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Conrad Black: The West is winning again

The balance of power is shifting in favour of the western democracies

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With all the controversy over the fast-moving war in Iran, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the world balance of power and international correlation of forces are shifting in favour of the western democracies. Since the reinstallation of the present U.S. administration less than 14 months ago, fentanyl and other drug traffic, much of it originating in China, into the United States has been drastically reduced. Venezuela has been eliminated as a link in that chain and the U.S. armed forces are co-operating with a revived Mexican government effort to subdue the violent gangs in northern Mexico, blunting their traffic in slaves and narcotics freely into the United States. The entry of undocumented immigrants and particularly violent criminals (of whom hundreds of thousands were admitted in the previous four years), has nearly stopped.

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The Russo-Chinese allies: Syria, Venezuela, Iran and imminently Cuba, have all abruptly ceased to be practising allies of Moscow and Beijing. The hypocritical absurdity of the Western Europeans languishing like Canada with risible defence budgets and pleading with the United States to help Ukraine against the Russian invasion while largely financing the Russians their buying its oil and gas is ending. Those countries have been badgered into raising their defence budgets to serious levels and the U.S. administration has quieted its isolationist supporters by selling highly sophisticated weapons to NATO allies in Europe who pass them on to........

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