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The inevitable logical end to any “civilizational politics” is a crusading foreign policy.
The historian Pál Engel once wrote that one clever trick Matthias Corvinus used was writing long letters to the Papal States about the necessity of a crusade against the Ottomans that always ended on an amusing note of considered helplessness: “In his letters he was at pains to point out that he could do nothing against the sultan without help.”
The inevitable logical end to any “civilizational politics” is a crusading foreign policy. Unfortunately, crusades tend to require hegemonic leadership, a coordinated, sustainable long-term effort, manpower willing to die for a hallowed cause, and most importantly, enormous amounts of money.
It is not clear that grand history is a favored academic discipline among the connoisseurs of “civilizational” politics within the upper echelons of the current administration, but in recent days there has been a significant movement towards “doing something” in Nigeria to defend Christians under attack from Muslim terrorists.
The push has congressional support in the House and the Senate; it recently even got the characteristically subtle nod from
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