The Irresponsible Statecraft of Defeat

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Posted on 12/21/2024 5:11:27 AM PST by MtnClimber

The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (QIRS) was founded in 2019 with initial funding from George Soros and Charles Koch, libertarians supposedly working to “free” the world from war. Other funding has come from the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, and Barbara Streisand, among other hard-left sources. Of note is backing from the Ploughshares Fund which opposed President Ronald Reagan’s policies that won the Cold War and collapsed the Soviet Union.

Soros is a well-known left-wing critic of American society, a virtual prophet of suicidal anarchy. His Open Society Foundation wants to defund the police, close prisons, open borders, and staff local governments with officials who will not prosecute criminals or cooperate with federal immigration laws. Championing “enemies within” naturally extends to embracing enemies overseas as well. His society is “open” to barbarians.

Koch, posing as a patriot, is different. He just doesn’t want national security to get in the way of conducting his business with whomever he wants. Trading with the enemy is not a bad thing if there are no enemies. As British Radical Richard Cobden argued two centuries ago, commerce is “the grand panacea” that will remove “the motive for large and mighty empires, for gigantic armies and great fleets.” Cobden was a “Little Englander” who opposed Making Britain Great Again. QIRS continues this line, welcoming “the emergence of a multi-polar world in the 21st century where economic power is more evenly shared across nations.” Thus, QIRS wants to erode American prosperity as well as security.

This notion of peaceful globalization has come and gone repeatedly. President Donald Trump’s 2017 National Security Strategy explicitly rejected it. It saw a world of Great Power competition, in particular where “China and Russia challenge American power, influence, and interests, attempting to erode American security and prosperity.”

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1 posted on 12/21/2024 5:11:27 AM PST by MtnClimber

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2 posted on 12/21/2024 5:11:38 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)

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