But the “media chose to report the story” as if “the brothers were merely innocent victims of Israeli violence.” Despite three other Islamist terror attacks in the same week, “so many struggle to see what is in front of their own faces,” namely that global “militant movements” are waging war against “Western societies, Jews, and liberal democracy.” This war “cannot be won by pretending it does not exist,” because “a society that cannot name its enemies cannot protect itself against them.” “Call it Mr. Newsom’s price spike.” Cali’s “anti-fossil fuel policies” have triggered oil production to plunge 40% and a quarter of the state’s refining capacity to “shut down.” Even now Newsom’s regulators are “trying to drive through a major increase in the state’s cap-and-tax allowance prices,” which would spark even more shutdowns and higher prices — with national impact: “The U.S. will become more dependent on foreign jet fuel and more vulnerable. Look beyond the seeming chaos of “President Trump’s second-term foreign policy” to see a single organizing logic,” argues Scott Taylor at The Hill: Trump “is systematically repositioning American geopolitical power in anticipation of a confrontation with China.” From the Panama Canal to Greenland to Venezuela to Iran, he’s shaping a “new geopolitical reality.” With Maduro’s “removal from Venezuela” and Iran’s “leadership decapitated,” China must worry where will its oil imports “come from now.” Other moves have “laid waste” to all of China’s “scheming” to “exploit” US “vulnerabilities that make Taiwan’s defense politically unsustainable.” “The post-1945 liberal international order is gone,” but Trump is ensuring that America writes “the next world order the same way it wrote the last one.”
Author: Post Editorial Board
Published at: 2026-03-16 23:49:18
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