Regardless of what any American feels about what steps we should take in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggressive incursion into Ukraine, for sure most are appalled by what he has done.
As Putin moves to regain Russian control over nations that once were part of the Soviet sphere, we ought to think about the circumstances under which the Soviet Union collapsed to consider how it all might be reversed.
In March 1983, President Ronald Reagan spoke to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, and delivered what would famously become known as the speech in which he called the Soviet Union the “evil empire.”
Discussing America’s efforts to confront the Soviet Union’s nuclear arsenal, he said: “I urge you to beware the temptation of pride … declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire … and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.”
Reagan spoke more than powerful words of truth that day. He spoke almost as a prophet.
He noted further: “While America’s military strength is important, let me add here that I’ve always maintained that the struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.”
Some eight years later, the Soviet Union, which for years during the Cold War was thought to be the superpower rival to the United States, collapsed. There was no war. There was just resolve and Reagan’s unwavering commitment to the principles he articulated that day in 1983.
And eight years after that speech, in 1991, Ukraine, now under siege by Putin, was freed from subjugation under the Soviet regime and declared its freedom, independence, and sovereignty.
As Putin tries to reverse history, it is upon us to not forget that Reagan declared the global struggle as, first and foremost, a spiritual struggle, a struggle of good against evil.
As Americans watch events unfold in Ukraine, we must refocus on what is going on in our own country. If we lose a sense of the importance and relevance of Reagan’s words as they apply at home, we surely will not know how to relate to events as they transpire in the rest of the world.
And there is plenty of reason to believe we are losing that perspective at home.
We see a direct correlation within our own borders, in our own country, of the decline in faith in the eternal principles that keep us free, and with this decline, Americans are gradually but decisively choosing to abandon their freedom.
In a survey published at the end of last year, Gallup reported that 69% of Americans self-identified as Christians in 2021, compared with 90% who self-identified as Christians in 1971. Twenty-one percent said they have “no religion” in 2021, compared to 4% in 1971.
In 1965, 70% of Americans said religion is “very important” to them. By 2021, this was down to 49%.
Coincident with the decline of the importance that Americans give to religion, Americans have turned their lives increasingly over to government control.
In 1950, government at federal, state, and local levels took almost 23% of the American economy. In 2020, this reached almost 45%.
Turning back again to Reagan’s words, “But we must never forget that no government schemes are going to perfect man.” Our struggle, said Reagan, is about good and evil.
It’s no accident that as America retreats in this struggle, as Americans increasingly believe that government can perfect man and as we relinquish our freedom, that despots like Putin will step forward and try to move the world back to a darker time.
Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show “Cure America with Star Parker.”
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Putin and Biden are both terrible leaders of human beings
Now that “good is evil” and “evil is good”, the title of the article now makes sense. LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE !!!! (The Empire Strikes Back Theme Song) When the Storm Troopers come marching in, down with the Rebel Alliance. Fifty cents price increase at the pumps to help support the Empire.
What if … Putin is in there to take down the corruption installed by Biden, and the likes?
rumble.com/vw5it9-interfax-ukraine-press-conference-on-international-corruptionbiden-family.html
Great article!
We have a Secretary of State who visits others countries on behalf of our government. Why are our law makers allowed to visit other countries to discuss relationships? Seems it’s the Secretary of State’s job. Just asking…something to think about. Seems this is conflict of interest.
Putin is trying to rebuild an empire and that is bad because it’s dark globalist are trying to build the empire and that is good aah I say what a wonderful world
I dont believe Putin is attempting to turn back the historical clock……..I believe he may well be doing exactly what we would do if the old Warsaw Pact was planning to get Mexico to join them…with arms and artlillery…..what did anyone expect Putin to do with all the “threats” of the potential admission of Ukraine into NATO? We have to remember that Ukraine in the hands of opponents to Russia could cut the entirety of Russia off from their only winter ports on the Black Sea. Russia did what they believed was in their countries best interest, something out own government used to do.
Oh yeah…..also compare current day Kiev post Russian invasion to Baghdad post USA invasion. Kiev is largely still standing with a tiny fraction of the civilian deaths. The USA is not always the good guy and hasnt been largely for the past 77 years or more.
Oh add in the capitals of Libya and Syria post US invasion……God bless the USA indeed?
I’m not defending Putin, but current U.S. and Ukrainian governments are as crooked/evil as Putin and have MUCH involvement in the current crisis. Byedum’s current admin admitted they wanted the war in Ukraine so it wouldn’t have to be fought here. They’ve funded, goaded, and did everything they could to start this war (to hide their corruption & Clinton’s treason), and safeguard the Byedum, Pelosi, Romney (the list goes on) families corrupt interests over there. Ukrainians galore are saying their country is ran by a mafia-style government (sounds similar to the current U.S. government). I wonder how much of our money is going to Ukraine to be laundered and sent back to the aforementioned family(s)? I feel so sorry for the Ukrainian people, but not the Ukraine government. Although I don’t wish for the bombings due to any possible innocents being in harm’s way, Putin blowing up bioweapon labs seems good for mankind and bad for the governments. I pray for the exposure of these wicked leaders, and for the safety and provision of the innocent daily. I pray the current (so called) U.S. administration doesn’t lead us into WW3. God bless the American, Ukrainian, and Russian people.
Evil Empire dormant since the 80s to 1991, then under radar until 2014 Crimea assult
I cannot condemn Russia for what they are doing. Look at how many Country’s America bombed, into the stone age and are now places of slavery, Death, Etc. Places that were once fairly stable are now Sh$tholes. The reasons it turns out were lies. People can believe what they want to, just saying maybe they need to dig deeper and research before they condemn anyone else. Oh and AMAC that goes double for you. I am getting darn sick of having to drop places I thought tried to tell the truth,only to find out. They are has bad as the rest of MSM !Anyone who doesn’t like what I have to say it’s your right.
THE NARRATIVE OF THE EVIL EMPIRE – brought to you by the makers of Vaccine Mandates, Mandatory Masks, ANTIFA, and BLM. Comparing to the Soviet Union to modern Russia is intellectually dishonest and very Democrat-like. We provoked Russia by trying to recruit the corrupt Ukrainian government into NATO which is a direct threat to Russia. We would have done the same to mitigate China making a military alliance with Mexico had that been the case. We have been following our own country’s administration and government to know darn well that, if there is an “evil empire”, that sure as heck would not make us the “good guys.” Just a diversion to draw attention away from the subversive government in our own country. God Help Us!
No main stream media outlets discussed the US-funded bio weapon labs scattered around Ukraine. On 2/25, the US Embassy in Ukraine removed all their Ukraine Bioweapon lab documents from their website. Why? There is so much corruption and money laundering in Ukraine, should we really believe what the media is pushing … as many did with the China virus.
I have to agree with a lot of people who are responding to this article. Like Bob said, I thought your organization was one that maybe tried to tell the truth, do some research, but find out you are just another one that follows the MSM narrative. I am not a Putin fan and know that he along with most leaders are far from perfect but our leaders are extremely corrupt and in bed with the more corrupt (if possible) Ukraine. When the US President’s son, the Speaker of the House’s son and several other members of his administration’s family members sit on boards of Ukrainian gas companies while our President took away our energy independence and refuses to even consider reversing his decision, leading to $4.00 or higher gas and outrageous inflation, and dependence once more on foreign oil….something is wrong. Nato is a more evil organization than current Russia…and I can’t believe that your article was making a comparison to the USSR of 1983…which was a very different country. Russia was really given no choice by Nato and there is a lot more going on then the “Evil Empire” rises again. You definitely do not know the people who are part of your organization or you would have thought twice before publishing this article from an “outside contributor”…which leads me to believe it was directly from an unreliable source.
There’re different streams of thought on Ukraine, obviously, but obe thing we can all agree on is that we live in an era where it’s impossible to believe what our leaders say. We’ve ended up with a white house full of people who are devoid of character and integrity.
evilempire never went away it’s just has never stopped smoldering
While I agree with this article, I also realize that some very important information is left out. Yes, if we forget that we are one nation UNDER GOD, we will be one nation gone under. Reagan as dead on there. But we also must realize that the United States, NATO and other global swamp rats have threatened Russia’s borders by building military equipment, dangerous bio labs, and global money laundering entities right on Russia’s borders.
America wouldn’t tolerate this. The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis come to mind here. If the same were built by Russia or China on our borders (like in Mexico) then we’d be doing the EXACT same thing Putin is.
He is protecting Russia. WE, the U.S. and NATO, have ignored Neutrality Agreements we had with Russia, as far as adding border countries to NATO and in keeping the Ukraine as a neutral buffer zone between Russia and NATO/western nations.
Putin has been deliberately pushed by the global swamp into defending it’s borders. And innocent people, no more than pawns to the globalists, are paying the price.
DON’T BELIEVE ANYTHING THE MASS MEDIA IS TELLING YOU.
The total colloboration of the propaganda, on a global level, is downright scary.
The globalists want a war. Putin does not. The people do not.
Putin may not be our friend, I wouldn’t trust him as a competitor of the U.S., but he is NOT a globalist. He will not give up Russian sovereignty to the global cabal. And neither should we. We need to negotiate with Putin and go back to a NEUTRAL UKRAINE. And stop militarizing it.
Not sure if that will happen. Instead … Looks like the “great reset” has been set in motion.
When the MSM paints Putin’s motives as evil, you can reliably conclude the opposite to be true.
What evil empire is this article referring to?
“Evil Empire” England? If you look to Canada and AU, some people there would think so.
What about China and the ungodly regime there? They are waiting to devour Taiwan. That empire is killing people for body organs, enslaving the Moslem people, sex slavers, released a deadly virus that killed hundred of thousands people globally.
God is not in our political arena even though being Catholic is heard over and over again while these politicians support and believe everything that is against the Catholic Church’s teachings. They believe more like the Russian and Chinese governments do. A senator said to kill Putin, obviously he is not Godly. We buy Russia oil and gas, fertilizer and now what is in the news online is that the Ukraine has a biolab in Odessa that the USA (Obama) funds just like we did in China. The US is talking about buying Iranian oil or better yet Venezuelan (Al Gore) oil and let’s not forget about Hunter’s and Pelosi’s oil companies interest. Let us be afraid of “Russia” while our government locked us down, took our jobs away, are taking parental rights away, brainwashing our children, seized our Churches, opened our borders to criminals and drugs, took away our rights to medical privacy, threatened seize our bank accounts if we do not comply, are taking away our hopes and dreams, etc. what and who is the evil empire here.
Reagan and the likes of him are long gone with only a few statesmen in office left. When did a President deserve the treatment Pres. Trump did? And Biden’s mafia go free? Soros, Gates, Schwab are the new world leaders calling the shots? WHO, FBI, CIA, CDC are all in the evil empire.
God Help Us.
I thought the title was about the “new” America.
Putin and Biden are both terrible leaders of human beings
Now that “good is evil” and “evil is good”, the title of the article now makes sense. LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE !!!! (The Empire Strikes Back Theme Song) When the Storm Troopers come marching in, down with the Rebel Alliance. Fifty cents price increase at the pumps to help support the Empire.
What if … Putin is in there to take down the corruption installed by Biden, and the likes?
rumble.com/vw5it9-interfax-ukraine-press-conference-on-international-corruptionbiden-family.html
Great article!
We have a Secretary of State who visits others countries on behalf of our government. Why are our law makers allowed to visit other countries to discuss relationships? Seems it’s the Secretary of State’s job. Just asking…something to think about. Seems this is conflict of interest.
Putin is trying to rebuild an empire and that is bad because it’s dark globalist are trying to build the empire and that is good aah I say what a wonderful world
I dont believe Putin is attempting to turn back the historical clock……..I believe he may well be doing exactly what we would do if the old Warsaw Pact was planning to get Mexico to join them…with arms and artlillery…..what did anyone expect Putin to do with all the “threats” of the potential admission of Ukraine into NATO? We have to remember that Ukraine in the hands of opponents to Russia could cut the entirety of Russia off from their only winter ports on the Black Sea. Russia did what they believed was in their countries best interest, something out own government used to do.
Oh yeah…..also compare current day Kiev post Russian invasion to Baghdad post USA invasion. Kiev is largely still standing with a tiny fraction of the civilian deaths. The USA is not always the good guy and hasnt been largely for the past 77 years or more.
Oh add in the capitals of Libya and Syria post US invasion……God bless the USA indeed?
I’m not defending Putin, but current U.S. and Ukrainian governments are as crooked/evil as Putin and have MUCH involvement in the current crisis. Byedum’s current admin admitted they wanted the war in Ukraine so it wouldn’t have to be fought here. They’ve funded, goaded, and did everything they could to start this war (to hide their corruption & Clinton’s treason), and safeguard the Byedum, Pelosi, Romney (the list goes on) families corrupt interests over there. Ukrainians galore are saying their country is ran by a mafia-style government (sounds similar to the current U.S. government). I wonder how much of our money is going to Ukraine to be laundered and sent back to the aforementioned family(s)? I feel so sorry for the Ukrainian people, but not the Ukraine government. Although I don’t wish for the bombings due to any possible innocents being in harm’s way, Putin blowing up bioweapon labs seems good for mankind and bad for the governments. I pray for the exposure of these wicked leaders, and for the safety and provision of the innocent daily. I pray the current (so called) U.S. administration doesn’t lead us into WW3. God bless the American, Ukrainian, and Russian people.
Evil Empire dormant since the 80s to 1991, then under radar until 2014 Crimea assult
I cannot condemn Russia for what they are doing. Look at how many Country’s America bombed, into the stone age and are now places of slavery, Death, Etc. Places that were once fairly stable are now Sh$tholes. The reasons it turns out were lies. People can believe what they want to, just saying maybe they need to dig deeper and research before they condemn anyone else. Oh and AMAC that goes double for you. I am getting darn sick of having to drop places I thought tried to tell the truth,only to find out. They are has bad as the rest of MSM !Anyone who doesn’t like what I have to say it’s your right.
THE NARRATIVE OF THE EVIL EMPIRE – brought to you by the makers of Vaccine Mandates, Mandatory Masks, ANTIFA, and BLM. Comparing to the Soviet Union to modern Russia is intellectually dishonest and very Democrat-like. We provoked Russia by trying to recruit the corrupt Ukrainian government into NATO which is a direct threat to Russia. We would have done the same to mitigate China making a military alliance with Mexico had that been the case. We have been following our own country’s administration and government to know darn well that, if there is an “evil empire”, that sure as heck would not make us the “good guys.” Just a diversion to draw attention away from the subversive government in our own country. God Help Us!
No main stream media outlets discussed the US-funded bio weapon labs scattered around Ukraine. On 2/25, the US Embassy in Ukraine removed all their Ukraine Bioweapon lab documents from their website. Why? There is so much corruption and money laundering in Ukraine, should we really believe what the media is pushing … as many did with the China virus.
I have to agree with a lot of people who are responding to this article. Like Bob said, I thought your organization was one that maybe tried to tell the truth, do some research, but find out you are just another one that follows the MSM narrative. I am not a Putin fan and know that he along with most leaders are far from perfect but our leaders are extremely corrupt and in bed with the more corrupt (if possible) Ukraine. When the US President’s son, the Speaker of the House’s son and several other members of his administration’s family members sit on boards of Ukrainian gas companies while our President took away our energy independence and refuses to even consider reversing his decision, leading to $4.00 or higher gas and outrageous inflation, and dependence once more on foreign oil….something is wrong. Nato is a more evil organization than current Russia…and I can’t believe that your article was making a comparison to the USSR of 1983…which was a very different country. Russia was really given no choice by Nato and there is a lot more going on then the “Evil Empire” rises again. You definitely do not know the people who are part of your organization or you would have thought twice before publishing this article from an “outside contributor”…which leads me to believe it was directly from an unreliable source.
There’re different streams of thought on Ukraine, obviously, but obe thing we can all agree on is that we live in an era where it’s impossible to believe what our leaders say. We’ve ended up with a white house full of people who are devoid of character and integrity.
evilempire never went away it’s just has never stopped smoldering
While I agree with this article, I also realize that some very important information is left out. Yes, if we forget that we are one nation UNDER GOD, we will be one nation gone under. Reagan as dead on there. But we also must realize that the United States, NATO and other global swamp rats have threatened Russia’s borders by building military equipment, dangerous bio labs, and global money laundering entities right on Russia’s borders.
America wouldn’t tolerate this. The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis come to mind here. If the same were built by Russia or China on our borders (like in Mexico) then we’d be doing the EXACT same thing Putin is.
He is protecting Russia. WE, the U.S. and NATO, have ignored Neutrality Agreements we had with Russia, as far as adding border countries to NATO and in keeping the Ukraine as a neutral buffer zone between Russia and NATO/western nations.
Putin has been deliberately pushed by the global swamp into defending it’s borders. And innocent people, no more than pawns to the globalists, are paying the price.
DON’T BELIEVE ANYTHING THE MASS MEDIA IS TELLING YOU.
The total colloboration of the propaganda, on a global level, is downright scary.
The globalists want a war. Putin does not. The people do not.
Putin may not be our friend, I wouldn’t trust him as a competitor of the U.S., but he is NOT a globalist. He will not give up Russian sovereignty to the global cabal. And neither should we. We need to negotiate with Putin and go back to a NEUTRAL UKRAINE. And stop militarizing it.
Not sure if that will happen. Instead … Looks like the “great reset” has been set in motion.
When the MSM paints Putin’s motives as evil, you can reliably conclude the opposite to be true.
What evil empire is this article referring to?
“Evil Empire” England? If you look to Canada and AU, some people there would think so.
What about China and the ungodly regime there? They are waiting to devour Taiwan. That empire is killing people for body organs, enslaving the Moslem people, sex slavers, released a deadly virus that killed hundred of thousands people globally.
God is not in our political arena even though being Catholic is heard over and over again while these politicians support and believe everything that is against the Catholic Church’s teachings. They believe more like the Russian and Chinese governments do. A senator said to kill Putin, obviously he is not Godly. We buy Russia oil and gas, fertilizer and now what is in the news online is that the Ukraine has a biolab in Odessa that the USA (Obama) funds just like we did in China. The US is talking about buying Iranian oil or better yet Venezuelan (Al Gore) oil and let’s not forget about Hunter’s and Pelosi’s oil companies interest. Let us be afraid of “Russia” while our government locked us down, took our jobs away, are taking parental rights away, brainwashing our children, seized our Churches, opened our borders to criminals and drugs, took away our rights to medical privacy, threatened seize our bank accounts if we do not comply, are taking away our hopes and dreams, etc. what and who is the evil empire here.
Reagan and the likes of him are long gone with only a few statesmen in office left. When did a President deserve the treatment Pres. Trump did? And Biden’s mafia go free? Soros, Gates, Schwab are the new world leaders calling the shots? WHO, FBI, CIA, CDC are all in the evil empire.
God Help Us.
I thought the title was about the “new” America.