EDITORIAL

This new year will mark a turning point in the international order. Increasingly, a wall is being built between democracies and totalitarianism masked by nationalism with the support of Russia and China. The democracies of the world look to the United States as the only democracy capable of defending itself and guaranteeing the defense of its allies. What is least needed at the beginning of the year are messianic messages and rowdy bravado with other democracies. The United States leads the democratic world, the only way to guarantee peace and prosperity, restore harmony and international cooperation in the face of the two great challenges of this century such as climate change and space conquest. Unfortunately, everything has been devastated by the crisis that has allowed a return to fascist and communist ideologies with votes in electoral processes as is happening in Europe, which is one day moving further towards a continental war and where the Russian regime finds support within the the European Union. The confirmation of the presence of North Korean troops represents a medium-term threat to the democracies of the Pacific Rim where China continues to advance militarily to be the power in the area, threatening South Korea and Japan. North Korea is sending troops that upon their return will serve to train new recruits with no other purpose than, when the time comes, to attack South Korea.

The democracies of the American continent also look to the United States with hope despite Russian interference in the media with a populist discourse camouflaged by indigenism and the economic influence of China. In Venezuela the democratic process has been corrupted and the Bolivarian dictatorship tries to perpetuate itself in power, Cuba is at the limit of what is bearable for Cuban citizens and Nicaragua has become a personalist dictatorship. This is not the time for the United States to take refuge in isolationism and build retaining walls that separate families and break dreams of freedom. Imperial messages belittling the democracies allied to the United States weaken us as a democracy and make us distrust our mutual defense commitments. The end result will be a totalitarian world encircling the United States and its citizens divided and opposed.

The United States does not wage wars because of religion or territorial imperialism, it has always been in the name of democracy. In the Cold War it was necessary to ally with dictatorships because the alternative was the expansion of the Soviet empire. The 21st century has not given a truce with economic crises, the expansion of Islamic terrorism and Russian totalitarianism attacking neighboring countries. Only the United States has the capacity to protect and defend maritime routes and international trade, that is not imperialism, it is supporting the democratic world and exercising that leadership carries a responsibility for whoever occupies the presidency. And if egomania, the thirst for power and feeling chosen by the divine hand are going to dictate the policies of the United States, Congress must take the necessary measures to depose those who believe and act under that egomania, thirst for power and feeling like a messiah. deceiving the electorate and their religious beliefs.

God Bless America

Perry Morton Jr. IV

Owner and Editorial Director of The Adversiter Chronicle