The Wholesale Weakening of the West
Ronald Reagan famously said, “We know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, but when they are weak. It is then that tyrants are tempted.” This exemplified Reagan’s “peace through strength” (PTS) philosophical concept for American national security. Provided peace and conciliation is a desired and strategic ambition, PTS works at every idealistic level from early childhood through to the fundamental strengthening of national military forces.
Another way to express PTS is “peace through fear”. In the case above, the fear of an aggressor nation is elevated and hostilities are severely undermined by the potency and power of a peacemaker. This is the exact contention made by former Pennsylvania member of the United States House of Representatives Don Ritter in the linked essay “Russia’s biggest weapon (and China’s too) is fossil fuel energy”; however, the installation of strength and fear at its foundation is the abundance of energies. Ritter was a senior member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Science and Technology.
While almost every quotable quote about fear entails the defeat of fear for the betterment of lives, progressive politicians use fear as a mechanism for concession. The unproven theory of anthropogenic climate change is used to induce fear thereby persuading people to vote for them as rescuers and climate liberators. While those on the progressive side use fear as the great capitulator on their own citizens, in the matter at hand conservatives use the fear of power as an apparatus to deter harm away from those same citizens.
China and Russia, the primary foes of the United States and the western world, despite any and all pledges and promises to the contrary will never refrain from using fossil fuels. First, as Ritter shows despite Russia’s muted financial status in the world, fossil fuels are what keep Russia relevant and formidable. China, on the other hand, is gaining and may become, if they are already not, the world’s strongest economy. This is based on their unwillingness to renounce fossil fuels. China, as well, engages in shrewd activities around the world to lock up other resources, especially minerals, that are necessitated for high-tech equipment and renewable energy storage.
The following chart shows China’s “new” coal production facilities for 2022. China permitted 2 new coal plants every week in that year. This is certainly not a nation concerned with CO2 emissions:
Is it not interesting that the socialist left, who often rallies to the defense of ultra-socialist China, is weakening themselves through superfluous climate change regulation and policy thereby allowing for greater economical conquest by the latter – or is this merely a part of a leftist strategy? To further weaken the natural resource sector of the United States, the administration has now lifted sanctions on Venezuela and is importing 100,000 barrels of oil per day from that terrorist regime of barbaric human rights abusers. As senior US senator of Louisiana John Kennedy said as part of a speech at a recent CPAC conference, “The truth is, we are going to have to get some new conspiracy theories. All of the old ones came true.”
In the beautiful melodic song, but with ultra-socialist lyrics, John Lennon’s ballad “Imagine”, says, “Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do” and further on in the chorus, “and the world will live as one.” Now, provided we and the balance of the progressive west gives up on traditional fossil-derived energies and then endeavors to survive on renewable energies, while the communists do as they please, Lennon’s song will become the dastardly and reprehensible reality.