The Ottoman Infection: How Great Nations Die

by Lawrence Kadish • May 1, 2024 at 5:58 pm

The United States needs to return to strategic energy independence. Through state-of-the art technology, we now have the means of not only meeting our domestic needs, but the ability to export oil to our allies. Doing so would replace the Russians and Iranians, whose energy stockpiles continue to be wielded as weapons against the West. Pictured: An oil derrick in Monahans, Texas, in the oil- and gas-producing Permian Basin, on March 27, 2024. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Plagued with inept leadership, a fractured society, and an unstable economy, the once powerful, centuries-old Ottoman Empire was described by early 20^th century contemporaries as the sick man of Europe. And then it collapsed into the dustbin of history.

America, take note. Consider what medicine needs to be administered in Washington to prevent a fatal malaise from taking down a great nation, for no country is immune to the Ottoman infection.

For the United States, it begins with returning to strategic energy independence. Through state-of-the art technology, we now have the means of not only meeting our domestic needs, but the ability to export oil to our allies. Doing so would replace the Russians and Iranians, whose energy stockpiles continue to be wielded as weapons against the West.

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