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Democracy and freedom are under threat. They always are in times of war.
Today, the war is hot in Ukraine, but there are others brewing. In Taiwan. On the Korean peninsula. Between Israel and Iran. Potentially between NATO and Russia, or the United States and China. Possibly, disastrously, between all at once.
Wars tend to spark other wars because aggressors sense opportunity when the world is distracted and encourage wars elsewhere to increase those distractions. War is thus a negative feedback loop that continues until aggressors win or burn out.
Much of the left media, desperate to alter the course of war, blame the democratic leaders they can reach rather than the clear aggressors in Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang, and Tehran. They do so because they can influence leaders at home and are used to denouncing "American militarism," though not always in such crass terms....