Bernie Sanders\u2019 defeat was never just about a single arms package. It exposed, in brutal clarity, how insulated U.S. foreign policy remains from the human cost of its decisions. Senators invoked \u201csecurity\u201d and \u201calliance\u201d as shattered neighborhoods and mass graves in Gaza filled television screens, insisting that questioning the flow of weapons was somehow a betrayal, not a duty. For many Americans, that logic rang hollow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead, the vote crystallized a darker truth: that the language of values and human rights often collapses the moment it collides with entrenched geopolitical loyalties. Sanders\u2019 lonely stand forced the country to look directly at the gap between what it claims to defend abroad and what it is willing to tolerate in its name. The question now lingers over Washington like smoke: if this isn\u2019t enough to change course, what ev\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bernie Sanders\u2019 defeat was never just about a single arms package. It exposed, in brutal clarity, how insulated U.S. foreign policy remains from the human cost of its decisions. Senators … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n