On entanglement, conscience, and a bill most Americans will never read
This is one of those issues many of us know exist in our government but we put in the back of our minds as unfixable, or what can we even do. It is what allows us to live thinking we are a free and moral society.
If that is the truth, then how is it our government is taking actions that violate the spirit of our nation’s founding? Not just aligning with, but entwining our military with a foreign nation’s military. A nation whose conduct the ICC and UN investigators have formally characterized as genocidal.
And buried in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act is a provision that does not just continue that relationship. It fuses our military decision-making infrastructure to theirs in ways no treaty ally has ever been offered.
Over the next few weeks I want to unpack what our legislature has actually done here, and what it means for Americans who still believe this republic is worth defending.
The series will cover three things: what Section 224 of the 2027 NDAA actually does in plain language, the sovereignty and constitutional problems it creates, and why the precedent it sets should alarm anyone who takes liberty seriously regardless of where they stand on the underlying conflict.
Before we get there, I would encourage you to read my essay at the Libertarian Institute. It asks a simple question through a simple test: if Congress proposed this exact arrangement for Tunisia, would we even be having this debate? Read it and sit with that question. The answer tells you something important about how this bill has survived as long as it has without the scrutiny it deserves.
Continued at the Libertarian Institute
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