Our Only Hope in a World at War

By Robert Anthony

Apr 7^th, 2026

Nations go to war only after all else fails.  After years and even decades of diplomacy, negotiations, and often compromise, at times the chasm that is disagreement grows wide and the parties start to lose hope that bridging it is possible.  When hope in finding a solution that can be mutually agreed upon is lost, especially after decades of efforts to span across those differences for a resolution, war becomes inevitable.  War does not start publicly at first but in the hearts and minds of men. 

There remains a certain competition among the nations; that competition is for money, power, the influence of ideas and vision for tomorrow and everyone involved is rather convinced that they are right.  And I should note here that this more modern era in which we are living, although it seems evolved and having grown past the constant conflict that raged throughout the ancient world, has merely better marketing and propaganda than did its predecessors – the nations are entirely capable and willing to enter into the same kind of “war to end all wars” way of believing, as ever.  The only way this competitiveness seems to remain more benign is when all the major players perceive that they are winning – and winning usually means making enough money.

And this power struggle is explicitly linked to money, and lots of it.  Some want money to feel safe at night, as if money can solve their every trouble, some want all this money to fund their crusade and next adventure, some have grand ideals and are convinced that only a vast fortune can facilitate, some are far less complex seeing money as a zero-sum-game and only want to win, at all costs – whatever lurks within the hearts of powerful men it almost doesn’t matter, their lust is inextricably married to riches, and lots of it!

Everyone knows that war is bad for business but not for everyone.  Some bankers, corporate elite and immensely powerful men have war-gamed out that mutually assured destruction could actually benefit them in the long run – sort of a “last man standing” strategy wherein those who survive achieve greater power and rule.  It sends a chill down my spine to consider that these archaic and anarchic strategies have actually been prescribed by the leaders of our world, even by those have who fought in World Wars and seen the horrors of battle with their own eyes!  

Oh, what a mess of things does even a little fear, once crept into the heart.

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The world is already at war – but the war first begins within the nations, within our politics and domestic strife.  Peace has been taken from the earth and the overwhelming majority are content to duke it out.  In our own America, it’s not merely the Republicans and Democrats at each other’s throats anymore, now Republicans go to war with their own party even against their own President, and the Democrats are not entirely so different.  What happened to us?  How did we end up here and is there a way back?

Force and dominance seem to be ruling the hour.  The charm offensive has been completely replaced by the numbers: who has the numbers to win.  Morale?  High Hopes?  A Sense of the Common Good?  These altruistic matters of the heart will not have much of a say in a world a war, wherein only the strongest will survive.  (Some will say I am naïve, perhaps.)  And who can stand against this new and prevailing wind?

Our nation has severe and end-of-days type threats facing her – and chief among them is our national debt crisis.  And yet where is everybody!?  I fear we are at war, every man against his own countryman – and each year it seems to get worse.  What if the prescribed power of the day simply isn’t working?  What if business as usual won’t save us from this mess that we are in?  Then what?  What other tools do we have in the tool belt!?  I fear the heart and morale of our America has been denigrated and even warred against for so long that we have forgotten any other way to be.

We have a city called, “Philadelphia” the “City of Brotherly Love”.  I would like to think that there was a time wherein we genuinely loved each other in this nation, but I think that nostalgia is too often untrue and we have to see the past with more sober eyes.  Perhaps it has never been better than this?  It is truly possible that this is the best it has ever been in our nation – 

we must consider this and maybe even forget about the past.  If we are to ever come close to realizing this “Philadelphia” in reality, we must not look to the past to find hope.

My fellow American’s, we either learn to love each other, even in our differences, or else it seems that all will be lost.  Unless something dramatically changes, and fast, the politics will soon gridlock, the rulers already at war will inadvertently tear this nation apart – and our enemies will salivate as they watch us weaken and turn sickly. And then who will come to our aide?

It is a desperate hour.  Washington DC and our state capitals do not need another political ruler or power broker.  The hour calls for someone more like a preacher or maybe even a Chaplain!  A voice provoking the hearts and minds of the nation to “Philadelphia” to a place of concern one for another and to brotherly love.  But who would elevate voices such as these?  In a world at war, in a nation at war, how would something so reasonable end up receiving a platform and a position?

Pray, brothers and sisters.  We have only a little time for the miracle to happen.  Soon there will be no going back, soon we will be past a certain threshold and all will be lost.  Do you think I exaggerate?  Open your eyes to the truth, see the desperation of the hour.  The nation must rally together, in love and for the cause that is America – or else it will all be over.  Should it end, the world will be remade by several of our competitors and trust me, they do not share allegiance to these ideas of diversity, equity and inclusion.  

The world is a harsh and brutal place which has been held together for about a century by American, Judeo-Christian ideals.  We have restrained, kept at bay, a myriad of evils from flooding the world with corruption, servitude and the worst dystopian nightmare ever before realized in the history of the earth – and it is all at the very door.  A new generation must arise, a new people with a new vision for the future must refuse to enable the status quo, no, not for another day – and they must become something new, something better, a people filled with faith, and hope, and love, unwavering in their pursuit.  There is no other way.

I would be remiss except I mention now that all true love comes from above.  The Spirit that God alone gives to us has the power to make these sweeping changes and reforms that we so desperately need.  Man simply doesn’t have it in him, not without God.  The life-saving injection of faith, hope and love that we are starving for, comes only from above.  And we can ask for it and He will give it to us.  And we can be saved.

Do you want to start over?  Do you want to start from the beginning and build something new, something sacred and something set apart?  This is what it looks like, receiving this Spirit of love from God, and being made new.  Then and only then will our families be made new, our homes and schools, and churches, and governments, having received this love, everything will be made new.   And our nation will be saved.

There is no other way.

This is our only Hope.