My Five Impossible Proposals to Prevent Global and Civil War

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.

Each of these solutions would work if they were tried, I will argue. None of them is likely to be tried because of the short-term political costs they would impose on the various parties involved. The implementors would have to man up and make sacrifices, even risking their reputations, for the long-term good of ordinary, helpless citizens. So I’m not holding my breath. But I’m willing to waste some, going on the record with my ideas in the faint, quixotic hope that one of the seeds I sow doesn’t fall on rocky ground.

In each case I’ll illustrate the crisis that needs to be addressed courageously. I’ll lay out briefly my proposed long-term solution, explain why it would work, and admit why it likely won’t happen. Then I leave the rest to God.

Ukraine Must Be Stopped and Peace Imposed

Much as we should sympathize with the long-suffering people of Ukraine, who endured their own Holocaust under Stalin, at present Ukraine is not an independent democracy fighting a heroic war against an unjust aggressor. It is a colony of the Deep State, honeycombed and controlled by Western intelligence agents — most of them from the Obama and Biden eras — who are using the country to “bleed Russia” while pushing abortion, transgenderism, and now Third World immigration into that country.

And the Deep State, right after visits from Senator Lindsay Graham and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, helped Ukraine destroy in a devastating drone strike dozens of the jets that Russia relies on for its nuclear deterrence. Charlie Kirk accurately sums up what that means for peace:

The most important thing happening in the world right now isn’t tariffs or the BBB. It’s the quickly-escalating war between Ukraine and Russia. Most people aren’t paying attention, but we’re closer to nuclear war than we’ve been since this began in 2022.

Pray for peace.

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 3, 2025

President Donald Trump says he was not informed about the attacks beforehand, and I believe him. He’s not a madman. But he will prove himself a weakling if he doesn’t root out who in the intelligence community and in NATO greenlit this insane provocation of the second-largest nuclear power on Earth.

Trump must fire and prosecute whoever was involved and make it clear to Russia’s government that no more such attacks will occur on America’s watch. All aid to Ukraine should be suspended, and the U.S. should announce that it no longer opposes Russia keeping the ethnically Russian territory it has already conquered. As a final step to defusing tensions and preventing a fratricidal European war ….

NATO Must Be Dissolved

NATO has served no legitimate purpose whatsoever since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. We founded it to contain expansionist Soviet Communism which had just imprisoned half a dozen European nations. NATO was never meant to contain a non-Communist Russia on Europe’s behalf so that Western European countries could fail to defend themselves and instead spend their national wealth on socialized medicine and five-week annual vacations for workers.

Instead of offering Vladimir Putin the unenforceable promise that a future, globalist president won’t admit Ukraine to NATO, Trump should offer an end to NATO, full-stop. In return he should demand that Russia exit the anti-Western BRICS alliance it’s currently in with China, and reorient Russia as a Western partner, not an enemy.

Let European nations such as France, Britain, and Germany decide whether they want to defend their own borders or not. I don’t think a Russian conquest of Europe remotely likely or desirable. It’s almost the worst-case scenario, but not quite as bad as what’s happening there right now: the slow-motion conquest of one nation after another by Muslim “refugees” who live on the dole and demand sharia, outbreeding the natives and terrorizing native Jews.

Make Gaza Egypt Again

The problem of Gaza is a perfect storm, wrapping together the questions of terrorism, anti-Western ideology, jihadi Islam, warmongering neoconservatism, Israeli ultranationalist expansionism, and humanitarian misery. There is no neat, easy solution.

It’s too cheap and easy to claim that every person in Gaza of any age is morally tainted by a single election that took place way back in 2006, and gave a narrow majority to Hamas — so Gazans now deserve whatever they get. (Do American kids today deserve to be punished because some of their parents voted for George W. Bush?) On the other hand, a nation that invaded Iraq and killed some 600,000 civilians based on fake intelligence is in no moral position to tell Israel it must endure an enclave controlled by a genocidal terror group that invaded its country and kidnapped its citizens.

Some in Israel seem to want to drive every man, woman, and child out of Gaza so they can annex the ruins. Leave aside the moral implications of this: The U.S. can’t allow this to be done on our dime and accept the blowback of hostility and terror attacks from an enraged Islamic world.

The least bad solution to Gaza is this one: Give the territory back to Egypt (which doesn’t want it). Make Egypt responsible for preventing terror attacks on Israel — and if it fails, shrug when Israel retaliates. Let Israel build a containment wall along the border if necessary, like the one in the West Bank which, for all the protests against it, severely reduced terror attacks against Israelis.

Like any compromise, this one would make every party leave the table dissatisfied. But it would save lives, reduce ethnic hatred, and get the U.S. off the hook in an intractable ethnic conflict. And we have the leverage to impose it: Both Israel and Egypt are heavily dependent on U.S. aid. There’s nothing in either the laws of physics or the U.S. Constitution which says that those sums can’t be withheld.

Pope Leo XIV Should Meet with Trump and Cave on Immigration

The Bible does not teach open borders. Neither does Christian tradition, the Natural Law, or even the Catechism of the Catholic Church. But for decades the U.S. Catholic Church has made billions of dollars by promoting and resettling immigrants (many illegal) within our borders. So have Protestant charities, some of them linked to George Soros’s global subversion network.

Throughout the West, Catholic bishops (and under Pope Francis, the Vatican) have promoted a false doctrine pretending that wealthier countries (at least the white ones) have no right to control the number of poor, foreign citizens who wish to enter their countries and collect taxpayer-funded social benefits.

This heresy threatens more than the integrity of Christian faith: It promises to render the citizens of every Western country minorities in their own land, subject to millions of new voters who have the incentive to redistribute the wealth, and perhaps impose foreign religions upon the natives.

President Trump should meet with Pope Leo XIV, who seems like more of a rational actor than his predecessor, and quietly make clear that good relations between Church and State in the U.S. depend on the Vatican quashing the open-borders heresy. Stopping it dead. We need a clear statement by Pope Leo that the Church in fact still teaches what its Catechism says: that nations have the right, even the duty, to pursue their own common good, and that immigrants’ right to enter new countries depends on them obeying those nations’ laws — including their immigration laws.

Trump’s leverage? As I’ve written here before, the Vatican’s exemption from ruinous lawsuits over the sex abuse that ran rampant among Catholic clergy in the U.S. for decades depends on a legal loophole — which a U.S. president could close. “Nice art collection you’ve got there, Your Holiness. It’d be a real shame if something were to happen to it ….”

Trump Should Defy Federal Courts — And If Need Be, the Supreme Court

As I’ve explained here before in several columns, federal judges’ efforts to nullify the 2024 election by micromanaging the executive branch of government amounts to a coup d’etat against democracy. President Trump must pick the right decision by a federal court, the most outrageous abuse of judicial power, and openly defy it. Let the Supreme Court weigh in — and if need be, defy that court too.

The remedy for the abuse of executive power isn’t meddlesome judges linked to corrupt, leftist law firms in Washington, D.C. It’s impeachment and removal from office, and Trump has already faced two fake impeachments. I’m sure he could weather another.

And now I must get back to the hard work of taking selfies in front of ruins!

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.

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