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AndyJackson: "The notion that we are THE GLOBAL SUPERPOWER that can prevail everywhere, despite our 50 years of globaalony profligacy, doesn't jibe with our history of getting kicked out of everywehre we have tried to intervene."

Well... not quite everywhere.
Here are some countries that were once our enemies and are now our friends:

US allies and friends in green:

United Kingdom (you remember 1776, right?)
Spain (you remember the Spanish American War?)
Fascist Italy (you remember Mussolini, right?)
Vichy France (that whole WWII thing)
Germany (WWII again)
Poland (Cold War I)
Czech Republic (WWII & Cold War)
Slovakia (WWII & Cold War)
Hungary (WWII & Cold War)
Romania (WWII & Cold War)
Bulgaria (WWII & Cold War)
Turkey (First World War)
former Yugoslavia (Cold War)
Be-Ne-Lux (WWII Nazi conquests)
Iraq (Gulf War)
Vietnam (Vietnam War)
Philippines (Philippine Revolution and WWII)
Japan (WWII)
Mexico (Mexican-American War)
Canada (Wars of 1776 and 1812)

Also, in addition to the 31 NATO members (some already listed) the US has named another 18 countries as major non-NATO allies, though some are a little... "complicated":

In South America:
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Colombia
In the Middle East
- Bahrain
- Egypt
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Qatar
In Africa
- Morocco
- Tunisia
In the Indo-Pacific
- Australia
- Japan
- New Zealand
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- South Korea
- Thailand

And we could easily add India to this list, with hundreds of $billions in trade and investments supported by friendly cooperation in many areas, including the Quad in defense.

AndyJackson: "It's really simple, if you take a long view.
At the end of the day, culture beats everything.
It survives long after invading armies have gone to their Valhalla.
It doesn't however survive those who abaondon their culture.
The culture we had that built this country and won WWII [with our allies, very importantly, because most of our success was rethroning the incumbant culture in the lands we booted the Nazis out of] is not the culture we have today.
That culture had been toppled by DEI, the nihilist globalist garbage you support, the cultural marxism of the left and the collusion of the warmongering RINOs like Bush and Cheney and the Zeepers pushing the Ukraine folley."

Almost all of that is 100% complete nonsense, just babbling stupidity devoid of serious contact with actual reality.
It's what happens when you drink the Russkiy Mir Vodka-KoolAid.

Specifically:

However much abused today, DEI at its core is nothing more than old fashioned virtues of treating everyone fairly and with equal justice.
Therefore, to the degree that DEI is ever misused to put unqualified people in jobs they can't do, or to abuse qualified people in the name of "equity", that will end with the next conservative administration.
Your words, "the nihilist globalist garbage you support" are meaningless nonsense -- you don't yourself know what you mean by them, so to you they are simply word-weapons you can hurl at whatever you don't understand.
St. Augustine, Just War theology, from "City of God" 426 AD
Also your words, "the collusion of the warmongering RINOs like Bush and Cheney and the Zeepers pushing the Ukraine folley" ignore the fact that the only real "folley" being pushed in Ukraine is by your master, Vlad the Invader, in the name of his Russkiy Mir delusional fantasies.
Everyone supporting Ukraine is helping the just war against the reborn Axis of Evil Dictators.

AndyJackson quoting Sun Tzu's maxims: "...The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler"
"...The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom..."

AJ: "With the present state of our county we lose on all accounts.
Let's get our house in order."

Naw, we'll never lose on any of those accounts because it's not our house that's not "in order", it's your own brain that is seriously confused, befuddled and bewildered by propaganda that's driven you to crazy-talk.

The reason our "house" will always be in order is because our "ruler" and "commander" is never a man, or a political party, or any organization, or an ideology, or even a set of laws.
Rather, our "Ruler" is our faith in our Savior and our "Commander" gave us the timeless laws we obey.
These have nothing to do with the state of politics in any country at any given time, even though those can and do sometimes cause great trials and tribulations.

Bottom line: you referred to WWII, and today's US population is over 2.5 times what it was in 1940, with roughly 1/3 of the increase from growth in Hispanics and Asians, neither of which groups are of any concern in terms of their traditional family values.
Both groups already include substantial minorities of Republican voters -- about 1/3 of Asians and 40% of Hispanics.
If these numbers manifest in November, we'll be on the road to recovery -- cultural, economic and other policies.