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   Scholars at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft cut bait   
      
   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?   
      
   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.   
      
   Well, all good things must come to an end.   
      
   An all-star in the Koch-Soros foreign policy alliance, Joseph Cirincione,   
   announced on Thursday his resignation from the Quincy Institute: "They   
   excuse Russia’s military threats and actions because they believe that   
   they have been provoked by U.S. policies," he told Politico.   
      
   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’s politicized philanthropy, but a   
   gatekeeper and driver of it—deciding which pinkos would prosper and which   
   would starve. Mother Jones reports that Cirincione helped connect Quincy   
   to major donors in its early days.   
      
   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 major study in June that found the   
   Chinese military build up was nothing to worry about and has warned of the   
   perils of "threat inflation" when it comes to China’s military expansion.   
      
   Soros, by contrast, came very close to endorsing regime change. "It is to   
   be hoped that Xi Jinping may be replaced by someone less repressive at   
   home and more peaceful abroad," he told an audience at the Hoover   
   Institution in January, calling Xi "the greatest threat that open   
   societies face today."   
      
   Trita Parsi, a co-founder and executive vice president of Quincy, as well   
   as somebody who could be confused for an Iranian agent—at least according   
   to a federal judge—told Mother Jones he’s bewildered that Cirincione would   
   suggest the think tank was avoiding criticism of Russia. But he   
   acknowledges that Quincy is "not going along with the idea that it’s a   
   good thing to change the objectives in Ukraine towards weakening Russia,   
   because we believe that could lead to endless war."   
      
   As the Quincy Institute demonstrated so spectacularly in Afghanistan, one   
   sure fire way to end endless war is to lose the war quickly and all at   
   once.   
      
   As for the interpersonal drama that we assume is engulfing the Quincy   
   Institute, and the enmity growing between teams Koch and Soros—may that   
   war truly be endless.   
      
   Published under: Feature, George Soros, Iran, Koch Brothers, Quincy   
   Institute   
      
   https://freebeacon.com/national-security/the-koch-soros-crackup/   
      
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