For decades now, we've been told that sending our troops overseas to topple regimes and install puppet governments is done in the name of freedom and democracy—that it is virtuous of us to bring a “better way of life” to others.
When they try to fight back, we’re told that they just “hate us for our freedom.”
Ha. “Freedom”.
They call it nation-building. But let’s tell the truth—what actually happens is generational nation-breaking.
Iran. Iraq. Libya. Afghanistan. Syria. How many times have we watched the same script play out? First, the media drums up fear. Then, the politicians beat the war drums. And before long, we're knee-deep in some faraway conflict we had no business starting, and no plan to end.
All of it is sold to the American people by a class of self-appointed global “experts” who believe it’s our job to fix the world by force. What they never admit is that their big ideas have consequences—and the biggest losers are usually the innocent people on both sides who end up caught in the crossfire.
That’s why President Trump’s recent speech in Saudi Arabia matters. He said plainly what you and I have known for a long time: “The so-called ‘nation-builders’ wrecked far more nations than they built.”
That one line alone pulls the curtain back on an entire ideology that’s failed for decades but refuses to die. Why? Well, because it's profitable. It builds careers, wins elections, and makes defense contractors rich beyond imagination.
Meanwhile, American families are left with the cost—trillions of dollars in debt, lives lost, veterans discarded, and a culture increasingly conditioned to accept endless war as normal.
I can’t help but wonder how things would be now if we’d listened to Ron Paul all those years ago. He’s been warning about the dangers of nation-building and neoconservatism his whole career.
He was never afraid to tell the neocons the truth about their terrible ideas—right to their faces!
Watch this:
Of course neoconservatism isn’t the only bad idea that’s wrecked lives. It's just one in a long line of terrible policies that have hollowed out our country from the inside.
That’s why we wrote The Tuttle Twins Guide to the World’s Worst Ideas.
The rising generation needs to understand how we got here. They need context—not just about war, but about taxes, inflation, authoritarianism, bureaucracy, censorship, gun control, government schools… the list goes on.
(Literally—it’s the table of contents.)
We put it all in this book. The poison, the damage, and most importantly—the antidote. No slogans or partisan fluff, just solid principles that will help young people ask the right questions, see the patterns, and understand the trade-offs.
Because if we don’t equip kids to recognize these dangerous ideas, we’re all going to suffer when they come around again… and they always do.
The book just launched yesterday, and it’s already making waves. These messages are so important. We simply have to start talking to our kids about them.
Click here to grab your copy of The Tuttle Twins Guide to the World’s Worst Ideas
Bad ideas don’t stay in history books.
They get recycled and then reimposed on a population that’s too dumb, too distracted or too demoralized to notice.
Let’s make sure our kids don’t fall for it.
— Connor
