To all of you morons saying “I’m not dying for (insert country),” or “I didn’t vote for us to go to war for (insert country),” let me explain to you why you are stupid. Isolationism sounds appealing if one has never stepped outside the comfort of their own homes (or if you have the IQ of a cockroach). I have spent a decade and a half operating in the shadows of the world’s fault lines, where the reality is brutally clear: power vacuums do not remain empty. They are always filled—and rarely by benevolent actors. If the United States withdraws from the global stage, China, Russia, and every opportunistic authoritarian regime in existence will rush to occupy the ground we abandon. They will shape trade routes, control supply chains, dictate technological standards, and dominate the security architecture of entire regions. That is not speculation. It is how geopolitics has always worked. The global order that allows Americans to live in relative prosperity and security is not an accident; it exists because the United States underwrites it. Remove that foundation and the structure collapses. The fantasy of isolation ignores the fact that our economy, our security, and our alliances are interwoven across the planet. If we retreat, we do not become safer or freer. We become strategically blind while hostile powers consolidate influence over the very systems that sustain our way of life. In other words, isolationism would not protect the United States. It would guarantee that the future world order is written by nations that do not share our interests or values, and once that order solidifies, reclaiming it would cost far more than maintaining it ever did. So, if you get your geopolitical knowledge from a former Vogue intern, a former pizza delivery guy, a closeted gay Nazi, or any other grifter with a live stream that is being paid to post their nonsense, please wake up and embrace reality with the rest of us.