My Five Impossible Proposals to Prevent Global and Civil War, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, June 5, 2025

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

Usually when I write something, I try to make it unassailable, to nail down and pre-refute each objection I can imagine, so that if the reader isn’t convinced by the end of it, he is at least intimidated into a sullen, reverent silence. I don’t aim to start debates, but I do love to end them.

However, this week I am on the road (see The Affogato’s little contest to track down my location before local security services remove me from their jurisdictions as a “dangerous extremist”). So instead of my typical columns aimed at settling questions with all the certainty (if not the authority) of the Council of Nicaea, today I’d like to plant just a few intellectual landmines aimed at producing heat, light, and shrapnel.

I’m laying out five proposals intended to reduce the likelihood of mass bloodshed, gross injustice, civilian suffering, and long-term instability in various parts of the world — including our own beloved country. …

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