Does he not realize Trump is providing this leadership?

Tom Basile writes in part in American Greatness,

...Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the bipolar global construct has collapsed into a murky soup of economic alliances that have made the Western democracies weaker, less focused, and often playing into the hands of authoritarian competitors seeking to expand their power.

We believed that opening China would produce a stronger level of trust, cooperation, and liberalization. It was a logical assumption. Instead, the Chinese learned from the Soviet Union’s economic failures, putting their espionage, propaganda, and brazen efforts to flout international law on steroids. China’s disregard for basic human rights remains chilling. The regime’s deceit with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic is emblematic of all of those characteristics.

We genuinely wanted the Russian experiment in democracy to succeed. It hasn’t and we need to accept that. That failure isn’t due to the Russian people but rather their leaders’ unshakable belief in an imperial destiny and fidelity to governing tactics reminiscent of the Stalinist control of decades past. Just as we’ve created an environment that lets China steal our jobs and technology, we’ve allowed Russia to use its vast energy resources to blackmail Europe.

For decades we failed to make Iran pay for financing global Islamic terrorist networks that have taken countless innocent lives and destabilized countries around the world. The Obama Administration’s capitulation to the mullahs was perhaps the lowest point in American foreign policy of the last half-century.

The troika of China, Russia, and Iran represent a significant and present threat to the safety and security of the free world. That requires an aggressive response.

While Islamic terrorists occupied our focus in the early 2000s, Russia was expanding its influence in the former Soviet republics and later the Middle East. The Chinese, through their Belt and Road Initiative, have set about conquering Africa. The three are also making inroads in the Western Hemisphere as well, including information manipulation that reaches the eyes and ears of Americans every day.

...During the Cold War, a vast majority of Americans understood that it was important for the United States and its allies to counter communism. We cannot allow the moral relativism of the Left in America today make us timid in the face of real threats to our security and individual liberty, not to mention sovereignty of other nations.

We would do well to remember our history. In the past century, hundreds of thousands of Americans died fighting the Germans, only to see Germany become one of our staunchest allies. We used the atomic bomb to obliterate two Japanese cities, yet today Japan is one of our closest trading partners.

A new Cold War-style approach to China, Russia, and Iran is a call for America reconstituting the strong allied bloc it once led and rejecting the free-for-all globalist movement that turns a blind eye to enemies allegedly for the sake of cheap products.

America first needs to mean America leads again.

COVID-19 can indeed reset the world order placing us in the familiar position of making bold moves to protect freedom. What remains to be seen is whether we have the courage to lead again.

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