Don Surber
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022
2022: The year the globalism stood still
Niall Ferguson wrote, "1066, 1914, 1989, 2022? We have seen very few years in history that have been truly pivotal...This could be one -- but ONLY if the West gets better leadership."It is a nice column.
But he missed the whole point of the crisis. Weak leadership in the West is the product of globalism in which politicians who stay bought (like Biden) rise to become leaders of their countries because they do the bidding of Red China and the rest of the New World Order. The best case scenario is not that this crisis brings down Putin, but that it brings down globalism.
Gorbachev and Bush 41 founded the New World Order. Bush announced it to Congress on September 11, 1991.
Ten years later, well...
And now after 30 years of NWO, the whole thing is coming apart.
A great nation deserves a great leader. We had one. The Donald. Red China, the Russians and the Deep State conspired to bring him down. Do you really believe Putin was unaware of the Russian Dossier? Nothing goes on in the Kremlin without his approval, and the Kremlin worked with Fusion GPS to compile that dossier.
But now Putin is on the outside looking in.
As an historian, Ferguson knows well the past. He sees 2022 as a potentially pivotal year, which it very well may be. Just not in the direction he wants.
Ferguson wrote, "But it doesn't have to be that way. Of course, long-term shifts in geopolitics take time, but right now there are three things we must do to help President Zelensky in his immediate fight against Russian aggression.
"First, the supply of arms has to be sustained and its quality upgraded. In particular, Ukraine needs superior surface-to-air missiles to help reduce its vulnerability from the air.
"Second, a full oil and gas embargo needs to be imposed by the EU with immediate effect. It wouldn't be cheap – but the costs of not thwarting Putin's aggression would be higher in the end. Third, the US needs to do more to lead peacemaking efforts, rather than leaving it to others – such as Boris Johnson and EU leaders – to make the diplomatic running.
"Joe Biden must ditch the backseat diplomacy of the Obama era, which is part of what got us into this mess to begin with."
That is the opposite of what needs to be done.
Just as 9/11 was not Pearl Harbor, this is not Hitler and Stalin invading and divvying up Poland.
9/11 led to 20 years of war in Afghanistan and a surrender of arms.
Let us learn from this. We need diplomacy, not the military.
Ryan McMaken of the Mises Instituted argued, "We Must Now Learn the Lesson of 1914, Not the Lesson of 1938."
He wrote, "But it is not, in fact, the case that every act of diplomacy or compromise designed to avoid war is appeasement. Moreover, we can find countless examples in which nonintervention and a refusal to escalate a situation was—or would have been—the better choice.
"In other words, it's not always 1938. Rather than fixating on the lesson of 1938, the better lesson to learn is often the lesson of 1914 or perhaps even the lessons of 1853, 1956, or 1968. In all these cases, military escalation was—or would have been—the wrong response. Moreover, in the age of nuclear weapons—something that did not exist in 1938—the world is a different place, and confrontation with a nuclear power could potentially bring about the end of human civilization. Casually bandying about demands for a no-fly zone—which would mean war with Russia—is both irresponsible and the sort of rhetoric fit for a nonnuclear world that ceased to exist many decades ago."
What would Trump do? Well, when the Kurds insisted we defend them, he trusted the Turks and Russia to handle the situation. He kept the USA out. His critics said this would lead to Kurdish genocide. Instead, peace broke out.
Wiser heads are prevailing today. The West is resisting Zelensky's hysterical demand that we shoot down Russian aircraft in a no-fly zone.
But the economic sanctions are almost as bad. Nations are snatching private property -- yachts -- from foreigners. On top of that piracy, Internet oligarchs are censoring Russia and virtue signaling employers are firing Russian employees.
Sanctions won't work.
The reader who tipped me to Ferguson's column observed, "Ukraine may not change much in the world if Putin wins there. But the assault on the Russian population with these egregious cancel attacks is eventually going to backfire bigly. They are similar to civilian bombing in Japan and Germany to break morale, a major failure in both cases. Putin or his successor will become even stronger and more belligerent.
"The USA now has the worst leadership of a major power in world history. American Democracy itself is going to take a major blow for its responsibility in transporting hungry sewer rats like Biden, Harris, Pelosi and even Obama himself up into the light of world dominance they couldn't handle."
I agree.
But this flustercuck has a silver lining. It may bring down Biden and all the other bought-off world leaders. The blowback from sanctions on Russia are higher food and energy prices. $6 a gallon gasoline and $6 a pound hamburger have immediate consequences.
Ferguson does not understand that Putin's adversaries are in as deep political trouble back home as he is.
Ferguson wrote, "The war in Ukraine is not over. Russia has not been defeated. Putin has not been overthrown. And so to speak of a 'historic turning point' today would be premature. But there can be a turning point – and it can be a profound one.
"For that, though, we will need the kind of strong leadership that holds firm when a despot rattles the nuclear sabre; that reminds us why the Ukrainian struggle for liberty is indeed our struggle; and that remembers one of history's greatest lessons is that the insatiable appetite of some authoritarian empires for neighboring territory cannot be defeated by sanctions alone. Without this kind of leadership, I doubt 2022 will be as joyous as the turning point of 1989."
Oh it will if Biden and the rest are replaced with patriots and globalism is swept into the dustbin of history where it belongs. |
