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Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow - Excellent
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James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames
I keep seeing people saying that we need to put our own country's problems first without even talking about what's happening in other countries, never mind funding it or whatever.
I seriously wonder what world these people think we live in.
Imagine you live in a suburban neighborhood somewhere, and you decide you're going to prioritize your family's problems first without even caring what's going on in the other houses, or the city, or whatever, and you have no interest in seeing any resources going to any other problems.
But the thing is, one of the houses down the block is being turned into a crackhouse, so kinda none of the kids in the neighborhood, including your own kids, can play outside.
Now someone else's house, and perhaps forces off in the city, have become part of your family's problems.
If you're prioritizing only your family's problems, that doesn't mean the only thing in the universe that's relevant is what's happening inside your four walls. You have to care about what is going on in the neighborhood and why.
Now imagine kids are being taught Woke garbage in the schools. Those just became part of your family's problems, even secondarily if it's only other people's kids in their schools, say if you homeschool or whatever.
Stuff that's happening outside of your household directly and indirectly impacts what's going on inside your household, creating problems for your family that you have to deal with whatever your "heat map" prioritization system. You can't just withdraw from them and think they'll go away.
Take Canada as a nation outside the US. If Canada becomes Communist, it shares a 5500-mile unguarded border with the United States. Doesn't that seem important to you? It will ally itself with China and provide China a direct route for a land invasion of the United States that's almost impossible to secure against. Doesn't that seem kind of like a big deal?
Prioritizing America means having to pay attention to Canada as well as the forces shaping Canada.
Look at Europe. If Europe becomes another collection of radical Islamic states, not only will there be the huge loss of heritage, there's a gigantic raft of new national security issues that immediately arise. Understanding how Europe is being turned into what it is, which requires also understanding the justifications for the flows of people coming in, which requires understanding and doing something about the countries from which those radicals are emigrating, is all relevant. How could it not be relevant?
Prioritizing America means having to pay attention to Europe and the forces remaking Europe now, including upstream effects in other parts of the world like North and Central Africa and the Middle East.
Consider the People's Republic of China with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). If that initiative is successful, China will establish itself as the primary trade provider, controller, and conduit for 5.7 BILLION people and will have an economic stranglehold over most of the world. The US economy will be relatively unimportant to the PRC as compared to what it is today, which gives the PRC massive leverage over the United States on the global stage that it doesn't have today.