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B. E. Gordon's avatar

One reason cut-‘em-loose has become vastly strengthened is the perception among MAGA that liberal democracy has proven to be a scam, it really means “liberal democracy as long as it’s woke globalist”.

MAGA is edging toward wanting to dump not just Ukraine but NATO because the EU, London, Canada, and the Democrats and neocons are now viewed as insane liabilities that we should have as little to do with as possible, and worse than the Russians who are now viewed as scapegoats in the same way Trump is.

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Doug Hanlon's avatar

I always appreciate the Twilight Patriot's essays, but here he has excelled himself.

Next to the population implosion, a realistic foreign policy is the main problem facing the US. And both the 'invade the world, invite the world' liberal/neo-con alliance's policies, now widely discredited after Iraq and Afghanistan, and the neo-isolationist "cut 'em loose" wing of the conservative movement, have satisfactory programs.

And here is a proposal that might satisfy the legitimate concerns of both of these tendencies: no 'entangling alliances' where all the benefit is for the other party, but no leaving of a power vaccuum into which the world's Bad Actors would inevitably move.

There must be some objections to this idea, but I can't think of any, except for the possibility that many decades of dependency have so weakened the moral fibre of the countries concerned that they would not undertake the burden of increased defense spending and allied sacrifices. (In other words, a repeat of the Intermarium experience.)

Nevertheless, here is fresh thinking on a critical topic that ought to be widely debated. Is our movement healthy enough to entertain such a debate?

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