DANIEL VAUGHAN: America Stands Alone Defending The West

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 August 18, 2025

One of Winston Churchill's dreams was for later generations of certain countries to form an Anglosphere. He saw countries with aligned beliefs, cultures, and languages being able to band together. And while that has happened, to some extent, it is now falling apart because we are no longer similar or aligned. America stands as the last hope of the West and the Anglosphere.

The United States of America is the last because we are the only ones defending basic sets of rights and freedoms for average people. The core countries of this group are the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Here's a snapshot of where the U.K. has fallen. Robert Moss, a fireman in the U.K., was arrested on charges of "malicious communications." He had worked at the department for 28 years before being fired, which he sued and won a court case over for wrongful termination.

However, "After the tribunal, the father-of-one made several comments criticising the fire service's management in a private Facebook group, which he also used to offer advice to fellow firefighters."

Here are the next two critical parts to this story. First, "This prompted police officers to raid his home in the early hours of the morning last month and seize two phones, a computer and an iPad."

Second, "Mr Moss was never formally charged with a crime."

As an American, I don't care what he said in that Facebook group. The odds of it requiring an arrest, him being placed on bail, and a police raid are so astonishingly small that it's not even worth considering. The U.K. is treating a fireman with a workplace dispute - a legitimate one according to the courts - like a lone wolf terrorist communicating with ISIS.

These speech laws are the norm in Britain, though. Police target and arrest people for social media posts all the time, whether public or private. If anything, the police are more active arresting people for social media posts than they are illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel.

Canada isn't far behind on that front. What makes Canada worse is its descent into a death cult with the embrace of expansive euthanasia is shocking - they want to allow minors to kill themselves soon. Right now, euthanasia kills more people in Canada than Alzheimer's and diabetes combined.

The Canadian MAID service is practically suicide on demand, for anyone who demands it for any reason. No one can identify any practical blocks to it, beyond family members having to sue to prevent such barbarities. Doctors don't step in the way.

The U.K. is debating similar proposals to a MAID service, and seems poised to follow right behind Canada.

When various authors have written about the suicide of the West in the past, they meant it as a metaphor. The progressive left is building up cultural edifices now where this is an actual thing.

That brings me to the last sad point: America is the only remaining defender of the West. This is the point in history where Rome split in half between the western and eastern empires. The Western Empire dissolved and splintered into what became modern Europe. The eastern half continued for centuries, while historians now call them Byzantines.

We've hit that split in the anglosphere. The United States has nothing in common with Canada and the United Kingdom anymore. The country of Churchill is approaching death - and it will be self-inflicted. Watching the disaster of Starmer in the U.K., Brexit looks more like a last gasp than an attempt to reclaim anything.

In America, we will celebrate our 250th anniversary and remember the words in our founding documents. We split off from the U.K., but 150 years after that, took their place on the world stage. Churchill saw this as the U.K. being Greece and the U.S. being Rome.

It's hard to see that comparison anymore because the country Churchill defended is gone. They arrest anyone who dares to speak out. Churchill, a man of words, would undoubtedly be jailed by modern Britain for his sharp tongue.

America stands alone, now, in the anglosphere. We hope to remain this light, a city on a hill, and help bring the U.K., Canada, and the rest of these countries back to their senses. The greater fear of most conservatives in the United States is far worse: we'll follow the rest of the Anglosphere later this century.

Progressives in the U.K. and Canada talk about liberating themselves from the past, and freeing people to become autonomous. What they've done is cut themselves off from civilization and drifted into the dark seas of oblivion.

America stands, 250 years after her founding and 80 years after the end of the Second World War, alone. No other country remains to defend the inalienable rights given to us by God.

I'm glad Churchill never saw this day.

" A free people [claim] their rights, as derived from the laws of nature."
Thomas Jefferson