Things Have Changed

Article author: 
James Howard Kunstler
Article date: 
17 October 2026
Article category: 
Our American Future
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... Russia is not our mortal enemy anymore... It is no longer the so-called Free World against the wicked Hammer and Sickle...

No more sacrificing everyone's happiness to prove Karl Marx's cockamamie theories... Russia gave up on that project...

... Europe has become something of an adversary, if not exactly our enemy, yet... Now, it is Europe’s turn to destroy itself in pursuit of idiotic theories - such as: nations don't matter... carbon is destroying the world...

Europe is now tyrannized by the unelected EU commission, much as the old Soviet Union was tyrannized by its politburo...

Great Britain (the United Kingdom) committing suicide in the most extravagant way... allowing the wholesale rape of its womenfolk by foreign invaders...

These days, Britain’s political apparatus is working hard to scare-up a war with Russia as a last-ditch attempt to salvage its hopelessly wasted economy... It’s an insane project, based on an age-old wish to capture the vast natural resources of Russia...

... They got our Anglified State department... to stage the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Kiev...

The next gambit was to try to shoe-horn Ukraine into NATO, which everybody knew would provoke Russia to move against Ukraine, which it did in 2022...

Iran has lost this war, and badly. And for a good reason: being that they were determined to develop nuclear weapons and long-range missiles to deliver them, and President Trump made the reasonable decision that it better not happen. Iran, being run by a lunatic Jihad faction, the IRGC, refuses to come to reasonable terms...

Think about recalibrating your expectations about where all this is going... The odds are in our country's favor, and these wars can be resolved favorably.