Multilateral Dreamin’

Here are their “experts”: Published in Foreign Affairs, the establishment’s flagship organ, “Defense in Depth” by Kori Schake, James Mattis, Jim Ellis, and Joe Felter, may be the purest example of this genre. There is hardly a proper noun in it. It’s all fluff, the point of which is something like “we’re the experts, trust us.” “International engagement,” the authors claim, “allows the United States to see and act at a distance, as threats are gathering, rather than waiting for them to assume proportions that ultimately make them much costlier and more dangerous to defeat,” and serves as “an early warning system that gives time and space to meet dangers when they arise.” “International engagement,” the authors claim, “allows the United States to see and act at a distance, as threats are gathering, rather than waiting for them to assume proportions that ultimately make them much costlier and more dangerous to defeat,” and serves as “an early warning system that gives time and space to meet dangers when they arise.” When was the last time anything like that happened? These credentialed historians might think of an example. All they come up with is, “The pandemic should serve as a reminder of what grief ensues when we wait for problems to come to us.” Did anyone warn us about the pandemic? Certainly not China, which hid the facts. And certainly not China’s plaything, the World Health Organization. In fact, the establishment decried Trump’s severance of travel from Asia and Europe. The authors pretend not to know. “Experts”…. Pfffft.

Should have added that Codevilla has a lot of powerful things to say on this subject. Worth a read.

Mark these words: 1) Biden will move the embassy back to Tel Aviv as part of some nonsense “good faith” deal with the Palestinians; 2) He will revive the Iran deal; 3) The news will hyper-focus on Syria again, and our troops will be returning to fight a resurgent ISIS, 4) China will blockade Taiwan, and we will do nothing. The Taiwanese will succumb to starvation and economic ruin; 5) Emboldened, China will accelerate its creation of foreign bases in Africa and possibly Venezuela or Cuba. Biden will push back and be declared a hero for stopping them with dramatic heroics in the press; 6) Our allies, sensing the change in position, will abandon us in droves. New alliances with China and Russia will become common; 7) Pakistan, with China’s backing, will create a nuclear crisis with India. China will use the crisis as a distraction to grab parts of Kashmir. 8) The Mexican border will become a joke again, with floods of illegals pouring across the unguarded border. Rumors of amnesty will rapidly depopulate Central America; 9) Cartels will greatly increase their hold on our cities, with drug deaths and crime skyrocketing; 10) An amnesty bill will be passed with the help of Romney, Rubio and Collins. The real number of illegals will finally be revealed closer to 30 million; 11) The WTO, Paris Climate rules and TPP will be reactivated; 12) Right to work laws, voter id laws and limits on refugees will be stopped. 13) Hate crime laws will be expanded to intimidate free speech. Freedom FROM speech will be valued over Freedom of Speech; 14) “Common Sense” gun laws will be enacted after a series of false flag attacks against sympathetic groups; 15) Reparations in the form of bigger welfare programs will be enacted, the suburbs will only get funds if they allow public housing; 16) Taxes will be hiked to pay for “investments” that enrich the connected few. Seriously, this is what we are up against. These people are nuts.

When this guy writes it, you are well advised to read it. Years ago, he came up with the "Country Class / Ruling Class" explanation that educated a lot of us on what we're facing. Them vs. Us, and we're living it today.