Forget climate — nukes are the real threat to humanity

Plenty of things will kill you, but one will do it the quickest, and since August 1945, that’s been nuclear weapons. Climate change? Sure, it’s a concern. But the climate has been changing since Noah loaded up the ark. If we’re talking about what could literally wipe humanity off the map before we even get to debate the weather, then we’ve got to deal with the nukes first.

Donald Trump was dead-on in his appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience" that nuclear disarmament is crucial, and he understands that every dollar we pour into foreign conflicts could be better spent protecting what we’ve got here at home.

Seek peace, be strong by practicing restraint, and use what we have to build up our communities.

The truth is that our foreign policy today is more about profit than patriotism. You’ve got the Federal Reserve churning out funny money like there’s no tomorrow, funding wars that fill the pockets of fat cats who’ve never seen a battlefield. The most decorated Marine in U.S. history said it best: “War is a racket. Always has been.”

Fiat dollars are no longer backed by the decades-long exclusive use in the oil trade. These increasingly borrowed dollars fuel military-industrial schemes that create more conflict than solutions. Defense contractors rake in billions while average Americans watch their tax dollars go up in smoke — sometimes literally — thousands of miles away.

In several recent cases, we’ve seen a meme come to life before our eyes as Israel launched U.S.-made missiles to intercept Iranian drones and Hezbollah rockets that were effectively paid for with fungible U.S. dollars released by the Biden-Harris administration.

Psalm 135 says it plainly: When you worship gold and silver, you lose your soul and your reason. In our case, it’s worse, because at least gold and silver have inherent value. Fiat money is worth less than the paper it's printed on, except to those who put their faith in it.

I’m not saying every Democrat is worshiping a golden idol in his or her basement, but a foreign policy that constantly chases profits abroad looks a lot like a false god to me. By prioritizing war over peace and intervention over independence, the left has handed over the treasury to the corporate media and many bad actors within the military-industrial complex, both of which profit from every bomb dropped and every soldier and sailor deployed. This is a bipartisan problem in Congress, but there’s an unmistakable, stark policy difference between Harris and Trump that will be decided this week.

Our first step out of this mess? Elect leaders who see the whole picture, who understand that de-escalation should be our top priority but that we must also be strong and secure at home. We need folks in office who put American lives and well-being ahead of corporate interests and war contracts.

Trump’s call for nuclear restraint, and a foreign policy that prioritizes our own soil over endless foreign wars, is one we’d do well to heed. He has talked about these ideas for the better part of a decade. What I’ll be hoping and praying for is that he has, in fact, learned from his first term about the importance of hiring the right people to enact his vision of U.S. foreign policy and not warhawks like John Bolton.

But for the long haul, it will take more than a president with a responsible foreign policy. As a nation, we need to stop chasing false gods, whether they come in the form of cash or influence, and start asking ourselves what Jesus would have us do. The answer is as old as the hills: Seek peace, be strong by practicing restraint, and use what we have to build up our communities. That’s how we may save first our country, maybe the world, and also our souls.