This is not complicated! Russia has roughly 140 million people. Iran has around 90 million. MAGA has around 77 million and falling. It is not America, but a political faction inside it, and one already showing signs of fraying. Against them stands democratic America, Canada, Britain, Europe, Australia and the wider allied world: well over a billion people, commanding vastly greater wealth, technology, capital, military capability, universities, institutions and industrial capacity. Yet somehow the larger side has allowed itself to look frightened. Russia is dangerous, certainly. But much of its best military capacity has already been consumed in Ukraine. Iran can cause enormous disruption, but it is hardly an economic or technological superpower. And then there is MAGA: the odd member of this axis because it operates inside the United States. Its political base has been sold a story of national revival by a remarkably small collection of billionaires and ideologues who would quite like lower taxes, weaker regulation and fewer constraints on their power, even if dismantling those constraints weakens the Western system that made their fortunes possible. MAGA should also understand exactly what it is choosing to become. Governments change. Presidents leave office. Political movements fracture. The institutions they attack do not simply vanish with them. There will be an ordinary morning after Trump. Courts will still open. Elections will still be held. European regulators will still regulate. Allied governments will still choose where to buy weapons, technology and energy. Contracts will still be written. Laws will still apply. And countries with long institutional memories will remember very clearly who threatened them, who helped them and who tried to tear the system apart. That is the part MAGA seems to misunderstand. It is behaving as though this moment is permanent. It is not. The democratic world is larger than Trump, larger than MAGA and considerably older than both. Its institutions were built precisely so that one faction, one government or one collection of billionaires cannot simply bulldoze the rules and expect everyone else to shrug forever. That is the real picture. Disruption is not strength. And temporary power is not permanent power. The extraordinary achievement of this axis has been convincing more than a billion people on the stronger side to behave as though a much smaller coalition holds all the cards. It does not. Perhaps it is time the democratic world remembered who is actually outnumbered. And perhaps MAGA should remember that history continues after the people who thought they owned it are gone.

And for clarity, Blount and Blunt are pronounced the same way. But I simplified it to Blunt as I was tired of people rhyming my name with “count”.