AOC Can’t Be Trusted on Foreign Policy
A wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) refuses to work with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on opposing funding for Israel but she had no problem joining Republican superhawks to take punitive action against China. That contradiction showcases the fake nature of AOC’s progressive dissent.
At a University of Chicago Institute of Politics appearance in May 2026, a student asked whether the political left should be open to aligning with MTG given her recent break from Trump and the MAGA movement. AOC flatly rejected the proposition, arguing that MTG’s bigoted track record disqualifies her as a credible voice on what is “good for Gazans and Israelis” and that the left should not normalize alliances with figures who have promoted white nationalist ideology.
Yet as Max Blumenthal observed, AOC showed no such hesitation when it came to joining Republican hawks to confront China. In October 2019, AOC co-signed a bipartisan letter with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), and Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ)—8 lawmakers in total—urging the NBA to suspend its activities in China. The letter expressed “deep concern” over the league’s response to China’s backlash against Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey for tweeting support for Hong Kong protesters.
“We are deeply concerned that individuals associated with the league may now engage in self-censorship that is inconsistent with American and the league’s stated values — and that this incident will only encourage further intimidation of American companies and persons by the Chinese government,” the letter read. It urged the NBA to “put our fundamental democratic rights ahead of profit” and demanded the league reevaluate its training camp in Xinjiang.
The contrast speaks to a broader pattern. AOC will build coalitions with neoconservative hawks to pressure a geopolitical rival, but refuses tactical alliances with Republicans who might actually reduce military aid to Israel. This selectivity is not incidental, as it reflects a decade-long record in which AOC’s most consequential foreign policy votes have aligned with the foreign policy uniparty rather than the anti-war Left she claims to represent.
AOC’s most divisive foreign policy moment came in September 2021 when she switched her vote from “no” to “present” on $1 billion in Iron Dome funding for Israel. She was photographed crying on the House floor. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Cori Bush (D-MO) voted no. The episode became the original sell-out moment on the progressive left, and the Democratic Socialists of America, which had endorsed her, condemned the vote.
In July 2025, AOC voted against a Republican amendment by Marjorie Taylor Greene that would have stripped $500 million for Iron Dome from the defense appropriations bill. She argued it would remove defensive capabilities while allowing offensive weapons to continue. The DSA called her position “disappointing and incongruous” given her own acknowledgment of genocide in Gaza, issuing a statement that “an arms embargo means keeping all arms out of the hands of a genocidal military, no exceptions.” The organization praised Reps. Tlaib, Omar, Summer Lee (D-PA), and Al Green (D-TX) for voting the other way. Greene’s amendment failed overwhelmingly, 6–422.
At the 2024 Democratic National Convention, AOC declared that Kamala Harris was “working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire” in Gaza. Anti-war critics panned this as cover for the administration’s continued arms shipments to Israel. Glenn Greenwald, writing at the time, called it an outright lie: Israeli officials had publicly boasted that the United States never pressured them on a ceasefire, yet AOC was providing the administration political cover before a Democratic primary audience.
On Ukraine, AOC has been a reliable vote for military escalation. She voted “yes” on H.R. 8035, the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2024, which provided $60.84 billion in total assistance, of which $23.2 billion was directed to the Pentagon for military support. This earned her a positive score from the establishment group Foreign Policy for America on the Ukraine supplemental vote. Her office repeatedly emphasizes that she “voted for the toughest sanctions in recent memory” against Russia.
At the Munich Security Conference in February 2026, she ruled out a negotiated end to the war. “We shouldn’t reward imperialism, and I don’t think that we should allow Russia to continue, or any nation, to continue, violating a nation’s sovereignty,” she declared.
The most revealing episode came in October 2022 when AOC signed onto the Progressive Caucus letter calling for negotiations with Russia in Ukraine. Then, within 24 hours, she and 29 other signatories co-signed the withdrawal of that letter after pushback from party leadership.
This is the same individual who praised John McCain in August 2018, stating, “John McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service. As an intern, I learned a lot about the power of humanity in government through his deep friendship with Sen. Kennedy. He meant so much, to so many. My prayers are with his family.” McCain, the architect of numerous regime change operations and advocate for military intervention throughout the Middle East, apparently embodied human decency in AOC’s moral universe. She has also expressed support for Iranian agitators—backed by the Mossad and other intelligence agencies under the grasp of world Jewry—on Twitter back in January, writing, “The Iranian government’s violent crackdown on demonstrators is horrific and must stop now. All people have the right to protest their government without fear of violence. I support the Iranians taking to the streets to call for a better future.”
One must look past the carefully curated social media persona to see the reality: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has successfully used anti-war rhetoric to dupe her progressive constituents, all while serving as a reliable instrument of the Jewish supremacist foreign policy apparatus. Her trajectory demonstrates a clear willingness to abandon her stated principles the moment they conflict with the requirements of the influential party elite or power interest groups pushing for endless conflict. By backing the very policies she claims to oppose, she secures her ascent within the totem pole of the Democratic Party, effectively providing a progressive veneer to a regime at the thrall of world Jewry.
With political integrity in such short supply, Representatives like Thomas Massie stand alone in opposing every foreign policy machination coming out of DC, as every other representative effectively functions as a cog in an interventionist machine that provides no real choice for those who desire genuine foreign policy change. When push comes to shove, AOC will become just another DC politician who talks a big game about reform but does nothing of substance to roll back Washington’s nefarious foreign policy schemes.
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