Winning World War III, ‘vision thing’ dooms – Latest News
Foreign desk: Winning World War III
“In August, while standing alongside President Trump in Alaska, Russian President Vladimir Putin chuckled” on the B-2 stealth bomber flyover, notice Mark Toth & Jonathan Sweet at The Hill. Yet Trump’s bombing of Iran’s nukes two months later made the message even clearer: He’s trying to remodel Eastern Europe in addition to the Middle East. “Moscow is reeling,” and Trump is “building on the momentum,” as with Friday’s assembly with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump’s “message for Hamas was delivered via B-2 bombers in Iran; Putin’s could be delivered by Tomahawks.” The Iran strike was a “good start to winning World War III.” But now to “win the Indo-Pacific and deter Beijing” from shifting on Taiwan, “Trump must win in Eastern Europe” as decisively as within the Middle East.
Liberal: ‘Vision Thing’ Dooms Democrats
Just as President George H.W. Bush had bother defining “the vision thing,” Democrats now lack “a recognizable vision for the country,” as they offer “a purely negative politics” opposing Trump, grumbles The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira. A survey taking a look at get together helps attaining “a good life” has “terrible” information for Dems, exposing “Democrats’ extraordinary inability to inspire ordinary Americans.” Three points voters see as “most important to Democrats — climate change, abortion, and LGBTQ+ issues — are least important to voters.” Tellingly, Dems’ professional-class voters lean towards “abundant clean energy,” whereas working-class voters desire an “abundant life.” Democrats’ agenda “is more technocratic than inspirational in the way a proper vision should be.”
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From the precise: Stealth UN Global Tax
“Voters are showing their opposition to the net-zero climate agenda whenever they get the chance,” thunders The Wall Street Journal editorial board, but the UN International Maritime Organization continues to be “poised to impose what amounts to a global tax on carbon emissions” — taxing ships, up to $12 billion a 12 months. Team Trump fears that’ll enhance prices to Americans and has threatened to sanction nations that back it. Yet “climate-obsessed” pols back the transfer, hoping to “entrench their agenda before voters in democracies can kill it.” It’s simply such “abdication of decision-making to international bodies that has spurred populist rebellions.” Trump will “do Americans and the entire democratic world a favor if he can scare the IMO into thinking twice about this global carbon-tax plan.”
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Conservative: McConnell’s Stalwart Service
As some mocked Sen. Mitch McConnell this week, Josh Holmes tweeted some of his previous boss’ main wins: Mitch “was relentless” in making the First Amendment “a litmus test in Republican politics and in the judiciary.” And noobies “have absolutely no idea how bad things could’ve been during the Obama years” with out McConnell: “Climate, immigration, taxes, our entire economy, foreign policy, it could’ve been unrecognizable. They tried it all. There’s a reason Obama hates him the most.” Plus: “The Left invested much of their attention in the early 2000s to hijacking the federal judiciary. McConnell was adamant about not letting that happen.” Whatever the Trump-McConnell “disconnect,” “there was a time when neither could accomplish their goals without one another. They had a mutual appreciation for each other’s game.”
Campus watch: Defund Intolerant Universities
“The higher-education establishment” has provided a “mixed” response to the White House “compact” granting “funding preferences” to universities that “commit to basic educational goals,” observes City Journal’s Christopher Rufo. MIT claims the compact would “jeopardize” the “free marketplace of ideas.” But universities are already “some of the least free institutions in America.” Their “ideological imbalance” is enforced by a “cartel-like ideological system” that filters out conservative opinion and analysis. And they’re not “independent institutions” as they obtain “enormous taxpayer largesse.” Team Trump “should accept these realities” and “increase both the rewards for entering into the compact and the punishments for refusing.” If MIT feels too constrained by the compact, “the president should free it from the bondage of public subsidy.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
