I finally got around to reading Niall Ferguson’s “We’re All Soviets Now” over at The Free Press … and boy howdy … it makes me seem like an optimist.

I’ve got a lot of pull quotes, but I want to pull something mid-article that most of our nation has not fully come to grips with and is, at its core, the primary indicator that we have a serious problem.

In 2022 alone, more Americans died of fentanyl overdoses than were killed in three major wars: Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

We won the Cold War, but lost the peace as we expended irreplaceable real, national, and moral capital in a “Global War on Terrorism” for two decades that left us … well … just look around you.