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The author of this article should get a promotion and medal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Labour_(GDR)

This isn’t news as nothing was new and all he did was string together a bunch of slogans no differently than in the East during the Cold War where they would defend their ridiculous position by calling us names and pretending they we virtuous as they were invading other countries.

Here’s a simple fact, if you want the moral high ground, you need to have a “just war” and there are some established ideas about what that is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory

Expansionist and offensive (yes, us expanding NATO all along their border is seen as a threat by them), expeditionary, and economically motivated conflicts hardly ever qualify.

I remember the Hudson Institute from the 80's. I remember people I liked like Ben Wattenberg focusing on domestic issues. The neoconservatives were known for providing well-documented and scientific arguments against liberal programs like welfare. While conservatives were arguing against welfare on moral grounds, the neoconservatives were showing that based on good evidence welfare programs had the exact opposite effect of that intended.

Of course the liberals ignored both the moral and statistical arguments against their beloved programs.

I think it was at that point that the neoconservatives became neocons and shifted to foreign policy. If they couldn't get the left to scale back the US government, then maybe they could get democracy going abroad.

But rather than just being unsuccessful in making things better, they have only made things much worse. The path they paved with good intentions led straight to the hellish world we now live in.

Since when was it ever a good idea to kick hornets' nests?