The American Deep State has intervened twice in the past decade to overturn democratic elections whose outcomes it didn’t approve, in rather important countries: First in Ukraine in 2013, then in the United States from 2017 to 2020.

The same bipartisan oligarchy that was funded by military contractors to push NATO right up to a beaten Russia’s borders assured us in 2017 that Donald Trump had colluded with Vladimir Putin to steal his election. They “knew” because they’d been illegally spying on his campaign. And even (we now know thanks to the Durham probe) spying on his presidency — weaponizing the outrageous powers granted the Deep State by the Patriot Act.

Then in 2020, these same elites calmly informed us that the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation.” The same media that censored prominent virologists who differed with the China-dominated WHO over COVID silenced talk of Biden’s financial ties to China.

Color Revolutions, in Ukraine and the U.S.

Those media had collaborated with elites nationwide to “fortify democracy,” as TIME magazine reported. To protect it against the voters. Local Democrats — with little Republican opposition apart from Ken Paxton in Texas — used COVID panic as a pretext to do to our election laws what Biden is now doing to our border. That is, to throw away any safeguards and revoke the rule of law.

No judge in America, up to the U.S. Supreme Court, would hear a single one of Trump’s election challenges on the merits. No network, including a suddenly regime-friendly Fox News (Paul Ryan, CEO), would report on the massive evidence of vote fraud. Demonstrators who appeared on January 6 were entrapped by FBI provocateurs into storming the U.S. Capitol. More than a hundred still languish as political prisoners in GITMO on the Potomac — even as Biden’s Justice Department slaps Antifa arsonists on the wrist. When not patting them on the back.

Wag the Dog

Now these bipartisan elites earnestly ask us to risk war with nuclear-armed Russia. Our illegitimate government wants to fight on behalf of Ukraine’s — one Deep State Astroturf regime intervening to help another.

Only a war might rally our disaffected, disgusted public around The Secret Committee Formerly Known As Joe Biden (TSCFKAJB). Only a war might save the Democrats from getting blown out of Congress come the mid-terms.

Such a war might also help stop the purge of the GOP by outraged, angry populists of the collaborators who helped the Biden coup of 2020. The war party Democrats and the war party Republicans are working together again, to save their access to power. To insulate it still further from any control by the people.

Soviet Canada

We’re seeing a vicious crackdown by enemies of democracy, all right. Up north, in Canada. But the TSCFKAJB administration has said not a word about that. It envies the Canadian regime the free hand it has battering protestors. No Second Amendment north of the border, you see. The people are helpless at the hands of their government.

Yes, there are reasons to sympathize with Ukraine over Russia. That country suffered a Holocaust under Stalin. After it unexpectedly (thanks to quirks in the Soviet Constitution) gained independence for the first time in 500 years, America conned Ukraine. We talked its fledgling leaders into giving up the nuclear arms it had inherited from the Soviets. In return for the one asset that would have protected Ukraine forever, Bill Clinton promised to guarantee its borders.

Meddling Across the Globe

Those included vast Russian-speaking regions which the Soviets had flippantly granted it back in the 1950s. Ukraine shouldn’t have taken that deal, because it was clear we would never honor it. And we shouldn’t honor it now. We have no more business fighting to support Ukraine’s secession than Great Britain had fighting to back Virginia’s and South Carolina’s.

The Real Enemy Is Here

Vladimir Putin is a rival to America, not its enemy. Its real enemies are the elites who have hijacked its government, who leave its borders open, who handed our bases and weapons in Afghanistan to China’s puppets, the Taliban. The federal agencies that label parents opposed to Marxist race-hustling as potential “terrorists” … those are the thugs we should worry about, not Putin’s faraway gendarmes.

We should be ready for war, all right. But our enemies aren’t Russians. They’re the cold-blooded spooks who lied to Americans about Hunter Biden. And the FBI agents who cooked up the kidnapping plot against Gretchen Whitmer, then trolled to find gullible, disaffected patriots to join it. And the Deep State operatives who crafted the Russia Hoax that resulted in two fake impeachment trials.

We have enemies, all right. And it might be time for fighting. But not overseas. Right here at home.

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”