We now know with near certainty what happened two nights ago, when U.S. embassies across the Middle East issued alerts for all countries in the region, warning American citizens of a possible escalation. According to the NYT, the Pentagon had prepared an operation against the Houthis, but President Trump decided to call it off on Sunday, thereby rejecting a request from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Trump's advisors were most likely opposed to this attack on Yemen, as it would almost certainly have led to the closure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Given that the midterm elections are fast approaching, it seems highly unlikely that the U.S. would undertake complex operations at this time, as doing so could further exacerbate the situation.

The fact also is that aside from all of his other incredibly Progressive views, Teddy Roosevelt on this particular point about race and immigration was strongly moved by a dismal book of race pseudoscience by Madison Grant from 1916, the same year he made his "America for Americans" push. That book, The Passing of the Great Race, he praised lavishly. It is a stripped down spinoff from Houston Stewart Chamberlain's The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. That book went on to inspire not only Hitler but also Alfred Rosenberg, who wrote the second most important book of the Third Reich as its chief ideologist, The Myth of the Twentieth Century. Both of those books were considered central to Hitler in building out his program. Hitler recognized Chamberlain's book as one of the most important contributions and is rumored to have kept it close at hand in all private accommodations. He referred to Grant's shorter, simplified version as "his Bible." Anyone who has read Mein Kampf as well as Grant's book can see the undeniable heavy use Hitler gave it. It's not obvious. It's blindingly obvious. My job is to track ideas and their consequences, not people. I'm not a journalist. I don't give a rat's ass about the journalistic side except to be glad people do it. The same ideas went into two different men in two different Progressive, Socialistic, Nationalistic contexts. One was the American Theodore Roosevelt, and another was the German lunatic Adolf Hitler. Both produced something very close to the same phrasing about ethnic nationalism. Luckily, or, given Wilson's legacy, perhaps unluckily in the narrow sense but luckily in the broad sense, Americans actually rejected Roosevelt's take on Grant's (and thus Chamberlain's) ideas, at least enough to prevent what Hitler did with them. After Wilson, who took advantage of Roosevelt's vast expansions of American executive power to install basically the Leftist apparatus and Mondialist Hegelian vision we're still fighting today, Coolidge came in and used that same increase in executive authority to push through the Immigration Act of 1924 (or, Johnson-Reed Act, or, National Origins Act), which is the specific act Hitler praises strongly in Volume 2 of Mein Kampf, which he wrote in 1925, though he says it doesn't go nearly far enough. I care about ideas and their consequences. Just like I care about the ultimately Wilsonian Progressive Mondialism that has led us to this disaster of immigration, at least in America, despite Coolidge's attempts to stem it in what was clearly the wrong way because it couldn't hold up long term, I also care about the other side of these ideas, which undeniably inspired one of the most monstrous acts in the history of man. My message is simple: we should learn from history not to loot it for bad ideas to try again in our arrogance but to recognize that those bad ideas have consequences and should be avoided, not considered potential solutions. So, go be mad at me. I don't care. I will never care. I'm right, and every reasonable, decent person who isn't infected with some Woke madness or another knows it.