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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, America Betrayed, HERE.]
After a recent summit between new partners China and Russia, General Secretary Xi Jinping and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin issued an odd one-sentence communique: “There can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be fought.”
No one would disagree, even though several officials of both hypocritical governments have previously threatened their neighbors with nuclear attacks.
But still, why did the two feel the need to issue such a terse statement—and why now?
Rarely has the global rhetoric of mass annihilation reached such a crescendo as the present, as existential wars rage in Ukraine and Gaza.
In particular, Putin at least believes that he is finally winning the Ukraine conflict. Xi seems to assume that conventional ascendant Chinese military power in the South China Sea has finally made the absorption of Taiwan practicable.
They both believe that the only impediment to their victories would be an intervention from the U.S. and the NATO alliance, a conflict that could descend into mutual threats to resort to nuclear weapons.
Thus the recent warnings of Xi and Putin.
Almost monthly, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un continues his weary threats to use his nuclear arsenal to destroy South Korea or Japan.
A similarly monotonous, pro-Hamas Turkish president, Recep Erdogan, regularly threatens Armenians with crazy talk of repeating the “mission of our grandfathers.” And he occasionally warns Israelis and Greeks that they may one day wake up to Turkish missiles raining down upon their cities.
More concretely, for the first time in history, Iran attacked the homeland of Israel. It launched the largest wartime array of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones in modern history—over 320 projectiles.
Iran’s theocrats simultaneously claim they are about ready to produce nuclear weapons. And, of course, since 1979, Iran has periodically promised to wipe Israel off the map and half the world’s Jews with it.
Most ignore these crazy threats and write them off as the braggadocio of dictators. But as we saw on October 7, the barbarity of human nature has not changed much from the premodern world, whether defined by savage beheading, mutilations, murdering, mass rape, torture, and hostage taking of Israeli elderly, women, and children.
But what has radically transformed are the delivery systems of mass death—nuclear weapons, chemical gases, biological agents, and artificial-intelligence-driven delivery systems.
Oddly, the global reaction to the promise of Armageddon remains one of nonchalance. Most feel that such strongmen rant wildly but would never unleash weapons of civilizational destruction.
Consider that there are as many autocratic nuclear nations (e.g., Russia, China, Pakistan, North Korea, and perhaps Iran) as democratic ones (U.S., Britain, France, Israel, and India). Only Israel has an effective anti-ballistic missile dome. And the more the conventional power of the West declines, the more in extremis it will have to rely on a nuclear deterrent—at a time when it has no effective missile defense of its homelands.
In a just-released book, The End of Everything, I wrote about four examples of annihilation—the classical city-state of Thebes, ancient Carthage, Byzantine Constantinople and Aztec Tenochtitlán—in which the unimaginable became all too real.
In all these erasures, the targeted, naïve states believed that their illustrious pasts, rather than a realistic appraisal of their present inadequate defenses, would ensure their survival.
All hoped that their allies—the Spartans, the anti-Roman Macedonians, the Christian nations of Western Europe, and the subject cities of the Aztecs—would appear at the eleventh hour to stave off their defeat.
Additionally, these targeted states had little understanding of the agendas and capabilities of the brilliantly methodic killers outside their walls—the ruthless wannabe philosopher Alexander the Great, the literary patron Scipio Aemilianus, the self-described intellectual Mehmet II, and the widely read Hernán Cortés—who all sought to destroy utterly rather than merely defeat their enemies.
These doomed cities and nations were reduced to rubble or absorbed by the conquerors. Their populations were wiped out or enslaved, and their once-hallowed cultures, customs, and traditions lost to history. The last words of the conquered were usually variations of, “It can’t happen here.”
If the past is any guide to the present, we should take heed that what almost never happens in war can certainly still occur.
When killers issue wild, even lunatic, threats, we should nonetheless take them seriously.
We should not count on friends or neutrals to save our civilization. Instead, Americans should build defense systems over the skies of our homeland, secure our borders, ensure our military operates on meritocracy, cease wild deficit spending and borrowing, and rebuild both our conventional and nuclear forces.
Otherwise, we will naively—and fatally—believe that we are magically exempt when the inconceivable becomes all too real.
The west is weak and the United Nations has taken full control over it. Orwell predicted endless war between three factions. The UN uses 1984 as a guide book.
Before Orwell, the Bible talks about the era we are in. And this is how it is unfolding like a child’s pop-up book.
The west is weak because of the pusillanimity and fecklessness of our leaders. It’s no more complicated than that.
To suggest otherwise is to engage in inutile sophistry and a failure to acknowledge the reality of a foreboding threat to our continued existence.
By the way:
George Orwell did not anticipate the advent of nuclear weapons and what they are capable of. With NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) weaponry, mankind now has the ability to poison all the worlds lakes and oceans and destroy all life (flora & fauna) on the surface of the planet ten time over.
I seriously doubt humanity could kill all life on Earth, although I notice you didn’t include life under the sea in your statement. Not even the great extinction events from asteroids were able to do that. They didn’t kill all terrestrial life, either.
Your description of Cortes totally ignore WHY he had those views and how those views resulted in the freedom of Spain from the muslim invaders. The Spanish finally showed the West the ONLY way to fight islam. by being even more harsh and if necessary, barbaric.
These views took centuries to revert back to the naive Christian ethics that resulted in the loss of 50% of Christian nations to islam (quote: “just another religion”) while NOWwe could well do with the Conquistador ethics becoming mainstream.
:Si vis pacem para bellum” has never been more obvious in this world until now. An enemy who sees kindness, compassion, honesty, integrity and honour as weaknesses can ONLY understand superior force and pain which must be constantly applied.
Communism and islam are both totallitarian ideologies hiding behind a religious facade (Atheism IS a religion without a god:as its followers are evangelical and fanatical and yet their primary premise (There is no god) is just as impossible to prove as is that of religious followers (there is a god). In the latter group, only Christian countries are restrained by the ethics of JON but even then, war makes it impossible for this to be comprehensive (you NEVER surrender while combat is still in progress).
Xi needs an external war to solve internal problems and Biden and his puppet masters (NO! Not Obama as he was a puppet) are doing their best to help him.
Decadence is the sure sign of a dying civilization and defence people tell me that over 50% of potential recruits would be worthless in a war. This is the Left in action and until it is pushed back into its true non-Marxist non-WEF true liberal corner, it will destroy the west already drowning in illegal unassimilables.
If you think that BO isn’t Biden’s Geppetto, you’re delusional.
OOh please. B.O. didn’t even form policy in his own administration and Alzheimer Joe’s handlers are a thousand times more extreme than Bareback HASBEEN Osama’s apparatchiks ever were.
Jeff, Obama is the president, in for his third term. All his people are back at their old desks. Example: Biden was inaugurated on Jan 20. On January 21, all of Trump’s executive orders on immigration were reversed. And Biden was already mentally gone at that time. It was Barack’s big idea to put Biden on the Dem ticket and South Carolina delivered. Knowing what a sycophant that Joe is, Obama knew he could control and manipulate Joe. It is known that Barack talks to Joe almost every day. Obama is in and out of the White House all the time. There are no logs to show this apparently because he was the president at one time and doesn’t need to sign in. Or it is covered up. It’s no accident people are talking a out Michelle. Biden will NOT be on the ticket 2024. The Dems are going to pull a real fast on i. August at their convention. There is too much at stake for them to lose to Trump. Many of Barack’s Marxist thugs could end up in jail. Look for the election to be stolen.
Americans do not understand that Islam is not a religion it is a political system pretending to be religion, where killing infidels is a ticket to their “heaven.” By the scripture in their holy books beheading infidels is to be admired and justified. All non-muslims are infidels, that means you and me, i.e. every man woman and child that is not a muslim is an infidel. Today in Israel, muslims put infidel Jewish babies in microwave ovens and rape the mother in front of the father then kill them both, because they were, after all “infidels.” /// Have you noticed that everywhere muslims arrive that terrorist murder, by gun, knife, truck, bus, car, and commercial airliner begin and continue to increase? Muslims arrive to exterminate or enslave the local population. That is what muslims have in mind for all of the 1st world nations they migrate/invade. Muslims consider infidel tolerance, kindness, and forgiveness as weak. Compassion is not in their dictionary. The only way to deal with muslims is to deport them or kill them before they kill us. The destruction of the twin towers and the death of the occupants, there in New York City, on nine eleven, caused muslims around the world to rejoice. Islam a club of thugs using a pretend “religion” to justify barbaric violence against all non-muslims.
In my previous post I omitted the most ethical country in the west. admin, please change the line to this:
“only Israel and Christian countries are restrained”
@Michelle I was delighted to see that you hit all the key points; it’s rare. I was especially tickled by your Obama reference: if one cannot read, one can hardly be a puppet master.
On the point of kindness and empathy to the enemy, I usually tell people that you stop the fight when the enemy admits the defeat. You fight the war according to your enemy’s rules, and when your enemy understands that he is being defeated by his rules, it’s real. I learned that growing up, and it turns out only a few people understand this. Sigh.
Thank you for that. Unfortunately, the world is run by greedy morons all puppets to the elite, and I include the democrats, socialists and communists, as all are TOO stupid to realize that they are dancing to their puppet strings as well. Marxism has been taken over by the elite since the Manifesto was published and has always been about the destruction of the gateway to the elite (the middle class) and the enslavement of all non-elite.” For the greater good” really means “for the good of the greater” and ALWAYS has.
In WW2 both the Pacific war and the Eastern Front were fought using the same rules applied by the enemy as that and ONLY that enabled success.
From what I am told if you fight this way now vs such an enemy, it is reported by your own fellow leftist soldiers as a “war crime”.
That is how the leftist delusions have undermined our military at the bottom end, e.g., shooting supposedly wounded enemy in combat is the NORM as islamists, communists and Japanese if mildly wounded or more were often lying on unpinned grenades and all three targeted allied medicos deliberately.
The lunatic surreal hypersensitivity of many of our youth is insane in a real world. Add to that the idiotic attempt by woke western politicians to enlist more muslims in the armed forces thus training a potential terrorist for them. When I worked in a dangerous country, we had armed government provided, muslim bodyguards and I made a point of ensuring that they walked in front of me always as far too many strange “accidents’ happened.
Excellent points which should be taken to heart by all.
Everything that has ever happened did so in “modern times”, nothing happened in the “good old days”. The pendulum always swings both ways, suggesting otherwise is denying history.
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. -Isaiah 6:1
Isaiah was a close friend to King Uzziah and when he died Isaiah was sad Israel was in apostasy and all that comes along with it but then God allowed Isaiah to see the Lord sitting on the throne.
I can say this here too God is still on the throne. Glory Hallelujah all is heading to a showdown and the return of Jesus.
The American soldier has been replaced with the soldier of the Proposition Nation by which the homeland of the American soldier has become Isker’s Trash World.
I don’t think the American soldier will fight when he has no homeland.
“Only Israel has an effective anti-ballistic missile dome. ”
The Israeli “Iron Dome” is effective against missiles about as sophisticated as the German V2 rockets: slow, purely ballistic reentry and highly inaccurate. Against a modern ICBM moving at 15000 mph and capable of terminal guidance and maneuvering, the Iron Dome would be useless. Fortunately, the Iranian missiles are junk to begin with.
The American military weapons acquisition programs are hopelessly inefficient and driven more by providing employment for political reasons than by any actual usefulness. Until military procurement is completely overhauled, we will not be able to adequately defend America. Hanson’s book describes the consequences of ignoring the writing on the wall. Looks like we need a remedial reading program for Congress.
Iron Dome is not intended for interception of ICBMs. From https://english.mod.gov.il/About/Innovative_Strength/Pages/IMDO_Israel_Missile_Defense_Organization.aspx :
Iron Dome: Intercepts short-range surface-to-surface rockets (bottom layer)
David’s Sling: Intercepts short to medium and medium to long range surfarce-to-surface missiles (middle layer)
Arrow-2: Intercepts medium to long range missiles (upper layer)
Arrow-3: Intercepts long-range missiles (upper layer)
Arrow 4 being developed, is the kind of system that both nations would need in the event of an all-out war. The co-development of this system is probably one of the reasons that there is a very intense effort to drive a wedge between the US and Israel.
Israel did not shoot back at Teheran. Why not? Have they given up? There is no point in have guns if you will not shoot back.
The WEF and the rest of the “international” community are all simply mouthpieces for the United Nations. Defund it now.
Wrong! You have it back the front; the UN, the WHO and every group associated with either are the TOOLS of the WEF and its plutocratic totalitarians.
Both were created idealistically and allowed to be taken over by the puppets of the WEF.
In the “good old days” we always thought that it was only the communists and then the islamisst buying up UN votes but in reality it is the elite doing so as communism and islam are just two more ways of becoming rich IF you are at the top. The elites of both these ideologies treat their own people in the way that the WEF wants to do with the rest of us.
Communism and islam are just two ways of controlling masses and both are effective unless those controlled can see an effective opposition to them. Right now there is no such opposition except on webpages like this one.
Again, Victor David Hanson has spelled out very logical and sound common sense advice. Too bad it will fall on the deaf ears of the Biden administration.
VDH is a fraud. He is part of the reason Biden is in power in the first place. Go read anything from him from November 2020 to January 2021 and you will see what I mean. He helped the Left steal our country.
Why can’t these people play in their own sand box? I suppose the curses found in Genesis 3 are more impactful than I first realized.
Sand box? You mean litter box, right? 🙂
Hernán Cortés didn’t seek to destroy the cannibal Aztecs. He did it because they forced him to. He just wanted treasure, not a fight. He was a real man like Alexander,and he fucked those mother fuckers up when he had to. As a historian, I know you’ve read Díaz del Castillo’s book.
Great article as usual, but I’m surprised how often I feel the need to defend Cortés, who wasn’t exactly an empathetic historical figure but he was a brilliant tactician and steel hearted fighter.
And kudos for spelling his name with an “S’ instead of a “Z.” The “Z” spelling is considered low class in Spain and a sign of Moorish taint. I grew up with a guy named Gonzales and his smother was proud of that “S” even though she was from Greece. She looked Turkish to me, though.
Cortes like Franco since 1938 has been bastardized and smeared by Leftists of every ilk. My only quarrel was with the church that followed and often controlled him who destroyed so much in the name of a god.
Franco was a true patriot and his supposed “war crimes” were miniscule compared to the efforts of the communists and the anarchists. Leftist editors never tell you that after the war, correct and proper trials were used to sort out the guilty war criminals who were then rightly executed. He is a hero to Spain in every way and yet I hear that his statues are “disappearing” while Catalonia is not far from becoming muslim controlled. All of his efforts could not foresee the fools who control Spain now.
” A fool with a vote is far more dangerous than a fool with a gun”
Unfortunately, the Left tends to (re)write history to suit its own goals.
Yes, Franco was cool. He’s underrated to say the least.
If this be true, then from whence did AOC inherit her whoreishness?
How many muslim woman have you talked with?. Deep down they are almost all the same.
Islamic indoctrination is far superior to even the communist/national socialists (same thing) attempts. Not hard to understand as they have been perfecting the “Black Hole that is islam” for over a 1000 years. So easy to say that you are muslim until you discover what it means and what you can no longer do or like or love.
If only ONE muslim survived a holocaust or only one copy of the koran did, it would begin all over again..
From a donkey, by the look of her buck teeth. Hee HAW!
Most lowland Greeks are Turkish genetically (obviously not all), This was because of the standard raping by muslims of all non-muslim females in occupied countries and the murder of most non-muslim males. The ONLY pure Greeks genetically were those who converted early and who deservedly died when the Turks were thrown out AND those still living in mountains and isolated villages. The Turks unlike the Romans were not thorough in their conqueror’s genes work and many pure Greeks survived in these places to continue the blood lines of ancient Greece and Macedonia.
I once met a young man with white skin, blues eyes and curly golden hair: he was an exact copy (perhaps more handsome) of the coin image I own of Alexander the Great. He was a Macedonian immigrant to the west and came from a mountain village.
Well then I guess Victor shouldn’t have helped the same people steal the 2020 election, should he have?
Seriously, the fact that this guy still tries to act like a conservative after what he pulled in 2020/Jan 2021 is disgusting. VDH is an unforgivable coward.
Could you be a bigger pile of shit?
WE ARE our enemy. Our enemy is running our government.