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I don’t think we should be surprised.  Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov just basically outlined the Russian position, attitude, goal - that his nation will henceforth act to ensure the end of “US world dominance”, including US “subjects”, meaning, presumably, US allies.

Well, should this come as a shock?  Right now seems the perfect time for Russia to assume a change of the guard.  We demonstrated for all the world to see that we can no longer even effect an orderly retreat as exemplified in Afghanistan to our eternal disgrace.  We have disabled our own energy supply.  We have allowed to sit in the office of the Presdient a man so degenerate and so physically and mentally incapacitated that he can hardly find his way offstage after refusing to answer any questions from the press.  He makes up fantastic stories about his imagined past.  His wife leads him around by the hand.  He frequently mixes up who it is he is talking about.  Should we really presume to “lead the world” when our own “leader” can’t control his own bodily functions?  What should we expect the Russians to think?  

The United States has been the undisputed leader of the “free world” and has dominated the rest of the world for at least half a century.  Is the world really a better place for it?  

America decided that it was going to do this job.  For a while it looked like we could, too.  It appeared that many developing nations looked to our Constitution for inspiration, it seemed that we had the military strength to back up our moral strength.  So it seemed.

But, as with all things that look normal on the surface but have basically rotted away underneath, that appearance of strength was undermined - in our case by a moral breakdown.  Someone decided that our State Department was there to meddle in the internal affairs of foreign nations, to dictate to leaders of other nations, to do whatever it took to get what we wanted at the moment.  The US became not a protective friend or brother in freedom to other nations, but rather a bully, a thug, a crafty, self-serving threat to other countries.  

While we were threatening the dictatorships we didn’t like we were creating dependencies in the ones of which we approved.  Most of Europe nestled under the wing of US military strength for decades, allowing its nations to become weak and reliant on us.  Was this a service to them?  It would seem not so much.  NATO, which for most of its life depended heavily upon disproportionate US funding, took over for these nations.  It was, seemingly, by design, because the US wanted to control this.  It also enabled these European nations to drift easily toward socialism.  Their resources were not needed for responsible self-defense, so they used their wealth to establish vast, costly social programs.  It enabled them to depend first on the US and then on Russia for energy, to live beyond their means (also something to which the US has adapted itself as well).  

The “green” movement thrived in Europe because it is basically an irresponsible movement which does not concern itself with the basic necessities of life.  Just as in America, fewer and fewer people remained in agriculture and more and more moved into congested cities, leaving people dependent upon fewer, more concentrated food sources.  As European countries shunned development of their own energy they allowed other countries to be the “polluters” and they, the Europeans, took advantage and while they were at it, they had fun of virtue-signalling to the US and Russia.  I just heard an Irish MEP refer to “filthy, fracked US gas”.  Well, better for Ireland that it is available and fracked here, one would suppose.  It doesn’t mean that the Irish aren’t using it.  They like to heat their homes and drive their cars, too, it seems.  But this exemplifies the Europeans’ attitude.  

No one likes a bully and no one appreciates a busy-body big-brother nation butting into their affairs.  No one likes it but they accept it grudgingly because they allowed themselves the luxury of becoming dependent.  Their dependency has thus enabled a lot of evil - steadily encroaching government restriction of their own citizens and dependence internally upon socialist cradle-to-grave programs that provide inadequately but just enough to keep the people stuck in the dependency, it has enabled irresponsible “green” programs and policies, it has empowered other powerful nations to dictate terms to them - whether the U.S., China or Russia.  

Our eternal meddling, especially since Woodrow Wilson in WWI, has paid us a dividend in resentment, earned us a reputation as an international bully and has even corrupted our own domestic policies - it has cost us a huge amount of money, nearly incalculable, and this has undermined our own economy.  

How have we been as a steward?  Lousy.  Our policies of “regime change” have netted us nothing - these grafted-on western-style leaders don’t have any staying power - they are not organic.  We go into a foreign culture, another nation, re-arrange their political face and expect we have made an ally.  Allies are not made that way - vassals are made, dependencies are made, but not “allies”.  Every country that has become dependent upon us resents us for it and looks down on us for it.  That is human nature, it seems.  We see it in personal and business relationships as well as in international politics.

As a steward of the planet we have been a disaster.  Not us as a people, not our Constitutional republic, not our military, but our leaders.  This idea that our State Department should be orchestrating revolutions here and there and installing their hand-picked puppets to serve US interests is a discredit to us.  Our military actions have done more harm than good.  We were all better off when Gaddafi was running Libya (and so, by far, was Europe!). Destabilizing that regime brought us a mass exodus of North African people into Europe, unvetted - just like the border crossing that goes on in our country - and, in turn, has been destabilizing Europe.  The cost to the people in both places has been staggering.  Loss of able-bodied young men in North African countries has impoverished them while their going to Europe has caused expense and disruption and criminal - even terrorist - activity they did not have before.  It has corrupted their own culture, displaced their own languages and customs.  It has been a huge net loss.  

When one takes into account the disasterous effects of our sneaking bioweapon research and development into other countries it takes on a whole new dimension.  The world can’t afford anymore of our stewardship.  Our partnership with Chinese communists in developing the Covid virus in US taxpayer-funded illicit labs in Wuhan cost the world a ton of misery and nearly a billion deaths worldwide so far - our “vaccine” (thank you Donald Trump) will cost perhaps twice as many lives.  It’s not something to put on our “world dominator resume”, is it?  And yet we persist.  Ukraine was blighted with over 30 such bioweapons labs as created the Covid - only these were developing hemorrhagic fever viruses, it seems. 

We are not the “good guys” anymore.  While we have been harming the rest of the world and strutting around posing as “heroes”, we have also watched our own example of freedom decline in our own country.  Our own fiscal responsibility, once a point of principle with our Founders, is non-existent today.  Our Constitution has become nothing but a “goddamned piece of paper” to the people we elect to our highest office (George W. Bush, for example).  Our current president* is a disgrace in every possible way - immoral in his personal life, immoderate in public, incoherent and inarticulate, corrupt in every sense of the word and while he’s at this he can think of nothing but destroying our own nation’s strength and culture whether it is through placing on the Supreme Court a judge whose history is one of condoning pedophilia, promotion of Critical Race Theory in our schools, insisting on transgendering kids, subverting our military and intemperate spending while allowing our borders to be completely open.  Our "leaders"* are currently working out a way to provide Iran with full nuclear power.  What kind of stewardship is this?  Maybe America has no talent for foreign relations.  We have no right and no reason to want to lead the world any longer.  

America needs to take time off from minding other people’s business and focus on restoring what was once a great nation and a gloriously successful experiment in freedom and individual rights.  We just have to stop the trajectory we are on.  Maybe Russia needs to be the one to stop us.  Maybe this is meant to be.  When America ceases to be good, she ceases to be great, as De Tocqueville observed.  We should all read DeTocqueville to learn what America was and should - and perhaps could - be again.  Perhaps one day we can again lead the word in the right way - by example, not by fiat.  A nation that can’t handle its own situation really shouldn’t be advising others, say nothing of dictating to them or re-arranging their politics by stealth or force.  And we have been a terrible example - our cities burning, our finances in a shambles, our border open and our own nation unprotected.  As Mrs. Paroo said to Marian in The Music Man:  “Why should they take advice from you?”

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