The Wests self loathing

 

DESPOT EXPLOITS WEST’S
NEW RELIGION TO HIDE HIS
FRAILTIES
JASON THOMAS
Ancient Greek historian Thucydides determined the strong
exact what they can and the weak concede what they must
while questions of justice between states only arise when
there is equal power to compel.
Power to compel relies on the critical theme of our
generation, security. Instead, we are witnessing the limits of
Western liberal democracy as political elites, globalist
organisations and corporates addicted to taxpayer subsidies
erode our security.
Security relies on strong defence, utilising all available
sources of energy, means of production and supply, secure
borders and a population culturally sure of itself. All within a
people’s control. Security ensures nations can survive on
their terms.
Right now, power is consolidated in the few who are eroding
security for the many. Food, fuel and financial security for
the average person are being smashed while Western culture
and history are trashed.
When it comes to Ukraine, not only should we be mad at
Vladimir Putin, we should be furious with Western leaders
for getting us into this mess.
First, Putin is exposing the West’s new climate-activist
religion as a security weakness. Despite the prospect of the
lights going out in energy-rich Europe this winter, and
power bills at record highs in Australia, we are told its
Putin’s fault. No, this is self-inflicted.
Second, so obsessed with saving the planet where even my
steak needs to be carbon neutral, they missed the obvious.
Like all bullies, Putin hides his own fears. His partial
mobilisation risks exposing what he has been trying to hide,
the frailty of the Russia he built.
We also forgot you can have all the military hardware but it’s
what you’re fighting for that matters. Instead everything
that has made the West great since Enlightenment is being
torn down. The US is struggling to recruit for its armed
forces and will be tens of thousands short by 2023. There is
no Pericles, Churchill, Thatcher or Reagan to use fear, self

interest and honour to inspire. Instead, these greatest of
human motives are being used to weaken and divide us. If
you think this has nothing to do with security, name a single
culturally weak nation that successfully defended itself
against the strong. Even the illiterate sandal-wearing
Taliban demonstrated what can be achieved when you
believe.
Ironically, Ukraine, an Eastern European nation, is teaching
Western Europeans, that borders, and national identity are
worth defending. Perhaps new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia
Meloni can become that bright light of Western democratic
realism, but like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban,
who stands up for national citizenship, language, family,
culture and sovereignty, she will not be tolerated.
Since Ukraine was first invaded in 2014, up until 2022, four
thousand Ukrainian soldiers and over 13,000 civilians died.
During that time, led by then German chancellor Angela
Merkel, the EU eroded its energy, military, border and
cultural security. As the Europeans made themselves
dependent on Putin’s fossil fuels, they berated Australia for
using ours. Western leaders reinforced Putin’s audacity with
weakness, not power. He was never given a reason to forgo
his ambitions.
For a generation, political elites and globalists have
disregarded the grubby truth that their ideals rely on the
security provided by realists. This infected our political class,
which thought the West could be secured through virtue.
That’s why the outpouring of support for the Queen by
hardworking, patriotic people really frightened the
establishment. In his memoirs Churchill laments the fatal
fallacies that beset the West during the interwar period;
when politicians delighted in smooth-sounding platitudes,
refusing to face unpleasant facts, the interests of the state
traded for popularity and electoral success. And, like many of
our political class today, a picture of fatuity and fickleness
that though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and
though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite
part in the unleashing upon the world the horrors and
miseries, beyond comparison in human experience.
The realist view accepts the evolving competition of nations,
the dangers of weak men like Putin, and recognises certain
ideologies refuse to be at peace. Yet, if your grandfather was
like mine, proud or their nation and culture, they knew what
they were fighting for – just like the people of Ukraine.
Jason Thomas is the director of Frontier Assessments