PEACE: The old policy of avoiding “entangling alliances” is a better — foreign policy!

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5a7LX5MA6MR2nBy7cNMHmY?si=j4iZJvfuSzymwAGhffae6w&nd=1&dlsi=d14082ab8d034d52

Is Paleoconservatism Isolationist?
The Brion McClanahan Show
Think Locally, Act Locally

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-03-11>>

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I would never describe a paleoconservative foreign policy as “isolationist.” That is a pejorative used by its detractors. Non-interventionist would be the proper term. This is the traditional American conservative position dating to the Washington administration. It is not pacifist or ideologically anti-war–paleocons are not Quakers–nor does it seek to cut off diplomacy or trade with the rest of the world. The old policy of avoiding “entangling alliances” is a better interpretation than “isolation.” 

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And, maybe if our Gooferment had a better handle on diplomacy, then 175 “little girls” (IDK how “little” they were, but school aged) would still be alive.  And 7 Americans and an unknown number of Iranains.)

“No matter who you vote for, you get John McCain” – @ThomasEWoods.

Congress has unconstitutionally delegated the power to “make war” to our now “elected king”.

“The current state of American government is that members of Congress just want to be influencers because writing good laws and doing actual oversight requires to much work, presidents just want to play war because domestic policy is too hard and not as fun, and judges get to write laws and play president because it’s easier than getting elected.” — Sean Davis of The Federalist

Argh!

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PEACE: The UN is unable to prevent the very wars, hate, injustice, and instability it was created to alleviated to prevent

Saturday, November 29, 2025

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/11/the_un_must_go.html

November 18, 2025
The UN Must Go!
By Moshe Phillips

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The world’s democracies, which provide the lion’s share of the UN’s funding — especially the United States — find themselves routinely outvoted by blocs of authoritarian regimes that use their membership not to promote peace or justice, but to shield each other from accountability. The result is an institution that rewards the corrupt, legitimizes the violent, and sidelines the nations that actually uphold the values the UN was meant to defend. And it is American taxpayers who foot the largest share of the bill for this failure. Each year, billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars flow into UN programs and peacekeeping missions that produce little peace and even less accountability.

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It is time to admit what has long been obvious: the United Nations is no longer the solution. It is part of the problem. And the UN, like the League before it, belongs in the dustbin of history.

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And the US can’t afford the luxury of it any more.  As with most Gooferment creations, it too is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

Atrocities by UN “peacekeepers”, the WHO that has been captured by liberals and Big Pharma, Ukrainian corruption with US bio labs, the inability to stop or even condemn genocides, the rampant expansion of NATO to threaten Russia, and on and on and on.

“When in a hole, stop digging!” — old Wall Street maxim

It might be a small irritant, but the behavior in NYC of UN “diplomats” denotes an attitude of entitlement as opposed to serious people as guest in another nation.

While clearly “might makes right” with respect to who is seated in the UN, like China versus Taiwan, we don’t have to provide “free parking” for tyrants, dictators, and criminals just because they seize power.

It’s time for the USA to call a halt to the “kabuki theater” that the UN has become and stop paying for its abuses.

The world would be better off if there was no “United Nations” to interfere with peace.

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PEACE: Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron, and Keir Starmer are an extreme danger to humanity

Sunday, October 26, 2025

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/trump-should-tell-europes-leaders?publication_id=1119676&post_id=176646698&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

Trump Should Tell Europe’s Leaders to Shut Up and Cease Fantasizing About War With Russia
The globalist weirdos in Berlin, Paris, and London are an extreme danger to humanity. Trump should treat them as such.
John Leake
Oct 20, 2025

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What I am proposing requires setting aside all our presuppositions about Western Europe being the place of representative democracy, prudence, and reason. Anyone who has spent a significant amount of time in Europe in recent years knows that this is no longer the case.

If President Trump turns over responsibility for settling the war in Ukraine to Zelensky and the Three Amigos, they will likely create a July 1914 style crisis that will result in a general European war, and pressure will mount on the United States to settle it on the battlefield.

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President Trump should not allow the Zelensky and the Three Amigos go down this same dark path. He should make it very clear to them that the reckless course they are pursuing threatens the security of not only their own people, but the American people as well, and that he will not tolerate this.

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I would hope that @realDonaldTrump would put his foot down and tell these fools that he will NOT allow the USA to be drawn into a war with Russia.  I’m no fan of Putin but he does seem to be the only adult at the table.  The previous USA administrations have lied him into putting a stop to their provocations.  It’s time to “give peace a chance”.

Like Nike advertises, “Just Do It”.  

The best way to honor veterans is to stop making more casualties of war!

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PEACE: Why did the great nations of Europe essentially commit suicide in 1914-18?

Sunday, October 19, 2025

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/the-end-of-britain-france-and-germany?publication_id=1119676&post_id=176336559&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

The End of Britain, France, and Germany
On the suicidal tendencies of the great nations of Europe.
John Leake
Oct 16, 2025

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Why did the great nations of Europe essentially commit suicide in 1914-18?

The answer, it seems to me, is the marked tendency of any society’s political class to be captured by interests and ideologies that have little to do with the interests of the people they govern. Apart from bankers and arms manufacturers, the Great War of 1914-18 served no one who lived in the warring countries. On the contrary, it sent millions of their young men—including their most educated young men—to be machine gunned and gassed in the trenches.

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Gibbon said, “History is indeed little more than a catalog of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

And, it seems that humanity is incapable of learning from it.  And, organizing to prevent an out-of-touch class of parasites in Gooferment from becoming isolated from “the great unwashed” of “We, The Sheeple”.

Here’s some suggestions:

  • All politicians and bureaucrats don’t get greater than poverty level.
  • Select “representatives” at random.
  • Completely decentralize elections to street level.  All the neighbors on a street can vote and select a represntative.  “Streets” can be built up into “neighborhoods”.  
  • For the Federal Gooferment, repeal the Seventeenth Amendment And go back to State legislatures picking Senators.  (Just like the Dead Old White Guys wanted them to be the State’s Ambassadors.
  • No Federal laws or actions on people.  That belongs to the States.  No federal income tax; fund the Federal Gooferment by tariffs, excise taxes, and contributions from the States.
  • Strict Age and Term Limits on EVERY Gooferment politician and bureaucrat.
  • END THE FED.  And go back to using only gold and silver as money.  End fractional reserve banking.  (Hard to spend for war and welfare when you can’t print money stealing wealth by inflation!)

That should get the USA back on the correct path.

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PEACE: Cynicism is the only sensible response to the Nobel Peace Prize

Saturday, August 30, 2025

https://jeffjacoby.com/28785/trump-and-the-not-so-noble-nobel

Trump and the not-so-noble Nobel
by Jeff Jacoby  —  August 19, 2025

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Which is why it’s futile to get worked up over the Trump boomlet. If Oslo decides to indulge his lobbying and flatter his vanity, it will not mean he deserves the accolade any more than Obama deserved his prize in 2009 or Arafat his in 1994. It will mean only that the Nobel committee has once again done what it so often does: confused politics with principle. Trump’s critics will rage, his admirers will gloat, and history will judge the man by what he actually does, not by what the Norwegians proclaim. In the end, cynicism is the only sensible response to the Nobel Peace Prize.

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At the risk of “pile-ing on”, I agree that BHO44, and whole host of others, don’t deserve what has become a “political powder puff”.  

AI sourced a snarky quote about the French Revolution:

Ah, the French Revolution—proof that sometimes it takes a century or two to realize that chopping off heads doesn’t always lead to a better government. But hey, at least they had a great time with the guillotine!”

Wish it could have given the source.

Why don’t we see the “clay feet” of these supposedly great “peaceful” characters?

Maybe we just don’t give enough time for history to weigh in on their “achievements” or lack of them.

Maybe like saints, we need a devil’s advocate to mount an adversarial position.

I think most politicians and bureaucrats would be found “lacking”.

The last fellow I thought deserved recognition was Schindler as portrayed in the movie.  They are few and far between. 

Sigh!

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PEACE: Was it “necessary”?

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/

80th Anniversary of Hiroshima

Today marks 80 years since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The attack—the first military use of a nuclear bomb—precipitated the end of the US war with Japan and killed an estimated 140,000 people over several months (see photos).

On Aug. 6, 1945, US Col. Paul Tibbets flew a B-29 bomber from the island of Tinian to Hiroshima carrying a 9,700-pound uranium bomb nicknamed “Little Boy.” At about 8:15 am, the bomb detonated roughly 1,900 feet over the city center, sending surface temperatures above 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Then-President Harry Truman had agreed to bomb Hiroshima, which had a civilian population of 300,000 and about 43,000 soldiers, to convince Japan to surrender. See Tibbets’ reflections here (w/video). See survivors’ reflections here.

The US followed the Hiroshima bombing with an atomic bomb targeting Nagasaki three days later. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, 1945. Learn more about the Manhattan Project via 1440 Topics here.

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I remember the Christian Brothers discussing in class about the “Just War” doctrine and the use of Atomic Bombs.  Of course, I brought the topic home.  Strangely, my war time uncles, both vets and essential civilian workers, were quiet or muted about how necessary it was, but my aunts were totally fine with it.  Freshly, “educated” by the “Just War” doctrine, I asked “what about the children?”.  That ended the topic discussion.  I think forever.  Or, at least forever, in my presence.

I ask the same question now for Gaza.  As I did for Kuwait, Afghanistan, the Holocaust, Cambodia, … … essentially any time I hear about “fighting”.  Makes me sad to think of the children in all the war zones.  As well as living in poverty around the USA and the world.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”  ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

I wonder how many Einsteins, Pasteurs, Bannings, Mozarts, and DaVincis have died never getting to make their contributions to humanity.

Sigh!

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PEACE: MLK was Correct about a lot of things — we just didn’t listen

Monday, January 20, 2025

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/mlks-courageous-antiwar-speech/

MLK’s Courageous Antiwar Speech

Joshua Shoenfeld 

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-01-20>>

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One year prior to his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful antiwar speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” decrying the United States’ genocidal war on the people of Vietnam. King eloquently linked the state-sanctioned oppression of blacks with the suffering that the Vietnamese were enduring in the face of a genocidal onslaught at the hands of the US national-security state. The mainstream media denounced King for speaking out against the war when they should have praised him for speaking truth to power.

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MLK, Gandhi, various moral philosophers, and religious leaders continue to urge peace.

What the US Gooferment has done in foreign policy is nothing short of war crimes, and foolish interventions.

When will we ever learn?

No money or weapons given away to allow killing and worse.

Argh!

Dona Nobis Pacem

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PEACE: Let’s never have to entertain troops at war again

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/12/21/entertainment/bing-crosby-struggled-to-sing-white-christmas-to-troops/

Bing Crosby struggled to sing ‘White Christmas’ to troops, ‘most difficult thing’ in his career

By Brie Stimson, Fox News 

Published Dec. 21, 2024

Updated Dec. 21, 2024, 10:16 a.m. ET

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I asked Uncle Bing one time, ‘What was the single most difficult thing you ever had to do in your career?’ We were out playing golf one day, and I didn’t know what he was going to say,” Howard told Fox News Digital. “I didn’t know if he was going to say, ‘Well, it was, you know, learning lines for the movies or working with a difficult director.’”

He continued, “He didn’t have to think about it at all. He said, ‘Well, 1944, we were over with the USO troupe.’ And he said, ‘We gave an open-air concert for 15,000 GIs and British Tommies in an open-air field in France.’”

His uncle told him Dinah Shore and the Andrews Sisters were at the show “‘and we had a lot of laughs and the boys were having a wonderful time, great fun.’ But he said at the end of the show, ‘I had to sing “White Christmas.” And I had to get through the song with 15,000 guys in tears and not break up myself.’”

“And a lot of those boys died the next week in the Battle of the Bulge,” Howard added.

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But he said, ‘If I’m entertaining troops, I’m not going to wear anything phony like a toupee. Forget it.’ So he went onstage without a toupee for the troops, but he also insisted that the front rows at those shows were reserved for the enlisted men. No officers or higher-ups sitting in the front rows. Those were all for the guys on the front lines.”

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Noblesse oblige

And, why war is terrible on everyone.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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PEACE: Dona Nobis Pacem

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

From AntiWar.com

https://antiwar.com/donate/

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Many American leaders are more interested in using war to fight for peace. Unfortunately, they have convinced many Americans into believing that war is the only path to peace. They do that by using fear and lies.

Antiwar.com works to inform people about what is really going on, and to show them alternatives to the plans of war-hungry politicians.

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I’m upset that I am paying for Israel to kill children in Gaza. 

I’m upset that I am paying for a war in Ukraine that has wiped out a generation of young men there.

I’m upset that the Military Industrial Congressional Complex keeps finding new wars for the USA to fight.

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9, NIV).

Seems like we can never just have peace.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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PEACE: A call for “family-friendly, anti-migration, pro-peace” sounds like the best path for peace

Friday, November 8, 2024

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/orban-liberals-have-had-their-place-sun-its-time-defeat-them-every-election-starting

Orbán: “Liberals Have Had Their Place In The Sun, It’s Time To Defeat Them In Every Election, Starting With Donald Trump”

by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Nov 02, 2024 – 07:00 AM
By Thomas Brooke, of Remix news

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has defended his administration’s conservative policies on migration and family support, emphasizing Hungary’s stance as a “conservative island” in a “liberal European ocean.”

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“If the liberals had won here in Georgia, it would be the news everywhere in Western Europe today that your democracy is in top shape. But in the same election, the conservatives won, so debates are expected in the international press,” Orbán said in support of the incumbent Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidzeon.

He called for a shift toward a “family-friendly, anti-migration, pro-peace” leadership in Europe, expressing confidence that “this new center” would soon gain prominence within the bloc.

“We need prime ministers who are on the side of the people, representing the interests of the European people,” he said, claiming that European liberals have had “their place under the sun” and “must be defeated in as many elections as possible.”

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I am moved by several images: children mining cobalt in thirds world countries, babies dying in Gaza and the Ukraine, and worst of all “migrant” mobs of all young males (people of color) overwhelming the various welfare states.

It would seem that we, as a society, have lost our collective minds.  Clearly the Welfare / Warfare State has bankrupted the USA and other European countries.  Only a radical “reformation” can avoid the inevitable collapse of the Empire.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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