U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, is gearing up to run for president in 2020 by outlining her perspective on foreign policy and other issues, most recently during a speech at American University on Thursday.

There, Warren took a shot at former Soviet countries that embraced private enterprise “despite enormous risk of corruption,” seemingly inferring that the state-controlled communist system is preferable.

“For decades, leaders of both parties preached the gospel that free trade was a rising tide that would lift all boats,” Warren told the AU School of Public Affairs. “It’s great rhetoric, except that the trade deals that they negotiated mainly lifted the yachts, and they threw millions of working Americans overboard to drown.

“Ya!” she said to applause.

“Now, policymakers, we’re willing to sacrifice American jobs, not their own jobs of course, but American jobs, in return for boosting sales at Walmart and gaining access to consumer markets around the world,” Warren alleged.

“Washington had it all figured out, and this confidence spilled over into more than trade deals. Champions of cutthroat capitalism pushed former soviet states to privatize as quickly as possible, despite the enormous risk of corruption,” she said.

Warren, who has been dogged by allegations she used family lore about Native American heritage to secure minority status and elevate her career, has increasingly denounced capitalism while identifying herself as a capitalist.

In July, Warren insisted in an interview with CNBC: “I am a capitalist. … I believe in free markets.”

Regardless, she certainly isn’t shy about praising communist countries when it fits her political narrative, The American Mirror previously reported.

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In May, Warren appeared on CBS This Morning to hawk her new book when host John Dickerson brought up North Korea and the progress President Trump made in pressuring the rogue nation to denuclearize its military.

But instead of giving credit where it’s due, Warren insisted Trump lacked a clear strategy and suggest he take ques from North Korea’s communist neighbor to the north.

“I want this to work, I want this to work to reduce the threat to South Korea, to Japan, to our allies in the region, to the United States of America, to the entire world, but it really takes a strategy and I look at the comparison with China,” she said.

“Look at what China is doing,” Warren continued. “China’s got the long term arc and it’s playing everybody. It’s playing North Korea, it’s playing South Korea, it’s playing the United States of America because it has a long-term whole-of-government strategy that keeps driving towards an end.”

The “whole-of-government” strategy is, of course, much easier to achieve with a government that regularly jails or tortures anyone who doesn’t align with its views.

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Warren’s confusing perspective on foreign policy is likely one of many reasons voters in her own state prefer someone else head the Democratic ticket in 2020.

A poll released by the University of Massachusetts Amherst this week found Warren in third place in her home state when voters were asked who they would vote for in the 2020 Democratic primary. Former Vice President Joe Biden topped the list with 19 percent, followed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders with 14 percent support.

Warren garnered support from 11 percent of voters.

The UMass poll came just weeks after the Western New England University Polling Institute revealed 56 percent of registered voters would not support Warren if she ran for president in 2020.

The Boston Globe summed up the public sentiment in an op-ed earlier this month titled “Don’t run, Senator Warren, don’t run.”