[Alas Babylon!]

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Will the last “conservative” who still supports their country and country’s military turn out the lights?

I do not recognize this site anymore. Something went wrong.

Hint—it wasn’t Trump. He still believes in a Great America.

[AndyJackson]

What went wrong is squandering our wealth and becoming indebted while trying to be an Asian land power and letting our sea power go. We have nothing to show for it except military failures all over the Middle East and a maritime force [Navy, relevant Air Force, Space Force] that sorely needs rethinking and recapitalization for the sea power mission.

While Col. Macgregor talks about this and understands it well, he misses a point. Taiwan isn't jsut a little island, as he asserts, any more than UK or NZ are little islands. The point of sea power is that it allows you to defend your islands. MacArthur was clear about the importance of Taiwan in the island bulwark in the Western Pacific.

This is where the neocon globalists went very wrong. They forgot our natural strategic advantage being protected by two oceans over which we trade with the rest of the world.

Being an asian landpower is a sad lot in life. It is bad enough for those who have to live with it because of geopolitical realities [Russia is but one]. We don't and we shouldn't have tried. You have too many enemies, no natural defensive barriers, and victories are too fleeting.

It isn't us who gave up on America. It is the neocon globalists who tried to turn us into something we cannot be and squandered a fortune doing so.