in America, bridges have collapsed, downtown collapsed, crime has been ramped, food prices have passed through the roof, roads have pot holes, planes crashed into helicopters, firefighters have It develops attractive ignorance. Of the basic human biology, energy prices have bankrupted citizens, and chronic disease endemic diseases have infected more than half of the population.
Additionally, US interventionism has not achieved domestic goals. Americans are not safe for that. Hundreds of known terrorists have tried or succeeded in sneaking into the country during the Biden administration's open border jackpot. Almost all of them are welcome from the Middle East, and decades of US interventionism have encouraged the creation of more extreme jihadist groups, anti-American extremist factions, and hatred towards Americans. As Tarsi Gabbard, the new director of national intelligence, pointed out at the confirmation hearing, “Iraqi invasion based solely on full manufacturing or complete failure of intelligence, thousands of American soldiers, mass immigrants and regions. The destabilisation of the deaths of the rise of ISIS, and the strengthening of al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups.
Supports unipolar order
McConnell voted against Gabbard's confirmation because of what was deemed “a lapse of judgment.” She happened to be extremely critical of America's “eternal war.” He also voted against the Secretary of Defense. He believed he threatened “our global interests.”
Neocons such as McConnell recognize Gabbard and Hegseth's views as threats to the collapsed unipolar order. McConnell wrote the essay in the January/February 2025 diplomatic edition. This is the publication of the Globalist Think Tank Council (CFR) entitled “Prices for American Retreats: Why Washington Should Reject Isolationism and Accept Advantage.” He starts with a warning that America's first agenda threatens the globalist one-on-one agenda.
While competition between China and Russia is a global challenge, I have heard that Trump should definitely prioritize a single theatre and downgrade US interests and commitments elsewhere. It has its own end, with progressive liberals who mislead internationalism itself. The right was stripped in the face of European Russian invasions, while the left demonstrated chronic allergies in deterring Iran and supporting Israel. Neither camp is committed to maintaining military superiority or maintaining the alliances necessary to challenge revisionist powers. As the US continues to retreat, its enemies will be too happy to fill the void.
America's first
He's right. The US-controlled unipolar world is falling apart. The Trump administration has shown that it knows this and has no plans to stop it. Instead, it does something completely wild. It intends to concentrate in the country where people who hold them in power are inhabited. Here's what Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with Megin Kelly on January 30th:
The way the world has always worked is what China does for China's greatest profit, Russians for Russia's greatest profit, Chileans bring the greatest profit of unity with Chile It's about doing it. States must do it for the best US profits. If our interests match, it is where you have partnerships and alliances. If our differences do not match, it is to prevent conflict while understanding that the work of diplomacy promotes our national interests and further promotes theirs. And it was lost.
And I think we were lost at the end of the Cold War, as we were the only power in the world. So, in many cases, they took on this responsibility to become a world government in an attempt to solve all the problems. And terrible things are happening in the world. There is. And there are horrible things that directly affect our national interests, and we need to prioritize them again. Therefore, it is not normal for the world to have simple electricity. It wasn't – it was extraordinary. It was the product of the end of the Cold War, but ultimately you were going to go back to the point where you have a multipolar world, a multipolar world in different parts of the earth. We are now facing China and to some extent Russia. And you have a rigged situation like Iran and North Korea that you have to deal with.
The Trump administration has not only taken steps to resolve the peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, but also said it is working on a “economic development” deal. On Monday, Trump announced he was talking to Putin about “major economic development transactions” between the US and Russia.
Angry neocon
This is something that drives neocons crazy. McConnell wrote in his essay:
Today's Revanchist Powers does not seek deeper integration with the existing international order. They reject the basis.
If it had been up to McConnell, the US would have been in a hot war with Russia.
The George W. Bush administration's failure to respond vigorously to Putin's invasion of Georgia in 2008 was a missed opportunity to fine-tune the Russian attack in the buds… With it becoming clear that Putin will launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I urged Biden to provide meaningful and deadly aid to Ukraine and expand the footprint of the US military in Europe. Ta. But the president got in the way.
McConnell's term ends in 2026. Perhaps by next year, Kentucky's greats will decide to elect a US senator who cares more about the problems they face than Ukraine.
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