Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Israel, Islam \u0026 the New Cold War | Niall Ferguson" video.

  1. The new Cold War has a domestic front too. Xi Jinping is not only the enemy of democracy and freedom, he is the international champion of the Mandarinate -- the authoritarian bureaucracy, much celebrated in Beijing, Brussels, and even Washington DC -- that is the opposing side in this ideological struggle. The US government already has an even worse infestation of authoritarian bureaucrats today, than our infestation of card-carrying Communists during the Eisenhower administration. We need a loyalty pledge for the DC bureaucracy -- they can pledge themselves as public servants and hold their office of trust lightly and temporarily, knowing at any moment they could be recalled to state or local offices, or to the private sector. If a bureaucrat is not a public servant that the public can fire at will, that bureaucrat is a Mandarin, and as such the enemy.
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  2. "We have to recapture the youthful enthusiasm that [Niall] had when [he] was a student hearing Reagan say 'tear down this wall' to Gorbachev" Want to get kids excited about freedom? Give them a future without petty bureaucrats in Washington ordering them to lock down, mask up, slow down, only buy the weakest kind of car, the least effective shower head, etc. The fight for freedom starts at home.
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  3. "We risk losing credible deterrence" How much operational credibility (and actual capability) has the Russian military lost? Stalemates work two ways. Revanchism requires capacity on the part of those seeking revenge.
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