Tom Kratman is a worthwhile read. Particularly if you are not of the alt right, and think we are heading into a time of plenty and prosperity, where men will be, as Dr King said, judged by the quality of their character not the color of their skin.

Because that is not what is happening. Instead, we are becoming more tribal, and the tribes are become more against the majority. Even though the majority feed them, and when that stops… well let’s say there is a reason zombies are a common metaphor.

“I think we all more or less agree that the USA will likely break up in the future along regional and cultural lines, and form smaller ethnically homogenous states. “

I don’t, actually. Oh, a breakup is somewhat likely, but more likely to involve wandering hordes of starving, cannibalistic subhumans than anything we’d recognize as homogenous states. It’s not something to cheer for. It’s not something to work toward. It’s something that killing a hundred million or more people would be worth doing if it would prevent, it because the ultimate body count is going to be higher than that.

Civil wars are horrible. They are occurring in Syria and the Ukraine and South Sudan at present: the scars from the one in the former Yugoslavia. It seems that the US State Department is good at starting them but horrid at stopping them.

Obama’s predecessor insisted that he didn’t need approval from Congress to launch a war; yet in the two major wars he fought, George W. Bush secured congressional authorization anyway. By the time Obama hit the dais at Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, our 44th president had already launched more drone strikes than “43” carried out during two full terms. Since then, he’s launched two undeclared wars, and—as Obama bragged in a speech last year defending the Iran deal—bombed no fewer than seven countries.

In 2011, what officials called “kinetic military action” in Libya completed the evisceration of the War Powers Resolution by successfully advancing the theory that if the U.S. bombs a country that can’t hit back, we’re not engaged in “hostilities” against them. In the drone campaign and the current war with ISIS, Obama has turned a 14-year-old congressional resolution targeting al-Qaeda and the Taliban into a blank check for endless war, anywhere in the world. Last year, the army chief of staff affirmed that finishing the fight against ISIS will take another “10 to 20 years.”

The issue that first animated Obama as an undergraduate was “the relentless, often silent spread of militarism in the country,” as he wrote in an article for the Columbia University Sundial as a college senior in 1983. In “Breaking the War Mentality,” Obama worried that the public’s distance from the costs of war made resisting it “a difficult task,” but a vital one of “shifting America off the dead-end track” and undoing “the twisted logic of which we are today a part.”

“It was his first expression of his views on any foreign policy subject,” James Mann writes in The Obamians, his 2012 account of national security decision-making in the Obama administration. “And years later, his aides felt it was deeply felt and lasting.”

Yet, as president, instead of “breaking the war mentality,” Obama has institutionalized it.

There are two risks. One is that the State Department may start (again) interfering in New Zealand. It is a violation of our sovereignty, made worse by their frank incompetence. The Russians and Chinese are not our friends, but at least they understand realpolitik.

The second is that the USA goes tribal. For social justice, which judges people by the color of their skin and not their character or actions, will turn the whites into a tribe, one that considers itself at war.

And the white nations, historically, have been quite good at that.