Let’s cut to the chase - long and essential to read We’re besieged by those who would seek to destroy our way of life Some of them are even amongst us in the far left and far right…who foolishly view foreign autocrats as compatriots But there’s also a real growing threat from foreign autocracies who want to change the global status quo They want to end the current world order built on respect for national sovereignty and human rights And they want to replace it with authoritarian spheres of influence where oppressive regimes subjugate their neighbors That’s what all of this is about Coming out of WW2, our greatest generation understood, in their bones, why this needed to be opposed Half a million dead Americans were too large of a price to pay And so they gifted us a framework for a new security architecture Territorial wars would no longer be tolerated. War could only be conducted on very specific grounds That’s how we’ve had no large scale wars in 80 years Our greatest generation is now gone and their sacrifices mostly forgotten We now look to social media messiahs that warp common sense with their serpentine logic…driven by algorithms or ignorance, they try to redefine history…create new paradigms that are sexy but ultimately false Except it’s not all that complicated Good men need to oppose evil in all it’s forms Those who would start wars are those that should be destined to lose wars Borders should remain as they are, regardless of ethnicity, lest we are doomed to repeat the 10,000 years of folly by our ancestors If we don’t stand up to evil then that evil will eventually come for us all I’m frequently called a neocon…I want war But I’ve never advocated for that… All I’ve said is that if we abandon objective morality as a principle for how the world should work, we’ll just keep repeating the same mistakes It might not even matter…maybe this is hardwired into our DNA and conflict is our ultimate destiny But we should at least try to maintain the world order gifted to us by our greatest generatiom We should not tolerate Russian aggressian against Ukraine We should not tolerate Chinese aggression against Taiwan And we should not tolerate war waged against Israel by Hamas We should never tolerate that aggresor if we want peace Normalizing this type of aggression will only lead to the same historical outcome: big (sometimes world) wars You can’t hide from it…eventually evil is as evil does Either we all agree to respect each other’s national sovereignty or we’re destined to have world wars Territorial aspirations never stop and they always end in war Either we save the existing system…something that is only possible through strength Or we are doomed to repeat a greater war The isolationists are fools…they preach populist slogans that have no historical precedent…yet populism is popular…who doesn’t like being told what they want to hear? But alas, It’s not too late for us to fight for a system that has kept the peace for 80 years Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.