Author: Crowhill Report

I’ve been thinking recently that it would be good if the United States changed its focus to the Americas.

I realize we have a lot of history with Europe, and I realize we have some level of … something like responsibility … for keeping the world’s shipping lanes open, and so on. I’m not saying we withdraw from the rest of the world, but I am saying it would be nice if we paid attention to our own neighborhood for a change.

Why can’t we have a good relationship with countries to our south?

We’re almost stuck with it anyway. So many people have come here that we’re going to see a shift towards interest in those countries in any event. Why not get serious about it?

It seems like a good strategic move for several reasons.

The first, and most obvious, is that we don’t want a threat on our southern border — either a military one or a demographic one. The Soviets tried to get a hold on countries in Central and South America — for good reason. They wanted a way to threaten us to the south. Let’s stop that before it happens again.

It also seems rational for us to exert a certain amount of protective control over North and South America, and to form something analogous to NATO. I.e., strategic partnerships with American countries to defend the Americas.

I’m not saying the White Man has to go tell everybody to the south how to run their countries, but I am saying that trade and security deals could benefit everybody.

It would be fascinating to hear a discussion between Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Haidt and Steven Pinker on what psychological traits tend to push someone towards one or the other answer.

For example, it’s fairly predictable that liberals will tend to say climate change is the bigger threat, while conservatives will tend to say it’s terrorists. But why? What cocktail of openness, suspicion, disgust, respect for tradition, etc., makes that happen?

Sure, sure. I know all of you believe your position is based on facts and logic, not all that psychobabble.

I’m reading a novel set in Afghanistan when the British were being forced out. They had to leave a lot of stuff behind, but at least they had the sense to spike the cannons.

Apparently we don’t have that much sense.

Likely billions of dollars of American weapons and vehicles are now in the hands of the Taliban extremist group after the collapse of the Afghan government and army, with numerous videos and photos surfacing online showing Taliban members seizing the equipment.

Photos have circulated of Taliban members holding American M-4 carbines and M-16 rifles rather than AK-47s or AKMs. Other images and videos showed the Taliban surrounding U.S. Black Hawk helicopters and A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft.

US Black Hawk Helicopters Captured by Taliban as ‘Horrified’ Senators Demand DOD Audit

Is it possible to be this incompetent by accident?

It might be nice to think that when people are presented with some idea — e.g., that the presidential election wasn’t fair — that they would listen to the evidence and make a decision based on sound reasoning.

We all know that’s not true. People’s opinions on the fairness of the election had more to do with who they wanted to win than with any objective analysis of the facts. First of all, nobody’s objective. Second, nobody has all the facts. Or even most of them.

As people continue to sour on Biden, the idea that the presidential election might not have been fair will become more popular.

I’m not saying these two things are connected in a rational way. Biden’s bumbling, partisan, incompetent presidency doesn’t say anything about the fairness of the election. But the more people grow to dislike Biden, the more they’ll listen to arguments the election was stolen.

Some American billionaire is going to spend his own money to rescue Americans from Afghanistan.