MY 2023 STRATEGIC CHALLENGES COLUMN: 2023’s Strategic Challenges: Introducing Big Debt

An extract for Instapundit readers:

Challenge No. 4: The pervasive corruption of influential but venal individuals and venal institutions in democratic nations. The corruption is so internally corrosive to these nations that timely and effective political and military response to Challenges Nos. 1 through 3 is systemically delayed, undermined or immobilized.

2023 comment: 2022’s Twitter revelations exposed extraordinary corruption in the U.S., in the FBI, the so-called legacy media and the Biden family in particular. Hunter Biden’s laptop is not Russian disinformation; it is hard and detailed evidence that exposes corruption tainting the highest levels of American governance.

Major 2023 U.S. Diplomatic Penalty for Corruption: Hunter Biden’s blatant corruption has real-world national security costs. If defending Ukraine is a U.S. security interest — and I think it is — then the Biden family’s corrupt activities and the government’s failure to penalize their corruption undermines American efforts to address Ukrainian economic corruption.

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