On Vance's Speech in Munich
Know your place, Europe.
The First Amendment is America’s cornerstone for life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Along with the rest of the Bill of Rights, it represents the proper functioning of government whatever its actual form: the defense of those immutable rights and responsibilities entrusted to us, the people, by Almighty God.
This understanding of God and our purpose in life brought my Pilgrim ancestors to the New World. Thanks to their sacrifice, I come from a long line of American farmers, teachers, doctors, merchants, and soldiers. I will highlight that last group today, in support of my larger point.
My direct ancestors served in the American Revolution, fighting in actions at Fort Ticonderoga and the Battle of Saratoga. More recently, my grandfathers fought in that part of the great global civil war we call World War 2. One flew in the skies of Europe while another sailed the Pacific aboard the USS Albert W. Grant.
While I’m proud to be their grandson, I lament the American mistake of reaching out beyond our shores, drunk on Wilsonian dreams of global empire. We today are witnessing a long overdue historical correction. It won't be pretty for us, and I expect a lot of pain and suffering in the decades ahead, but I welcome it arm in arm with my countrymen. We will be stronger for the discipline thrust upon us by time and destiny.
Which brings me to Vance’s speech in Munich and, more immediately, what passes for criticism among the enemies of our American values. It appears we’ve upset the King, once again. Whatever shall we do?
I’ll start with a warning. I’m nice like that.
America specifically, and the New World more broadly, represents a unique opportunity in the history of our species: people making their way in a land bursting with promise, potential, and danger. The best of the best are welcome here, not to get what they want, but contribute to a project of glorious scope and audacity: the formation of a people, in new lands, focused on what is Highest in life.
It has become abundantly clear the Old World won’t let us go so easily. They still think they matter. They still think they have a say. They still think, even now in the twilight of the 20th century, that their concerns and ambitions represent the best and highest goals for which humanity strives. Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité further corrupted through that bastard Marx into the liberal bureaucratic nightmare of an imaginary “rules based” international order.
It’s funny! Even your revolutions are diversity hire quality.
Let’s cut to the quick. The 21st century is crashing through the walls, crushing the finished history of degenerate minds. Russia saw it. China saw it. America finally sees it. We don’t have time for the old grudges of the past, the old dreams, the old useless busy work. If the past is a shadow of the future, it’s long past time we stopped living in the dark.
Press the issue, Europe? Try to hold the world back, condemning it to death by starvation and nuclear fire?
Me and mine remember the old ways. And I know for a fact we’re not the only ones. If you can’t quite recall what those are, in your weakness and your sin, I’ll quote the great General Patton who terrified you all so badly:
"We're not just going to shoot the bastards, we're going to rip out their living goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket."
Heed the warning, Europe. Stay in the Old World where you belong. Mess it up all you want, but our patience for interfering in the New World is over.
Otherwise, feel free to learn the hard way. We don’t mind, because you’ll learn regardless.
There's a good point there...but also wouldn't subscribe to it 100%.
It resembles again my talk with the academy of sciences professor who has done (and bless his soul for it) did many great things for science, but in the ways of the world clearly lost the plot.
Or I can bring up my German "foster dad" (there was a student exchange program back then and I was with a German family and stayed connected and visit them when I'm around), who clearly felt that things were off and I guess he thought it was just the not yet cultured thoughts(as in not "western™") of some kid from a post-commie small town when I tried to shed light on the impossibilities of the modern state. Lately he agrees with me on a lot of this stuff or at least quietly acknowledges the substance. Again...bless his soul too...it's not easy to go against what you thought all your life.
I don't think that we're lost. Not yet at least.
I don't think that we don't matter. Well...we could matter but we decided that bitching and complaining is much more safer. I know or at least I think I know the background of this thinking. My father in the "anti-world" (as he likes to call it) wrote once an article to his middle school newspaper...then was visited by the brave upholders of the "existing socialism" from the Interior Ministry. One will quickly learn from experiences like this that it is better to shut up and get on with the agenda.
"It's not that important anyway."
Consequences my brothers. That's what we are seeing right now. It may look like that there will be none, but reality will kick down the door. That's what we're seeing right now.
As I told the professor, in the end you can refer to the "international agreements" but if you want to stop the Russian, you will do it by breaking his nose. If Europe can't field 25k servicemen...that won't do it. It is what it is.
JD Vance obviously didn't say anything new, but I do feel vindicated having someone telling our dear leaders how things will be.
It's also lovely to hear the whining of our "educated" class about how we will be alone and will have to do things our way...without US help.
I mean....that's marvelous. Splendid! That's what I wanted. That's how we will MATTER again. Some people really just trying to survive life without ever truly living.
You can say that the post-war consensus was a dream. It was nice at first. Although the more we stayed asleep, the weirder it got and obviously those saw the hurt of thiy whom these Gutmenschen have sworn to protect. Marx and socialism isn't that fun and joy afterall. Helping people(truly) is a hard job and even less fun...although can be rewarding.
P.S.: you better hurry with burning the USAID to the ground. I saw who they were financing even here and I was not happy.
Eurocrats BTFO. It wasn't a speech, it was an intervention. American blood and treasure spent in your defense, OR your schoolmarmish tattletale totalitarianism. Pick one. But we all know the latter can't exist without the former. Karen can only exist in the bubble of security and comfort provided by the men she hates and wishes to depose.