We are losing sight that America was and is an experiment in democracy that has now succeeded for two hundred forty-six years. It has survived a Revolution in the late 18^th century, a British invasion in 1812, a civil war in 1961, the Spanish American war, World War I, World War II Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. It has acceded to the status of the foremost military power and has been handed that baton from the British Empire. It has defeated Fascism, Naziism and Communism. It has done all of this and maintained a humanitarian benevolence that no other country has achieved for nearly a quarter Millennium. Yes, it has succeeded, but can it survive itself?

It is said that America cannot be militarily invaded. Yet, over the last hundred and twenty-five years, migrations of millions of people have changed the country much the same as an invading force changes any country for good or bad. But, in America’s case, immigrants have brought us unbridled prosperity, unique innovation and an unbroken unity of purpose. This change comes from the melding of cultures into a free and open society. The freedoms that are guaranteed by the Constitution have a power to level dictatorships and authoritarianism whenever it is encountered.

In modern times, we have seen a noticeable shift towards more authoritarian regimes. Dealing with the Covid pandemic has given formerly temperate regimes a new kind of power over people that is frightfully anachronistic to dictatorial states of the past.  We are now experiencing a new kind of capitalist-based Communism in Asia and in the Middle East. America is rather fighting market conflicts that are inherent inside the big tech laden economies of globalism, but, the technologic reach that big tech has into the hearts and minds of “customers” fuel today’s online battlefields. Fearfully countries can rise and fall in this arena. I submit that America is in a worldwide conflict where social media and the ability of big tech to monitor citizens and censor free speech is the battleground armament of the conflict.

Technology has been the creeping catalyst that has brought all countries into funky sort of capitalism with uneasy underpinnings. The global markets are now tempered by authoritarian dictators masquerading as CEOs. Commodities like oil, renewable energy, vehicles and a myriad of natural resources are all in the mix and big tech serves as the tool that authoritarian regimes use to control people and gain an unfair advantage where possible.

In the 20^th Century, wars were fought over religious ideologies or with dictators’ agendas of grandiose visions of returning to ancient world orders, but in modern times, it’s the abilities of big tech that are more tantalizing weapons than nuclear bombs. Big tech’s monopoly on the farming psychological landscapes of player nations makes conflict by military power a useless obsolete exercise. The agenda of our enemies is now defined in their success the global commercial enterprise. They realize that dead enemies are non-paying customers and that the spoils of traditional patriotic warfare are very costly. After all, it takes generations to resettle into a new world order but the cyber frontier offers over ambitious dictators’ shortcuts to victory. The intercontinental playing field is now defined and the players are awaiting their time to strut on this cavernous stage. The Middle East, Russia, Europe and South America are in play.  Think about this; why would China seek to destroy us? After all we’re their biggest customer and they couldn’t have any such success without us. The handwriting on the wall. If the American experiment is going to succeed it will take winning this different kind of war.