America’s ‘rules based order’ is the new ‘Godless Communism’

Growing up in the 50’s, government, media, schools and religion bombarded us with warnings of Russia’s ‘Godless Communism’. It was used to fuel the Cold War and it worked. Paranoia ruled America as we practiced ‘duck and cover’ in school and awaited nuclear Armageddon.

When the godless Soviet system collapsed in 1991, the Cold War appeared over, with a welcomed ‘peace dividend’ from military spending headed to uplift the homeland.

That never happened. The Military-Industrial Complex couldn’t fathom going out of business. America began marching NATO up to Russia’s borders, telling us we needed to counter a regime still determined to overrun Western Europe.

But Russia was too weak a country to justify that three quarter of a trillion military budget. So America needed a new dragon to slay. Enter Communist China, poised to overtake the U.S economy by 2028, after 138 years of U.S. dominance.

America can’t continence that dagger to our economic ego Under Obama, the U.S. made the ‘pivot’ from Russia to China. A new catchword was needed. Godless Communism no longer resonated with an increasingly secular, even non-theist society.

Voila, America coined ‘rules based order’ to justify continued Cold War with Russia and add non-rules based China to the mix. So simple, so effective. America stands for rules based democracy, January 6th DC insurrection excepted, while authoritarian Russia and China are a continued threat to this new form of American exceptionalism.

Even NATO has signed on to New Cold War against China. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warns “The rise of China presents an opportunity to strengthen the trans-Atlantic military alliance. China doesn’t share our values and threatens the rules-based order.”

Ask Joe Sixpack what ‘rules based order’ means and he’ll just roll his eyes and ask for another Bud Light. But as marketing for the U.S. and now NATO war party, it’s genius.