Why the US cannot pull back from overseas.

Human Prosperity requires keeping rivals in check. Oldest truth in the book.

Most of my core audience voted from Trump, and they did so because he promised a return to sanity after the theatrical government that was the Obama years. First Black President, to be followed by Hilary First Female President. I don’t know if Californian idiots know this but average americans don’t give a fuck if we have scored cool points why them, but most people saw a country in steep decline and wanted a return to a serious government that would make shit work. Get things done. After all, what is a Black President worth if you are working 2 jobs and can’t afford groceries? Fuck all! The media tells us the ideal world is virtue signalling our way into destruction, but real people who suffer know what matters, which is stoping crime, stabilizing the economy and being able to put food on the table. All these three do not give a single flying fuck about weather the President being Green or Blue or looks virtuous. Trump told it like it is, the way the average american felt but no one in power was willing to articulate it for them.

I remember the sheer sense of necessity that many of my friends from America had back at the 2015 eletction, “We either put this man in charge or the fucking system is going to collapse cuz the government is literally prioriting DEI policies over fixing our REAL poblems”. It went something like this. I got behind that because because as much as i am a humorous guy, i think Governance has to be serious. This is not a post about Trump mind you, but we cannot avoid him.

After the Election was stolen in 2020 and Joe Biden was elected as the “most voted for president in American history” the US just went off the rails. 10 million people were allowed across the border for no other reason than to “appear righteous”. What kind of a sick joke is that? That Ukranian Woman stabbed in the train is not laughing for she has no life and thus no future to laugh. Aside from the Theatrics this brought about another landslide victory for Donald Trump last year. As much as the media wanted to claim he was a clown, he seemed to be the only adult in the room. The oldschool grampa who made everyone unconfortable by saying what needed to be said, be it racist, xenophobic, taxist or whatever. He got shit done and thats what someone living paycheck for paycheck cares about.

Of course many here now hate Donald Trump because of the Epstein fiasco and him bending over backwards for Israel. I’m not here to defend that. I’m not here to defend Trump. But i’m here to tell you a very unconfortable truth: The material confort and safety you presently enjoy cannot afford you having gay ass feelings about morality, and most important to this post, it cannot afford Isolationism.

If you voted for Trump on the Epistein list promise, congratulations, you must be so materially secure and well off you don’t have to worry about putting food on the table, the economy or crime. But most people who elected him did. They can forgive a fucking alleged pedophile running the country if it means their lives will improve. The Sad reality of geopolitics is that poor working people vote for a leader that promise to fix things, not based on what he says, how he says it or whom he was sex with or how racist or “problematic” he is. Soviet People did not revolt against Stalin because peasants had it better under Stalin than under the Tsar. You don’t have the luxury to care about the Epstein files if you have real fucking problems to deal with in your daily life.

The very same way the South fought a bloody war to the Death because their economy was treatened, the alternative to Not Electing Donald Trump was not having a Country. “oh it was wrong to keep slavery”. Tough luck boyo, it was their fucking livelyhood versus your petty gay ass elite morality and equal rights bullshit. Guess what Southerners chose? To get out of the Union. They got fucked, but they stood up for THEIR prosperity. My point being, and you can apply this to any political scenario across the entire history of mankind, is people will support anything that secures their safety and prosperty. And then we come to the French Revolution, because as i said, this would not be about Trump or the Confederacy.

The French Revolution happened because the French Nobility had lost any and all pretense of being defenders of the people. The old pre-revolution order worked as far as it made sense. During its inception and for 900 years the French Nobility was the guarantor of the common man’s safety. Far from what Marxist textbook teach us, the social contract under feudalism made sense. You gave away part of what you produced goods to the local lord and he guaranteed that bandits, raiders and others who would burn your home and rape your wife and kids were kept away. Seems like a pretty good deal to me.

Of course this all changed, very slowly but still, with the centrazilation of power, a process that begun under Richelieu and was finalized by Louis XIV. After that, the noble was lord of lands he never visited, had a bunch of honorary titles, the people were looked after by sheriffs who abused power and gradually the nobility lost its purpose. This system would utterly collapse in 1789 when the finances of France utterly broke due to Governmental Negligence. A simple Famine was the last drop of water that broke an entire damn.

Aristocrats who were hardass warriors in armour were now caught wearing female clothes and leeching of the system while reading Voltaire while the common people starved. These were the ones the Revolutionary Government Guilhotined. The military hardasses? it broke deals with them to keep the military functional. These nobles were needed. I don’t know of a single Aristocrat who was on the military and was not pardoned unless he took up arms against the new Republic. The wanted to cull the rot, not build a new system. Rights of man my ass, that was the excuse to get rid of a Nobility that costed too much and did absolutely nothing.

And it was experimental as fuck, but given time and many wars it solidified itself under the Person of Napoleon Bonaparte, a man who had one dream: To conquer the whole of Europe so Europe would not conquer France. That will make sense in a minute, don’t leave just yet.

So, you know how we had the Warsaw Pact and the Nato Alliance as two opposing mutually exclusive systems that were existential threats to eachother? Imagine France and its colonies as a power bloc, Britain and its colonies as a power block, Spain and its clonies as a power bloc, you get the idea. In 1700 you did not have the luxury of Nato vs Warsaw but over 11 competing “power blocs” which historians like to call Empires and pretend they were a different thing than the Washington and Moscow. , whci rule Empires. Countries went to gigantic wars with eachother to protect their very existence. War in our modern world is the far away aberration while their was the close to home norm. Why were these wars fought? Human Nature tells us that because when no one has a HEGEMONY over the world, trade, peace, prosperity and functionality cannot exist.

Your Louis XIV was not fighting the entirety of Europe because he had delusions of Grandeur. He was fighting the entirety of Europe so that France would be so powerful it could spend decades prospering without having to fight another conflict. If we see this in modern terms, think of WW2. As much as i do not particularly enjoy the outcome, you can sit on your ass all day and complain about the prices of goods because there is no evil empire overseas trying to invade your country. The division of the world between Communists and Capitalists ironically ended major wars. It was a compromise of necessity. Both teamed up to smash Germany so there would be two powers instead of three. Today the problem is China, its Iran, whatever.

But “they don’t threaten me”. Ok, well let me put this as bluntly as i can. Iran and China and Russia do not threaten you because the United States has bases all over the world that guarantee they will not grow powerful enough to threaten you. It is easy to say “No one in Russia is stealing my taxes” and throwing shade at the US Gov while the only reason no one in Russia is stealing your taxes is because, and this is a very unconfortable truth for Americans, the Hegemony of the UN-led US Empire, guaranteed by the US Gov, whom, despite our last decade of cultural madness, is the best outcome we could ever hope for. Washington is way tamer of a master than Moscow would be, and i promise you you’d rather be living under Trump and “the jews” than under Xin Xiaoping or Putin. “But Putin is based bra”. Yeah, go to Russia and see if you have the same freedom to criticize the government as the loudmouthed american average complainer does. Try that in China. Try that in the UK. “Free Speech is sacred”. Yes, under the AMERICAN system. Under no other system no, it is not a right and fuck you if you complain about any grievances. You complain? you die. The grass is not greener anywehre else, Reagan had a point in America being a very fucking special system. If you want Isolationism and an “inwards focus on our domestic problems” you won't get that if true Isolationism is implemented. You will get the destruction of the only system that ever existed that gives you that much prosperity and freedom of every kind.

Prosperity of any kind can only exist once Hegemony is stablished. You can fix America, but you can’t fix an America that cannot control its shipping lanes and is embargoed by a China or Russia so strong that you’ll be under economic harship, maybe famine. Inconcievable right? well again, you are living in a very special place that is only possible because of “forever wars”, not inspite of them. Don’t kill me just yet.

If America stops being the world police, someone much harsher will step over and take the very same role, and i guarantee you, that “other” Hegemon won’t be as kind to you as the American government is (taxation is theft! - says Joe from Alabama before getting executed for public disorder).

Listen, i know your national history is about fighting tyranny, and i agree that the Obama and Biden years were, by your very privilleged metrics, tyrannical, but you don’t want a Xi Xiaping over and Obama. And you know it. You would not trade your precious “God given rights” for whatever bullshit Chinese Godless “Democracy” passes itself for (Cue: the lowest salaries, harshest work conditions and as many rights as the party says you have; zero).

The reason European Empires fought countless wars was to secure their trade, their shipping lanes, and the prosperity of their own people, not out of kindness but out of necessity.

]The Reason Alexander the Great Invaded Persia was so that Greece would never have to fight another bloody battle against the Persians.

The reason Napoleon and H. Man tried to conquer Europe was to stablish an European Empire that would never be threatened.

The US is doing the very same thing. Having bases all over the world, caputring Maduro and making Venezuela play ball, grabbing Greenland, those are not stupid power plays, they are Security Reasons so that you, as much as you think you are opressed, can have the time to complain about your local mayor or the liberal next to you. This is why the US cannot pull back from Europe. It cannot pull back its forwards bases all over the World. Peace Requires the enemy not being at your door. He won’t leave you alone if you leave him alone. He will grow, he will eat you alive.

Stability is only secured trough being Hegemony. You can only trade in peace if your rivals are kept in check. This is perhaps too harsh a Political reality for many people to comprehend. But there is no scenario where the American military presence is deliberately destroyed and you get to keep your rights, your freedom and your prosperity. Freedom has a price, and that is what every Empire payed upfront and cotinued to do so until it could not anymore, and that is, as cliché as it sounds, Eternal Vigilance.

I’ll leave the Comments open, blast away friends and foes alike.