theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause
The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine MalikNesrine Malik (The Guardian)
Andre
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The USA's border was rendered meaningless with tens of millions of illegals, many hardened criminals, allowed int other country by a kleptocratic government willing to shatter the American Dream in order to enrich and empower themselves. The problem was so huge that many simply accepted it as a new reality.
Andre
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Both situations were the result of decades of dithering and weakness on the part of those few who dared even to point out the inevitable result of both situations, the death of Israel and the USA as functioning (classically) liberal societies.
In Trump and Netanyahu, for better or worse, leaders emerged with a willingness to do what had not been done before, i.e., to grasp the nettle, suffer the pain, and overcome the inertia that held both nations in a deadly form of stalemate.
Andre
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Israel was trapped as a pariah state, weighed down by accusations of inhumanity vis a vis Gaza and its militant population. The USA became a tottering husk, its middle class collapsing and its working class gutted by deindustrialisation. Even if these two nations survived in some form, their increasingly zombie-like state of existence gave the globalists, the collectivists, the kleptocrats, all of the room they needed to work their dark craft upon us all.
Andre
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The kleptocrats used deadly scams like covid and climate change (enforced energy poverty on billions of people) to enrich themselves and give them heretofore unimaginable powers.
Andre
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But there is now a big problem. Gaza and the illegals in the USA were the primary fortifications of their agenda. Since both seemed impossible to solve, and since both kept the nations in a state of weakness and vulnerability, evil plots like covid and climate change were able to flourish. People today face an uncertain and dangerous future, but one that has a key feature: HOPE.
Not the cynical Orwellian 'hope' we saw from Obama, but genuine light at the end of a very long and dark tunnel.
Andre
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There are entire generations in Israel and the USA that have grown up in recent decades never knowing what hope actually feels like. Distracted by yet more terrible schemes like the transgender wing of the death cult, they invested themselves in the moment rather than worked for a future together.
Andre
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In less than a year, that has all changed. Gaza and Hamas are more or less in the cleanup phase ahead of a redevelopment project of a scale not seen since the Marshall Plan. The USA border is sealed and early interventions and self-deportations are already creating positive effects in the job market and economy.
Iran's threat of a nuclear program, coupled with its history of exporting terror, constituted another nettle to be grasped. And it has been firmly grasped.
Andre
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This must terrify the kleptocrat class. Their other weapons, stuff like pandemic fear mongering, climate alarmism, anti-family transgenderism, etc., are MUCH more fragile than Gaza and the 50m+ illegals in the USA.
And they are all crumbling.
Andre
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I do not have a sense of Israeli politics at all, and I cannot offer a useful opinion on Netanyahu's future. But what has happened in Gaza is irreversible. Israel as a nation is committed to finishing that job, and their status under the Abraham Accords will, I believe, require them to be a fair partner as the outcome I expect to see, which is Arab investment and participation in Gaza's rebuilding. Bibi may be ousted, but his grasping of the nettle can never be undone.
Andre
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In the USA, it is little less clear. If a MAGA legacy is not the result of Trump's presidency, the border can be reopened, the economy and society crushed, and the USA returned to a hopeless state. I note that if this happens, Israel will be ever more isolated and vulnerable such that I think the only rational policy is for Israel support MAGA in pretty much every respect. This notion will not be palatable to the pundits who insist that Israel is a monolithic evil.
Andre
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Trump has a whole field of nettles to grasp. Ukraine. China/fentanyl. Collectivist kleptocratic Democrats and RINOs at every level of government. And so on. With his demonstration of border security, roundups of illegals, and his strike on Iran's nuclear program, he has demonstrated the big stick that Teddy Roosevelt suggested (Trump seems to ignore the speak softly part).
Andre
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What Trump does do is speak loudly and clearly about his priorities which are easily summarised: Peace and prosperity.
Do you recall the Platinum Plan? Blue cities are going to be offered an opportunity to develop their way out of the Democrat-induced ghetto trash state of existence. Black leaders will be identified, developed, and supported. These cities will again become manufacturing centres with job that a family can live on.
Andre
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I suspect that Trump will offer Iran a similar way forward. Abandon terror and be welcomed into deals that will make Iran great again. I made a guess (not a prediction) that one outcome could be a joint announcement of an Iran/USA partnership to redevelop Iran's oil reserves.
And in all of that, there are models for Europe. Abandon the collectivist way, stop destroying ancient cultures, embrace peace and prosperity, and perhaps western Europe's slow suicide can be reversed.
Andre
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And you can take Trump's Peace and Prosperity model everywhere. China's poor want decent jobs and living conditions and the opportunity to enter the middle class. Sub-Saharan Africa needs to be freed from the globalist kleptocrats such that it can finally find its own way into the Industrial Age. The Korean Peninsula could be reunited.
Gaza and 50m+ illegals seemed impossible until leaders & governments finally came to power with a willingness to do what billions of people would condemn.
Andre
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Now all of our other big problems are on the agenda.
And as hope, like a desperately needed infusion of a lifesaving medicine, is now moving through populations worldwide. This hope must be connected to commitment and determination. It must inspire local involvement in all levels and forms of government. We must never lose hope again and allow apathy and self-interest to rule.
Andre
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Peace is the prize. Prosperity is the plan. And The People are the way it all can and must happen.
You are literaly as important as any other individual. Trump needs YOU. The USA needs YOU. The world needs YOU.
Pick something and get to work. A school board. A local government office. Volunteering on a political campaign. Anything. As long as it is not nothing!
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The woes of the federal government are directly linked to local government apathy.
Take back local governments and you control the elections, the political machines, and most of the money and manpower available for election naughtiness.
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in reply to Andre • • •Plus their funding mechanisms (i.e., USAID) have been turned off.
Which means any losses our enemies take will be difficult to replace.
... hence the wails of despair from the Left.
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