July 5, 2022
Today, words of America’ Revolutionary War general and first President, George Washington, are blasphemous and are never part of the mainstream media narrative or spoken by political or business leaders: “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world.”
The address was published on 19 September 1796 in the Philadelphia Daily American Advertiser and was intended to guide future generations.
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison helped Washington compose the address that warned about geographical sectionalism, political factionalism, and “permanent alliances with other countries” that he believed would inevitably lead to the subversion of the U.S.’s national interest.
He told Americans that his recommendations should be read as though given by a parting friend.
Washington warned against relying on foreign countries and said, “The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.”
Paris tried to get the U.S. to side with France in its fight against Great Britain, and Washington wrote that there is nothing more “essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.”
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