George Rebane
It is only the reality of force that makes peaceful diplomacy possible.
As our buildings burn, more black lives end that don’t make no nevermind, as China continues to build its muscle to rule its ‘near abroad’, Germany bitches about America not doing more to defend its carefully cloistered butt, and Democrats are busy readying Bumblebrain for prime time, the nation’s cops continue to compete with our politicians for the Cringe Cup while BLM and Antifa thugs rule our city centers.
The revolution has long left behind its George Floyd Memorial Starting Gate. From the ongoing body counts and mounting casualties in our cities, you have to be a real idiot to keep believing that all this destruction still has anything to do with regaining civil rights denied. No siree, all eyes are now on a much bigger prize, one that has been waiting in the wings ever since the Wall came down in 1989 – now we are fully advancing onto the ramparts of socialism. Just ask Bernie, AOC, Warren, Harris, …, ask any of them. Ask even the members of Team Nancy who are doing their best to hang on to the tiger they know they are riding.
It is all coming about so quickly, just as we have warned readers for years. And I don’t claim rocket science for that prognostication, only a little more than a casual reading of history and watching what has been going on since WW2.
To date no one is even attempting to talk them down or demonstrate that our traditional culture has the wherewithal to resist the mobs who demand more today than they did yesterday. The tagline to this missive is something totally beyond the ken of peaceful progressives who passively consume every bit from the wisdom of the demanding signs. They have no clue of what they condone. I’d like to conclude that the conservatives do know what lies at the end of the road now traveled, but they (we) have somehow misplaced their (our) gumption. I have no idea for what the rest of us are waiting – that somehow it will all quiet down and everyone will again play nice. Well, they haven’t for years, so Rodney King’s ‘Why can’t we all just get along?’ has never worked (least of all in his life).
It doesn’t matter whether we attempt negotiations with America’s anti-American thugs, or the Chinese, when your opponent realizes that your BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) is capitulation, then diplomacy fails. It was ever thus. The only thing that makes sense attempting to talk down a crisis is that your opponent knows you have a BATNA with balls. And even that doesn’t guarantee a peaceful stand-down. For you negotiators out there, that requires a ZOPA (zone of possible agreement) that has something to offer. (ZOPA is the set of all deals that are at least as good for each party in a negotiation as their respective BATNAs.)
Rig for ram.
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