Ron Paul’s Liberty Report:
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…
Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
