Is ‘Autocracy’ America’s Mortal Enemy?

The history of the last 30 years shows me that there is no such US policy as that evoked in the bidet peelousy quotes in this article. If the impulse is genuine and not purely a scam and smokescreen, then it is completely ad hoc grandstanding without any coherent policy to effectuate any results. More likely than any genuine concern for freedom by the ilks of bidet peelousey, it is just political grandstanding with short term gains in mind for them and their donors. Wouldn’t it be great to babble high sounding words and get richly rewarded for it? And to thereby actually believe in your greatness ? The Gullibles are being conned. We’ve all been had.

God bless Pat Buchanan. He would have made a great president.

FTA ... On her trip to Taiwan, Speaker Nancy Pelosi echoed Biden: “Today, the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy. America’s determination to preserve democracy here in Taiwan and in the world remains iron-clad. Spoken by those who consider themselves America's AUTOCRACY.

I am turning into a real nationalist. Not in a white supremacy kind of way but in a let’s keep our noses out of other peoples’ business kind of way. I don’t have the desire to send our men and women to fight on the say so of the political class who have untold reasons for championing a war overseas, sometimes strictly for personal gain. Isolationist or not, I believe we have given too much especially since WWII. We have not fought to win and have lengthened the war when we could have done up front what war is supposed to do, make it so painful that the other side surrenders. When you don’t think of war in the terms of defeating the enemy, you produce decades long conflicts that does more harm than going in with whatever force is necessary to get the job done. It may be harsh, but war is hell and we should treat it as such. After Afghanistan, I don’t believe most Americans are willing to send our men and women into combat without a specific mission with one goal and that is to defeat the enemy. We use whatever means possible so that rogue countries and terrorists will think twice about picking a fight with us. No more wars to benefit the military industrial complex and those politicians who support it. To me American blood is too precious to waste on the whim of greedy companies and men. A righteous fight undertaken with serious and reasoned principles is another matter, but the problem is who decides what is or is not righteous. I know it is definitely not the cabal in Washington right now.

Oh, Partick, you silly little man...America is the self-proclaimed "Leader of the Free World." It gets every patriot's heart beating faster whenever invoked. Whenever, wherever there a chalenge to "democracy" the hue and cry arises across the Fruited Plain that America must involve itself as "Leader of the Free World", even if the system of "democracy" we are rescuing is autocratic and/or a monarchy. And when the fighting ends, the occupation begins, these days lasting for decades - maybe a century soon in Europe. We invent alliances for which we shoulder the preponderance of costs however calculated. We maintain bases globally. We look to any conflict in which to involve troops, naval and air power - because we're the Leader of the Free World. Meanwhile, our allies shrink in every way from involvement. What's worse today is the total diffuse nature of our foreign policy. The Soviet threat is gone, so we replace that with Russia. Same country, right? Okay, then it's the Chinese, who are buying their way around the world without shots with Belt and Road. Well, certainly the Iranians...they could get nukes any day. Maybe the NorKors... No one reads the simple advice of our Founders. Take a look at Washington's Fareweill Address. Takes a few minutes. Frankly, I dare those currently cheerleading Ukraine to do so. We need more NATO allies and forward bases in Poland...for what? The Euros can either handle the threat, or live under it - they already deal commercially with it while shortchanging "defense". It's not an American interest.