
Trump Preparing the US for War
Avoiding Babylon
Censorship, CBDC, and Why Partisanship Clouds Judgment
Anthony warns that party allegiance skews perceptions of policies like CBDC and censorship depending on who supports them.
A war budget doesnât come with a press release that says âwar.â It shows up as numbers that donât make sense for peace, and as a mood you can feel in the news cycle. We trace that mood back to two big ideas that shaped the postâCold War mindset: the liberal belief that institutions can tame power, and the realist insistence that nations ultimately act for themselves. Using Francis Fukuyamaâs End of History and Samuel Huntingtonâs Clash of Civilizations as guideposts, we sketch how the old order frayed and why cultural blocsâreligion, memory, languageâmay reshape the map more than trade agreements ever did.
From there, we dig into Ukraine as a harsh teacher: drones over doctrine, trenches over glossy strategy decks, and the stubborn reality of industrial bottlenecks. Can the U.S. rebuild munitions capacity fast enough? What happens when defense contractors get pushed from buybacks to production and the state edges toward a âcommand economyâ posture without formally declaring it? We explore how sovereignty, logistics, and frontier tech like AI become national-security terrainâand why markets shift when mission logic takes over.
Europeâs identity crisis threads through it all. A continent that once exported Christianity now struggles to define itself amid demographic change and civilizational tension. We consider what realism predicts for Europe, Russia, and the U.S., and how domestic fracturesâcensorship battles, CBDC talk, and culture-war fatigueâcomplicate strategy at home. Yet thereâs a human counterpoint here: we share details for our Italy pilgrimage, why weâre keeping it small, how weâll pray together, and a moving note from a Protestant listener reconsidering Mary through biblical typology. Itâs geopolitics with a soul, grounded in faith, community, and the stubborn hope that meaning outlasts headlines.
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