♦President Trump’s foreign policy approach brought North and South Korea together away from the table of conflict. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy approach brought Serbia and Kosovo together away from the table of conflict. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy rallied the Gulf Cooperation Council to stop Qatar’s support for Islamic extremists via the Muslim Brotherhood. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy brought Turkey and the Kurdish forces together away from war and conflict. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy created a ceasefire to stop the bloodshed in Syria. President Trump mediated a cessation of hostilities between India & Pakistan in the Kashmir region. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy brought Israel and the UAE together… and then Bahrain… and then Sudan in the Abraham Accords.
President Trump executes a clear foreign policy, a unique doctrine of sorts, where national security is achieved by leveraging U.S. economic power. It has been a fundamental shift in approaching both allies and adversaries; summarized within the oft repeated phrase: “economic security is national security.”
The Trump Doctrine of using economics to achieve national security objectives is a paradigm shift in American politics. Modern U.S. history provides no easy reference strategy, because until now no American president has ever leveraged this approach.
U.S. B-2 bombers struck Iran on June 22, 2025, as part of Operation Midnight Hammer, targeting key nuclear facilities.
Immediately following the August 2025, Alaska summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump, Russia restarted Arctic-2 LNG terminals and began increasing natural gas (LNG) production for storage on ‘floating platforms.’
President Trump met with President Putin on August 15, 2025, and the curious increase in Russian production began on August 18, 2025.
It absolutely did not make sense that Russia would start producing even more LNG considering the previously imposed western sanctions against them, and the fact that Russia was already overproducing LNG. As noted by analysts at the time. Russia had no market for this LNG, yet Russia began increasing LNG supply anyway. For six months Vladimir Putin extracted and stored LNG.
Two months later, on October 25, 2025, President Trump did something odd. President Trump had attended the ASEAN summit in Asia before; however, this time instead of flying West over the Pacific, he flew east to Malaysia. This put a refueling stop in Qatar, which everyone just ignored as a routine part of the travel plan.
However, upon arrival in Qatar, the Amir of Qatar came to the airport to pay a courtesy visit to President Trump. They spoke aboard Airforce One during the refueling stop.
Four months later, on February 28, 2026, Operation Epic Fury against Iran began.
Within 36 hours Qatar announced they were shutting down all LNG production, following retaliatory strikes carried out by Iran. Overnight the price of LNG skyrocketed, and immediate concerns were raised by ASEAN countries who are heavily reliant on LNG production from the Gulf.
Southeast Asia doesn’t use LNG for heating (don’t need it), that specific cheap energy resource powers everything else in their economy, cooking, transportation, electricity etc.
Six months earlier Russia began storing LNG and oil on floating platforms with no customers. A few days after Qatar made their March force majeure shutdown announcement, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issued an interim license for Russia to sell oil and gas that was loaded onto “floating platforms and vessels” before March 12 and was valid through midnight Washington time on April 11. [Treasury Notice Here – OFAC Technical Details Here]
Either Russian President Putin was the luckiest guy in the world, or Russia knew something. In August 2025 what Russia did following the Alaska summit did not make sense. In March 2026 what they were doing for the past six months suddenly looked like something more than simply fortuitous.
♦ On August 25, 2026, CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unexpected trip to Moscow. Western media reported that CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow to warn his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin, head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), about striking Baltic NATO states. Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed this western framing.
Three days after CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s visit, Russia blew up a massive ammunition depot in Kiev that Zelenskyy claimed he didn’t know about. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the placement of a weapons depot next to civilians was “terrible negligence.” The first impact, he said, hit a depot storing shells, mines, other munitions, and drones that “definitely shouldn’t have been there.”
On September 5, 2026, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled to Moscow to discuss ceasefire negotiations. On September 8, President Trump and President Putin held a telephone call to discuss the visit. President Putin’s senior aide Yury Ushakov documented the phone call in a Kremlin readout.
Part of the readout: “[Russia’s] vision of the overall progress on the battlefield and achieving the goals and objectives of the special military operation. Speaking of which, actual tangible actions that the Americans could take to expedite the cessation of the hostilities were outlined.”
President Putin outlined tangible actions “Americans could take”?
Russian President Putin doesn’t believe that President Trump or any other U.S. President actually controls the mechanisms of government. This opinion is underlined and emphasized when it comes to the U.S. Intelligence Community and the CIA.
Putin has often stated that no U.S. President controls the CIA, and Putin has said while he never views the U.S. President or the people of America as his enemy, the CIA are the problem. Putin views the CIA as the real control mechanism within the U.S. government. America is not Russia’s enemy, the CIA is. That’s Putin’s perspective in a nutshell.
Obviously, President Trump would counter that outlook by saying no, he is in control of the USIC and all the downstream institutions. Unfortunately, President Putin would be incredulous to the possibility; he has a lifetime of watching things unfold like “Russiagate.”
So, here’s my point:
Did Trump just tell Ratcliffe to send “one ping only“?
Basically, using the timing of 9/11 anniversary to prove to Putin he does actually have control over the CIA.
The ping:
RELATED: KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian diesel, saying the attacks are causing a fuel shortage.
Trump was asked by a reporter if he had spoken with Zelenskyy following his recent conversation with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Trump responded by calling on Zelenskyy to halt strikes against Russia.
“Mr. Zelensky has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the Irish Open, which is being played at his Doonbeg golf club. “Let him go after targets but not diesel fuel, because he’s causing a shortage of diesel fuel.” (more)
Captain Ramius:
Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.
Capt. Vasili Borodin:
Aye, Captain.
“The Hunt for Red October” was one of the best cold war movies, and the book was great too.
We’ll know if he does if the strikes stop. If they don’t…
I thought diesel was a by-product of producing gasoline.?
Gasoline is a light fraction of crude oil.
Diesel, jet fuel, heating oil are middle-weight fractions of crude oil.
Crude oil, as a raw material, emerges as a natural product from the good earth in many different grades, viscosities (the “thickness”), specific gravities, colors, chemical compositions, usually some combination of liquid, gaseous, salt water, other elements such as sulfur.
For example, America Shale Oil is typically light weight low viscosity, almost like gasoline, low sulfur.
By contrast, Venezuela crude oil is thick, heavy, sulfurous, acidic.
Chemical engineers that build and run refineries can “mix” the two in process to make a variety of end products ranging from heavy and thick to light.
One thing we are finding out…
We don’t know what we don’t know.
Out of the public view, the Trumpian wheels are churning 24/7.
Those who take issue with President Trump over this or that, really should take a seat and watch as all the pieces of the puzzle which is only beginning to be deciphered fall into place, God willing.
Again, the pendulum has started on its return journey.
Sounds to me like you’re telling us to shut up and color with a box of 64.
we are in a quagmire.
this is close to madness.
Pogo
If you’re close to madness, you could be a democrat.
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That’s not what Betsy said at all…..but you know that.
Additionally:
1. We are NOT in a quagmire.
2. Your “fake quagmire” is NOT close to madness, but quagmire believing agitators are. Seek help.
Not at all, Pogo…
I choose my words very carefully….always.
Please reread.
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With all due respect to PDJT47, he isn’t in control of the defense-intelligence-industrial complex. The career deepstaters know how the game is played and are just waiting to reemerge from hiding.
He’s also not in control of zelensky, so telling zelensky where he is sensitive is either a huge mistake or reverse psychology and he WANTS the ukes to keep hitting Russian diesel.
Since we are stuck with the iran war until at least November, from my perspective it looks like PDJT47 is misplaying his hand.
The anti-Trump globalists are doing all they can to keep fuel prices spiking, because they know the pathetic US electorate doesn’t know enough to avoid it driving election results. Using our own media and whiners against us.
Perhaps
Perhaps not
Time will tell
We will all have to wait and see what actually happens.
Yes, I can’t tell you how much I would always cringe every time Trump said he could end the war in just days.
Trump is not the one that will decide when, or how this war will end, it will be the Russians, and the Europeans.
Ju jitsu is a martial art that uses an opponent’s energy and momentum against them. That’s how a seemingly weaker fighter can “control” a stronger opponent.
President Trump has become proficient at political ju jitsu. Our President is in fact controlling all of the people you mentioned in your post.
He has not killed the IC Deep State, but he weakens it with every round he fights, utilizing the tools and information Tulsi Gabbard gave him.
It’s so very easy to be an Eyeore-like Nattering Nabob of Negativism.
It would be nice to see more people rise above that ultimate base level by praying in faith for God to heal our land.
President Trump truly is our very stable genius who’s an American Firster! Praise the Lord! Godspeed President Trump!
I don’t know if he’s a genius or not, but he most certainly understands and employs the tremendous power of economics that, until now, have been treated merely as a supporting tool in achieving dominance.
May our Lord protect PDJT.
Trump is indeed a genius…. way beyond Einstein and Mozart and Musk. Huge topic.
In 3 months, this “Conspiracy Theory” will be proven true.
You are not in control if you have to play games to get your message out.
CIA control of US was in the open when Kenndys killed, Nixon watergate involved all EX (?) CIA break in suspect’s. 9/11 CIA and FBI allowed to go forward to have wars in middle east and Trump RUSSIA RUSSIA attempt.
CIA AND FBI NEED SERIOUS REFORMING.
I had rather they be removed and replaced. Scorched earth. Far too many rogue elements with far too much unaccounted for money. Start by cutting off ALL money supplies legal or otherwise. The start low and offer amnesty to the underlings to rollover on the uppers. Set examples and be ruthless in doing so, for beginners…
“The Trump Doctrine of using economics to achieve national security objectives is a paradigm shift in American politics. Modern U.S. history provides no easy reference strategy, because until now no American president has ever leveraged this approach.”
Because no American president has ever excelled in being a businessman and investor in the modern sense dealing with modern problems. PDJT is a businessman first and politician second.
And a genius who loves God and loves America.
And it appears Ukraine has now hit a Warsaw bound passenger train with EU intent to blame Russia.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/attack-drone-hits-warsaw-bound-passenger-train-near-polish-border-raising-nato-spillover
Right on cue.
If one reads Sky News they might believe that Boris Johnson and several other politicians and former heads escaped with their lives. There is one thing though, they were on a different train.
https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-in-ukraine-security-scare-after-train-hit-by-russian-drone-reports-13585471
Guaranteed, Ukraine has possession of Russian drones, or at least control of the narrative. It’s interesting that so many people don’t believe a word from the US government but when “western media” speaks it must be believed.
Note the recent western media lamenting the black woman found hanging in a tree and lo and behold, the police arrested her black boyfriend. I believe western media has also said repeatedly that Ukraine is winning and Trump was going to jail.
Speaking of ‘right on cue’ . . .
In a related story the Polish Foreign Minister had this to say:
“If Russia attacked us and we took our gloves off, I think we will defeat Russia quite quickly, we have overwhelming superiority over Russia in airpower.”
— Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslav Sikorski
Who is Radoslav Sikorski besides the Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland?
He has served as Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs twice, first from 2007 to 2014 and again since 2023.
In addition to his role as Foreign Minister, he became Deputy Prime Minister in 2025.
Sikorski has also held various significant positions, including Minister of National Defence and Speaker of the Sejm.
He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2023, where he was active on the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Sikorski is recognized for his role in launching the EU’s Eastern Partnership and establishing the European Endowment for Democracy.
He led the EU mission to Kyiv in 2014 during the Maidan protests.
His efforts have earned him recognition as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine.
Sikorski is married to journalist and author Anne Applebaum and and has worked as a war correspondent in various conflict zones, including Afghanistan and Angola.
https://xcancel.com/TheOtherSideRu/status/2099171941294739895#m
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Cui bono? Not Russia. Ergo…
Does Ratcliffe have control of the CIA?
Pretty easy to agree with Putin that np POTUS controls them.
The communists control our CIA… Is Ratcliffe a commie?
I believe Putin to be correct in that no President nor the Director controls all portions of the IC.
President Trump has the clout to control our CIA…
For example: President Trump can cancel the secuity clearences of the communists in control of out CIA…
Why he hasn’t done so… Why he didn’t do so to help Tulsi, is beyobd my power to figger out…
The sub-terrainian CIA, that’s not answerable to its publicly appointed leadership, has almost never worked to further America’s interests. It is always to further its own globalist goals.
Just look at their origins. Sorry dogs.
Could it be that Radcliffe, under the control of PDJT, is actually in control of the CIA deep state, but they don’t realize it? Radcliffe acting as if he is just trying to make everything work without disruption is actually the plan.
Knowing the IC could get back at him “6 ways from Sunday” would obviously require a different sort of plan that would make it look like the deep state is still in charge. No one with any sense, including PDJT, thinks wading into the swamp and pulling the plug would work, so, we have something different. Trump took on the unions and the mob in New York so he knows a little about working with difficult people.
We’ll see.
Give a man a HIMARS and he’ll destroy a refinery.
Zelensky broke a window. The West handed him the brick, pointed at the window, and is now shocked that there’s glass everywhere and a draft.
The Chain of Events:
U.S./West gives Ukraine weapons→ Ukraine uses them to strike Russian refineries
Russian refinery capacity drops ~25% → Domestic fuel crisis in Russia
Putin bans diesel exports → ~800,000 barrels/day removed from global market
Global diesel shortage → Prices spike worldwide
U.S. diesel hits $6/gallon(record high) → 63% increase for truckers/farmers
U.S. responds by exporting record diesel (1.9 million barrels/day) → Draining domestic supplies further
White House considers Defense Production Act → Emergency measures to expand refining: i.e. give billion dollar companies our hard earned money to build out their refineries
Why not just ban the export of diesel fuel?
The U.S. and the West funded attacks that reduced global diesel supply, which raised prices globally, which now requires the US to export more diesel (further draining domestic supply), leading to $6/gallon diesel at home – creating economic pain for the very countries supporting Ukraine.
This is essentially a **self-imposed energy sanction** that backfired.
The policy architects who designed this — they had the information, the authority, and the obligation to think five moves ahead. Instead they thought one move ahead, patted themselves on the back, and are now surprised to find themselves in check.
They gave a man a weapon without apparently asking: “What happens if this works?”
U.S. diesel exports surge to record
Global scramble for diesel is increasingly draining U.S. supplies
The U.S. shipped a record amount of distillate fuel overseas last week as domestic stockpiles fell again, the latest sign that the global scramble for diesel is increasingly draining U.S. supplies.
Exports of distillate fuel, a category that predominantly includes diesel as well as heating oil and other products, rose to 1.9 million barrels a day last week, according to data released Aug. 5 by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
That’s the largest number on record, eclipsing the earlier high-water mark set in May.
Exports in the last two weeks have most frequently gone to northwestern Europe, according to data from energy analytics company Vortexa Ltd.
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/us-diesel-exports-surge-record
To the foreign policy approach, don’t forget Central and South America. Then there is also Canada/Mexico. A very comprehensive approach. Then there is the economic war on Iran to accomplish 3 goals: no nukes, no exercise of power beyond borders ( ie, terrorism), and unconditional surrender. Doing that without a ground invasion is remarkable, kind of a throw back to the ancient siege tactics.
backchannels good.
workarounds excellent.
PT solicits ideas.
PP happy to oblige.
PT says “ok, watch this”.
PT gonna keep Vasily busy.
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There are always operations and missions that traditionally are best (and appropriately) carried out by the CIA.
Looking at recent election results in Europe, I’ve been wondering how much CIA does Trump have that he can reliably call on to carry out needed operations, and how much of the old, deep state CIA is still carrying out its own missions?
How much operational difference is there between MI6 and deep state CIA? How many pairs of eyes are there in the current Five Eyes—and how many of them are looking from the White House outward?
There have been voices insinuating that Xi has been removing Chinese deep state leaders from his military.
IF we’re living through a global purge of rogue agencies and non-governmental power interests… I guess we should expect to be dealing with a lot of puke. “Clean up on Aisle Earth.”
Putin would never trust that a President has control over the IC, and even if Trump has some small measure of control, he will only be in office for another two years.
Putin, and the Russians are on their own path, and aren’t likely to deviate.
Genius ! He learned in the first term how utterly corrupt the “system “ was and is ,be of good conscience and watch the master at his trade. I think we’ll be well pleased
Carney’s Plan to Make Canada an ‘Associate Member’ of the EU Is Breaking the Internet.
Ukraine and Canada members of the EU?
Canada is 4000 miles from Europe with no transport capability.
Carney is looting Canada. Tear up USMCA already.