A Pulitzer Prize-winning nation security reporter explains why Magneto was right

If Magneto was right then there is no hope for the world.

His world-view is that there is no such thing as peaceful coexistence, and the entire world must fearfully balkanize, and he must have his ethnostate in order to feel safe. If this isn’t belief in a lie caused by his personal trauma, if this is truly the state of all humanity, then there is no hope for diversity, no hope for cosmopolitanism, and we all must retreat armed, to our bunkers.

If Magneto is right, then we will never be free, we will simply imprison ourselves behind more barbed wire and watchtowers, all the while trying to convince ourselves that we are on the outside.

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