On April 5, 2023 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced his intention to challenge the demented and incompetent incumbent Democrat [[Joseph R. Biden]] for the [[Democratic party]] presidential nomination in the [[2024 presidential election]]. Bobby Jr. said in making the announcement,
On April 5, 2023 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced his intention to challenge the demented and incompetent incumbent Democrat [[Joseph R. Biden]] for the [[Democratic party]] presidential nomination in the [[2024 presidential election]]. Bobby Jr. said in making the announcement,
{{quotebox-float|"The collapse of U.S. influence over [[Saudi Arabia]] and the Kingdom's new alliances with [[China]] and [[Iran]] are painful emblems of the abject failure of the [[neocon]] strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of [[military]] power...China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, [[economic]] power...The [[Ukraine war]] is the final collapse of the neocon's short-lived American Century...The neocon projects in [[Iraq]] and [[Ukraine]] have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our [[middle class]], made a laughingstock of [[United States Armed Forces|U.S. military power]] and [[moral]] authority, pushed China and [[Russia]] into an invincible alliance, destroyed the [[dollar]] as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance [[democracy]] or win friendships or influence.”<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rfk-jr-neocon-projects-iraq-and-ukraine-have-made-laughingstock-us-military-power-and</ref>}}
{{quotebox-float|"The collapse of U.S. influence over [[Saudi Arabia]] and the Kingdom's new alliances with [[China]] and [[Iran]] are painful emblems of the abject failure of the [[neocon]] strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of [[military]] power...China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, [[economic]] power...The [[Ukraine war]] is the final collapse of the neocon's short-lived American Century...The neocon projects in [[Iraq]] and [[Ukraine]] have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our [[middle class]], made a laughingstock of [[United States Armed Forces|U.S. military power]] and [[moral]] authority, pushed China and [[Russia]] into an invincible alliance, destroyed the [[dollar]] as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance [[democracy]] or win friendships or influence.”<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rfk-jr-neocon-projects-iraq-and-ukraine-have-made-laughingstock-us-military-power-and</ref>}}