EXCELLENT. I read the entire article.. MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE ON THE CABINET.. :) actually I do get U.S Dept of State weekly bulletin: its free. I posted elsewhere I have been in bed for two days still on antibiotics, THAT IS AN AMAZINGLY WELL DONE ANALYSIS and SUMMATION OF TRUMP's geopolitical strategy. ! I agree 100 percent.. :) I also had some time to think this morning when I started to feel better about the "other stuff" going on.. and I am for sure going to just unsubscribe from the people who irritate me.. :) You so right. We, the US is the world's greatest superpower..and we are done picking up the tab.. for the rest of the world post WW2. The wanna be "players" at the WEF, Nato and EU are not even a shadow of the U.S in terms of the PRUDENCE AND PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH which the US consistently applies under Trump's team and leadership. Thanks for that EXCELLENTLY THOUGHT OUT AND THOROUGH ANALYSIS.
This is a list of around 800 U.S. military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces currently located in the United States and around the world.
The Pentagon stated in 2014 that there are "around" 5,000 bases total, with "around" 800 of them overseas. We learned that the United States has approximately 800 formal military bases in 80 countries, a number that could exceed 1,000 if you count troops stationed at embassies and missions and so-called “lily-pond” bases, with some 138,000 soldiers stationed around the globe. David Vine, author of Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases at only 11 other countries have Overseas Harm America and the World, reported that only 11 other countries have bases in foreign countries, some 70 altogether.
Our Europe friends are SO dependent on us for nearly all quality space and intel info. BUT they clearly don't appreciate what they get from us for nearly no $s, hard work, smarts, lessons learned, strategy, blood, sweat, tear,... Hard to work with someone who doesn't appreciate what we do for them. Sad.
While POTUS is the first to honestly address it, the consequences of illicit drugs remain in adequately acknowledged. Illicit drugs are how to destroy a country without firing a single shot. Ironic that trafficking poison is not only profitable, but a way to destroy your customer base simultaneously. Among the many damages wreaked by illicit drugs are; the cost of the drugs, the crime associated to get the drugs, the crime victims, law enforcement costs, judicial system costs, incarceration costs, harm reduction costs, social and family fabric damage, etc.. The price for being complicit in the trafficking of illicit drugs must be more than free housing and sustenance in jail for the rest of one's life. The price can be no less than a forfeiture of that life. If not, all that mayhem continues. Those drug trafficking boats being blown up was a thing of beauty. The interminable war on drugs and it's endless cost finally getting real. Peace through strength; or, if your prefer FAFO.
Maybe if so many Americans hadn't rejected God and tried to fill that God-sized hole in their heart with drugs, we wouldn't have such a problem with drug trafficking.
The “Donroe” doctrine makes perfect sense, hopefully ushing in the “Pax Americana” and peace through strength. I am glad we are securing the western/southern hemisphere (and natural resources), so hopefully, we will have less desperate southern neighbors wanting to migrate here.
But, China has spent billions of dollars in the western hemisphere so it’s hard to see them backing down, but with Trump’s strong leadership, hopefully it will work.
But, the Dept. of Defense/War has not passed a financial audit in 8 years. Repeat: 8 years!!! That’s crazy!
OH GOD I am afraid to look at .. well let me see if I can't dig myself..
I HAVE TALKED ABOUT WHAT IS CALLED "BLACK BUDGET" for ages.. no one seems to care or no about it.. that is why it is ABOVE TOP SECRET CLEARANCE. (I don't have that I am just a regular person) but it is on the internet .. fringe info. LOL
I love it for so many reasons. It’s a clear statement that articulates American values, and America First.
Currently, I want to see the organized subversion of our government, as seen in Minneapolis, come to an end. If we can extract a dictator who has inflicted so much harm upon America, we can win the campaign against the Democrat, Marxist, Communists, Leftists, Antifa, obstruction of the law too!
IMO, history will place Greg Bovino as the face of courage, endurance, and patriotism, and encouragement, as he led the charge against the illegal invasion orchestrated by the Democratic Party under Biden. He and ICE, Border Patrol, etc., should be applauded for their service, like the soldiers who returned from our foreign wars.
We MUST applaud what is right, and never deride those who face violent and demented criminals, nor should we back down from politicians whose sole purpose is to sow seeds of destruction in our nation—Omar, Frey, Walz, and Ellison—to name a few.
Excellent. I must again recommend the new Peter Schweizer book “The Invisible Coup”. It explains all about the mass immigration situation we have in American and how what is happening in Minneapolis with the fraud and violent protests is only the beginning of what “they” have been preparing for.
America being the empire it is. It’s about time dammit. I hope Trump has an eye on what’s going on in Canada. China has a big foothold up there and Carney is doing all he can to make it even stronger. The US needs to expand because when an empire stops growing it dies.
My articles (written from a libertarian/Austrian school economics perspective) sharply criticizing the National Security Strategy, the most recent Venezuelan intervention, and the Greenland colonization effort (this last one written a little over a year ago) can be found on the Mises Institute website:
Off topic or maybe not / Bret Weinstein has asked about the lack of attention to the Asian (Chinese) men of military age that have streamed through the Darien Gap and into our country as well. He was there and filmed them as much as he was allowed. I wonder too...
When I read DOW, I still have issue with the wording War, it just feels too much like the support of war. I know, there goes my leaning into pacifism, but words matter. I can understand the image factor, I just have an aversion to promoting the energy around the use as a statement. I am having a hard time explaining my reasoning, we were taught in hospice training to avoid "being at war with cancer" and to focus on the positive healing aspects instead.
Independent journalist/former Green Beret Michael Yon was Dr. Weinstein's tour guide in Panama. The canal zone is one of Michael's frequent stops on his ceaseless global travel. Boots on the ground, camera in hand. Not everyone here is going to like Michael, but I do, and I'm generally ready to hear whatever he has to say.
HA! And capturing Maduro was not meddling? And "running" Venezuela until "someone suitable" takes over is not meddling? The PTB, including Trump (for who has his ear now?), can find reasons for war anywhere they choose.
I’ve come across Simon Dixon and his take on things resonates with me. In a nut shell (forgive me where I end up in error) - the world is now run by a Financial Industrial Complex which directs the Military Industrial Complex as we transition into a multipolar world. Trump has been tasked with retreating to a regional power and reducing the dollar to a regional currency. Dixon states the good news for the rest of the world is the US will no longer will be fomenting conflict (ie Middle East), the bad news for American civilians (and Europe/South America) is we will be asset stripped (while the rich get richer) and endure a surveillance, digital ID, dystopian 15 minute city future. He points to Kushner’s clip on the Gaza plans of the future as what it will look like. He says that we may expect orchestrated conflicts to create an outflow from the US as the dollar is weakened and the US is made to look unappealing. He stresses we should look at what’s happening, not what the rhetoric is - like. pushing a strong dollar and America greatness while aligning things to give up reserve currency status, etc.
Since Trump is so closely aligned with Musk and Palantir, I can’t help but think Trump is on board with this technocratic future. He probably doesn’t have an option, anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0anGFIPDvk (interviewer is obviously out of his depth here) I also keep thinking back years ago when Klaus Schwab insisted you must go regional before you go global. And how Tesla houses can lock you inside...
So I popped here.. just because I am snowed in. I also thought twice about the use of DoW...as a military dependent and family.. it would not have been my decision on the other hand we are in a state of UNDECLARED WAR with other Nations.. I am of the VIETNAM "so called non war" generation.. are you old enough to remember that? YES.. over 50k of our boys lost their lives in an undeclared War: IRAN HAS LEGALLY DECLARED WAR ON US. you can look it up.. and I don't know which other countries are legally at WAR with us.. I believe that is why that term was chosen. I do closely follow all Geopolitics,, as the daughter of Army WW2, Korea father RIP.. 100 % disabled upon 23 year retirement. IN MY OPINION. So in response to that it was the most appropriate USE given the AGGRESSIVE STANCE OF NORTH KOREA, IRAN and CHINA and RUSSIA.. not in that order either.. IRAN and NORTH KOREA and CHINA. I will leave to the experts.. like Gen Holt, Gordan Chang and Gen Rasin' Cain.. to figure out such things. Pete Hegseth is going a good job.. and Marco Rubio has all this under control. WORDS DO MATTER and GO AND LISTEN TO SOME OF THE TRANSLATED "CHINESE RESPONSES ON UTUBE TO THE USA" and their attempt to massively interfere with EVERYTHING THAT WE DO and how about the the CHINESE's UNDECLARED WAR of COVID on US and the World? How about IRAN.. having NUCLEAR WEAPON. how comforting is that to you?
Does Iran have a NUCLEAR WEAPON? Or are you talking iZrael points/smack. I hope you got $7,000 for this very informative post. Some of it good and some of it so-so.
OK. So any time the US wants to grab the resources of a country in the American hemisphere, it declares that country to be under the control of drug cartels and kidnap or kill the leader of the country. The documents are blueprints for the militarization of the US and for the absolute right of the US to destroy any government in the American Hemisphere we don't like. There are enough qualifications and prevarications in the document to justify bombing Iran and Yemen and support the bombing and devastation of Gaza. We don't even have to worry about justifying the blockading of Cuba. Anything a little too messy for even these documents, like the interception of oil tankers potentially carrying Russian oil, we simply pass over to the black ops section of the CIA.
Thomas. Go and read that again. anyone who has any concept of HOW DIPLOMACY AND PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH WORKS would have realized that is already baked into the AMERICA FIRST, Protect the Homeland and Peace through Strength concept which if YOU BOTHERED to think about your question, using say Maduro's regime who destroyed the basis for Venezuala to continue to be self sustaining by allowing the "oil infrastructure" to fall into disrepair 20 years ago.. and turn his nation into drug CARTEL nation.. and also stole the most recent election (HE LOST) and then taunted TRUMP all while dealing w/ CHINA and IRAN and RUSSIA. IN OUR BACK YARD.. (which is WHY THEY MONROE DOCTRINE and NOW an updated iteration of the Monroe Doctine had to be put into place after BIDEN LET 20 millions illegal aliens into the USA... which includes DRUG CARTELS, and HUMAN TRAFFICKING. THAT IS WHAT THE NDS 2026 is all about which YOU OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T read. In fact .. in my view.. OTHER NATIONS ARE INTERFERING W/ OUR SOVEREIGNTY BY FLOODING THE ZONE W/ a CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS.. Oh that would be the DEMOCRATS who do not give a fat rat's ass about anything other than POWER. FULL STOP on you
Don't disagree with your viewpoint. I only raise the issue in historical terms because of CIA disrupting countries around the world for providing economic gain for special interests. Indonesia is one that comes to mind. Many more Also, how have these subvert policies contributed to the mass immigration that is now destabilizing countries especially in Europe. Biden's open border policy was stupidity beyond belief.
I do have to agree that the CIA is still a concern, as they seem to function under the radar in so many ways. It will be something to watch whether the DOW using these directives can expose, overrule and end the nation building stuff CIA is known for. Though if done right, we may never know...
As long as "other nations" are allowed to host and protect global criminal organizations within their borders, I see no chance for world peace if a policy of total non-interference is put in place. This is complicated by the fact that some believe that very powerful global criminal organizations operate out of the Vatican, the City of London, and Washington DC (as well as possibly Pittsburgh and other cities). This all has to do with an awareness of who the major criminal players on this planet actually are, which is information that is very difficult to acquire and verify.
"National sovereignty led inevitably to war, [J.F.] Dulles argued in 1942. 'The fact of the matter is that economic unity in Europe has primarily been held back by a small group of self-seeking politicians in every nation... Because a lot of politicians want to hold on to the trappings of sovereignty, are we to allow a condition to persist which makes recurrent war inevitable and which now, apparently, also inevitably involves our being drawn into such wars?'"
The incessant european squabbling was pretty well brought to heel by the emergence of the ussr. Sad that we allowed europe to push off on us the major role in containing that threat.
Too bad that we didn't embrace trade with Russia instead of always seeing them as "the enemy".
As Thomas Jefferson advocated, "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none." During the first century of our independence, with this philosophy we became the mightiest economic power in the world." Now we are the greatest debtor nation, and the declining hegemon of the world.
USSR, not Russia. A different time, a different era. The era before that, the Czarist era, though very conflicted, looked to the West. Putin did, too, and we shut him right down.
If I remember correctly, the leaders of the ussr hated our entrails because we did attempt to provide assistance to the white russians but WW I got in the way.
It all sounds wonderful, but we're still in Europe and the Middle East. We need to get OUT, Our founding fathers had the philosophy that we should not entangle ourselves militarily, but spread our influence with trade. Trump has decided the U.S. will "run" Venezuela, in essence saying that if we don't like their form of government, we have the right to step in. While I agree that the U.S. has an absolute interest in not allowing foreign ownership or control of ports and strategically important assets, exactly what are those assets? and can we just add willy-nilly to the list?
Peace through Strength is almost a return to Theodore Roosevelt's strategy of "speak softly and carry a big stick", but a bit more aggressive, a reiteration in new terms of the Monroe Doctrine. I can see how it might be necessary in today's world, but if we recognized God as our protection, and led lives of honesty, caring, and adherence to morality and integrity, we wouldn't need a big military to fight our battles. Of course, the U.S., a formerly Judeo-Christian nation, now has less than 25% of the population who even recognize the necessity for God in their lives, so I guess a big military stick is a necessity.
And I'm left with disappointment that "Make America Great Again" didn't really mean take care of things at home.
Joy, you sound like a glass half empty person. I look around and see much to approve, gas prices going down even here in Gretch's MI (and gas/oil is in the prices of everything!!!). Eggs down, other food stuff down, renewed emphasis on eating real food, exposing the garbage foisted on us - artificial dyes out of foods, GRAS products being reevaluated, hopefully massive reduction. Vaccine schedules decimated, harms exposed (thanks Dr. Malone!). This is the short list, obvious items. If this is not "taking care of home" I don't know what is. And if you are upset about MN, remember it is only one of 50 states. No riots, ICE is quietly eliminating the "young military age men" scourge in most all the other 49. President Trump isn't perfect (none of the previous were either), but man, he sure knows how to get stuff done!
I don't think I'm a "glass half empty" person at all, but I've lived 8 decades so far and I've watched the U.S.A. lose its way. I've watched the development of the deep state, watched the dollar erode again and again, watched the American people throw out morals, watched us get embroiled in wars overseas where we had no business to be, and watched Congress become more and more partisan, as if they're there to serve the Party rather than the Union. I've watched people forget--or never be taught--that we are separate nation-states under a federation and we're not supposed to all look alike, having federal control over everything. In short, I've watched America decline. That's called recognized the half-full glass and celebrating that it's not empty. Recognizing reality is not the same thing as being a pessimist.
Indeed I see some positive things happening. I've consistently praised Kennedy's work, and I recognize that it wouldn't be done without Trump. When I voted for Trump, it was definitely because of Kennedy's support; otherwise I would have written in RFK Jr. on the ballot. I think it's a sign of what I described above that people fight HHS policy changes at all. Because he's in Trump's cabinet, they automatically naysay everything he advocates. Look at the science? Only what Pfizer et al recommends, because so many are bought and paid for and so many Americans have forgotten how to think.
I am encouraged that Covid backfired so spectacularly. I'm dismayed that we have so much corruption within government and that digital IDs and other technocratic programs are being pushed not just worldwide (with nationals like U.K. and Australia which have the same foundation of liberty as we do--English common law and the Magna Carta), going so rapidly down the surveillance road, but in some of the U.S. states as well.
And if I thought our voices didn't matter at all, I wouldn't bother trying to warn others, write letters, take a stand. Our voices DO matter, and I'll keep trying to change things from my own corner of the world until my voice is stilled forever.
Ah, ya got me beat, I'm only 79. While i have to agree that we have both watched the decline you noted, I have decided that it won't prevent me from celebrating the incredible success our President (and those he has drawn around him) has had in turning the country away from those same declines. Whenever I can point out how our "now" is different and corrective than our "then", I will. I feel a lot better doing that than my previous bemoaning. It's even theraputic, "a merry heart doeth good like a medicine".
At this point we have a formidable internal war in process.
Some suggest there is a European or a Mexican direction in play. It is suggested that additional
operations, similar to our Minnesota experience, are widely operational and available for activation.
We also have Chinese land and industry ownerships and islamic encampments to deal with.
As we move toward the Trump Doctrine, we have immediate needs to resolve our evils within.
IMO President Trump and his team are doing their level best to move mountains to get to a better future for all. Now to get ourselves out, active and helping with the push.
As a Viet Nam era vet, I applaud all the concepts in the three documents, and thanks to Dr. Malone for the excellent synopsis. (Note, I never got farther than Oakland Repacement Center, so no combat experience but was redirected to 101st Ft. Campbell and saw the results in returning soldiers). In Viet Nam, we were sent overseas to fight a war, but were not allowed to win the war. That has been US policy ever since Korea. I watched it play out in Afganistan, et al. The capper being Biden's catastrophic disgusting withdrawal. A policy that clearly states that the Military exists to fight and decisively win wars is the only correct one. If the rest of the world knows that, the DOW won't need to conduct wars they aren't allowed to win. Periodic actions like Maduro and Midnight Hammer are pointed reminders that we can project force world wide and are great reminders.
EXCELLENT. I read the entire article.. MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE ON THE CABINET.. :) actually I do get U.S Dept of State weekly bulletin: its free. I posted elsewhere I have been in bed for two days still on antibiotics, THAT IS AN AMAZINGLY WELL DONE ANALYSIS and SUMMATION OF TRUMP's geopolitical strategy. ! I agree 100 percent.. :) I also had some time to think this morning when I started to feel better about the "other stuff" going on.. and I am for sure going to just unsubscribe from the people who irritate me.. :) You so right. We, the US is the world's greatest superpower..and we are done picking up the tab.. for the rest of the world post WW2. The wanna be "players" at the WEF, Nato and EU are not even a shadow of the U.S in terms of the PRUDENCE AND PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH which the US consistently applies under Trump's team and leadership. Thanks for that EXCELLENTLY THOUGHT OUT AND THOROUGH ANALYSIS.
Mapped: Every Known U.S. Military Base Overseas
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-every-known-u-s-military-base-overseas/
https://www.voronoiapp.com/
Does not include bases and troops on U.S. territories. Troop data includes soldiers at embassies.
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/R48123.pdf
https://dwp.dmdc.osd.mil/dwp/app/dod-data-reports/workforce-reports
This is a list of around 800 U.S. military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces currently located in the United States and around the world.
The Pentagon stated in 2014 that there are "around" 5,000 bases total, with "around" 800 of them overseas. We learned that the United States has approximately 800 formal military bases in 80 countries, a number that could exceed 1,000 if you count troops stationed at embassies and missions and so-called “lily-pond” bases, with some 138,000 soldiers stationed around the globe. David Vine, author of Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases at only 11 other countries have Overseas Harm America and the World, reported that only 11 other countries have bases in foreign countries, some 70 altogether.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627791694/basenation#:~:text=In%20this%20powerful%20book%2C%20David%20Vine%20examines%2C%20dismantles%2C,exceed%20what%20the%20Pentagon%20is%20prepared%20to%20acknowledge.
https://www.studyiq.com/articles/list-of-us-military-bases-around-the-world/
Our Europe friends are SO dependent on us for nearly all quality space and intel info. BUT they clearly don't appreciate what they get from us for nearly no $s, hard work, smarts, lessons learned, strategy, blood, sweat, tear,... Hard to work with someone who doesn't appreciate what we do for them. Sad.
While POTUS is the first to honestly address it, the consequences of illicit drugs remain in adequately acknowledged. Illicit drugs are how to destroy a country without firing a single shot. Ironic that trafficking poison is not only profitable, but a way to destroy your customer base simultaneously. Among the many damages wreaked by illicit drugs are; the cost of the drugs, the crime associated to get the drugs, the crime victims, law enforcement costs, judicial system costs, incarceration costs, harm reduction costs, social and family fabric damage, etc.. The price for being complicit in the trafficking of illicit drugs must be more than free housing and sustenance in jail for the rest of one's life. The price can be no less than a forfeiture of that life. If not, all that mayhem continues. Those drug trafficking boats being blown up was a thing of beauty. The interminable war on drugs and it's endless cost finally getting real. Peace through strength; or, if your prefer FAFO.
Maybe if so many Americans hadn't rejected God and tried to fill that God-sized hole in their heart with drugs, we wouldn't have such a problem with drug trafficking.
The “Donroe” doctrine makes perfect sense, hopefully ushing in the “Pax Americana” and peace through strength. I am glad we are securing the western/southern hemisphere (and natural resources), so hopefully, we will have less desperate southern neighbors wanting to migrate here.
But, China has spent billions of dollars in the western hemisphere so it’s hard to see them backing down, but with Trump’s strong leadership, hopefully it will work.
But, the Dept. of Defense/War has not passed a financial audit in 8 years. Repeat: 8 years!!! That’s crazy!
So, if Trump wants to DOUBLE military spending from less than a decade ago, I would sure hope they want to see the books and see where all the missing billions of dollars went: https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/15-trillion-dollars-for-the-department?r=76q58
OH GOD I am afraid to look at .. well let me see if I can't dig myself..
I HAVE TALKED ABOUT WHAT IS CALLED "BLACK BUDGET" for ages.. no one seems to care or no about it.. that is why it is ABOVE TOP SECRET CLEARANCE. (I don't have that I am just a regular person) but it is on the internet .. fringe info. LOL
I love it for so many reasons. It’s a clear statement that articulates American values, and America First.
Currently, I want to see the organized subversion of our government, as seen in Minneapolis, come to an end. If we can extract a dictator who has inflicted so much harm upon America, we can win the campaign against the Democrat, Marxist, Communists, Leftists, Antifa, obstruction of the law too!
IMO, history will place Greg Bovino as the face of courage, endurance, and patriotism, and encouragement, as he led the charge against the illegal invasion orchestrated by the Democratic Party under Biden. He and ICE, Border Patrol, etc., should be applauded for their service, like the soldiers who returned from our foreign wars.
We MUST applaud what is right, and never deride those who face violent and demented criminals, nor should we back down from politicians whose sole purpose is to sow seeds of destruction in our nation—Omar, Frey, Walz, and Ellison—to name a few.
Thanks for the article!! 🇺🇸
Excellent. I must again recommend the new Peter Schweizer book “The Invisible Coup”. It explains all about the mass immigration situation we have in American and how what is happening in Minneapolis with the fraud and violent protests is only the beginning of what “they” have been preparing for.
If we have to have a Department of War - this one appears to have been well thought out. How about a U.S. Department of Peace, please.
Trump just did that.. remember..BOARD OF PEACE.. :) at WEF
https://youtube.com/shorts/CWZwz1J7wHY?si=ad1ht67WUseT9xMu
Maybe we’re meddling one last time in an effort to fix the meddling catastrophes we previously created???
Our Department of War IS a Department of Peace.
America being the empire it is. It’s about time dammit. I hope Trump has an eye on what’s going on in Canada. China has a big foothold up there and Carney is doing all he can to make it even stronger. The US needs to expand because when an empire stops growing it dies.
My articles (written from a libertarian/Austrian school economics perspective) sharply criticizing the National Security Strategy, the most recent Venezuelan intervention, and the Greenland colonization effort (this last one written a little over a year ago) can be found on the Mises Institute website:
https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-national-insecurity-strategy
https://mises.org/mises-wire/venezuelan-war-racket
https://mises.org/mises-wire/should-greenland-become-american-colony
Off topic or maybe not / Bret Weinstein has asked about the lack of attention to the Asian (Chinese) men of military age that have streamed through the Darien Gap and into our country as well. He was there and filmed them as much as he was allowed. I wonder too...
When I read DOW, I still have issue with the wording War, it just feels too much like the support of war. I know, there goes my leaning into pacifism, but words matter. I can understand the image factor, I just have an aversion to promoting the energy around the use as a statement. I am having a hard time explaining my reasoning, we were taught in hospice training to avoid "being at war with cancer" and to focus on the positive healing aspects instead.
Independent journalist/former Green Beret Michael Yon was Dr. Weinstein's tour guide in Panama. The canal zone is one of Michael's frequent stops on his ceaseless global travel. Boots on the ground, camera in hand. Not everyone here is going to like Michael, but I do, and I'm generally ready to hear whatever he has to say.
I also have been there as a guest for two weeks in Panama.. quite the scene, fortunately we had lots of "body guards".. and drivers.. no kidding
A hot spot, destined to grow hotter.
I think it’s supposed to mean that we will only use our might for war, not meddling and “spreading democracy” to unwilling people on the planet.
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HA! And capturing Maduro was not meddling? And "running" Venezuela until "someone suitable" takes over is not meddling? The PTB, including Trump (for who has his ear now?), can find reasons for war anywhere they choose.
Of course, it’s meddling. Alas and alack.
I’ve come across Simon Dixon and his take on things resonates with me. In a nut shell (forgive me where I end up in error) - the world is now run by a Financial Industrial Complex which directs the Military Industrial Complex as we transition into a multipolar world. Trump has been tasked with retreating to a regional power and reducing the dollar to a regional currency. Dixon states the good news for the rest of the world is the US will no longer will be fomenting conflict (ie Middle East), the bad news for American civilians (and Europe/South America) is we will be asset stripped (while the rich get richer) and endure a surveillance, digital ID, dystopian 15 minute city future. He points to Kushner’s clip on the Gaza plans of the future as what it will look like. He says that we may expect orchestrated conflicts to create an outflow from the US as the dollar is weakened and the US is made to look unappealing. He stresses we should look at what’s happening, not what the rhetoric is - like. pushing a strong dollar and America greatness while aligning things to give up reserve currency status, etc.
Since Trump is so closely aligned with Musk and Palantir, I can’t help but think Trump is on board with this technocratic future. He probably doesn’t have an option, anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0anGFIPDvk (interviewer is obviously out of his depth here) I also keep thinking back years ago when Klaus Schwab insisted you must go regional before you go global. And how Tesla houses can lock you inside...
So I popped here.. just because I am snowed in. I also thought twice about the use of DoW...as a military dependent and family.. it would not have been my decision on the other hand we are in a state of UNDECLARED WAR with other Nations.. I am of the VIETNAM "so called non war" generation.. are you old enough to remember that? YES.. over 50k of our boys lost their lives in an undeclared War: IRAN HAS LEGALLY DECLARED WAR ON US. you can look it up.. and I don't know which other countries are legally at WAR with us.. I believe that is why that term was chosen. I do closely follow all Geopolitics,, as the daughter of Army WW2, Korea father RIP.. 100 % disabled upon 23 year retirement. IN MY OPINION. So in response to that it was the most appropriate USE given the AGGRESSIVE STANCE OF NORTH KOREA, IRAN and CHINA and RUSSIA.. not in that order either.. IRAN and NORTH KOREA and CHINA. I will leave to the experts.. like Gen Holt, Gordan Chang and Gen Rasin' Cain.. to figure out such things. Pete Hegseth is going a good job.. and Marco Rubio has all this under control. WORDS DO MATTER and GO AND LISTEN TO SOME OF THE TRANSLATED "CHINESE RESPONSES ON UTUBE TO THE USA" and their attempt to massively interfere with EVERYTHING THAT WE DO and how about the the CHINESE's UNDECLARED WAR of COVID on US and the World? How about IRAN.. having NUCLEAR WEAPON. how comforting is that to you?
Does Iran have a NUCLEAR WEAPON? Or are you talking iZrael points/smack. I hope you got $7,000 for this very informative post. Some of it good and some of it so-so.
OK. So any time the US wants to grab the resources of a country in the American hemisphere, it declares that country to be under the control of drug cartels and kidnap or kill the leader of the country. The documents are blueprints for the militarization of the US and for the absolute right of the US to destroy any government in the American Hemisphere we don't like. There are enough qualifications and prevarications in the document to justify bombing Iran and Yemen and support the bombing and devastation of Gaza. We don't even have to worry about justifying the blockading of Cuba. Anything a little too messy for even these documents, like the interception of oil tankers potentially carrying Russian oil, we simply pass over to the black ops section of the CIA.
Will it include stop interfering with the sovereignty of other nations? Then we will have peace in the world.
read it
Thomas. Go and read that again. anyone who has any concept of HOW DIPLOMACY AND PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH WORKS would have realized that is already baked into the AMERICA FIRST, Protect the Homeland and Peace through Strength concept which if YOU BOTHERED to think about your question, using say Maduro's regime who destroyed the basis for Venezuala to continue to be self sustaining by allowing the "oil infrastructure" to fall into disrepair 20 years ago.. and turn his nation into drug CARTEL nation.. and also stole the most recent election (HE LOST) and then taunted TRUMP all while dealing w/ CHINA and IRAN and RUSSIA. IN OUR BACK YARD.. (which is WHY THEY MONROE DOCTRINE and NOW an updated iteration of the Monroe Doctine had to be put into place after BIDEN LET 20 millions illegal aliens into the USA... which includes DRUG CARTELS, and HUMAN TRAFFICKING. THAT IS WHAT THE NDS 2026 is all about which YOU OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T read. In fact .. in my view.. OTHER NATIONS ARE INTERFERING W/ OUR SOVEREIGNTY BY FLOODING THE ZONE W/ a CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS.. Oh that would be the DEMOCRATS who do not give a fat rat's ass about anything other than POWER. FULL STOP on you
Don't disagree with your viewpoint. I only raise the issue in historical terms because of CIA disrupting countries around the world for providing economic gain for special interests. Indonesia is one that comes to mind. Many more Also, how have these subvert policies contributed to the mass immigration that is now destabilizing countries especially in Europe. Biden's open border policy was stupidity beyond belief.
I do have to agree that the CIA is still a concern, as they seem to function under the radar in so many ways. It will be something to watch whether the DOW using these directives can expose, overrule and end the nation building stuff CIA is known for. Though if done right, we may never know...
Ya, no one is dealing with the ChIA in the way they should be dealt with. I don’t know if RICO is the way to go. Maybe a USSR-type purge?
As long as "other nations" are allowed to host and protect global criminal organizations within their borders, I see no chance for world peace if a policy of total non-interference is put in place. This is complicated by the fact that some believe that very powerful global criminal organizations operate out of the Vatican, the City of London, and Washington DC (as well as possibly Pittsburgh and other cities). This all has to do with an awareness of who the major criminal players on this planet actually are, which is information that is very difficult to acquire and verify.
Sad but true.
"National sovereignty led inevitably to war, [J.F.] Dulles argued in 1942. 'The fact of the matter is that economic unity in Europe has primarily been held back by a small group of self-seeking politicians in every nation... Because a lot of politicians want to hold on to the trappings of sovereignty, are we to allow a condition to persist which makes recurrent war inevitable and which now, apparently, also inevitably involves our being drawn into such wars?'"
"Tower of Basel"
Ch. 11
Adam Lebor
The incessant european squabbling was pretty well brought to heel by the emergence of the ussr. Sad that we allowed europe to push off on us the major role in containing that threat.
Too bad that we didn't embrace trade with Russia instead of always seeing them as "the enemy".
As Thomas Jefferson advocated, "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none." During the first century of our independence, with this philosophy we became the mightiest economic power in the world." Now we are the greatest debtor nation, and the declining hegemon of the world.
Well, when they were the ussr and their leader promised to bury us, they pretty well were our enemies.
USSR, not Russia. A different time, a different era. The era before that, the Czarist era, though very conflicted, looked to the West. Putin did, too, and we shut him right down.
If I remember correctly, the leaders of the ussr hated our entrails because we did attempt to provide assistance to the white russians but WW I got in the way.
It all sounds wonderful, but we're still in Europe and the Middle East. We need to get OUT, Our founding fathers had the philosophy that we should not entangle ourselves militarily, but spread our influence with trade. Trump has decided the U.S. will "run" Venezuela, in essence saying that if we don't like their form of government, we have the right to step in. While I agree that the U.S. has an absolute interest in not allowing foreign ownership or control of ports and strategically important assets, exactly what are those assets? and can we just add willy-nilly to the list?
Peace through Strength is almost a return to Theodore Roosevelt's strategy of "speak softly and carry a big stick", but a bit more aggressive, a reiteration in new terms of the Monroe Doctrine. I can see how it might be necessary in today's world, but if we recognized God as our protection, and led lives of honesty, caring, and adherence to morality and integrity, we wouldn't need a big military to fight our battles. Of course, the U.S., a formerly Judeo-Christian nation, now has less than 25% of the population who even recognize the necessity for God in their lives, so I guess a big military stick is a necessity.
And I'm left with disappointment that "Make America Great Again" didn't really mean take care of things at home.
yes, echoes of Teddy, most definitely
Joy, you sound like a glass half empty person. I look around and see much to approve, gas prices going down even here in Gretch's MI (and gas/oil is in the prices of everything!!!). Eggs down, other food stuff down, renewed emphasis on eating real food, exposing the garbage foisted on us - artificial dyes out of foods, GRAS products being reevaluated, hopefully massive reduction. Vaccine schedules decimated, harms exposed (thanks Dr. Malone!). This is the short list, obvious items. If this is not "taking care of home" I don't know what is. And if you are upset about MN, remember it is only one of 50 states. No riots, ICE is quietly eliminating the "young military age men" scourge in most all the other 49. President Trump isn't perfect (none of the previous were either), but man, he sure knows how to get stuff done!
I don't think I'm a "glass half empty" person at all, but I've lived 8 decades so far and I've watched the U.S.A. lose its way. I've watched the development of the deep state, watched the dollar erode again and again, watched the American people throw out morals, watched us get embroiled in wars overseas where we had no business to be, and watched Congress become more and more partisan, as if they're there to serve the Party rather than the Union. I've watched people forget--or never be taught--that we are separate nation-states under a federation and we're not supposed to all look alike, having federal control over everything. In short, I've watched America decline. That's called recognized the half-full glass and celebrating that it's not empty. Recognizing reality is not the same thing as being a pessimist.
Indeed I see some positive things happening. I've consistently praised Kennedy's work, and I recognize that it wouldn't be done without Trump. When I voted for Trump, it was definitely because of Kennedy's support; otherwise I would have written in RFK Jr. on the ballot. I think it's a sign of what I described above that people fight HHS policy changes at all. Because he's in Trump's cabinet, they automatically naysay everything he advocates. Look at the science? Only what Pfizer et al recommends, because so many are bought and paid for and so many Americans have forgotten how to think.
I am encouraged that Covid backfired so spectacularly. I'm dismayed that we have so much corruption within government and that digital IDs and other technocratic programs are being pushed not just worldwide (with nationals like U.K. and Australia which have the same foundation of liberty as we do--English common law and the Magna Carta), going so rapidly down the surveillance road, but in some of the U.S. states as well.
And if I thought our voices didn't matter at all, I wouldn't bother trying to warn others, write letters, take a stand. Our voices DO matter, and I'll keep trying to change things from my own corner of the world until my voice is stilled forever.
Ah, ya got me beat, I'm only 79. While i have to agree that we have both watched the decline you noted, I have decided that it won't prevent me from celebrating the incredible success our President (and those he has drawn around him) has had in turning the country away from those same declines. Whenever I can point out how our "now" is different and corrective than our "then", I will. I feel a lot better doing that than my previous bemoaning. It's even theraputic, "a merry heart doeth good like a medicine".
Much too soon to speak in the past tense about MAGA.
Impressive and heartening. Now, how to get to it.
At this point we have a formidable internal war in process.
Some suggest there is a European or a Mexican direction in play. It is suggested that additional
operations, similar to our Minnesota experience, are widely operational and available for activation.
We also have Chinese land and industry ownerships and islamic encampments to deal with.
As we move toward the Trump Doctrine, we have immediate needs to resolve our evils within.
IMO President Trump and his team are doing their level best to move mountains to get to a better future for all. Now to get ourselves out, active and helping with the push.
As a Viet Nam era vet, I applaud all the concepts in the three documents, and thanks to Dr. Malone for the excellent synopsis. (Note, I never got farther than Oakland Repacement Center, so no combat experience but was redirected to 101st Ft. Campbell and saw the results in returning soldiers). In Viet Nam, we were sent overseas to fight a war, but were not allowed to win the war. That has been US policy ever since Korea. I watched it play out in Afganistan, et al. The capper being Biden's catastrophic disgusting withdrawal. A policy that clearly states that the Military exists to fight and decisively win wars is the only correct one. If the rest of the world knows that, the DOW won't need to conduct wars they aren't allowed to win. Periodic actions like Maduro and Midnight Hammer are pointed reminders that we can project force world wide and are great reminders.
Sounds good to me. During the Biden administration I believe the world perceived us weak because of a weak and feeble President.