Editing Bernie Sanders (section)

==== Foreign Policy ====
Bernie has a history of supporting US [[imperialism]] through [[NATO]]. In an interview in 2020 he said ''"I believe in NATO"''<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-democratic-presidential-candidate-military-intervention-60-minutes-2020-02-23/</ref>, which is supported by his actions such as the backing of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/23/bernie-sanders-foreign-policy-doctrine-227193/</ref> and supporting the NATO-proxy state of Ukraine over the anti-imperialist state of [[Russia]] in the 2022 Ukraine-Russian conflict<ref>https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-statement-on-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/</ref>. This position is more imperialist than that of Donald Trump, who has suggested the US should pull out of NATO all together and that ''"NATO is dead"''<ref>https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-vow-never-help-europe-attack-thierry-breton/</ref>.  

On the Palestine-Israel conflict, in 2023 he rejected a call for a long-term ceasefire in the ongoing Gaza genocide by Israel<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/world/bernie-sanders-gaza-cease-fire-israel-palestine/</ref>.  

In relation to socialist states, in more recent years he has expressed opposition to them by calling Venezuela's socialist president Maduro a ''"vicious tyrant"''<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-distances-himself-from-venezuela-president-nicolas-maduro-when-pressed-on-socialism-at-debate/</ref>. He has also stated he would intervene if China took military action on Taiwan<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-democratic-presidential-candidate-military-intervention-60-minutes-2020-02-23/</ref>, which goes even against the US government's formal position of "[[One China]]" policy that Taiwan is part of the PRC<ref>https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-us-one-china-policy-and-why-does-it-matter</ref>.