Neoconservatism

Neoconservatism (also referred to as NeoCon) is a branch of conservatism originating in the United States during the 1960's who favors a broadly interventionist foreign policy. He's usually much more defined by his foreign policy than his domestic policy - NeoCon can fall into a number of groups or camps regarding domestic affairs, and will oftentimes "sell" his vote on a domestic issue in order to buy someone else's vote on one of his foreign policy proposals. Neoconservatism typically advocates the promotion of democracy and interventionism in international affairs, including peace through strength (by means of military force), and is known for espousing disdain for communism and other forms of     political radicalism. Culturally, most NeoCons are right-leaning, usually being pro-life among other things, but still liberal on certain issues. However, there exists a large fraction of much more socially liberal politicians who advocate for neoconservative foreign policy, often called Liberal Hawks, who tend to overlap with the Third Way  branch of liberalism.

History
Between the 1950's and the 1960's, future NeoCons endorsed the Civil Rights Movement, racial integration, and the movement of Martin Luther King Jr. Also, during this time, there was widespread support among future NeoCons (who were classified as Liberals at the time) for widespread military action to prevent a  communist takeover in North Vietnam.

The initial Neoconservative movement was brought forward by the repudiation of the Cold War and the "New Politics" of the new and Progressive American "New Left", which NeoCons believed was too close to the counterculture running rampant in the United States at the time and too alienated from the majority of the American population. The "New Left" which the NeoCons were dissatisfied with supported/believed in some radical aspects such as "Black Power", which accused white Liberals and northern Jews of hypocrisy on integration and of supporting supposed Settler Colonialism during the Israeli-Palestine conflict during the late 1960's. Finally, they were most unsettled by the  New Left's "anti-anti communism", which during the mid-to-late 1960's that included outspoken support of  Marxist–Leninist policies. Many were particularly alarmed by what they saw as antisemitism stemming from "Black Power" communities in the New Left.

As the policies of the New Left made the Democrats increasingly leftist, these intellectuals became disillusioned with President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society domestic programs. The neoconservatives then rejected the counter-cultural New Left and what they considered Anti-Americanism in the  non-interventionism of activism against the Vietnam War. After the anti-war faction took control of the party during 1972 and nominated George McGovern, the Democrats among them endorsed Washington Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson instead for his unsuccessful 1972 and 1976 campaigns for president.

A theory of neoconservative foreign policy during the 1970's was criticizing the foreign policy of Jimmy Carter, which endorsed détente with the Soviet Union. During the 1990's, neoconservatives were once again opposed to the foreign policy establishment, both during the Republican Administration of President George H. W. Bush and that of his  Democratic successor, President Bill Clinton. Many critics charged that the neoconservatives lost their influence as a result of the end of the Marxist Soviet Union.

After the decision of George H. W. Bush to leave Saddam Hussein in power after the first Iraq War during 1991, many neoconservatives considered this policy a betrayal of democratic principles. During the early 2000's, the presidency of George W. Bush did not initially show strong endorsement of the neoconservative idea. This, however, changed dramatically as a result of the 9/11 attacks. During Bush's State of the Union speech of January 2002, he named Iraq,  Iran, and  North Korea states that "constitute an axis of evil" and "pose a grave and growing danger". The Bush Doctrine of preemptive war was stated explicitly in the National Security Council text, "National Security Strategy of the United States" that was published in September of 2002. It stated, "We must deter and defend against the threat before it is unleashed (...) even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack. (...) The United States will, if necessary, act preemptively". The Bush Doctrine was greeted with an extremely positive reception by many neoconservatives. By 2010, U.S. forces had switched from combat to a training role in Iraq and they left in 2011.

Since Trump took office, neoconservatives have supported the Trump administration's hawkish approach towards  Iran and  Venezuela, while opposing the administration's withdrawal of troops from  Syria and diplomatic outreach to  North Korea.

Beliefs
WIP

Economics
The economic policy of neoconservatism has been described by journalist Irving Kristol (dubbed 'The Godfather of Neoconservatism') as being one which gives 'Two Cheers for Capitalism', the first cheer being the fact 'it works; in a quite simple, material sense' and the second being that it is 'congenial to a large measure of personal liberty', Kristol argues that these two measures are no small measure which only capitalism has been shown to achieve. Nonetheless, Kristol also criticises capitalism for being a system which puts too much stress and burden on the individual which creates a 'spiritual malaise', which threatens the social order. Withholding the third cheer according to Kristol is a distinctive feature of Neoconservatism.

How to Draw
Neocon_flag.svg The design for Neoconservatism is based on the design of NATO, an interventionist organization which is viewed favorably by many neocons.


 * 1) Draw a ball with eyes.
 * 2) Fill it dark blue
 * 3) Draw in white a piece like this in white.
 * 4) Repeat until there's 4 of them facing towards each other.

And you're done!

Props
Some optional props:


 * 1) Sunglasses (used for US-centric balls like USA in Polandball and Neoliberalism in Polcompball)
 * 2) Advanced Combat Helmet
 * 3) Ace of spades playing card, sometimes tucked into helmet
 * 4) Assault weapons

Friends

 * [[File:Indust.png]] Industrialism - The military industrial complex is based!
 * [[File:Liberalconservative.png]] Liberal Conservatism - Good libtard, he loves it when I topple non-liberal regimes!
 * [[File:Imp.png]] Imperialism - Everyone knows that you're the solution to promoting democracy and stopping terrorism.
 * [[File:Zio.png]] Zionism - Israel is our greatest ally and the only democracy in the Middle East. Really supported him when he needed it back in the '60s!
 * [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] Neoliberalism - A little on the soft side, but we work well together. May the world submit to glorious democracy!
 * [[File:Neobert.png]] Neo-Libertarianism - He's alright. Advocates for a minimalist state (Which I constantly argue with him about! How are you going to have a strong interventionist foreign policy without a somewhat strong state?) and free-market capitalism, so he's alright in that regard.
 * [[File:3way.png]] Third Way - Yo Tony, ya wanna help me invade Iraq?
 * [[File:Modnat.png]] Patriotism - AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!!!
 * [[File:Civnat.png]] Civic Nationalism - As long as they come here legally. Time to make that as difficult as possible.
 * [[File:Abmon.png]] Absolute Monarchism & [[File:Muslim 2.png]] Islamic Theocracy - Saudi Arabia, my beloved.
 * [[File:Pinochet.png]] Pinochetism - "We want to help, not undermine you. You did a great service to the West in overthrowing Allende." -Henry Kissinger
 * [[File:Strato.png]] Stratocracy - There's nothing I love more than replacing socialist or Soviet-alligned democratically elected leaders with brutal military dictators!
 * [[File:Fujimori.png]] Fujimorism - I aided him against the commie terrorists.
 * [[File:Cap.png]] Capitalism - The only good economic system.
 * [[File:Banana Republicanism.png]] Banana Republicanism - My good friend who I bring out when countries go socialist.
 * [[File:Mediastocracy_flair.png]] Mediacracy - Thanks for rehabbing my image guys!

Frenemies

 * [[File:Dem.png]] Democracy - I'll bomb countries to dust just to spread you, so why do you always complain about me rigging foreign elections, aiding dictators, overthrowing elected leader, and installing tyrants?
 * [[File:Statlib.png]] State Liberalism - Why do the drone pilots have to be female?
 * [[File: Conserv.png]] Conservatism [[File:Con-t.png]] - My moderate father. He could be a little stronger on his diplomatic issues, but otherwise he's alright. You're still not interventionist enough, and complain when states that follow tradition are invaded!
 * [[File: NatProg-0.png]] Bull Moose Progressivism - American imperialism? BASED! Just be at least a bit more culturally right, and cool it with the trust-busting! Capitalism has helped us acquire the wealth we need to conquer commie countries correctly.
 * [[File:Trot.png]] Trotskyism - You have some good ideas, just the wrong economic system to spread. You don’t play well with opposing countries, however, which is a desirable trait. You’re just too left for me. Thanks for teaching me all I know. I love you so much dad.
 * [[File: Caudillo.png]] Caudillismo - I like you when you're with me, and hate you when you're against me.
 * [[File:Trumpism.png]] Trumpism - Good job with [[File:Shia.png]] Iran and [[File:Chavismo.png]] Venezuela, but let me take down those damn [[File:Juche.png]] Koreans! Please tell your followers that my policies actually support the America First agenda.
 * [[File: Jihad.png]] Jihadism - Forwards, my boy, go overthrow those damned [[File:Marxlen.png]] Commies and [[File: Baath.png]] Arab dictators. What do you mean, "I'm an infidel too"? Well I fought this guy in Afghanistan, but also helped him against the commies there too.
 * [[File: Ottoman.png]] Neo-Ottomanism - He's still a NATO member, and yet, he still doesn't follow my orders.
 * [[File:Polpot.png]] Pol Potism - Operation Menu go brrrr but we did fund you and you did kill those Vietnamese commies like we asked you to.
 * [[File:Mao.png]] Maoism - Nixon improved relationships with China.
 * [[File:Demcon.png]] Democratic Confederalism - [[File:Rojava.png]] Your Syrian variant is alright, and I support it over [[File:baath.png]] Assad but [[File:PKK-icon-pcb.png]] your Turkish variant is just terrorist and disgusting. Also, Turkey is kinda based!
 * [[File:persondignity.png]] Person Dignity Theory - I helped you against [[File:Hochi.png]] the dirty Vietnamese commies, but you barely listened to me, so you needed to go.
 * [[File:Ilminism.png]] Ilminism - I also helped you against [[File:Juche.png]] the filthy North Korean commies, but you hate [[File:Imp.png]] Imperialism and compare me to him.

Enemies

 * [[File:Marxlen.png]] Marxism–Leninism - Awful. Just awful. What can I say about you? You aren't free to the people, don't have free markets, you're cagey and non-interventionist (or so you think you are, well USSR at least), you just... don't do anything. You really think that communism could work on a large scale? Didn't work back then and it won't work now, especially with me around. Good luck. Idiot.
 * [[File:Stalin.png]] Stalinism - You killed my dad [[File:Trot.png]], so we killed you and your entire political movement. Fuck you now and forever, you authoritarian pseudo-communist piece of shit!
 * [[File:Khrusch.png]] Khrushchevism - "WE wIlL BurY yoU"? Haha! Who got buried now?
 * [[File:Juche.png]] Juche - You're just a more insane version of [[File:Marxlen.png]] him. Leave everyone alone and go away, you adorable little failure of an ideology.
 * [[File:MLM.png]] Marxism–Leninism–Maoism - What the fuck?? Are you not just him [[File:Marxlen.png]] again?
 * [[File: Dengf.png]] Dengism - I'm going to kill you off just like I did to your relatives. Just as long as you don't kill me first. There's something different about you and I don't like it one bit.
 * [[File:Ancom.png]] Anarcho-Communism - What. Are. You. Why do you exist? I don't think there's even a possibility that you could work, especially without a state. How do you expect to be communist without a state to distribute the wealth? You leave me at a loss for words.
 * [[File:Hoxha.png]] Hoxhaism - Listen here you paranoid commie, I do not want to invade you. Maybe.
 * [[File:Posadist.png]] Posadism - I like nukes too but a nuclear war to establish communism? Not on my watch!
 * [[File:Biopos.png]] Bio-Posadism - Wuhan lab! Wuhan lab! Investigate the labs!
 * [[File:Soc.png]] Socialism & [[File:Dsa.png]] Democratic Socialism [[File:Demsocstar.png]] - The only way to preserve freedom and democracy is to replace your goddamn commie democracies with loyal dictators, deal with it!
 * [[File:Nazi.png]] National Socialism - We defeated you in WWII.
 * [[File:Progress.png]] Progressivism - Get a haircut, hippie!
 * [[File: Baath.png]] Ba'athism - We took out Saddam. Now Assad must go!
 * [[File: Gaddafi.png]] Gaddafism - Get rekt lol, Gaddafi is dead XD.
 * [[File:JapCom.png]] Japanese Communism - You filthy ungrateful commie! Why don't you like our help?!
 * [[File:Isolationist.png]] Isolationism - Open the country. Stop having it be closed.
 * [[File:Plcn2.png]] Paleoconservatism - Unlike you, I'm not racist and actually care about democracies around the world!
 * [[File:Libcon.png]] Libertarian Conservatism - Ron Paul sucks, he doesn't want us to fight wars.
 * Glib.png Green Liberalism - Still bitches about the fact I "stole" the 2000 election from him 21 years later. I won fair and square hippie, get over it!
 * [[File:Soc21.png]] Socialism of the 21st Century - Undemocratic, all of you! Fuck Chavez and Morales especially!
 * [[File:Kak.png]] Kakistocracy - Covered himself in my oil! Brat!
 * [[File:Hochi.png]] Ho Chi Minh Thought - Vietnam Flashbacks
 * [[File:Native.png]] Indigenism - Why, yes, I did help steal more of your land and destroyed your way of life... And?
 * [[File:Chavismo.png]] Chavismo - Fuck you, socialist dictator! I will sanction and coup you.
 * [[File:Khom.png]] Khomeinism - Down with Iran, and down with Hezbollah!
 * [[File:United Russia.png]] Putinism - Die, Anti-American tyrant!
 * [[File:castro.png]] Castroism - Embargo goes brrrr.
 * [[File:Guevara.png]] Guevarism - I helped capture and kill Che, cope.
 * [[File:Pop.png]] Populism - Why do you hate war? War is great!
 * [[File:Hutupower.png]] Hutu Power - See! This is what happens when we don't intervene!
 * [[File:Showa.png]] Showa Statism - Nuked you was the right decision.
 * [[File:Sukarno.png]] Marhaenism - Yeah, I helped overthrow you and aided Suharto in his mass murder of communists. What are you gonna do about it?
 * [[File:Blacknat.png]] Black Nationalism - You're Un-American and Anti-Semitic. Plus, the CIA and FBI sabotaging civil rights and black power movements was based.
 * [[File:Awaj.png]] [[File:Ancapf.png]] [[File:Mutalist.png]] Every form of Anarchism - You're ALL Nazis! All of you!
 * [[File:Anpacf.png]] Anarcho-Pacifism - I know I already said I hated all anarchists, but you're particularly horrible.

Literature

 * Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan
 * The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009 by Irving Kristol
 * Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea by Irving Kristol
 * Neoconservatism: Why We Need It by Douglas Murray
 * After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads by Francis Fukyama
 * Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
 * r/neoconNWO's reading list
 * The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny by Victor Davis Hanson
 * Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left by David Horowitz
 * Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives by Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. and Bill Harlow
 * The Neocon Reader by Irwin Stelzer
 * America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order by Stephen Halper

Wikipedia

 * Neoconservatism
 * Neoconservatism in the Czech Republic
 * British Neoconservatism
 * Neoconservatism in Japan
 * Pax Americana
 * World Policeman
 * United States involvement in regime change

US Regime Change Operations, Proxy Wars, and Military Interventions

 * Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Korean War
 * 1953 Iranian coup d’etat
 * 1954 Guatemalan coup d'etat
 * CIA Tibetan Program
 * Bay of Pigs Invasion
 * Vietnam War
 * Operation Condor
 * East Timor Genocide
 * Angolan Civil War
 * Operation Cyclone
 * Salvadoran Civil War
 * US Invasion of Grenada
 * US Invasion of Panama
 * Gulf War
 * Black Hawk Down
 * Operation Uphold Democracy
 * NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
 * War on terror
 * War in Afghanistan
 * Iraq War
 * NATO intervention in Libya
 * Timber Sycamore
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Assassination of Qasem Soleimani

People
Liberal Hawks:
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Irving Kristol
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Richard Nixon [[File:Nixon.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Germany.png]][[File:Cball-US.png]] Henry Kissinger [[File:MagicPT.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Australia.png]] Robert Menzies
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Ronald Reagan [[File:Reagan.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-UK.png]] Margaret Thatcher [[File:Thatcher.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Elliot Abrahams
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] George Shultz
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Jeane Kirkpatrick
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] George H.W. Bush
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] George W. Bush [[File:GWB.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Dick Cheney
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Donald Rumsfeld
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Paul Wolfowitz
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Condoleeza Rice
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Colin Powell
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Bill Kristol
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] John McCain
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Lindsey Graham
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Joe Lieberman
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Sarah Palin
 * [[File:Cball-Denmark.png]] Anders Fogh Rasmussen
 * [[File:Cball-Czechia.png]] Václav Havel
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Mitt Romney
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Richard Perle
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Robert Kagan
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Norman Podhoretz
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Mark Palmer
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Richard Fernandez
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Michael Ledeen
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Charles Krauthammer
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Ralph Peters
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Joshua Muravchik
 * [[File:Cball-UK.png]] Andrew Neil
 * [[File:Cball-UK.png]] Douglas Murray
 * [[File:Cball-UK.png]] David Cameron [[File:Cameronism.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-UK.png]] Michael Gove
 * [[File:Cball-Canada.png]] Stephen Harper
 * [[File:Cball-France.png]] Nicolas Sarkozy
 * [[File:Zio.png]] Benjamin Netanyahu [[File:Bibi.png]]
 * [[File:Zio.png]] Naftali Bennett
 * [[File:Cball-Japan.png]] Junichiro Koizumi
 * [[File:Cball-Japan.png]] Shinzo Abe
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Mike Pompeo
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] John Bolton
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Nikki Haley
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Mitch McConnell
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Ben Shapiro [[File:Shapirocube.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Dennis Prager [[File:Mesocon.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Marco Rubio
 * [[File:Cball-UK.png]] Boris Johnson [[File:BoJo.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Australia.png]] Tony Abbott
 * [[File:Cball-Australia.png]] Scott Morrison
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Tom Cotton
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Liz Cheney
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Victor Davis Hanson
 * [[File:Cball-Canada.png]] Hillel Neuer [[File:Cball-UN.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] David Horowitz
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Sebastian Gorka
 * [[File:Cball-Kosovo.png]] Hashim Thaçi
 * [[File:Cball-China.png]] Liu Xiaobo
 * [[File:Cball-Iran.png]] Amir Taheri
 * [[File:Cball-Netherlands.png]] Ayaan Hirshi Ali [[File:AyaanHirsiAli.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Sweden.png]] Ebba Bush [[File:Christy.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Ken Timmerman
 * Poland is great
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Harry S. Truman
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] JFK [[File:JFK.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] LBJ [[File:Lyndon_B._Johnson.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Bill Clinton [[File:Clinton.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Hillary Clinton [[File:Hillary.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Madeleine Albright
 * [[File:Cball-UK.png]] Tony Blair [[File:New_Labourism.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-UK.png]] Gordon Brown[[File:New_Labourism.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Germany.png]] Gerhard Schröder
 * [[File:Cball-Romania.png]]Ion Iliescu
 * [[File:Cball-Spain.png]] Javier Solana
 * [[File:Cball-UK.png]][[File:Cball-US.png]] Christopher Hitchens
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Barack Obama [[File:Obamium.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Joe Biden [[File:Bidenism.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Susan Rice
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Samanatha Power
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Michele Flournoy
 * [[File:Cball-France.png]] Francois Hollande
 * [[File:Cball-Norway.png]] Jens Stoltenberg
 * [[File:Cball-Australia.png]] Julia Gillard
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Anthony Blinken
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Pete Buttigieg
 * [[File:Zio.png]]Yair Lapid

Online Communities

 * r/neoconNWO

Videos

 * Superpower Broadcasting


 * What is Neoconservatism? by The Right Report

Gallery
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