Such anticommunism fits right in with the anti-Russian campaign,
which is the principal theme of the Democratic Party in the 2018
elections. As the World Socialist Web Site has pointed out
for many months, the real thrust of the Democratic Party campaign is
demonstrated by its recruitment as congressional candidates of dozens of
former CIA and military intelligence agents, combat commanders from the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and war planners from the Pentagon, State
Department and White House.
There is no contradiction between the influx of military-intelligence
candidates into the Democratic Party and the Democrats’ making use of
the services of Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez to give the party a “left”
cover. Both the CIA Democrats and their pseudo-left “comrades” agree on
the most important questions: the defense of the global interests of
American imperialism and a more aggressive intervention in the Syrian
civil war and other areas where Washington and Moscow are in conflict.
-- Patrick Martin, "Bernie Sanders embraces the anti-Russia campaign" (WSWS).