J.D. Vance and the Open Society

In 1945, Karl Popper published "The Open Society and its enemies" in the UK, and since then, several individuals have emerged over the decades who claimed to be champions of the Open Society, but whose actions proved the reverse to be true.

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Popper wrote that the Open Society was under attack by authoritarians who believed in the inevitability of their rise. Clearly, he had been influenced by the years when Germany was ruled by Adolf Hitler, a byword in tyranny. What Popper failed to perceive was the threat that Open Society faced from within.

In 2022, the excuse trotted out by countries in Europe for assisting Ukraine in its war on Russia was that they were helping Zelenskyy to defeat authoritarianism in the form of the Russian Federation. That Russia would invade countries in the European Union after they had defeated and conquered Ukraine. While a subkinetic war was being waged by them against Russia from the 1990s onwards, in 2022 the "Open Society" champions in Europe saw in the Ukraine-Russia war, which began in 2022, as an opportunity to convert the conflict to a kinetic mode by arming and funding Ukraine.