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Nato’s failure to adequately fund its militaries is not just about the traditional bad habits of democracies to prefer butter to guns, and to leave needed reforms and expenditures for future citizens to address, usually in the face of a serious threat to its security. The decline of patriotism in the West, and the fashionable self-loathing of our intelligentsia, cognitive elites, and culture high-brow and low, have eroded the willingness of too many young people to serve in the military, and to fight, kill, and die for their homeland and fellow citizens.
These serious problems impacting Nato’s efficacy will not be resolved with cheerleading media and politicos, speeches full of globalist cliches and bromide, and photo ops at haute cuisine banquets. They will require hard cash, sacrifices by citizens, brave and principled leadership, and accepting the tragic, unchanging reality of the human lust for power and its willingness to use brutal force to achieve it.
And it demands a recovery of the civilizational nerve required to use lethal force––with all its exorbitant risks, unforeseen consequences, and costs in lives and wealth––to stop such aggression. This means restoring some tragic realism to our idealistic globalist “rules-based international order” foreign policy.
Otherwise, the long story of our freedom will be over.
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Yes, the “expensive, bloody war” in Ukraine “is what failed deterrence looks like”.
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