“Strategically, [the Russians] … deployed more bombers, they deployed more submarines…. They’re still very capable, with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal and hypersonic weapons.”
Gen. Glen VanHerck[i]
Following my remarks in Milwaukee (linked below), I drove to Toronto Canada for the Mackenzie Institute’s Special Conference on “Guarding the North: Canada’s Strategic Arctic Future.”[ii] I was put on last Wednesday’s 2 pm Security Panel, seated next to Canada’s former Ambassador to Russia, a pleasant lady who assured everyone that the greatest threat to the Arctic was “climate change.”[iii]
The high point of the conference was meeting Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, former commander of NORAD and NORTHCOM. VanHerck says Americans and Canadians need to understand their strategic vulnerabilities. Also attending the conference was Maj. Gen. Scott Clancy, who formerly served as NORAD’s Director of Operations. Clancy created something called “Scott’s Report Card” in which he gave North America’s commitment to defense an “F” and a “D-” respectively.
All the generals at the special conference testified to the unwillingness of Ottawa and Washington to commit the necessary resources to defend the continent from Russian missiles and bombers. Not only are we facing four years without early warning (AWACs) aircraft, but we only have forty launchers to defend against ballistic missile attacks while the Russians have hundreds of ballistic missiles. “We cannot defend everything,” said Gen. VanHerck. “The question is, what do we want to defend?”
Many people erroneously imagine that President Reagan succeeded with his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). They imagine America is protected against missile attacks. In truth, very little came of Reagan’s SDI. We have no defensive systems that can reliably stop a long-range Russian cruise missile or hypersonic missiles. “We could try to use fighter aircraft to stop cruise missiles,” said VanHerck doubtfully. But then, NORAD deploys only a dozen such fighters compared to many hundreds that were available in the past.
Why do we have so few aircraft on duty? Most of our aircraft are forward deployed to other theaters. We are defending allies in Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. Consequently, the United States Air Force is stretched thin. VanHerck then explained, “We do not train enough pilots.” Here is a riddle for higher management. Failing to inspire young men to enter pilot training is one thing, openly discouraging those who would otherwise like to fly is another. Since 2021 the Pentagon drove more than 8,000 servicemen out of the military for refusing to take a vaccine that the government said was “safe and effective.” How many of the 8,000 were pilots? There is also the obnoxious integration of leftwing ideology into military education. What sensible young man would voluntarily subject himself to anti-American and outright Marxist indoctrination (i.e., Critical Race Theory, radical feminism, etc.)? Furthermore, the COVID vaccine was, if anything, an ideological litmus test. Insofar as Americans are political, the left believed in the jab because they believe in big government. The right distrusted the jab because they distrust big government. If the administration wanted a left-of-center military where old wounds could be reopened, with guilty confessions of racism from whites and reparations for blacks, they stumbled upon an effective means for purging rightwing servicemen. But in that purge lies a shortage above and beyond an already growing volunteer deficit.
From this we can see that American and Canadian policymakers are inconsistent in their rhetoric concerning national security. The same government that is assisting Ukraine against Russia will not protect its own homeland against Russian missiles. And so, Moscow threatens America’s homeland directly when Ukraine resists. “Cut off the assistance to Ukraine and your homeland will be safe,” says Vladimir Putin. Gen. VanHerck told his Canadian listeners that there are no good outcomes in the Ukraine War. It is disastrous, he said, if Russia wins the war. But if we prevent Russia from winning, they have the option of directly attacking the American homeland.
In his Wednesday night speech, Gen. VanHerck questioned Canada’s “urgency” on Arctic Defense, saying that Prime Minister Trudeau has promised to buy jet fighters and submarines, “but there’s not a history of taking those actions.”[iv] The politicians make promises to improve the situation, but nothing happens. Our defense capabilities shrink from year to year. “There is no sense of urgency, for the most part, from the leadership of the government of Canada,” he said. “It is easy to say we’re going to buy F35 (fighter jets), we’re going to buy submarines. But with that comes a lot of requirements to build infrastructure, set up logistics pipelines, set up training pipelines. And my question is, is Canada ready for that?”[v]
Why should Canada do its fair share when the United States is so behindhand in modernizing its strategic deterrent? Ottawa is one side of the problem while Washington is the other. And while we continue to sit on our hands, says VanHerck, China will possess Russia’s strike capabilities in six to eight years.
I could not resist asking the general what he thought of a combined Russian and Chinese attack on America. VanHerck doubted we could prevail in such a conflict. He sincerely hoped the two countries would not join forces against us; yet, he explained, Chinese bombers are presently flying missions out of Russian bases.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with GRU defector Stanislav Lunev, in 1998. Lunev told me that Russian and Chinese planners started working together in the early 1990s. He believed that Russia and China could defeat the United States in a future war. “Chinese manpower with Russian nuclear missile power,” said Lunev, “is a winning combination.” Like Col. Lunev, Gen. VanHerck stressed Russia’s formidable strategic capabilities.
For me, the testimony of Gen. VanHerck was hardly a surprise. The dynamic of the Russia/China collaboration is perfectly obvious. Defectors from the Soviet Union and Russia, like Anatoliy Golitsyn and Lunev, warned us about Sino-Russian collusion in the 1980s and 90s. Unfortunately, our leaders have ignored the defectors. Our plutocrats wanted to exploit the cheap labor of China and the cheap resources of Russia. They rushed forward and swallowed a baited hook.
Why did our leading financial people, who buy politicians by the dozen, take the communist bait? And why do they continue to delude themselves at this late hour? Why is our system of freedom, and free government, so eager to commit suicide?
To answer this question, we may consult books on Western decline, from Friedrich Nietzsche and Oswald Spengler to Richard Weaver and Eric Voegelin. One should, as well, meditate on the suggestive insights of Henry Adams, Joseph Schumpeter, Vilfredo Pareto, Gustave Le Bon, Carl Jung, and Jacob Burckhardt. In books by these writers our worst fears for the future are analyzed. Here we find the “suicide of the West” explained in philosophic or psychological or historical terms. Of course, these authors are not always right in what they propose. Each made mistakes. For example, I do not agree with Nietzsche’s immoralism, or Spengler’s fatalism, or Weaver’s Southern agrarianism, or Eric Voegelin’s claim that modern ideologies are Gnostic. Yet, if we drain away the dross to find the gold, we will begin to see what went wrong with our civilization – though few are ready to see the truth. There are valuable insights in Nietzsche, intriguing parallels in Spengler, philosophic antidotes in Weaver, and even Voegelin’s use of the term Gnostic may be turned to account, as a specialist metaphor for grasping the dishonesty and murderous ambition of the totalitarians.
In conclusion, the generals of NORAD have given us a kind of early warning. Defectors gave us an earlier warning thirty years ago. Great writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries gave us the earliest warning of all. But just as men did not heed the great thinkers, and ignored the defectors, it is safe to say they will also ignore Gen. VanHerck.
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Links and Notes
[i] https://mackenzieinstitute.com/2024/09/former-norad-chief-questions-canadas-urgency-on-arctic-defence/
[ii] https://mackenzieinstitute.com/2024/09/guarding-the-north-canadas-strategic-arctic-future/
[iii] Alison LeClaire, Canada’s Ambassador to the Russian Federation, explained during the conference that 10-20 percent of Russia’s GNP comes from the Arctic. “Russia wants a stable Arctic,” she said. “They do not want conflict.” She then admitted that the Ukraine War has complicated matters and is causing friction that may spill over into the Arctic. In my own remarks, I said that Ambassador LeClaire had said some “interesting things,” but that Russia’s leaders were psychopaths, and psychopaths do not value peace and stability as “normal people” do. LeClaire reached out to the moderator for the microphone to respond, but he was looking the other way. The awkward moment passed when she withdrew her hand. What was she going to say? That Russia’s leaders were not psychopaths? That their troops had not invaded a peaceful country, leveling entire cities? Is the Arctic safe, I wondered, because the Russians are too busy trying to conquer Ukraine? Or is the Arctic unsafe, as Ambassador Le Claire implied, because the Ukrainians are resisting with Western help? It’s a shame we will never know what she wanted to say.
[iv] https://mackenzieinstitute.com/2024/09/former-norad-chief-questions-canadas-urgency-on-arctic-defence/
[v] Ibid.
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I very much like your work and largely agree with you. But to me, this new format makes your posts almost unreadable. Can you please change the layout to make for a wider text screen, or allow the reader to adjust it as desired? The library graphic would be better as a thin border. It’s horribly distracting while trying to read a narrow right column.
Are you reading on a computer or a phone?
I agree with Alison Britton. I read on a computer.
On Samsung Galaxy’s browser, the site didn’t scale the text for me either, requiring manual screen scrolling back and forth (where previously it did scale on mobile). For regular desktop browsing it’s fine and find the new layout aesthetics pleasing.
It is hard to find a design that works on all machines. I will see what I can do.
My reading experience on the mobile phone is scetchy, the font turns out to be a just a bit too small to be comfortable.
On the PC the picture of the library takes up all the time half of the screen space, which can get slightly annoying.
Alternative layouts could be found by searching for WorPress Templates with the key words “responsive blog” (responsive meaning, that the design scales well on different screen sizes), for example here:
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I know about WordPress Templates. All of them have problems, and one often trades one set of complaints for another. I am always looking for better options.
Yes, WordPress and Templates is a tricky business, sometimes worse than keeping a herd of goats together. I had tiresome experiences myself with this.
The safest way I know, is to make a none public copy of the website and try different layouts / templates without the danger of compromising the working site – last time I looked, one could find templates that allow trial / demo installations without licensing.
I have a tablet, an iphone, and a desktop. Everything looks good on them, but people complain because they are using different hardware or software. It’s very hard to test for all the variables.
I would not say the page design is unfit for purpose.
To my understanding it is rather good, considering – as you say – the technical difficulties inherent in WordPress and varying devices.
Should you wish to catch peoples attention by style and graphics you would need, as anyone else doing this, dedicated people to this task alone.
No one (or most anyway) coming here to participate in your thinking should be hindered to do so by the style of the website.
For my part: Please keep up the excellent scholarly work and do not loose too much time with web design.
Looks normal to me reading on a tablet or laptop, and since the format change the site loads faster and everything works more smoothly.
Jeff, it looks great on my iPhone.
Jeff, as always, thank you for standing up for us all. Nice job at the conference. I’m sure all us readers are curious about what the leaders, attendees and other speakers opinions are about your presentation. Bless you.
[…] Gen. Glen VanHerck[i] […]
“We have no defensive systems that can reliably stop a long-range Russian cruise missile or hypersonic missiles.”
Larry Johnson is a former CIA fractal of Scott Ritter’s doomsaying, specifically on this point:
1.) Patriots shot down Kinzhals repeatedly.
2.) THAAD is the ICBM highets tier SAA defense (that we know of).
3.) ‘hypersonics’ are technology from the 50s-early 70s
4.) They’re only ‘hyper’ in the Terminal Phase– as in not maneuvering
5.) The Maneuvering Phase is much slower than the Terminal Phase and only a question of math.
6.) The S-400s are far less capable than advertised and US/NATO standard SEAD + actual 5th Gen multi-role jet aircraft + ground based preparatory cruise missiles would conventionally render Russia and whomever else impotent in a matter of hours, not weeks as was required against Saddam.
They lost the war with Finnish & Swedish NATO accession being formalized, compromising Arkhangelsk and Murmansk SSBN submarine and Silo nuclear triad infrastructure, on top of the Baltic Sea becoming decidedly a NATO lake thus neutralizing the asymmetric threat to Gotland Island and of the Koenigsberg enclave.
In light of their incautious nuclear threats (and their weak economic position) every test flight menacing Alaska should be returned with 5 consecutive ones– they lack the airmen to rotate; physically degrade their extremely limited human capital in this sphere while running up their defense budget. Their ability to even service their strategic bombers is dubious. They made their strategic bed and must be made certain that they are going to lie in it the easy way or the hardest way. Not ‘escalate to deescalate’, rather actually brandish the Big Stick instead of talking about it with handwringing rhetorical and physical cowardice.
“There is also the obnoxious integration of leftwing ideology into military education.”
Baby Boomers as a mimetic cohort juggle “principled Vietnam draft dodging hippies” confounded with “duped into two Gulf Wars”. Americans Generation X and under simply are not tolerating being obliged to bailout this ruling clique agitating for doing a nuclear power’s geopolitical dirty work in the Near East in a Third Gulf War cum World War Three under any circumstances. If you’re China, the fundamentals for Cultural Revolution strife could not be riper, unfortunately. Any foreign power caught doing 9/11 attacks, and the youthful silent minority will shrug, “Cool — f’n nuke them and be done with it.” The jig is up on this, even with Gaza Raids on a Tet Offensive scale.
“Here we find the “suicide of the West” explained in philosophic or psychological or historical terms.”
Without the sanctified just use of force there is no Honor; the riots in the United Kingdom turned caliphate and whom are being arrested for ‘violence’ are the perfect examples. The war conduct of Moscow and ethnic cleansing Oriental despotism of Beijing are categorically evil and contemptible and hostile alien civilizational forces.– what’s most dangerous is Westerners out of desperation turning to their way of thinking as the only possible relief from domestic enemies and decadence. Demons are real and ‘live and let live’ negotiations makes a fool and accessory out of us all.
Lawrence: I would not take Larry Johnson over General Glen VanHerck as an expert on continental warfare. Most of the five points listed are not relevant to continental warfare. Let’s not confuse the weapons used in Ukraine, for example, with the weapons that will be used to strike the USA. (1) VanHerck told me we can shoot down hypersonics, but only when they are still at higher altitudes. Once they dip down below radar, he said they are faster than cruise missiles and harder to track and hit, so once they reach the low-altitude phase they are going to reach their target. And he added that we cannot tell what the target is going to be in terms of early warning. (2) THAAD is not an ICBM defense. It is for intercepting short and intermediate range missiles (not the ones coming through space over the poles). (3) Who cares what decade a useful weapons technology is from? Nuclear weapons were invented in the 1940s, does that make them irrelevant? (4) VanHerck told me that we cannot track hypersonics once they dip down to low altitude manuevering. (5) Of course the manuevering phase is slower, but it’s too fast for a fighter to shoot down and too low for an ABM launcher. In other words, we cannot stop it. (6) Yes, the S-400 is less capable than advertised in terms of conventional usage; but the S-400 was designed to carry a nuclear warhead for shooting down American nuclear missiles exo-atmospherically or within the atmosphere, which is a method successfully tested by the Russians in 1962 (See William Lee’s “ABM Treaty Charade”). All that aside, Gen. VanHerck’s comments and my article are not about Russian ABM defenses, so why bring up the S-400? It is not discussed in this article, which is about Russian missiles that can strike North America.
You mention that Sweden and Finland have joined NATO. That’s good news for us. But a future war between NATO and Russia, if it actually happens, will be a nuclear world war. In such a war, the military power of Sweden and Finland may not amount to anything. Nuclear war is what NATO planners cannot reckon with. Furthermore, the danger to the Kola Penninsular from Finland is not to be taken seriously in this context. During World War II the Finns never took anything of importance in Kola. Gen. Dietl of the German Army tried to take Murmansk and his soldiers ended up eating their horses.
As for Russia’s nuclear threats, they are not incautious. Russian strategists do not play tit for tat. As VanHerck explained, Russia’s patience is a bitter cup that nobody drinks from until it is overflowing. For that matter, Russia’s nuclear threats have cost them nothing, and nobody in the West is building bomb shelters or ABM systems, so the threats have not hurt their chances. Nobody even takes them seriously, which confirms my longstanding thesis that the West takes its future for granted. That is why we have done so many stupid things. Russia’s national traits include patience and longsuffering endurance. On our side, Americans just spends money until we find ourselves bankrupt. Which country is psychologically preparing for war at this moment? America or Russia? Russia’s young men are already fighting and dying, as are the Ukrainians. I believe we will end up in this fight because we have refused to build our defenses and we are considered to be the “main enemy” of Russia and China. Do not kid yourself, they want to eliminate us. Yet we somehow beleive that we are immune to attack, that our existence is guarateed as if by magic.
Regarding the “mimetic cohort juggle”: I do not like unintelligible insults, if that is what your comment on Baby Boomers was. Insulting an entire generation, with the assumption that young people are somehow cleverer than their elders, only works if young people ARE cleverer than their elders. As for Generation X tolerating or being obliged to bail out “this ruling clique,” I am afraid you are talking past me. I have no idea what this means. I never advocated for Generation X to do anything. What can they do? Seriously. The people you call “the ruling clique” are allowing our nuclear deterrent to rot. Our business leaders have dictated all this, on the basis of profit and loss calculations. Only man is not merely an economic animal.
In response to my interest in brilliant thinkers who have touched on the “suicide of the West,” you suggest the “most dangerous” thing is “Westerners” who “out of desperation” turn to Beijing and Moscow’s way of thinking as the only possible relief from domestic enemies and decadence. Of course, it’s more complicated than that since Americans are not being asked to think in a totalitarian way, since Moscow and Beijing do not want us to become like them. Why would they want America to become a power that seeks the annihilation of its rivals? Then we would wipe them out for sure. No, they are not trying to make us like themselves. They are feeding us various stupid ideas, and we always seem to adopt these ideas. We are given different narratives, specially adapted to us, which will neutralize us if we stick with them. And yes, we cannot negotiate with the people in Beijing and Moscow. They will simply cheat us all over again.
A thorough, incisive analysis, Jeff! Very interesting. Thanks!
@Jeff Nyquist: The communists win the world through deception. Nuclear War is one part of their multi-stages strategy. The communists always have multiple plans aside from Ukraine War. The communists are winning the front of misinformation, brainwashing, economic sabotages, corporate espionages and other forms of non-violent warfare. They may be getting stuck in Ukraine War and Baltic stand-offs.
Yes.
Jeff,
The depth of your understanding of all these issues and your gift to eloquently respond to a commenter is impressive and shows your passion to keep the truth.
I heard a great quote from Thomas Payne, expressed by the new President Milei of Argentina yesterday. He was addressing the United Nations. (great speech). But it makes me think of you and the exhausting effort you undertake to untangle all of our twisted thinking.
Here’s the quote. “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
Yes. Freedom is not free, unfortunately. Somebody has to work for it. Ideally, we all work together for it.
@Lawrence We always forget one thing for a coming war: and that is the biological-chemical weapons that are in the arsenal of the communists and which I assume are still catastrophically more effective than nuclear weapons, which also bring with them an unprecedented radioactive fallout that – depending on the widespread use of nuclear bombs – can spread over the whole world. It is also possible that weapons have already been created that can eliminate this fallout within a very short time, so that the areas in question can be repopulated as quickly as possible. But I have not heard of such an energy weapon since the discussion about Radgum.
Yes, COVID-19 has massively destroyed the global economy into such stagnant level today. I suspect that we are having a global workfoce shortage, which depressed population growth, is due to COVID-19.
https://theconversation.com/global-population-growth-is-now-slowing-rapidly-will-a-falling-population-be-better-for-the-environment-235781
COVID-19 can be repeated again by the communists.
Fallout is not a serious problem since the number of nuclear weapons is smaller, and thermonuclear weapons are relatively clean. Short-term fallout from ground bursting dissipates in 13-18 days.
Jeff, your talk at the American Freedom Alliance conference was really great!
Thanks!
Peter
Thanks. It was great to be there.
I agree with Peter. Thank you for not giving in nor giving up. And for giving a good, foundational speech. It takes courage to tell the truth.
Jeff, sometimes pictures say more than words ever can: https://keywiki.org/images/thumb/c/c5/Justin_Trudeau.jpg/450px-Justin_Trudeau.jpg Justin Trudeau on Castro’s arm while Trudeau’s mother stands happily by.
How many people can break free from early childhood indoctrination, even recognize that indoctrination, if they do not (want to) meet people outside the bubble who at least try to add cracks and fissures to the refined steel of the indoctrinated person? Pierre Trudeau worked closely with the Club of Rome before it officially launched and set Canada’s environmental policy from its outset in line with their wicked ambitions. https://newdiscourses.com/2024/07/club-of-rome-and-degrowth-of-canada/ The whole climate hysteria goes back to the Marxist Club of Rome.
How can we then expect an official representative of this regime to have a clear mind? Of course, these people are not only indoctrinated in Marxism, but also live in the firm belief that man has the power to override the laws of nature; man is stronger than God. How narrow-minded!
That is the Marxist creed, of course.
@Birgit, i just wanted to add one more point related to one of our previous posts: The relationship between Merkel, Gysi and De Meziere (Lothar). During the DDR period De Meziere and especially Gysi were more important than Merkel, but then Merkel became the chancellor of Germany. Did she continue to receive some instructions from Gysi? Was it a coincidence that at some point Thomas de Meziere became a Minister (and we know that he played an important rule in the refugee crisis of 2015)?
Speaking of impressive speeches, Nayib Bukele also gave one at the UN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpvYv236QNM&t=3s
I have been cautious about Bukele because of his FMLN background, and as we know, saying the right things does not always mean that they are sincerely held (note the information that has come out about Bolsonaro’s performance in office), but what he has accomplished in crushing the gang violence of El Salvador speaks for itself. Perhaps it takes a former Communist to know how to deal with such a plague without liberal flinching and sentimentality.
Bukele strikes me as sincere, but so did Bolsonaro. And I have heard terrible things about him from my Brazilian friends.
Exactly. “Trust but verify.”
I want to point out that Andrei Illarionov is the Sr. Analyst for Russian and European Affairs and an author at the Center for Security Policy. He is a Russian economist who was the Chief Economic Advisor to Putin for 5 years, and his bio shows his extensive ties to Russia and Russian policy. He could be called a conduit with independent links to the Kremlin that actually operates against soft power targets like think tanks, orgs, and the media. I opine this based on short fatalist conclusions Illarionov makes after making one sit through a great deal of minutia. He claims in his video interviews that no one can win against Russia unless there is economic military parity spent on the battlefield. That no one will help the Baltics should Russia go there next, and that essentially Russia can steamroll across Europe. Putin will not stop, no one is ready for what he will do. He praised Ukraine for the Kursk incursion stating that in the last 100 years, no one has won a war unless they invaded the territory of the aggressor to take the war to them. True enough as are some of his bone throws to Ukrainian achievements in the broadest, general terms. However, he craftily paints that broad landscape so defeatist and grim, these comments become the claims repeated by the public (particularly the MAGA public) downstream – that Ukraine cannot win so why even try. Will that become Europe cannot win so why even try, or ultimately, the US cannot win so why even try? Will all those who say F Ukraine, will they next say F Poland, F Finland, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania? Who is doing the steamrolling here? I will have a lot more to say about this. The grim reaper boilerplate narrative reads like Pink Floyd’s The Wall and that there is no hope against the “aggressor”, the name Illarionov uses when describing “who invaded Ukraine”.
Thanks for this comment, Lauren. It is funny you should mention Illarionov. I interviewed him when he first came to the West. And everyone should know that he was given his place at the Center for Security Policy in early 2022 in time to predict that Putin would not launch a general war against Ukraine. It was a ridiculous article, and it was contradicted by events within a fortnight. It was disgusting because he seconded Russia’s lies about “military exercises,” and “Russian troops are pulling back.” It was all a deception, and Illarionov was either a fool or a knave in all that; and you are right not to trust him. Either his judgment is bad or he is still working for the Kremlin. Either way, he is not helpful. And his general defeatist line is uniquely Leninist, though Illarionov poses as a “libertarian.” It is easy to see how libertarian errors can be exploited to build defeatist arguments regarding war. Libertarians tend to despise the U.S. military. They think only of economics while forgetting that their longed-for prosperity depends on armed men. Try living without a military machine and see how long you remain free. In fact, our volunteer military is failing. Young men don’t want to fight. So how do we defend if our young men believe in libertarianism or leftism? If you hate the military, you are not going to defend your country. If you think America is the world’s foremost aggressor, then you are ready to believe the Russian and Chinese lies. And many are ready to believe those lies (see Tucker Carlson).
Regarding defeatism: I believe we can turn this around, if only we get more support from sensible people. The Russians are not ten feet tall and they cannot manage to defeat Ukraine when Ukraine is minimally supported. The Russians just lost an ICBM silo (totally cratered) in a test gone wrong, and there is testimony that they had two nuclear test failures back to back. I am greatly concerned about their advanced technologies in missiles and submarines, but they have serious economic and technical problems and we may have a chance to beat them if we can get past all the false messaging and active measures coming out of our own camp. Many on the right want to dump Ukraine, and there is an active campaign to isolate those of us who support Ukraine. It’s quite shameful to see, and conservatives should know better. And this is where we need to educate people.
I had a rather heated debate in Milwaukee with Steve Coughlin over Ukraine, and he kept yelling at me to “Stop! Just stop!” Like a child with his fingers in his ears, he did not want to hear the idea the apparent blasphemy that the war can and should be won. As Peter Pry said to me shortly before his death, if there must be a world war, it’s best to fight it now rather than later, when we have fewer weapons. I asked, “Do you really think so?” Peter said, “Yes.” I am not afraid of a wider war because I know a wider war is coming, it is being planned by the Russian and Chinese leaders. Appeasement will not prevent war. As Churchill said, appeasement brings shame and you end up fighting a war anyway. We must deter the Russians and Chinese. If deterrence fails, we fight. That’s how it has always worked. We must stop the Russians and the Chinese before their subversion does irreversible damage to our defense. The longer we talk and retreat, the worse it gets for us.
When do we stop being afraid?
Jeff wrote:
=== We must stop the Russians and the Chinese before their subversion does irreversible damage to our defense. The longer we talk and retreat, the worse it gets for us.
When do we stop being afraid? ===
I wish all Americans could read your words here. I’m really horrified by the sections of the conservative camp that seem to think that they will be saved by some secret group of leaders, as related by “Q” or some other “person in the know.”
Conservatives have been invaded by propaganda to what seems like an unretractable degree. Who is going to defend freedom if X percent (50? 70?) of conservatives are in la la land?
Yes, this is my feeling too.
Jeff, regarding this exchange between you and Coughlin, did this occur before you gave your remarks at the conference?
It was during the Friday night dinner. One of the speakers mentioned it during the next day’s program.
PS – We all cannot see eye-to-eye, and I think a debate on this is overdo. I only wish we could have that debate on a high level and with the right kind of moderators.
So pleased that you said at the end that this is more akin to a religious war, because time – not just eternity – will prove that to have been the case.
The people who rule over the West are rootless cosmopolitans, they move nations around like nations move armies. Disposable, as long as the ends are achieved. Some of them believe in Marxism, the rest believe Marxism is a useful tool to manipulate people. Almost as useful a tool of manipulation as “Democracy” and “Egalitarianism” and “Freedom.”
The Western financial elite are simply making money. You overrate their political skills (that is, their statesmanship). Anything that does not improve society harms it. Any policy that harms a society for the sake of profit, is impolitic and unwise — even for those who profit. For wealth is then used to destroy the society the wealthy depend on to make money in the first place. It is not skill when you destroy yourself with your own practice. There is nothing to take serious with fools of this kind. A sheep who follows the money is still a sheep.
Jeff, I loved your talk. It is very focused, right to the point with great knowledge base to lean on. I have a ton of people to share it with, but it is not easy to share. They would be lost on the blog. Do you have a youtube channel, where you could post it so that it would be more shearable and more people could have easier access to it? I will share it anyway, but with easier access more people would listen to it. It could go viral.
Also what do you think of the latest mistakes of Zelensky in supporting Dems and continuously irritating Trump? Is it bad for Republicans? Is it bad for Ukraine if Trump gets elected?
The video is a url you can share with anyone. Just copy it. As for Zelenskyy, the poor guy thinks the Dems are his only friends. Why would he support Trump, given the things Trump says? People have to be for themselves. Imagine the criticism he would get for supporting Trump.
Trump will meet with Zelensky after criticizing him for refusing to make a deal with Moscow. Earlier the campaign said a meeting was unlikely. Given the way Trump/his people have gone out of the way to alienate Ukraine and the digs at Zelensky, they can’t complain too much that he showed more favor to the Democrats. It’s interesting that Trump wants a meeting now. Is it just for PR or does he have something serious to discuss? Is it a sign that he’s changing his mind (in a good way) on Ukraine?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7810y11dyjo?status=Non-subs&utm_medium=email&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Editorial&utm_campaign=LNCH%20%2020240927%20%20House%20Ads%20%20SM+CID_601458f772c3554ae4c2f9a64e060de4
I also don’t blame Zelensky, considering how Trump seemed to rip the mask off this last week. After jumping around various positions, he went from “the war is bad and needs to end” and “Russia is a problem” around the RNC (the most pro-Ukrainian statements he made in recent memory) to “Zelensky refused to make a bad deal that would have stopped the killing” (which is patently untrue, knowing how Russia operates) – ergo, Zelensky is responsible for the war.
So Trump wants a meeting all of a sudden after ginning up his base? What, so he can browbeat Zelensky by saying “my hardcore base hates you and I can manipulate you because Biden’s drip-IV made you desperate”? Or “now that my ‘election talk’* is over, I can make some guarantees if elected”.
*Zelensky’s words from a few weeks ago, in what was too kind a response to some insult from the Trump/Republican camp
Heck, I wonder if any credible threats to Zelensky were made by Russian-radicalized lunatics here in the US. I don’t blame him for getting tired of that crap and just meeting with those who will be receptive audiences.
Zelenskyy is in a difficult spot. I think his outreach to Trump may do the trick. Trump is a sympathetic person — according to some who know him.
Now just heard the “he’s going through Hell, his country is going through Hell” line. Yeah, as if Ukraine is only suffering when Zelensky has to remind Trump that the war didn’t stop…
Can’t say I’m impressed with the “strategic language” of “election talk” when the electorate is so mentally warped – both left & right.
Indeed.
Zelenskyy invited him to Ukraine and Trump accepted. It is a very positive step.
One reason for national suicide that you haven’t mentioned is turning to false gods connected with sexual immorality. This is the reason given in the Bible, illustrated time and time again especially in the book of Judges.
Look at the West today—sexual perversion is all around us. Our present government pushes it. Even in the churches people are following Pied Pipers like Bart Ehrman, who restate tired old theories discredited already a century ago. There’s no societal cohesiveness, because, as the book of Judges ends, “everyone does what is right in his own eyes” (21:25) forgetting that “There is a straight road before a man, but its end is death.” Proverbs 14:12.
Libertarianism falls right for this, in its failure to condemn social rot. They can recognize some of the problem, but don’t have an answer.
Much of Europe is a lost cause, with open displays of occult at EU special ceremonies.
Have you noticed that the demonstrations of “Russian morality” are aimed for Western, especially American, conservative audiences? Particularly to woo those “on the right” who oppose the communist actions on the left, such as DEI, sexual perversion, etc.? The reality within Russia is far different, but the Tucker Carlsons don’t get beyond the Potemkin Village treatment to see that reality.
Will we get the treatment that God gave ancient Israel for their repeated apostasy? I think all the signs point to that. Ancient Israel was invaded and subjugated as a vassal state time and time again. If the U.S. gets the same treatment, we too will be invaded.
I don’t think we’re as bad as the European countries, or Russia and China in terms of cultural degradation. Of course, we are not what we used to be.
‘Of course, we are not what we used to be’–
a sad state of affairs, indeed.
A song by Savatage
(The band that would become The
TransSiberian Orchestra)
says much about us:
Is it a crime to be just hesitating
While we’re pretending that we never see
Praying that God won’t demand a redealing
of cards we have held but pretend we don’t need
Better not to think about it
Any time we start to doubt it
It’s not just that we lack the vision
Or only just a quick decision
Who will blame us
Rules restrain us
It’s all in History
Sounds very Russian. And we are on the road to being like that.
Of interest: https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/09/25/peoples-liberation-army-china-flexes-muscle-rare-icbm-test/
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/09/26/panicked-pacific-leaders-meet-at-u-n-after-chinas-concerning-icbm-test/
This is why Mr Nyquist was right all along. The communists always have nuclear warfare on the table. The Long Deception has successfully disarmed the world to be dictated by the nuclear tyranny of communists. My country of China is gambling on the global total war for dominance over the planet. They currently suffer minor setbacks but the West is horribly disorganized. I personally fear that Chinese and Russian will likely test their nuclear arms on Japan as an expanded stage from Taiwan annexation. Many freedom loving Chinese people are fleeing to stay in Japan, and the communists don’t even care if their own kin gets roasted in nuclear fire in Japan. I have some relatives living there.
I detest any pessimistic thoughts that creep into my mind, and maintain the conviction that it is still possible to pull out of this dive. The right confluence of people and events can still occur. As you remind us, the Coms make mistakes, their puppets overplay their hands, and just maybe your presentations at conferences will motivate some key people to get back in the game and start perceiving, anticipating and adapting to the real dynamic environments both political and military and start inspiring those in their command again (or those they represent) maybe even a generation later it could bear fruit. The enemy hasn’t ended us yet, and we need to start somewhere.
This is an important mindset we must all work to persevere in. We mustn’t allow defeatism to overwhelm us. It is very biblical to have visionary goals, (after humbly seeking the counsel, mercy and direction of the Lord) that are for the good of future generations’ blessing, despite unavoidable current sacrifices.
We are all confronted by the question of sacrifices.
Yes. Sober times to be a part of and see quickly developing before our eyes. (I Peter 1:13) Reminds me of a quote from the Lord of the Rings:
“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
Jer 6:16 & James 1:5
Times of humbling and great need for His wisdom from above, like we living generations have never seen before.
The always present human pride, always substantially elevated in these positions of government office does not permit any changes to the status quo fiasco, so their reply will be according to their wicked works so far.
These pro-communist elements who are aligned with the pro-communist predecessors will just continue in this fiasco, many of them hoping somebody else rocks the boat and fixes what needs to be fixed, but rather they would prefer nothing happens until they are in their retirement and no longer available for comments or responsibility, and never accountability for the death toll Russian and Chinese communists will cause while these bureaucrats have seen the signs and continued ignoring them.
The likes of them, full of apathy and indifference towards the danger of communist enslavement, they regulate themselves to avoid doing the right thing and always expect to maneuver themselves from any such positions where they would have to prove their loyalty to justice and truth…and then, they want to lecture others about how to properly live their lives and how it is necessary to be friends with the communist tyrants…
This is the result of the overall progress where the human race had fallen, and only true statesmen will know what exactly to do with the communists…and there are no more true statesmen, only compromisers and such like half-deed elements. This is not a pessimism, but the overall reality. No wonder people like Golitsyn or Sejna were frustrated, and more true defectors with them.
And now these people who call themselves “conservative” (and they don’t even know what to conserve…what values to preserve as that is to them an absolute free-for-all), they would have others to believe that only what they think is right, which means letting the communist tyrants to continue and even shake hands with them, while they oppress and murder their own people, that such mind-set and policies are acceptable.
These are the exact same people who would call extreme Sen. Joe McCarthy and such like true patriots, and smear their name instead of following their example and upholding the true justice against the communist evil. This there is no escaping it, the people who can, could, and should do something about it they don’t have any intention to do what’s right and they will always fall short of that necessary step that must be taken. ONLY God helps, nobody else can be trusted.
Of interest: https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/09/26/chinas-latest-nuclear-attack-submarine-sank-alongside-the-pier-months-ago-n2179821
This is communist bungling and part of “the race to the bottom” which all participants in socialism have entered. The more socialist you are, the more these things tend to happen.
Perhaps the Bonhomme Richard fire is a strong indication of how far into socialism we have sunk.
Hello Mister Nyquist, i discovered that many central bankers in Italy who were responsible for massive inflations or economic crises have a communist background, it’s incredible, I think no one in Italy has it ever noticed. One of them studied in Berlin and was introduced in marxism in Berlin by a russian professor!!! Have you ever done a similar research on the Federal Reserve? I think that Arthur Burns is very interesting, in the 70 the US experienced a massive inflation and at that time he was chairman of the FED. He was also very important because one fo his most important students was Greenspan.
Greenspan was famously connected with Ayn Rand who was very much against inflation. I would be careful about mischaracterizing economists like Greenspan.
The main problem is the spiritual and sensible blindness to the communist evil, which underlines the western under-appreciation of the communist militant atheism – which excludes God and thus there is no fear of God’s punishment in these communist criminals.
Until they are truly regarded solely as a state run criminal Mafia and excluded from any contact and their ideology and system of “government” forbidden to be implemented ANYWHERE, communism will succeed no matter what conferences and other such like gatherings will attempt to disprove or conclude otherwise….and communism is truly Divine punishment for the wickedness of this world, nothing less.
One point more – Our Lady of Fatima foretold in 1917 AD that “Russia will spread her errors, causing wars and persecutions against the (true Catholic) Church, the good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer (which excludes this impostors to the Papacy the layman Bergoglio, Wojtyla, Ratzinger and Montini etc.)”, VARIOUS NATIONS will be annihilated…”
When you have unprincipled wicked compromisers running the government policies, many (if not most of them) communist assets, who are thus unwilling to sever the country’s relations (any and all) with the communist run states, then the country is in fact set for the fall, and this is the tragic situation today.
Without the essential help from God no country can survive this diabolical communist plague and it is nearly impossible to recover from it without the help of God and there is a very small percentage of countries that achieved that when the communists attempted to take them over, compared to what the Russian etc. Bolshevik Mafia achieved anywhere else.
Then comes the damage the communists have achieved so far, the widespread godlessness and rampant immorality, perversion of manners and outright disregard of Divine Law, and thus today the time of the Antichrist approaching, which is the worldwide communist tyranny, Russia in charge, that is the outcome.
In terms of what the military deterrent could be, it is a very well known fact that even Mr. Trump himself was actively spreading in his rallies that “you are protected” and “I have rebuilt the military” and the “Space Force”…but since the threat of communism remains and KGB assets are in control of the government and the military leadership, then how could the country be protected against communist advances when the leadership itself is already compromised and infiltrated by communist assets ?
Will they be willing to fight the nuclear and bio-chem war against Russia and China ? All who have any intellectual honesty in them will say no to that.
One could perhaps raise the question of lasers as possible deterrent force against the nuclear ICBMs, but then this would be a speculation and that is not helpful at all…moreover you need an honest leadership to be willing to use any means to defend the country against communist warfare, and that is today and for several decades missing.
The opportunity was lost when Gen. Patton was eliminated and Gen. MacArthur was “relieved” by the communist friendly and or penetrated leadership, and so today very little change could be expected to come from these people like Mr. Trump, who himself has been friendly with various communist criminal governments, including that of China, Russia and NK – to name a few. Of course his 1987 visit to the Kremlin etc. with his communist espionage connected wife, that doesn’t help either, but these are the consequences of the absolutely idiotic pro-communist appeasement mentality that elevates such people into positions of political influence and then they only do what limitations they are limited with in regards to this Russia communist threat, nothing more.
One must add – the war against Russian communism was lost already when the treasonous Churchill and Roosevelt both went to Yalta to be friendly with Stalin and to grant Stalin with the gratuitous gift of then still truly Catholic Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and so on, and then to allow Stalin to take over half of Germany and spread communism even more afterwards….and to allow Moscow and Beijing diplomatic (detente) connection to the West, including the US and UK and the whole world at the end. That’s when the war was lost. Until this is remedied with truly drastic anti-communist policies, which must include destruction of communism, charging its members with treason and executing justice against them, nothing good will come, only communist tyranny, Russia and China in at the helm.
Catholic Church has condemned communism and socialism 12 years before the 1848 Marx’s Manifesto (Pope Gregory XVI – Encyclical Letter Mirari Vos, 1836 AD), BUT the world remained blind and deaf, and so today the situation is exactly as the result of this unbelief and obstinate refusal to heed such warnings against this atheistic criminal communist Mafia…and Russian KGB Bolsheviks will not hesitate to use whatever means they have to destroy the existing order and implement communist tyranny worldwide…these diabolically possessed communist fanatics plotted it and planned it this way.
Churchill was treasonous? Is that fair?
Yes, it is very fair and just.
If it was a recent history you could have asked the same question the 40 plus million people of Eastern Europe whom Churchill betrayed and sold them at Yalta, with his pro-communist pall Roosevelt, to that Bolshevik monster Stalin.
Or ask the enslaved families which were one day inside the USSR hell instead of being still part of then free and Catholic Poland, Czechoslovakia etc….perhaps they would have answered likewise. Most certainly they would, PM Mikolaiczyk did in his book called Rape of Poland, implicitly and with details how Churchill put a knife to his neck with the ultimatum that either he will accept the Yalta line or that Britain and US will not help Poland to defend itself against Stalin…it is in the book.
So Churchill’s speech about the Iron Curtain means absolutely nothing afterwards, he helped creating it….and Roosevelt, and Truman afterwards by doing nothing also.
These are the astonishing failures of western minds even back then, to allow the Bolsheviks to take part in the war against Hitler and the Nazi socialists, and then permit Stalin his war booty, instead of running him out of Europe back to his communist haven and isolate the communist atheistic criminal Mafia until it is no more. What Churchill has done he’s paying for now in Hell, because it was and is VERY EVIL !
Trump will do nothing anti-communist, he wants to be friendly with such criminals, and as far as the communist female, there is no need to add anything about he, it is all visible in plain view.
Churchill was not sworn to defend the people of Eastern Europe. His allegiance was to the King of England and the security of that realm. His government got into a desperate war which they only won because the Soviets and Americans became allies in that war. Let’s not take events out of context.
You are misusing the term treason to remove the moral complexity of war and diplomacy, where human beings in real time have limited abilities and are forced by circumstances to retreat on certain issues or face worse consequences. Churchill was the chief champion of Poland. He was foremost among those who urged the defense of Czechoslovakia in 1938. But the British were a naval power, not a land power. They lacked the capacity to defend 40 million East Europeans, especially when the Americans refused to support his ideas about defending Eastern Europe against the Soviets in 1943-45. But for the grace of God, many of us might have done worse under the same circumstances.
Jeff, I came across this link below from Julie Behling that should be mandatory viewing on all college campuses. (I can dream, can’t I) She also has a book and a DVD called ‘Beneath Sheep’s Clothing”. If we survive the next few years we need to bring back anti-Communism again with an emphasis on why Communism/Marxism/Socialism is such a dangerous fraud! Keep up your good work.
Proverbs 20:11 “Even in his repeated actions a young man will make himself known, if he doings are pure and upright.” What is true of a young man is also true of anyone. And as this woman who made this video avers is that is equally true of communism. Don’t listen to their rhetoric, watch their repeated actions.
Jeff, I am listening to your group discussion with Anderson, posted here. You have just made mentioned a Frenchman who wrote a book about De Gaulle. From your brief reference, I identify him as the mole disclosed by Golitsyn as portrayed in Topaz. I couldn’t catch the name of the individual or his book. Could you provide them? Thanks.
The Frenchman was an officer of French intelligence who had to defect from the French to the USA because the KGB agents running French intelligence wanted to kill him. His code name was “Lamia,” if my memory is working right.
Thanks. You actually gave his name but I couldn’t catch it. Could you repeat it? Meanwhile, I’ll google Lamia and see if anything comes up.
Thyraud D. Vosjoli.
There was an assassination attempt on De Gaule’s live by the group of French officers, the car was ridden with bullets but he and his wife both survived without any injuries.
It was apparently because he gave up Algeria, which was back then still a French colony.
There was a documentary footage (TV news report from back then – about 1962 or 1963 or so) about the incident somewhere, it is very rare though and hard to find.
There was a real suspicion about De Gaule that he may have been a communist agent, but surely he was very friendly to their strategy, including Algeria etc.
France today is in bad shape, it is unbelievable how once a pearl of Catholic Faith is now a country that has lost it nearly all, and will pay to God for it, as the rest of Europe.
You mean under Cardinal Richelieu?
‘Lamia’, I believe, was a mythical vampire or something like that. According to this information, rather akin to Lilith or Melusine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia
Jeff, I’m surprised of the reaction Stephen Coughlin had toward you. Especially since he has a history himself of being ignored by Washington and the Pentagon, Homeland Security and the Intelligence Community when he tried warning of homeland jihad and Islamic based terrorism years prior.
He thinks Russia should get Ukraine back, and we should allow it.
What a fool. Disappointing after reading his book Catastrophic Failure I thought he was one of the good guys…
He strongly disagrees with us.
Ding ding ding!! Lamia, book title and code name of Thyraud de Vosjoli.
You got it.
Mr. Nyquist wrote:
Churchill was not sworn to defend the people of Eastern Europe. His allegiance was to the King of England and the security of that realm. His government got into a desperate war which they only won because the Soviets and Americans became allies in that war. Let’s not take events out of context.
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Well, it is still a very serious betrayal of moral principles of justice…and helping communist enemies of God to enlarge their territory, which was not in the interest of UK, unless the British people wanted to become communist country also, which is not the case…at least back then.
There is no confusion, only reality of the facts and how badly Churchill treated PM Mikolaiczyk and the Polish people, those who were forced to remain in that territory, which BTW the Red Army fully controlled and didn’t let people to escape from there, they were made slaves of Stalin and Churchill with Roosevelt helped this evil by signing Yalta.
This is the beginning of the serious advancement of communism, and Sen. McCarthy complained about this point also, which back then people understood was NOT right and very evil. The US and British armies were still there, they could have pushed Stalin back into Russia and closed off the border, but then he already had enough NKVD assets inside the State Dept. and British Home and Foreign Office (or whatever they call that government agency over there). It is a total disgrace and truly work of evil and no matter what excuse Churchill may have come up with, this was absolutely unjustified and treasonous…he’s learning this point now in Hell for all eternity.
Thank you for your untiring efforts Mr. Nyquist.
I found Gen. Glen D. VanHerck’s (former commander of NORAD and NORTHCOM) assessments of the ability of the USA and Canada to warn of Russian and Chinese attack, and successfully defend against such attacks chilling and foreboding. Thank you for your virtuoso presentation in the land of Guy Lombardo’s Royal Canadians. Thank you and Jimmy from Brooklyn, and Trevor Loudon for continuing to speak out against the deadly threat of Communist enslavement.
This film depicts a saintly U.S. President who believes in Moral Equivalence and therefore voluntarily vaporizes New York City to appease the homicidal maniacs of the Soviet Union.
This film was the 1964 unanimous winner of the prestigious High Noon Award for exemplary achievement in promoting Suicidal Communist Ideas in America.
The film is Fail Safe. Are NORAD and NORTHCOM today’s Fail Safe?
NORAD and NORTHCOM are not movies; AND the Revolution WILL NOT BE TELEVISED.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXZF6DwKvCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MuuyFBzmdQ
Keep up the Good Work!!!
You are very kind, Cicero.
I am presently reading Allan Ryskind’s Hollywood Traitors: Blacklisted Screenwriters, Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler, which is a response to the popular adulation of the so-called Hollywood Ten and their “martyred” cohort. Ryskind is the son of Morrie Ryskind, a very successful screenwriter whose career came to a screeching halt following his testimony at the House Un-American Activities Committee as a friendly witness in 1945. Blacklisted, indeed.
Morrie moved from the left to staunch anti-Communism; Allan has had a life devoted to anti-Communist writing and publishing, among other things founding the periodical, Human Events.
The Ryskind volume provides an exhaustive account of how Communists and their fellow-travelers in the film industry penetrated one of Gramsci’s institutions targeted for takeover. And it was not a slow march; it was a blitzkrieg.
Very interesting!
That was a good but disturbing movie to watch on this rainy morning. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
Jeff in a previous article you wrote the following:
”Yet Marxism is not the same as the old peasant revolts. It is ideological, and therefore poisonous in a deeper sense. It represents a kind of inversion of the soul and of the soul’s reality. It is therefore destructive of the soul’s order, which is the basis of social and political order. All of reality is structured. It has order. This is true in Nature and in Society. When you introduce something that says the social order that grew organically out of centuries of painstaking development is wrong, you have something more than a political rebellion or a social revolution. You have a revolution against the universally given order writ large. This is what most of these revolutionaries do not understand. The best we have, socially, is not perfect in the sense of some rationalist or constructivist scheme. Society gradually develops its structures through the work of countless individuals over many generations. There will always be injustice and poverty and wars, etc. These are merely part of the refining process. When people attempt to break with the past, and take a revolutionary course, they are destroying the foundations of society. They are going back to a more primitive state without realizing it. And this has terrible consequences, especially if the revolutionaries are attempting to recast the human soul….”
What are the best material/books you would suggest in order to more understand this idea of the conditions of the individual soul as the driving force behind social progress/disintegration? I am 20 years old currently in college as an undergrad, yet I have spent a long time tackling this topic. This piece really touched me; I think there is a problem of the soul in modernity that has produced a dangerous void. Any suggestions? Thanks
The source of right structure in the soul and society was discussed in Plato’s dialogues — in his elucidations by way of Socrates, who makes some remarkable suggestions about life, death, and meaning. The structure of the soul is also illuminated in the Bible as well, by the Old Testament Prophets, or by those attempting a philosophic or scientific critique of modernity — as in the works of Eric Voegelin or Carl Jung or Richard Weaver. Whatever the faults of these more recent writers, each happens upon the question of order and disorder in the soul differently; Voegelin does so in his book on the political religions and “The New Science of politics” and Jung attempts a final summary in his book “The Undiscovered Self.” Weaver’s “Visions of Order,” published posthumously, is a masterpiece of its kind and deserves to be read and reread. These authors are very different, yet their conclusions intersect in surprising ways. Each passionately resisted today’s monstrous belief in materialism — where men are identified in terms of their physical bodies only, and all is judged from the nihilist’s point of departure.
At the risk of hubris, which I abhor, and while fully realizing that I am not in the same camp as the literary greats that Jeff suggested, I’d like to offer my own book of essays, titled “The Living Compass of Kindness and Compassionate Love: Essays on Love, Beauty, and the Mystical Path.”
They are presented in a non-sectarian fashion as an exploration of the value of love as the central motivator of human beings. The book is available in paperback and hardcover on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Living-Compass-Kindness-Compassionate-Love/dp/096357065X
It has received some lovely comments and 5 star ratings. 🙂
Peter
Weapons for Ukraine?
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/09/27/the_us_is_giving_ukraine_billions_more_in_weapons_1061365.html
It’s amazing how cheap our assistance to Ukraine is compared what we spent in Afghanistan and Iraq (trillions).
Many of our fellow Americans today are hostile to Thinking and are hostile to Reading. This is what we as Anti-Communists are up against. Perhaps we should consider The Legacy of the Virginian: Sound Ways to Think in Today’s America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvjvrtS7PZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kv3O0KoAXA
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/jeffersons-greatest-legacy/
The moral responsibility to help a country which is under attack by communist aggressor, here ruled by the Russian communists, is recorded in the Holy Scripture, in several places, one of which is the Epistle of St. James (original Douay-Rheims Bible, 1635 AD print or earlier):
“To one knowing to do good and not doing it, to him it is sinne…”
And of course “Thou shalt love thy neigbour as thyself”…
But the same equivalent in regards to Ukraine must be used in regards to those countries betrayed in Yalta, and why then the double standard is used here in certain replies, why the British and American heretics should not have been obligated by Divine Law to help those countries which were under attack by Stalin, as it was the case of Poland, and were being infiltrated by communists from within, and now these same voice claim that of course it is necessary obligation to help Ukraine against Russia (which it is an absolute obligation to do so), BUT this is the main problem with today’s world, how perverted it is and that one day the Law of God matter (in certain ways only), and another day such like government officials who had no problem selling Catholic countries as Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary etc. could easily be excused for it…NOT in front of God they are not !
All these countries of Eastern Europe had gone through spiritual destruction because 2 evil politicians (and those countless evildoers who had agreed with them saying “”it ain’t our problem !), have violated this same above quoted Divine Law, and so now when their respected countries are being punished for it with evil governments, they still maintain that this is somewhat acceptable in one way, and at the same time now in case of Ukraine being attacked by Russia, it must be stopped….
This double standard is typical of these evil times and the principle of truth and justice is being violated by such voices.
So watch carefully this video from Sen. McCarthy (this is the unedited version) and see the principle of truth and justice being explained back then. There is no excuse.
All those who today advocate to leave Ukraine to her own misery are the same kind of voices who would be agreeing with Churchill and Roosevelt on Yalta betrayal. But the Law of God convicts them of being uncharitable enemies of truth and justice and thus heretics, and those who have consent to Yalta and died in such a state of their soul, they all burn in Hell…including Churchill and Roosevelt.
https://youtu.be/kZW142WUgXM
And the rest vilified McCarthy for telling them the truth and warning them NOT to play with Russian Bolsheviks and not to allow them to take over Europe, and they were saying the same thing as some say today – it ain’t OUR problem.
What they will say then when they themselves will be in need of help and the same people as they are will reply – it ain’t our problem, help yourself…?
What if you are physically unable to help because your army is too small?
Thank you for that McCarthy link. The man was fearless. That’s why he had to be eliminated.
The communists merely thin the herds like what they did Prigozhin.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/live-blog/rcna173122
The communists do have stranglehold over Israel and never fully trust the Islamists. They trust Israelite agents than Islamic agents. Netanyahu and his friends regularly have close contacts with Russia. Only CONCERNED is vigilant to realize a certain danger of misdirection from the communists.
I am personally disappointed that Mr Nyquist never investigate the deep degrees of communist infiltration in Israel and Jewish world. Xeno Man has regularly pointed out how Israel is a very suspicious country that continues Russians entering without visa even as the West entirely sanctions Russia fully.
Ukraine is even more reliable than Israel.
I am unfamiliar with detailed accounts of Israel’s politics. I am not knowledgeable enough to comment, and have not had time to spend on it.