We can be sure nonetheless that its priorities are no different from those set out in the CIA memo of 2010. Biden's cabinet, the media has been excitedly trumpeting, is the most "diverse" ever, with women especially prominent in the incoming foreign policy establishment.
There has been a huge investment by Pentagon officials and Congressional war hawks in pushing for Michà �le Flournoy to be appointed as the first female defense secretary. Flournoy, like Biden's pick for secretary of state, Tony Blinken, has played a central role in prosecuting every US war dating back to the Bill Clinton administration.
The other main contender for the spot is Jeh Johnson, who would become the first black defense secretary. As Biden dithers, his advisers' assessment will focus on who will be best positioned to sell yet more war to a war-weary public.
The role of the imperial project is to use violence as a tool to capture and funnel ever greater wealth -- whether it be resources seized in foreign lands or the communal wealth of domestic western populations -- into the pockets of the power establishment, and to exercise that power covertly enough, or at a great enough distance, that no meaningful resistance is provoked.
A strong dose of identity politics may buy a little more time. But the war economy is as unsustainable as everything else our societies are currently founded on. Sooner or later the war machine is going to run out of fuel.
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