{"id":1718154,"date":"2022-10-31T06:30:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718154"},"modified":"2022-10-31T10:33:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:33:51","slug":"the-cost-of-waging-world-war-trans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-cost-of-waging-world-war-trans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Waging World War Trans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-cost-of-waging-world-war-trans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718154&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-28-at-8.20.24-AM-e1666938219858.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Hate to say it, because I believe Vladimir Putin is a nasty dictator who had no business invading Ukraine &#8230; but he&#8217;s correct in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/transcripts\/69695\">his remarks about the West and moral decadence.<\/a> Putin said at Valdai this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>It is notable that the\u00a0West proclaims the\u00a0universal value of\u00a0its culture and\u00a0worldview. Even if they do not say so openly, which they actually often do, they behave as\u00a0if this is so, that it is a\u00a0fact of\u00a0life, and\u00a0the\u00a0policy they pursue is designed to\u00a0show that these values must be unconditionally accepted by\u00a0all other members of\u00a0the\u00a0international community.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0would like to\u00a0quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn\u2019s famous Harvard Commencement Address delivered in\u00a01978. He said that typical of\u00a0the\u00a0West is \u201ca\u00a0continuous blindness of\u00a0superiority\u201d\u2013 and\u00a0it continues to\u00a0this day\u00a0\u2013 which \u201cupholds the\u00a0belief that vast regions everywhere on\u00a0our planet should develop and\u00a0mature to\u00a0the\u00a0level of\u00a0present-day Western systems.\u201d He said this in\u00a01978. Nothing has changed.<\/p>\n<p>Over the\u00a0nearly 50 years since then, the\u00a0blindness about which Solzhenitsyn spoke and\u00a0which is openly racist and\u00a0neocolonial, has acquired especially distorted forms, in\u00a0particular, after the\u00a0emergence of\u00a0the\u00a0so-called unipolar world. What am I\u00a0referring to? Belief in\u00a0one\u2019s infallibility is very dangerous; it is only one step away from the\u00a0desire of\u00a0the\u00a0infallible to\u00a0destroy those they do not like, or\u00a0as\u00a0they say, to\u00a0cancel them. Just think about the\u00a0meaning of\u00a0this word.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"o-ad o-ad--center  js-ad\">\n<div class=\"o-ad__border\">\n        <span class=\"o-ad__border-label\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>At\u00a0one time, the\u00a0Nazis reached the\u00a0point of\u00a0burning books, and\u00a0now the\u00a0Western \u201cguardians of\u00a0liberalism and\u00a0progress\u201d have reached the\u00a0point of\u00a0banning Dostoyevsky and\u00a0Tchaikovsky. The\u00a0so-called \u201ccancel culture\u201d and\u00a0in\u00a0reality\u00a0\u2013 as\u00a0we said many times\u00a0\u2013 the\u00a0real cancellation of\u00a0culture is eradicating everything that is alive and\u00a0creative and\u00a0stifles free thought in\u00a0all areas, be it economics, politics or\u00a0culture.<\/p>\n<p>Today, liberal ideology itself has changed beyond recognition. If initially, classic liberalism was understood to\u00a0mean the\u00a0freedom of\u00a0every person to\u00a0do and\u00a0say as\u00a0they pleased, in\u00a0the\u00a020<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century the\u00a0liberals started saying that the\u00a0so-called open society had enemies and\u00a0that the\u00a0freedom of\u00a0these enemies could and\u00a0should be restricted if not cancelled. It has reached the\u00a0absurd point where any alternative opinion is declared subversive propaganda and\u00a0a\u00a0threat to\u00a0democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever comes from Russia is all branded as\u00a0\u201cKremlin intrigues.\u201d But look at\u00a0yourselves. Are we really so all-powerful? Any criticism of\u00a0our opponents\u00a0\u2013 any\u00a0\u2013 is perceived as\u00a0\u201cKremlin intrigues,\u201d \u201cthe\u00a0hand of\u00a0the\u00a0Kremlin.\u201d This is insane. What have you sunk to? Use your brain, at\u00a0least, say something more interesting, lay out your viewpoint conceptually. You cannot blame everything on\u00a0the\u00a0Kremlin\u2019s scheming.<\/p>\n<p>Fyodor Dostoyevsky prophetically foretold all this back in\u00a0the\u00a019<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century. One of\u00a0the\u00a0characters of\u00a0his novel\u00a0<em>Demons<\/em>, the\u00a0nihilist Shigalev, described the\u00a0bright future he imagined in\u00a0the\u00a0following way: \u201cEmerging from boundless freedom, I\u00a0conclude with boundless despotism.\u201d This is what our Western opponents have come to. Another character of\u00a0the\u00a0novel, Pyotr Verkhovensky echoes him, talking about the\u00a0need for\u00a0universal treason, reporting and\u00a0spying, and\u00a0claiming that society does not need talents or\u00a0greater abilities: \u201cCicero\u2019s tongue is cut out, Copernicus has his eyes gouged out and\u00a0Shakespeare is stoned.\u201d This is what our Western opponents are arriving at. What is this if not Western cancel culture?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>As\u00a0is customary, Washington continues to\u00a0refer to\u00a0the\u00a0current international order as\u00a0liberal American-style, but in\u00a0fact, this notorious \u201corder\u201d is multiplying chaos every day and, I\u00a0might even add, is becoming increasingly intolerant even towards the\u00a0Western countries and\u00a0their attempts to\u00a0act independently. Everything is nipped in\u00a0the\u00a0bud, and\u00a0they do not even hesitate to\u00a0impose sanctions on\u00a0their allies, who lower their heads in\u00a0acquiescence.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0example, the\u00a0Hungarian MPs\u2019 July proposals to\u00a0codify the\u00a0commitment to\u00a0European Christian values and\u00a0culture in\u00a0the\u00a0Treaty on\u00a0European Union were taken not even as\u00a0an\u00a0affront, but as\u00a0an\u00a0outright and\u00a0hostile act of\u00a0sabotage. What is that? What does it mean? Indeed, some people may like it, some not.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Putin could have mentioned the recent European Court of Human Rights ruling that exonerated a French feminist who crawled onto an altar during a Catholic service, pretended to abort Jesus, then peed all over the altar. Look, I don&#8217;t have any problem recognizing the hypocrisy here in Putin, who jails antiwar critics, but the man is not wrong about Western decadence and arrogance. The corruption of the messenger does not negate the truth of the message. Let me say to you once again that if you travel throughout the democratic countries of Central Europe, you will meet lots of people who used to love America, but who regard us now with wariness and even contempt. Why? Because of what we have come to stand for, and the way we, and our corporations, bully them into accepting wokeness. <\/p>\n<div class=\"o-ad o-ad--center  js-ad\">\n<div class=\"o-ad__border\">\n        <span class=\"o-ad__border-label\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;re thinking, <em>Don&#8217;t fall for the bait! Don&#8217;t let Putin make this about the culture war!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let me introduce you to Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who released <a href=\"https:\/\/raskin.house.gov\/press-releases?ID=C6AAEAAD-548C-444A-85AB-A77AB7FFAAE6\">this statement <\/a>expressing gratitude that his progressive Democrat colleagues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/progressive-democrats-withdraw-ukraine-letter-caused-uproar-urging-peace-negotiations\">withdrew their letter<\/a> urging the Biden administration to push for peace negotiations in Ukraine. Among Russia&#8217;s many sins, according to Raskin:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Moscow right now is a hub of corrupt tyranny, censorship, authoritarian repression, police violence, propaganda, government lies and disinformation, and planning for war crimes. It is a world center of antifeminist, antigay, anti-trans hatred, as well as the homeland of replacement theory for export.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I think he&#8217;s more or less right about Moscow&#8217;s corruption, but it&#8217;s the second line that&#8217;s the tell. We have to fight Russia because its World War Trans! And immigration! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lUZoli8oekg&#038;ab_channel=FoxNews\">Watch Tucker Carlson&#8217;s must-see monologue from last night,<\/a> in which he characterized the US war effort in Ukraine as a progressive &#8220;jihad.&#8221; Meanwhile, says Tucker, America is going to run out of diesel fuel in 25 days. That would mean no trains, no big trucks making deliveries, no school buses, etc. That would mean our economy may well fall apart. As Tucker points out, here in Europe, where I live now, people are gearing down for a lot of suffering this winter because of the war and fuel prices. I keep hearing from economists and others over here that we could well be seeing riots in the streets and governments falling by the end of this winter &#8212; in Europe! This is the cost of pursuing war in Ukraine. None of this makes Putin right to have pursued this war, but it does raise the question of who, exactly, this war is for. After the diesel runs out, are we going to have trannies taking American schoolchildren to class in rickshaws? For the first time in a long time, the American people are going to feel the pain of bipartisan Washington&#8217;s wars. <\/p>\n<p>One more thing about the West and World War Trans. Take a look at these numbers:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<\/figure>\n<p>Frank Newport of the Gallup poll <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/polling-matters\/313112\/understanding-increase-moral-acceptability-polygamy.aspx\">analyzed <\/a>these findings a couple of years ago, and found that the increase in support for polygamy has to do with the representation of polygamists in entertainment media, and a general liberalization of moral beliefs around sex and sexuality. I don&#8217;t have a lot of sympathy for gay-rights activists like Andrew Sullivan who are now frustrated and angry that trans activists are trying to erase homosexuality. Once you smash the marriage norm, anything goes. It&#8217;s not that same-sex marriage <em>requires <\/em>affirmation of transgenderism, but that the basis for ruling same-sex marriage as a right &#8212; sexual autonomy and individual liberty &#8212; naturally leads people to wonder why society should draw the line at transgenderism. Or, for that matter, polygamy. Love is love, right? <\/p>\n<p>This is what people around the world see when they see America, and the West: collapse of fundamental moral standards. They see a male flibbertigibbet masquerading as a woman on Tiktok, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/joe-biden-and-tiktok-star-dylan-mulvaney-discuss-trans-rights\/vi-AA13kld6?category=foryou\">invited to the White House to jabber with the semi-senile president, <\/a>who tells that pseudo-man that no state should have the right to keep children from cross-sex hormones and bodily mutilation for the sake of becoming trans. To my knowledge, there has never been a major civilization in world history that has experimented with rapidly dismantling family and sexual norms as the modern West has. Plus, the United States elites have been engaged for at least a decade in running a social experiment to make all Americans more conscious of racial difference, and in demonizing half the people of the country on the basis of their race. When we have an economic crash, and people are cold and hungry and desperate, I hope somebody asks Joe Biden, Ibram X. Kendi, Dylan Mulvaney, and all the woke militants how they plan to reweave the social fabric that they so gleefully unraveled in the name of progress. <\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin is a bad man. But he&#8217;s not wrong about the West. Brussels and Washington do not have the best interest of the peoples of Europe and the United States at heart. As European peoples are learning now, and as the American people are going to learn when the diesel runs out. <\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>Take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/peacediplomacy.org\/2022\/06\/27\/woke-imperium-the-coming-confluence-between-social-justice-and-neoconservatism\/?utm_source=substack&#038;utm_medium=email\">this June 27 white paper from Christopher Mott<\/a>, in which he explains how the social justice warriors learned to love neocon imperialism. Here are the key findings:<\/p>\n<section class=\"c-subscribe-email\">\n<div class=\"l-container\">\n<div class=\"c-subscribe-email__wrap\">\n<h4 class=\"c-subscribe-email__heading\">Subscribe Today<\/h4>\n<h5 class=\"c-subscribe-email__subheading\">Get weekly emails in your inbox<\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>The advocates of American primacy within the United States foreign policy establishment historically rely on prevailing ideological trends of the time to justify interventionism abroad. The new \u2018woke\u2019 face of American hegemony and projects of empire is designed to project the U.S. as an international moral police rather than a conventional great power\u2014and the result is neo-imperialism with a moral face.<\/p>\n<p>This is an iterative and systemic process with an internal logic, not one controlled by a global cabal: when the older rationalizations for primacy, hegemony, and interventionism appear antiquated or are no longer persuasive, a new rationale that better reflects the ruling class norms of the era is adopted as a substitute. This is because the new schema is useful for the maintenance of the existing system of power.<\/p>\n<p>The rise of a \u2018woke\u2019 activist-driven, social justice-oriented politics\u2014particularly among the members of academia, media, and the professional managerial class\u2014has provided the latest ideological justification for interventionism, and it has become readily adopted by the U.S. foreign policy establishment. These groups now have an even greater level of symbiotic relationship with state actors.<\/p>\n<p>Professional selection and advancement under these conditions require elite signaling of loyalty to \u2018progressive\u2019 universalism as the trending state-sanctioned ideology, which further fuels the push towards interventionism. This combination of factors encourages a new institutional and elite consensus around trending shibboleths.<\/p>\n<p>The emerging hegemonic posture and its moral imperialism are at odds with a sober and realistic appraisal of U.S. interests on the world stage, as they create untenable, maximalist, and utopian goals that clash with the concrete realities on which U.S. grand strategy must be based.<\/p>\n<p>The liberal Atlanticist tendency to push moralism and social engineering globally has immense potential to create backlash in foreign, especially non-Western, societies that will come to identify the West as a whole with niche, late-modern progressive ideals\u2014thus motivating new forms of anti-Westernism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE.2:<\/strong> A reader writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Just an observation from an\u00a0upper Midwest farmer. We are about a month late on harvesting corn and soybeans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Soy is usually finished harvested by the first week of October, there are still 100\u2019s of acres locally still unpicked. Corn has not dried down and with the cost of propane, farmers are leaving it in the field to dry down naturally, which is delaying the harvest.<\/p>\n<p>Due to weather conditions in past years, sometimes\u00a0we have had to pick corn into December. Between the potential\u00a0diesel shortage and railroad worker strike. We could be looking at a disastrous late fall if we get a heavy weather event that delays our harvest.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to mention that the Mississippi River is currently so low that barges cannot get up the river to move grain effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Our entire food security and ag export market relies on the three R\u2019s: Rail, Road, and River. Currently all three are in the process of being broken down.<\/p>\n<p>Please pray for the farmers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hate to say it, because I believe Vladimir Putin is a nasty dictator who had no business invading Ukraine &#8230; but he&#8217;s correct in his remarks about the West and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1718158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}