While, per Clausewitz, “all wars are fundamentally about politics” (or rather, geopolitics), they are usually won or lost based on depth of manpower and nimbleness of macroeconomic output. It is somewhere between ironic and terrifying that numerous “progressives” keep claiming loudly that America should spend even more on social handouts while we abolish our nuclear deterrence triad altogether in the name of “world peace.” And this at a time when the CRINKs are expanding their conventional and nuclear coercion and warfighting power to record high levels, while flexing their militaristic muscles in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the Arctic, and outer space!

What good is turning the U.S. of A. into the world’s ocercrowded soup kitchen & HQ of delusional pacifism, if our need for effective deterrence (of attack, invasion, & even enslavement) is left in the lurch, and our precious, God-given Freedoms go down for the count? What happened to the USSR in Cold War I could easily happen instead to the U.S. in Cold War II — but without any Putin-style resurgence — if we do not rationalize our National Balance Sheet’s spending amounts and allocations, and our debt. Otherwise, what’s happening now to Ukraine could happen to us to, sooner or later. Aaron’s message needs to be heard loud and clear in the next White House and Congress!