{"id":1547738,"date":"2022-07-11T05:04:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T09:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1547738"},"modified":"2022-07-11T05:04:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T09:04:21","slug":"the-koch-soros-crackup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-koch-soros-crackup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Koch-Soros Crackup"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">6<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-koch-soros-crackup%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1547738&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>A few years ago, the Koch brothers and George Soros had a dream. What if the anti-war left joined forces with the isolationist right and worked together to bring U.S. foreign policy back to the 1930s?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>From this unholy alliance sprung the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. The mission: make America neutral again. Finally appeasers in Washington had a safe space to apologize for Russian oligarchs, Iranian terrorists, and Chinese communists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Well, all good things must come to an end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>An all-star in the Koch-Soros foreign policy alliance, Joseph Cirincione, announced on Thursday his resignation from the Quincy Institute: &#8220;They excuse Russia\u2019s military threats and actions because they believe that they have been provoked by U.S. policies,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/politico-influence\/2022\/07\/07\/kobre-kim-signs-russian-oligarch-00044583\">told <\/a><\/span><em><span>Politico<\/span><\/em><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cirincione is not just some disgruntled scholar. He is the former president of Ploughshares, a grant-making organization that was not just a recipient of the Soros organization\u2019s politicized philanthropy, but a gatekeeper and driver of it\u2014deciding which pinkos would prosper and which would starve. <\/span><i><span>Mother Jones<\/span><\/i><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2022\/07\/quincy-institute-cirincione-eaton-resignations-nato-ukraine\/\"> reports<\/a> that Cirincione helped connect Quincy to major donors in its early days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His change of heart on Quincy is surely a weathervane for other elements of the Soros network. Indeed, Soros himself has been signaling in the last year that he favors a much tougher policy on China than the one offered up by the Quincy crowd, which released a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/quincyinst.org\/report\/threat-inflation-and-the-chinese-military\/\"><span>major study<\/span><\/a><span> in June that found the Chinese military build up was nothing to worry about and has warned of the perils of &#8220;threat inflation&#8221; when it comes to China\u2019s military expansion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Soros, by contrast, came very close to endorsing regime change. &#8220;It is to be hoped that Xi Jinping may be replaced by someone less repressive at home and more peaceful abroad,&#8221; he told an audience at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgesoros.com\/2022\/01\/31\/george-soros-on-china-remarks-delivered-at-the-hoover-institution\/\"><span>Hoover Institution<\/span><\/a><span> in January, calling Xi &#8220;the greatest threat that open societies face today.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trita Parsi, a co-founder and executive vice president of Quincy, as well as somebody who could be confused for an Iranian agent\u2014at least <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2008cv0705-189\"><span>according to a federal judge<\/span><\/a><span>\u2014told <\/span><i><span>Mother Jones<\/span><\/i><span> he\u2019s bewildered that Cirincione would suggest the think tank was avoiding criticism of Russia. But he acknowledges that Quincy is &#8220;not going along with the idea that it\u2019s a good thing to change the objectives in Ukraine towards weakening Russia, because we believe that could lead to endless war.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As the Quincy Institute <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/quincyinst.org\/2020\/03\/06\/the-u-s-taliban-deal-is-not-a-military-withdrawal-it-should-be\/\"><span>demonstrated<\/span><\/a><span> so spectacularly in Afghanistan, one sure fire way to end endless war is to lose the war quickly and all at once.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As for the interpersonal drama that we assume is engulfing the Quincy Institute, and the enmity growing between teams Koch and Soros\u2014may that war truly be endless.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, the Koch brothers and George Soros had a dream. 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