This quote from a researcher at the Munich Security Conference as relayed through Murray Brewster and
@Good2Golf
"We are currently seeing the rise of political actors who do not promise reform or repair, but who are very explicit about wanting to tear down existing institutions, and we call them the demolition men," Eisentraut said at the same briefing.
"What drives many of them is frustration with the liberal trajectories their societies have followed, and which they argue put their countries at risk of civilizational decline.
More on France’s nuclear umbrella, vis-a-vis non-US deterrence. Note explicit mention of Poland and Germany discussing such with France. Others as well, no doubt.
And Canada’s coming to the day of reckoning on its own security future.
What is the point, the purpose of laws if nobody enforces them? More laws mean more worries for the law-abiding while the law-breakers ignore them and go unpunished?
Dockyard workers, protesters, gun-toting criminals, mass-murderers, smugglers, foreign agent, pirates....
Confidence in the system is lost because through a combination of fear of the consequences, and the cover offered by well meaning laws and good intentions, nobody acts.
Nobody acts, and at the same time they complain about how dire the situation is, and, prevent others from acting.
Enforcing the law or defending the nation requires the same determination from our representatives.
"They either fear thir fates too much,
Or else their desserts are small,
If they dare not put it to the touch,
To win or lose it all"
Montrose, 1650, while awaiting execution for supporting the wrong side.
