I haven’t read them. I don’t intend to. I don’t need more misery or darkness, thanks. But the following caught and held my attention:
People are now openly stating:
— Erik Dale 🇳🇴 (@EuroDale) February 4, 2026
"If even a small fraction of what the Epstein files imply is true...
...the good guys lost WWII 💀"
We urgently need full disclosure and many arrests to nip such speculations in the bud.
The entire liberal world order depends on it.
Godspeed!
Whoever this gentleman is, I’m certain his heart is in the right place. But is he quite sure what “the entire world liberal order” is? One should know what one has set out to defend.
The world, partitioned as it is into States that don’t recognize the concept of freedom, does not qualify as “liberal” in the dictionary sense. Not one of the nearly 200 States that exist today respects the rights of the individual. Rather, they assert supremacy – sovereignty, if you prefer – over all persons and things. You must ask their permission for damned near everything.
Can there be a “liberal world order” when the States that dominate the world are unanimously illiberal?
But let’s pass on to the Epstein files. From what I’ve read – all of it secondhand, of course – those files implicate many powerful, wealthy, and famous individuals in the most horrific crimes Mankind has ever known. The Iceberg Premise – i.e., that what we can see is only a tiny fraction of what there is – suggests that virtually the entire “upper crust” of American society is vile beyond imagining. That includes the national political class: everyone who wields power at the national level, or who has significant influence over the power wielders’ decisions.
The word corruption pales beside the monstrousness of what the files have revealed. Yet though Lord Acton is probably spinning in his grave, I must admit that none of it surprises me.
Visualize me shrugging as I write: So what now?
Except for the ministry of Christ, the United States of America was the grandest effort in all of history. A dear friend has called America “the crowning glory of human civilization.” He’s right. Even in our decayed and tottering state, we outshine anything else any nation can offer. That’s why the rest of the world seeks to batten on us; what excellence and virtue remain belong to America and Americans.
Yet we teeter at the edge of the abyss. We’ve gone badly wrong, and we know it. Some of us can even tell you why: We put our trust in princes.
Outside the narrow bounds of the family, for any man to claim and wield power over another is evil. There are no escapes; it’s an arrogance that merits scourging or worse. So why do we tolerate it when it calls itself government?
The lust for power is a lust that cannot be sated. It always demands more. And it demands proof as well. The proof is provided by power’s victims:
‘How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?’
Winston thought. ‘By making him suffer,’ he said.
‘Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.’
How many times have I cited that passage? Its insight into power-lust is unequaled. Yet even those who praise George Orwell’s masterwork to the heavens shy back from its full implications. The great majority of Mankind insists, vocally or silently, that the State is “a necessary evil.”
What other evils would you deem “necessary,” Gentle Reader?
“Utopia is not one of the options.” – David Bergland
For as long as there are men, there will be evil men. Human free will and our susceptibility to temptation guarantee it. But the great majority of us are, if sinners, at least aware of the dividing line between what we can get away with and what will get us invited to a necktie party as guest of honor.
It’s when evil men have access to power over others that the worst problems arise and proliferate. For over time, the dynamic of power operates to bring evil men to power. They have a natural advantage over good men in pursuing it: they want it more.
It doesn’t matter what form the State is given: autocratic, oligarchical, republican, democratic, what have you. The State is where the power is, and therefore where those who most want power will go. Could it be any clearer?
But we were talking about the Epstein files, weren’t we?
What those files reveal are the foulest deeds of the evilest men of our time. Should it come as a surprise that those evildoers were power-wielders, elite members of the Establishment? It seems perfectly in keeping with their villainy. Yet millions of people are in shock: How could they? Look at all they have, all they were given!
Shock can be useful. It can shake the scales from our eyes. I submit that it’s time and long past time. Don’t let this moment pass unrecognized for what it really tells us.
4 comments:
It is too early to know everything about Epstein's activities. What we do know is important for a very simple and relevant reason; it proves that the so called conspiracy theorists were correct. It means that many of our politicians and significant actors in our government were corrupt and/or knew of the corruption and did nothing. What we don't know is how deep this conspiracy went, how much harm it caused and how much harm it is still causing our country.
I don't follow this introduction. So, the 3rd Reich and/or Imperial Japan should've prevailed? And such an outcome would've resulted in a better world order? How does such an opinion indicate his heart is in the right place? So, I guess if he wants a "liberal" world order, it means he wants everything to be all nicey-nice. Fine, but connecting that to a Nazi victory is ludicrous.
- jed
I'll try to explain what is meant by "The good guys lost WW II"
In most of Europe an entire generation of men was lost. Most of those who died were not "Nazi" they were just people compelled by their government to fight. The German leaders were Nazi's. Poland lost an entire generation of men and they weren't Nazi's, Belgium, Holland, France, and of course Russia. The point being because of a few terrible people who seized power millions of common people died and the effects of that are still felt today.
Compare it with Ukraine today. Could be a million Ukrainians dead, could be less could be a lot more. No one will tell the truth of this because the loss is catastrophic for Ukraine. If you are over the age of 16 in Ukraine today you dare not walk outside your home because they will grab you up, put a uniform on you and send you to the front where you will die within a week. These boys and young men aren't the political leaders who have decided to fight to the last man just as the German soldier weren't "Nazi's". No one wants or wanted a Nazi victory but 9 million Germans died in WW II and they were not all "Nazi's".
I personally know a number of German WW II soldiers including one who was SS. In 1945 he was 14 YO and a big kid so they grabbed him off the street and made him an SS soldier , tattoo and all and sent him to the Russian front where he was captured but managed to escape before they knew he was SS. He was not a "Nazi". I knew Rommel's civilian scientific attaché who was captured in North Africa and "held" in NYCity as a "prisoner". I would say with confidence that 95% of those Germans who died in WW II were not "Nazi's". They were just people, most quite young, given no choice.
No one wanted a Nazi victory. They just wanted the killing to stop and not wipe out an entire generation. And this is exactly how I fell about what is happening today in Ukraine.
I was born in 1943. My dad worked for the Dept of the Navy and a number of my uncles fought in the war. One of my uncles spent the entire war fighting in the Pacific. He sent us a coconut through the mail, I mean he wrote the address on the coconut husk and they stapled a stamp to it and mailed it from one of the South Sea Islands. We used it as a door stop. He was on a ship headed for Japan in the Summer of 1945 when the bombs were dropped. I can remember him telling the story of Japan's surrender, they didn't tell them that they dropped a nuclear bomb but the "scuttlebutt" was about some new secret weapon. If they hadn't dropped the bomb resulting in Japan's surrender he was scheduled for the first landing on Japan and would have unquestionably been killed because until the bomb dropped Japan was committed to fighting to the last living soul. Another Uncle was the radio man on the Island of Tinian where the B29 flew out of. Even being the radio man he had no clue about the bomb. In fact they had to dig a hole in the runway because the bomb was too big to load on the B29 in a normal fashion so the command told everyone it was a very large camera that they were going to use to photograph Japan. This same Uncle was first station in Burma where he coordinated air attacks there.
Now fast forward; today one of my best friends, he was my best man at my wedding, is married to a Japanese woman whose mother was a survivor of the Nagasaki bomb. She spent years getting treatments from burns and eventually married and had a daughter. The Japanese Army did terrible things during the war but these two women are not terrible. Just as all Germans were not Nazi's, all Japanese were not terrible people.
I could tell you about an American man of Japanese descent that my wife worked with in Southern California who spent his preschool years with his parents in a detainment camp in Northern California. He did nothing wrong but he carried that burden of being Japanese during WW II and afterwards.
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