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Founding Fathers on Foreign Entanglements and Trade

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05.07.2026
Mark your calendar. July 12th. The Kosmogonia Launch Event. Comment "LAUNCH" and we'll send you everything you need to know! He points to Thomas Jefferson's principle: free trade with all nations, military alliance with none. That was the founding vision, a framework for engagement without entanglement. Yet today, if you oppose military incursion or foreign intervention, there's a label waiting for you: isolationist. It's a rhetorical trick, he notes, one that conflates prudence with withdrawal. The question isn't whether to engage with the world, it's how. Trade, exchange, and diplomacy can thrive without boots on the ground or proxy wars. The founding fathers understood that distinction, and it's worth asking why that clarity has been lost in modern discourse.
Source Channel: The Randall Carlson