Other countries might be defined by blood, territory or language. America has always been creedal, an ideal of liberty turned into a state.
Its critics back-handedly recognise as much. The reason that anti-Americanism is a force in world affairs (unlike anti-Algerianism or anti-Armenianism or anti-Albanianism) is that America’s enemies acknowledge that it stands for something. That something is the package represented by personal autonomy, limited government, constitutional rule, regular elections and private enterprise – in a word, freedom.
A bias towards freedom has, until now, characterised US foreign policy. A people habituated to liberty immediately saw what was wrong with Nazism and Communism.
Which is why current US foreign policy is so shocking to pro-Americans.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is one of those rare occasions when we can clearly identify the aggressor. Vladimir Putin sought to annex a neighbour that offered him no threat – a neighbour that had given up its nuclear weapons in return for a promise that its sovereignty would be respected within its existing borders. Who guaranteed that promise? Britain, the United States and (never forget) Russia.
Donald Trump is backing a belligerent dictatorship against a beleaguered democracy. Putin is the one leader he never disparages. He threatens annexation against Denmark, muses about handing away British territory, wages economic war on Canada. But not Russia. Never Russia.
Now Trump is buying diesel from Russia, potash from Belarus, minerals from China – all because he doesn’t want to buy them from Canada, which has stood at America’s side in war after war.
American friends, can you not see what this is doing, not just to America’s standing, but to the free world which your fathers have built since 1941? Trump is bringing down the international system from which the US has been the chief beneficiary. And for what? To drink liberal tears? God help us.
@redsteeze He was asking them to try to explain his positions to their neighbors, persuade them to vote for him. Ideally that’s what ANY Candidate of any party wants. In tight elections, it can’t hurt
@BoLoudon Dummies scared of a little shot are the reasons hundreds of thousands of Americans died while death rates were going down in the rest of the world
@WaltSmallwood@RealJamesWoods LOL, all that shows is Republicans are good at creating hearings for FOX News airtime based on a few misdeeds, over-hyped nothingburgers and “investigating the investigadors” on real scandals where people get convicted
@SirMasterMike46@HawleyMO The meme omits the number of arrests from the original hearings on J6, 2020 Election, Russiagate. Federal indictments against Trump, hundreds convicted for J6. Meanwhile, the stuff MAGA whines about goes nowhere. No facts!
@MattWalshBlog WGAF if a big % work for state, local or federal government? That’s what Irish, Italian, Polish, Jewish immigrants did.After a couple of generations they moved into the private sector. Or look at the Deep South, where a big % of White Women work for the government.