By Peter R. Quiñones

Your opinion on borders, guns or nationalism really isn’t relevant here. What is important is that all of you know at least one person to whom one of these is a vital issue. They ride or die with it. Some of you may be, or know someone to whom all three are essential issues. I don’t care if the politician is on the Right or Left, almost all care nothing about your feelings on these issues. There are some that pay lip service to them, but for the most part, they couldn’t care less. Except, when it comes to Ukraine.

The January 6th protesters are a perfect example. Many latched onto Trump because he was for strengthening a border that has remained strategically porous for years. Many of the protesters would refer to themselves as nationalists. I think it’s safe to assume most would be pro-second amendment. Those three things are enough to make them the enemy in the regime’s eye. If you’re white and you call yourself a “nationalist”, even if you don’t have identitarian beliefs about your heritage or skin tone, “white” will be put in front of that term.

BUT, if you are a citizen of Ukraine, not only are these three things vital, but many want the United States to go to war to defend them. Ignoring the history of the Russia/Ukraine conflict, which didn’t start 3 weeks ago, the absurdity of a government that routinely demonizes its own citizens for holding views about civic policy that it is willing to defend elsewhere, possibly resulting in war with a nuclear power, is proof who the real enemy is. There are enemies of the United States who are foreign, but ignoring the domestic ones, the ones who judge you as a human being for holding an opinion opposed to theirs, is evidence that we are in a rapid decline. When the enemy is within the gates the clock is ticking. There are many possible ways this plays out, but unless you’re prepared for it, you could be a casualty.

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