The Liberal International Order Is A Lie
Posted By: Mercedes44, 3/26/2026 6:37:26 AM
Critics accuse Donald Trump of destroying a rules-based world order with his no-nonsense approach to those threatening the security of the Western world. There is just one problem: it is a liberal fantasy that never existed. The late 1990s were the high-water mark of liberal globalism. Academics like Francis Fukuyama rambled on about the “end of history.” In the Balkans, multilateral intervention seemingly redefined war as a legalistic humanitarian effort. In the quest for a borderless world, the West opened its doors to cheap Chinese imports. In 1996, columnist Thomas Friedman reassured his readers that conflict would become a thing of the past in the world of liberal, free-trade globalism:
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Critics accuse Donald Trump of destroying a rules-based world order with his no-nonsense approach to those threatening the security of the Western world. There is just one problem: it is a liberal fantasy that never existed.
The late 1990s were the high-water mark of liberal globalism. Academics like Francis Fukuyama rambled on about the “end of history.” In the Balkans, multilateral intervention seemingly redefined war as a legalistic humanitarian effort. In the quest for a borderless world, the West opened its doors to cheap Chinese imports.
In 1996, columnist Thomas Friedman reassured his readers that conflict would become a thing of the past in the world of liberal, free-trade globalism:
The Southern District of Florida (“SDFL”) federal grand jury has just issued criminal subpoenas to major players like former FBI Director James Comey and CIA Director John Brennan. This action is no fishing expedition but rather the telltale sign that a massive RICO criminal enterprise is finally being cracked open, which I’ve suggested earlier would happen given the Clinton crime family and Seth Rich’s unsolved murder. Two thousand years ago, Jesus walked into the Temple and saw money changers and merchants turning a house of worship into a profit racket. He flipped tables, scattered coins, and exposed the corruption. The Pharisees and Sadducees panicked and plotted his death.
Iran’s elite navy chief responsible
for closing Strait of Hormuz killed in
airstrike: reports 9 replies
for closing Strait of Hormuz killed in
airstrike: reports 9 replies
An elite Iranian navy chief who gave the green light to close the Strait of Hormuz has been killed in an airstrike on Thursday, according to a report.
Alireza Tangsiri, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy commander, was eliminated in a strike on the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, located on the Strait, an Israeli official told the Jerusalem Post.
Neither the Israeli Defense Forces nor the Iranian military has commented on the strike. Tangsiri’s reported death comes after the assassinations of IRGC spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini, and the regime’s de-facto leader Ali Larijani, and its anti-protest enforcer Gholamreza Soleimani.
Tangsiri reportedly ordered the Strait of Hormuz –
U.S. intercepted Ukraine government messages
discussing plot to route money to Biden re-election 19 replies
discussing plot to route money to Biden re-election 19 replies
U.S. intelligence intercepted Ukrainian government communications discussing a plot to route hundreds of millions of American tax dollars earmarked for clean energy in the war-torn country and move them to the United States to enrich then-President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee, according to a declassified intelligence report summarizing the intercepts that was obtained by Just the News.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently learned of the intercepts and has asked the U.S. Agency for International Development officials to scour for records to see if the plot actually was carried out and whether a criminal referral should be made to the FBI.
NTSB reveals excruciating final 3 minutes
before Air Canada plane’s deadly LaGuardia crash 7 replies
before Air Canada plane’s deadly LaGuardia crash 7 replies
Doomed Air Canada Flight 8646’s cockpit recorder has revealed how the trip turned from routine to tragic within 3 minutes on Sunday.
Both the pilot and co-pilot were killed and more than 40 other people sustained injuries when the jet crashed into a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York City around midnight.
National Transportation Safety Board senior aviation investigator Doug Brazy shed some light on the plane’s harrowing final minutes Tuesday, providing a detailed timeline starting with the flight crew contacting the air traffic control tower up until the moment of the deadly crash:
Meta failed to protect kids from sexual predators and misled users about its platforms’ safety, violating New Mexico law, a jury found Tuesday in a landmark case.
The tech giant was ordered to pay $375 million in civil penalties.
The verdict came after six weeks of testimony from witnesses that included ex-Meta executives, teachers and online safety experts.
New Mexico prosecutors argued that Meta hid the extent of safety issues that kids faced on Facebook and Instagram and failed to enforce its claimed minimum age limit of 13 – even as its algorithms allegedly made it easier for creeps to target kids for online harassment and even sex trafficking.
Viral video of a woman being nabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at San Francisco International Airport sparked mass online fear-mongering about Trump’s deployment of immigration agents to help ease the TSA security crisis.
Video captured the moment ICE agents began handcuffing a crying woman on Sunday at around 10 p.m. inside the airport’s Terminal 3.
The officers were met with backlash from multiple passengers who filmed the scene and yelled at them, as the woman continued to cry with a young girl standing beside her, also sobbing.
“This is un-American,” one passenger is heard yelling.
“What is your badge number? What is your name?”
Israeli PM Netanyahu: Potential Iran Deal
Raised by Trump Would Protect Israel’s
‘Vital Interests’ 5 replies
Raised by Trump Would Protect Israel’s
‘Vital Interests’ 5 replies
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that any potential deal with Iran would “protect our vital interests,” after speaking with President Donald Trump, who he said believes there is a chance to reach an agreement as negotiations to potentially end the conflict move forward.In a video statement, Netanyahu said Trump believes there is “a chance to leverage the massive achievements of the IDF and the U.S. military in order to achieve the goals of the war through an agreement — an agreement that protects our vital interests.”
Controversy is again raging over the fate of the Salt River wild horses, protected under state law as a natural treasure, after the Arizona Department of Agriculture awarded a new management contract requiring the removal of more than half the herd — despite a state law that authorizes removals only for humane reasons related to the health and safety of individual horses. It didn't have to be this way. In 2016, Arizona Republicans did something Washington rarely manages to do. They solved a problem.
When the U.S. Forest Service moved to round up and remove every one of the Salt River wild horses from the Tonto National Forest,
We’re dealing with legislative terrorists right now. The Democratic Party is too foolish, irrational, and immature to negotiate a deal on DHS funding. To be honest, they’re making compelling arguments not only for eliminating the legislative filibuster, which even I have been hesitant to do, but also for dissolving the legislature and canceling all elections until these radical progressive forces are put down like the rabid dogs they are (politically). I don’t care. Those on the Hill are comfy, connected, and uninterested in the pain they’ve inflicted on TSA agents, scores of whom have quit.
Democrats Rattled After California Sheriff
Seizes 650,000 Ballots in Election Integrity Crackdown 11 replies
Seizes 650,000 Ballots in Election Integrity Crackdown 11 replies
Riverside County Sheriff and California gubernatorial candidate Chad Bianco has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last November’s election as part of an investigation into potential discrepancies in the county’s vote count.
The probe follows allegations from the Riverside Election Integrity Team that the county’s tally may have been inflated by more than 45,000 votes.
“This investigation is simple: Physically count the ballots and compare that result with the total votes recorded,” Bianco said at a Friday press conference.
He said the review will determine whether the results are accurate.
As we enter the fourth week of the Iran war (or “excursion”), here are two great ideas about how to deal with some of the consequences — both from outside the Beltway.
In fact, right in New York.
One idea, unusually, is from longtime President Trump critic and former swamp creature Richard Haass, now back in his hometown.
The other is from Wall Street guru Larry Kudlow, Trump’s great friend and former economic advisor.
Both ideas are elegantly unconventional.
In his Substack last week, Haass took a moment from trashing the president to suggest an alternative to boots on the ground for the prickly problem of opening the Strait of Hormuz,
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President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported goods suffered a Supreme Court legal rebuke in late February, but they’re not doing much better in the court of public opinion. As the latest I&I/TIPP shows, a plurality of voters don’t believe the economy will get a boost from tariffs, which win strong majority support only from Republicans.
It was once the case that most conservatives and many moderates rejected tariffs on imported goods as an unwanted distortion of free trade. Meanwhile, liberals embraced tariffs as a welcome tool of government “industrial policy.”
But President Trump has flipped the script.
The Church of England installed a woman as its leader for the first time.
Sarah Mullally is now the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to hold that position. The Church of England was founded in 1534, but the installation ceremony in Canterbury dates back more than 1,400 years.
In addition to serving as senior bishop and the symbolic leader of the Church of England, Archbishop Mullally also becomes the most prominent figure in the worldwide Anglican Communion, which includes Episcopalians in the U.S.
Jimmy Kimmel's dig at 'plumber' DHS Secretary
Markwayne Mullin ripped as 'elite' by
online critics 19 replies
Markwayne Mullin ripped as 'elite' by
online critics 19 replies
ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was called out for mocking newly confirmed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin as an "unqualified" plumber during his monologue Tuesday night. "Trump's got a whole new generation of thinkers lined up, including his newly confirmed secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne ‘Chuck Mike Bruce Dave’ Melon — Mullin. Maybe melon's better," Kimmel said. "He's the now former senator of Oklahoma. Before he was elected to the Senate, Markwayne Mullin was a low-level MMA fighter and a plumber. That's right. We have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now. It worked for Super Mario.
U.S. intercepted Ukraine government messages
discussing plot to route money to Biden re-election 19 replies
discussing plot to route money to Biden re-election 19 replies
U.S. intelligence intercepted Ukrainian government communications discussing a plot to route hundreds of millions of American tax dollars earmarked for clean energy in the war-torn country and move them to the United States to enrich then-President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee, according to a declassified intelligence report summarizing the intercepts that was obtained by Just the News.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently learned of the intercepts and has asked the U.S. Agency for International Development officials to scour for records to see if the plot actually was carried out and whether a criminal referral should be made to the FBI.
William Shakespeake's birthplace will be de-colonised over fears that portraying his success as the "greatest" playwright "benefits the ideology of white European supremacy." Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust owns buildings in the playwright's hometown of Stratford-on-Avon. (snip) The trust also said some of its items could be contain language or depictions that are racist, sexist, or homophobic. (snip) Some productions of his works have been slapped with trigger warnings for misogyny, racism and "problematic radicalised dynamics" that link whiteness to beauty. (snip) In 2022 (snip) Dr. Helen Hopkins (snip) postulated that the idea of Shakespeare's "universal" genius "benefits the ideology of white European supremacy."
Iran is ramping up its threats as negotiations to end the war appear to be faltering and a U.S. ground operation becomes more likely.
Iranian state media outlet Tasnim News Agency, citing a "military source," indicated that Tehran was prepared to close the Bab al Mandeb, a critical waterway linking the Red Sea to the Arabian Sea, in the event of a U.S. ground op.
“If the enemy wants to take action on land in the Iranian islands or anywhere else in our lands or to inflict costs on Iran with naval movements in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman,
The Southern District of Florida (“SDFL”) federal grand jury has just issued criminal subpoenas to major players like former FBI Director James Comey and CIA Director John Brennan. This action is no fishing expedition but rather the telltale sign that a massive RICO criminal enterprise is finally being cracked open, which I’ve suggested earlier would happen given the Clinton crime family and Seth Rich’s unsolved murder. Two thousand years ago, Jesus walked into the Temple and saw money changers and merchants turning a house of worship into a profit racket. He flipped tables, scattered coins, and exposed the corruption. The Pharisees and Sadducees panicked and plotted his death.
Chicago Mayor Pulls Unbelievably Cruel
Anti-ICE Stunt Mocking the Murder of Sheridan Gorman 16 replies
Anti-ICE Stunt Mocking the Murder of Sheridan Gorman 16 replies
It has been a few days since an Illinois Democrat has pulled a cheap political stunt that essentially mocks the murder last week of 18-year-old college student Sheridan Gorman, allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien, so Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson decided to step up and fill the void.
In an unbelievably cruel and tone-deaf maneuver, Johnson on Wednesday held a big press conference to gleefully unveil a new city snowplow that will be clearing city streets while bearing a sign reading, "Abolish ICE," which is apparently the winning entry of a plow-naming contest.
"This name derives from our city’s legacy of standing up for justice, dignity,
This is a huge win for President Trump and the American people. All those activist judges just got a good ol’ fashioned spanking by a higher court(snip).This fight was about whether ICE can keep illegals detained while deportation proceedings are underway or whether lower-court judges can keep stepping in to give them bond hearings and release them back into the country.Judges in Minnesota have been siding with the illegals,
Meta failed to protect kids from sexual predators and misled users about its platforms’ safety, violating New Mexico law, a jury found Tuesday in a landmark case.
The tech giant was ordered to pay $375 million in civil penalties.
The verdict came after six weeks of testimony from witnesses that included ex-Meta executives, teachers and online safety experts.
New Mexico prosecutors argued that Meta hid the extent of safety issues that kids faced on Facebook and Instagram and failed to enforce its claimed minimum age limit of 13 – even as its algorithms allegedly made it easier for creeps to target kids for online harassment and even sex trafficking.
Minnesota Election Judge PLEADS GUILTY
to Letting Unregistered Voters Cast Ballots
in 2024 Election 15 replies
to Letting Unregistered Voters Cast Ballots
in 2024 Election 15 replies
In another devastating blow to the Democrats’ endless claims that there’s no election fraud, a Minnesota election judge has now pleaded guilty to a felony for deliberately allowing unregistered voters to cast ballots on Election Day.
Timothy Michael Scouton, 65, of Nevis, Minnesota, the head election judge in rural Badoura Township, Hubbard County, admitted in court on Monday that he allowed 11 unregistered individuals to vote without meeting the most basic legal requirements.
Scouton was responsible for ensuring that all voting procedures complied with Minnesota law.
Maryland Dems mocked for prioritizing
tampons in men’s bathrooms amid state
deficit: 'Nonsense' 15 replies
tampons in men’s bathrooms amid state
deficit: 'Nonsense' 15 replies
Maryland Del. Kathy Szeliga, R-Baltimore County, is calling out Maryland Democrats for backing a bill that would stock tampons in men’s bathrooms in state-owned buildings — an idea she says is emblematic of Annapolis’ misplaced priorities. Szeliga said that after she was made aware of HB 941, she took to the House floor to question which public buildings would be impacted. In particular, she wanted to know if the state's professional sports facilities, such as where the Ravens and Orioles play, would be impacted. During her remarks, the GOP Maryland lawmaker also questioned language in the bill ordering "appropriately sized tampons"