A World on the Brink

That deep, rumbling hum is not some semi passing on the highway, it’s the political wobbling of an entire planet. It’s the sound heard just before WWI and WWII. In distant corners of the earth conflicts are raging out of control, threatening to engulf the world in a new war, a war of revolutions, of civil wars, of old alliances coming apart and to some degree it has been Trump driving it all. While he has instigated a good deal of it by his brash statements about Greenland and Canada, it is the absolute hatred of him by the left that is the catalyst.

In Argentina, the left is coming after Javier Milei and the more successful he is, the more popular, the greater the left strives to destroy him. His sin is that he has the temerity to point out the obvious: that socialism/communism is the cause of misery. The wars against him and others are being fought in the media, new media, social media, alternative media, but all media. The part of this being done on the ground with troops is being done by NGO-funded radicals, trained agitators for the communist cause. All Milei had to do to come under fire was to be successful and draw some of his strength from the support of Donald Trump, i.e., the common man.

It’s the same in Hungary, in Poland, in Slovakia, in the Czech Republic. Leaders in each state have turned to Trump as a political mentor to some degree, taken his support, but pursued their own agendas. Nayib Bukele in El Salvador did the same and talked about it at the the UN, so we included that in Deconstruction: The Global Fight for Freedom. Bukele talked about being drawn into the conflict between the Soviet Union and the West. Eighty-five thousand of his countrymen in a lightly populated nation were killed fighting a civil war at the behest of these great powers. In the 30 years that followed, even more were killed as power was given to the right, then to the left. They were left with a nation to whom death had become normal, routine, expected and then it fanned out in the form of MS-13.

What Nayib Bukele did was the only thing that would have worked to bring a nation back from chaos, he viciously enforced the law, imprisoned the guilty and didn’t stop until he had cleansed the government, especially the judiciary, of the corruption that had eaten out the heart of his nation.

There’s a lesson in that: half measures produce little or no results, sometimes the opposite result. Trump had a chance to show this resolve in Minnesota and didn’t. It’s a game being played and a great many of Americans are sick and tired of it. Big Country Expat expressed this in one of his posts (H/T WRSA). There is indescribable evil being not only described, but illustrated before our eyes and there’s a moral price to pay for simply observing.

We are now aware of harm being done to children the world over. The same forces who have worked against the righteous man taking action have convinced too many of us that the law should handle it, but the law is made by people who participate in every form of evil.

The economics of debt are pervasive and driving everything in our world. It cannot go on forever and that’s one thing pushing the need for a world war, to absolve each other of the massive debt accumulated by every nation on the globe, destroying currencies and emptying treasuries. They’re assured that only the poor will be harmed and what could be more enticing than that? The point is that it will lead to a reset, at least in the minds of the people who are driving us to that end. Think of it like the bankrupt business that sets fire to the building for the insurance money. Is it suspicious? Sure, but is there a fact, a camera, a pool of accelerant? All is obscured and lost in the smoke and flame. That’s what the EU seems determined to do, set the whole thing on fire and hope they don’t trace it back to them. Blaming Trump is a shield for them and it’s worked so far, because like it or not, they equate Trump with us, the poor, the backward, the gun-loving nuts, the victims of their absurd crimes. They try to make us accomplices by accusing us of championing an authoritarian (accuse your enemy of what you yourself is doing).

Sooner or later, we’re going to suffer some calamity. Whether it’s world war, perhaps even nuclear war, or grid failure, or starvation from reliance on green energy, economic collapse or whatever, we’re allowing a lot of evil to take place as we negotiate those threats.

So much so that we are, many of us, starting to look in the mirror and wonder just what it is that we have been spared for. For this? Have we survived the dangerous jobs, the wars, the pestilence just to be passive in the assault on women and children? Isn’t that our charge, our duty? Isn’t that the reason for being bestowed with physical, tactical or strategic abilities? Do we carry the weight of our passivity on our backs as we prepare to meet the Creator?

What Big Country pointed out, at least to me, is that in this stalled pattern, trying to decipher which evil to attack, which threat to defend against that can destroy our families and our livelihoods, we’re sacrificing something very important: initiative. We must be proactive, not reactive.

There are no political solutions. We’re way past that and if Trump served any purpose at all, it should have been to teach the last holdouts that nothing will change when evil is in charge of everything. We have been taught that there is a right and a left, a good and a bad, a right and a wrong. The truth is: there is only the reflection of these things left, that at the heart of it all is evil. The right is used to enable the left, the good is used to enable the bad, the right is used to enable the wrong.

There’s a tendency to think that things were simpler in the past, that the lines were clearer, motives more defined, but not really. What was in the past was a willingness to boldly and unapologetically engage these evils. It’s only when the defenders of this evil began their media onslaught, boiling up from liberal ideology and pushed through universities and think tanks, that the bold defenders began to believe that maybe they were out of step, that their instincts were wrong.

As McCarthy wrote in No Country for Old Men, (slightly altered) “if your beliefs have led you to this, of what use are your beliefs?”

It’s my belief that we’ve been sidelined too long; that our instincts have always been right and that if there is to be a world war, it should signal to us that our fight is against evil, not our brothers and sisters in another part of the world. That our duty is to the Creator and to defend the weakest from the perverse. That our only reason for survival was this point in time, when it must be confronted.

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