Well, of course, this old fox:

Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”

Also this:

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God’s good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.

I do fear though, that after all that, the Western World is now committing suicide.

The self-correcting mechanism isn’t working, thought. You can’t count on people believing their own eyes and having common sense and drawing the right conclusions anymore.

But if China is also having troubles, I guess that’s a good sign.

“No one knows better than I do that, in the course of centuries, all the great stories of the world end by becoming children’s tales. But this particular one (the story of England’s resistance) has started its life as such, has become a children’s tale on the very threshold of its existence. It mean that we can at once recognize in it the threefold visible sign of its nature. it has deceived the anticipations of the wise, it has humiliated the weak-hearted, it has staggered the fools. Last June all these folk from one end of the world to the other, no matter what the color of their skins, were shaking their heads. Never had they been so old, never had they been so proud of being old. All the figures that they had swallowed in the course of their miserable lives as a safeguard against the highly improbable activity of their emotions had choked the channels of circulation..They were ready to prove that with the Armistice of Rethondes the continuance of the war had become a mathematical impossibility…Some chuckled with satisfaction at the thought, but they were not the most dangerous…Others threatened us with the infection of pity…”Alone against the world,” they said. “Why, what is that but a tale for children?” And that is precisely what it was–a tale for children. Hurrah for the children of England!

Men of England, at this very moment you are writing what public speakers like to describe in their jargon as one of the “greatest pages of history”….At this moment you English are writing one of the greatest pages of history, but I am quite sure that when you started, you meant it as a fairy tale for children. “Once upon a time there was a little island, and in that island there was a people in arms against the world…” Faced with such an opening as that, what old cunning fox of politics or business would not have shrugged his shoulders and closed the book?”

I’m not worried about China destroying us- they have way worse problems than we do (they will continue their current sabotage via universities and infiltration of our government, of course). I expect they will get frisky about Taiwan and may even go kinetic, with a Ukraine-like outcome- they will hope for a quick victory, get bogged down, and a lot of people will get hurt and killed with an outcome that pleases nobody. The only way it will hurt us directly is if Biden if foolish enough to get us more involved than we have in Ukraine.

There will be worsening of the current cold civil war, with more families rendered asunder. There will be violent pushback by normies against the woke. States will become more sharply leftist or rightist.
It will be interesting.

A “nice” little summary.

https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2023/09/23/the-destruction-of-the-united-states-is-intentional-heres-what-will-happen-next-n1729390

The young folks y’all mention are basically screwed, don’t want anything to do with my viewpoints, and might as well be hoisted with their own petard. Of course, the tragedy is that my generation laid much of the groundwork for all of the nonsense that is now so prevalent.

My local library, in a tiny town of about 1,000 souls, had a “climate” thingie. They brought the kids in from out tiny school, about 45 students, and had materials and “information” for them. Essentially, they were to be brainwashed. I contacted the librarian and suggested some reading that gave a more balanced perspective and was politely blown off.

Where are those petards? They may have a different form than what Shakespeare envisioned but I do feel they are there and will have their impact.

And there’s the two-step; “It’s not happening…and it’s a damn’ fine idea to see it happening.”

I don’t know how we recover from 4 more years of the Dems.

I saw Dem cheating firsthand when Ben Nelson ran for Governor of NE. We both worked at the same law firm. One of the other lawyers was deep into the campaign. On Election Day, he went to minority part of Omaha and helped distributed “walking around money” to the Black pastors. This was SOP for the Dems. I was shocked.

Blacks in Omaha have never voted in numbers, but the idea of cheating just repulsed me. And I’m sure it has only gotten much, much worse over the years.

Ben Nelson won. He’s the last Democrat to have won any statewide office in NE. My lawyer friend became the State of NE’s lobbyist in DC for a long time.

Just askin,’ Jordan?

Fog of war and propaganda.