In 1453, the crown jewel city of Christendom, Constantinople, fell to the Sunni Ottoman Turks; because no Christian, outside of the Byzantine Empire,  thought it worthwhile to risk their lives to save Constantinople. Modern America knows that phenomenon, during the insurrection of January 6, 2021, no civilian American risked their lives by rushing to the Capitol to defend democracy against the rampaging horde. To the people of Washington D.C., home to vast  numbers of Federal employees, defending the election of Joe Biden was not worth dying for. Vladimir Putin took note. In 1683, the rampaging Sunni Ottoman Turks besieged Vienna, the Imperial hub of the Hapsburg Empire. Vienna was about to fall, opening Germany to Sunni Muslim domination, when Polish troops arrived.  The Poles launched a massive cavalry attack, by their winged hussars, which shattered the  Ottomans; leaving Germany free of Sunni dominance; until Angela Merkel opened her nation’s borders to Sunni migrants in 2015. In

  One of the great ongoing, continuing fears of the dwindling band of victorious Cold War warriors, is how off- base American intellectuals are in their thought processes. For example, two of America’s greatest intellectuals, Professor Scott Galloway and Fareed Zakaria discussed the Israel-HAMAS War on Galloway’s podcast. The following is the relevant dialog:   “  GALLOWAY : I increasingly believe that the geopolitical or the catastrophic geopolitical decision of the last 50 years will be seen as our invasion of Iraq. ZAKARIA-Our weariness, the resources expended where like someone has gotten their eyebrows burned and we just don't want to get near any hot surface    any longer in the Middle East, that whether it's taking out a natural buffer to Iran, this incredible vacuum that we will in the fullness of time look back on going too far. Going into Afghanistan, absolutely justification. But going into Iraq will be seen as probably the greatest geopolitical mistake in US history