The real question is even deeper.
Wars do not begin because ordinary people desire them. They emerge when centralized power, geopolitical engineering, and competing state ambitions override individual rights and property rights.
Whether the future is a nuclear confrontation or another Cold War, both are symptoms—not the disease.
The disease is a world order built on expanding state power rather than protecting individual liberty and private property.
The solution is not to choose between competing power blocs, but to choose a different principle.
The United States should prioritize alliances with people, movements, and nations that genuinely defend individual liberty, private property rights, voluntary cooperation, and limited government—not political elites whose intellectual foundations have increasingly shifted toward collectivism, bureaucratic centralization, and socialist ideas.
America's greatest strategic asset has never been empire; it has been its historical commitment to individual freedom and property rights. Foreign policy should reflect those principles again.
Europe is not merely facing an economic or military crisis. It is facing a civilizational crisis caused by abandoning the moral and philosophical foundations that once sustained free societies. A civilization that weakens private property, individual responsibility, and transcendent moral principles gradually undermines itself from within.
The next great civilizational competition will not be decided by military power alone. It will be decided by which civilization can provide the most coherent foundation for freedom, human dignity, and ethical order.
My view is that the center of gravity is gradually shifting. The future will be shaped less by a declining Europe and increasingly by the Middle East—if the region rediscovers authentic religion as a protector of liberty and property rights rather than an instrument of state power.
Lasting peace cannot be achieved by choosing between competing empires or rival versions of a "New World Order." It can only emerge from societies built on individual liberty, secure property rights, voluntary cooperation, and governments that are strictly limited by those principles. Those who defend these values deserve strategic support—regardless of geography or political bloc