If freedom is to win on this planet then freedom-loving people must remain secure. And we who are still free need to unite like Ukrainians. Not for peace, but to sustainably maximize human freedom and security (the only legitimate purpose of government according to Thomas Paine in Common Sense) globally. Peace is just the period when warring sides rearm while ignoring the fundamental causes of war.
And while trying to understand these causes...freedom lovers
will need better weapons to enforce this universal will of ‘we the people’. This ultimate civilized ideal.
And need to ensure more people every day will join with us
in this cause. Unfortunately, most of
the world’s population remains on the fence regarding support for Ukraine or
Putin. That could change overnight. And that mostly depends on how much truth the
majority of people in those other nations receive and the freedom they feel to
express it, without fear.
President Putin has unintentionally woken the world to this global
dilemma. Those of us who are free and
want to remain so must be more concerned about ensuring with certainty that Ukraine
defeats all of its invaders. This will
require the world coming together as one, to provide Zelensky’s freedom
defenders with the best and the most weapons the free world can provide.
This is not pro-war.
It’s not even pro-democracy. Elections to choose our leaders are nice. But not nearly as important as the protection
of fundamental human rights and sustainable human security.
Trump and Putin were both elected. And for the last decade, populists are winning
more elections. Often free and fair
elections. Some authoritarian-leaning
winners can then rig the next election, repress freedoms, and/or alter the
nation’s system of laws to pay off those that helped them achieve power.
Over the last 16 years, freedoms within democracies have been
slipping and falling in over 60 nations globally. Freedom House website states that “In
every region of the world, democracy is under attack by populist leaders and
groups that reject pluralism and demand unchecked power to advance the
particular interests of their supporters, usually at the expense of minorities
and other perceived foes.” In it’s newest report Nations in Transit 2021 it “finds that attacks on democratic institutions are spreading
faster than ever in Europe and Eurasia, and coalescing into a challenge to
democracy itself.”
Ultimately,
for sustainable peace and protection of freedoms, so-called democracies must
deliver the benefits of free self-government to their people. To restore trust
in such democracies all citizens must be presented with tangible results. Together this could build increasing support
for the shared mission of defending civilized ideals of freedom and sustainable
security in this increasingly hostile world.
The problem. The Western
world has been protecting people. And democracies
have not dealt sufficiently with the concerns of most people in many nation’s
populations. Nearly everywhere, the rich have gotten richer and the poor
poorer. Money influences those who are elected, and they quietly rig their nation’s economic systems to primary benefit themselves. Meanwhile, the misery of the rest is largely increased
by a flawed UN system of independent nations that are inability to address
globally interdependent problems.
The pandemic, violent weather patterns, wealth disparities,
terrorism, and refugee problems exacerbated by wars and all these problems
above cannot be solved with independent agencies within independent governments. Thus
strong authoritarian leaders or governments appear to offer better
solutions.
A recent Russian news broadcast advocated for Russia to
“help Trump win again” in 2024. And
increasingly the US electorate remains lethally divided. And unable to effectively deal with our
immigration crisis (mostly fueled by past flawed US foreign policy fighting
communism, and now current US immigration policy fighting illicit drugs and
terrorism. Both drugs and terrorism are influenced
by a sick US culture that values 'feeling good' over 'doing good', and a flawed US foreign
policy that prefers 'looking good' (to US voters) over 'being good' (to our
southern neighbors and middle east religious majorities).
It's liberty and justice for all. Or more of the same we are now experiencing.
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