I can almost hear Simon and Garfunkel crooning, “Where have you gone Fran Fukuyama, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo, woo, woo. What’s that you say Mrs. Robinson, Feckless Fran has left and gone away, hey, hey, hey … hey, hey, hey.
So, history ended with the fall of the Soviet Union. Liberal Democracy was a global panacea where everyone would have all the stuff they wanted and nobody had to work and transgender soldiers wearing miniskirts and go-go boots would keep us safe from the Neanderthals until such time as we had them rounded up into reeducation camps. Someone neglected to send the memo to Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
I’m actually glad that the fantasy bubble has been popped. I despise the boring stupid world of the future where Jean Luc Picard sits in the captain’s chair and endlessly drones on to his boring associates on how his warp engine powered mobile UN will make the galaxy safe for gender equality NGO’s.
Vladimir Putin has provided the wake-up call. Realpolitik is real. Hard power is the only power. Everything else is sleight of hand. As soon as the rest of the world saw the debacle in Afghanistan play out in real time, they knew that US military power has been dissipated. Woke trannies call the shots at the Pentagon and other than the nuclear arsenal the United States is a paper tiger.
China will assert itself. Its neighbors will recalibrate their own positions based on the weakness the United States has demonstrated. Our military and economic clout have both been brought into question. And without that aura protecting our interests, things will change. That’s just harsh reality. And Europe is also in a bad spot. They depended on America’s prestige and example to lead the way. If Vladimir Putin has his way in the Ukraine, then maybe Russia becomes the strong horse in Eastern Europe. If nothing else, they provide the gas and oil that allows the Europeans to pretend to be green. After all, when you eliminate your nuclear power plants and many days the wind and sun aren’t around it’s Russian natural gas that keeps the Germans and other Europeans from freezing in the dark. It won’t be long before Russia starts using petroleum as a bargaining chip when its neighbors annoy it. I expect to see Europe changing its tune.
All of these changes aren’t some end-of-times catastrophe. All they reflect is the intentional self-crippling actions of the American Left. Our military can be the strongest in the world. We have the capability of rebuilding our industrial infrastructure at any time. We have the resources to make this the premiere country on the planet again. But what is required is for the American people to undeniably reject the world view of the Left that Western civilization is somehow something to be ashamed of. The Left which is mostly the young have to wake up and see that the rainbow fantasy version of human life is just that, a delusion. Power is real, the old values represent the formula for existing in the real world and all the feel-good blather about female and trans-whatever warriors might as well be comic book nonsense when actual men show up on the battlefield with actual guns.