I can almost hear Simon and Garfunkel crooning, \u201cWhere have you gone Fran Fukuyama, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo, woo, woo.\u00a0 What\u2019s that you say Mrs. Robinson, Feckless Fran has left and gone away, hey, hey, hey \u2026 hey, hey, hey.<\/p>\n
So, history ended with the fall of the Soviet Union.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Someone neglected to send the memo to Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m actually glad that the fantasy bubble has been popped.\u00a0 I despise the boring stupid world of the future where Jean Luc Picard sits in the captain\u2019s 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\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Vladimir Putin has provided the wake-up call.\u00a0 Realpolitik is real.\u00a0 Hard power is the only power.\u00a0 Everything else is sleight of hand.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Woke trannies call the shots at the Pentagon and other than the nuclear arsenal the United States is a paper tiger.<\/p>\n
China will assert itself.\u00a0 Its neighbors will recalibrate their own positions based on the weakness the United States has demonstrated.\u00a0 Our military and economic clout have both been brought into question.\u00a0 And without that aura protecting our interests, things will change.\u00a0 That\u2019s just harsh reality.\u00a0 And Europe is also in a bad spot.\u00a0 They depended on America\u2019s prestige and example to lead the way.\u00a0 If Vladimir Putin has his way in the Ukraine, then maybe Russia becomes the strong horse in Eastern Europe.\u00a0 If nothing else, they provide the gas and oil that allows the Europeans to pretend to be green.\u00a0 After all, when you eliminate your nuclear power plants and many days the wind and sun aren\u2019t around it\u2019s Russian natural gas that keeps the Germans and other Europeans from freezing in the dark.\u00a0 It won\u2019t be long before Russia starts using petroleum as a bargaining chip when its neighbors annoy it.\u00a0 I expect to see Europe changing its tune.<\/p>\n
All of these changes aren\u2019t some end-of-times catastrophe.\u00a0 All they reflect is the intentional self-crippling actions of the American Left.\u00a0 Our military can be the strongest in the world.\u00a0 We have the capability of rebuilding our industrial infrastructure at any time.\u00a0 We have the resources to make this the premiere country on the planet again.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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