Tucker Carlson played the full interview excerpt where President Donald Trump answered the question about who blew up the Nordstream pipeline. {Direct Rumble Link}. Within the answer, President Trump doesn’t want to undermine the Biden administration, yet we know who was responsible.
What you notice again from the totality of President Trump’s responses and worldview is the unique nature of the honesty. In the most consequential of ways, President Trump was the single most consequential foreign policy president in a generation. We forget that during Trump’s term in office, the headlines about North and South Korea were not about conflict, but rather about the possibility of unification on the Korean peninsula.
Two large elements played out when Trump was in office. First, economic security is national security. Second, “peace is the prize.” Through both elements the Trump Doctrine was born and the effectiveness, while downplayed and ignored, was unmistakable. WATCH:
♦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 executed a clear foreign policy, a unique doctrine of sorts, where national security is achieved by leveraging U.S. economic power. It was 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 was a fundamental paradigm shift. Modern U.S. history provided no easy reference for the effective outcome.
The nature of the Trump foreign policy doctrine, as it became visible, was to hold manipulative influence agents accountable for regional impact(s); and simultaneously work to stop any corrupted influence from oppressing free expression of national values held by the subservient, dis-empowered, people within the nation being influenced.
There were clear examples of this doctrine at work. When President Trump first visited the Middle East, he confronted the international audience with a message about dealing with extremist influence agents. President Trump simply said: “drive them out.”
Toward that end, as Qatar was identified as a financier of extremist ideology, President Trump placed the goal of confrontation upon the Gulf Cooperation Council, not the U.S.
The U.S. role was clearly outlined as supporting the confrontation. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates needed to confront the toxic regional influence; the U.S. would support their objective. That’s what happened.
Another example: To confront the extremism creating the turmoil in Afghanistan, President Trump placed the burden of bringing the Taliban to the table of governance upon primary influence agent Pakistan.
Here again, with U.S. support. Pakistan was the leading influence agent over the Taliban in Afghanistan; the Trump administration correctly established the responsibility and gave clear expectations for U.S. support.
If Pakistan doesn’t change their influence objective toward a more constructive alignment with a nationally representative Afghanistan government, it was Pakistan who will be held accountable.
Again, the correct and effective appropriation of responsibility upon the influence agent who can initiate the solution, Pakistan.
The process of accurate regional assignment of influence comes with disconcerting sunlight. Often these influences are not discussed openly. However, for President Trump the lack of honesty is only a crutch to continue enabling poor actors. This is a consistent theme throughout all of President Trump’s foreign policy engagements.
The European Union is a collective co-dependent enabler to the corrupt influences of Iran. Therefore, the assignment of responsibility to change the status was placed upon the EU.
The U.S. would fully support the EU effort, but as seen in the withdrawal from the Iran Deal, President Trump would not enable growth of toxic behavior. The U.S. stands with the people of Iran, but the U.S. will not support the enabling of Iranian oppression, terrorism and/or dangerous military expansion that will ultimately destabilize the region.
President Trump made the policy clear, then held the EU accountable for helping to influence change. Again, we saw the Trump Doctrine at work.
Perhaps the most obvious application of the Trump Doctrine was found in how the U.S. administration approached the challenging behavior of North Korea. Rather than continuing a decades-long policy of ignoring the influence of China, President Trump directly assigned primary responsibility for a DPRK reset to Beijing.
China held, and holds, all influence upon North Korea and has long treated the DPRK as a proxy province to do the bidding of Beijing’s communist old guard.
By directly confronting the influence agent and admitting openly for the world to see (albeit with jaw-dropping tactical sanction diplomacy) President Trump positioned the U.S. to support a peace objective on the entire Korean peninsula and simultaneously forced China to openly display their closely guarded influence.
While the Red Dragon -vs- Panda influence dynamic was quietly playing out in the background, the benefit of this new and strategic approach brought the possibility of peace between the two Koreas’ closer than ever in history.
No longer was it outlandish to think of North Korea joining with the rest of the world in achieving a better quality of life for its people.
Not only was President Trump openly sharing a willingness to engage in a new and dynamic future for North Korea, but his approach is removing the toxic influences that have held down the possibility for generations.
By leveraging China (through economics) to stop manipulating North Korea, President Trump was opening a door of possibilities for the North Korean people. This is what I meant when I said Trump was providing North Korea with an opportunity to create an authentic version of itself.
What ultimately came from the opportunity President Trump constructed was lost in the 2020 U.S. election outcome. However, the opportunity itself was stunning progress creating a reasonable pathway to prosperity for the North Korean people.
Chairman Kim Jong-un had the opportunity to be the most trans-formative leader within Asia in generations; but it was always only an ‘opportunity’ that could exist if President Trump remained in place to provide it.
Whether Kim Jong-un could embrace openness, free markets and prosperity was never seen. But we saw the opportunity that was nonexistent without Trump’s guiding hand to create it.
♦The commonality in those foreign policy engagements was the strategic placement of responsibility upon the primary influence agent; and a clear understanding upon those nation(s) of influence, that all forward efforts must ultimately provide positive results for people impacted who lack the ability to create positive influence themselves.
One of the reasons President Trump was able to take this approach was specifically because he was beholden to no outside influence himself.
It is only from the position of complete independence that accurate assignments based on the underlying truth can be made; and that took us to the ultimate confrontations – the trillion-dollar confrontations.
A U.S. foreign policy that provides the opportunity for fully realized national authenticity was a paradigm shift amid a world that had grown accustomed to corrupt globalists, bankers and financial elites who have established a business model by dictating terms to national leaders they control and influence.
We had/have our own frame of reference with K-Street lobbyists in Washington DC. Much of President Trump’s global trade reset was based on confronting these multinational influence agents.
When you take the influence of corporate/financial brokers out of foreign policy, all of a sudden, those global influence peddlers are worthless. Absent of their ability to provide any benefit, nations no longer purchase these brokered services.
As soon as influence brokers are dispatched, national politicians become accountable to the voices of their citizens. When representing the voices of citizens becomes the primary political driver of national policy, the authentic image of the nation is allowed to surface.
In western, or what we would call ‘more democratized systems of government‘, the consequence of removing multinational corporate and financial influence peddlers presents two options for the governing authority occupying political office:
♦ One option was to refuse to allow the authentic voice of a nationalist citizenry to rise. Essentially to commit to a retention of the status quo; an elitist view; a globalist perspective. This requires shifting to a more openly authoritarian system of government within both the economic and social spheres. Those who control the reins of power refuse to acquiesce to a changed landscape.
♦The second option is to allow the authentic and organic rise of nationalism. To accept the voices of the middle-class majority; to structure the economic and social landscape in a manner that allows the underlying identity to surface naturally.
Fortunately, we are living in a time of great history, and we had multiple examples surfacing around the world. Prior national elections in Poland, Hungary, Italy, Brazil and right here in the U.S. via Donald Trump highlighted responses to dysfunctional multiculturalism and financial influences from corrupt elites within the institutions of globalist advocacy: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Two specific reference points played out in real time. One was the U.K. and voices of the British people who voted to Brexit the European Union. The second was Mexico, and the July 1st, 2018, election of Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador (aka AMLO), a nationalist.
In the U.K. we saw the government turning more authoritarian and distancing itself from the voices of the majority who chose to rebuke the collective association of the EU. Initially, the U.K. government took a harsher approach toward suppressing opposition, and as a consequence oppressing free speech and civil liberties. [Insert the example of Tommy Robinson here – there are many others.]
This did not come as a surprise to those who follow the arc of history when the collective global elite are challenged or rejected. Globalism can only thrive amid a class structure where the elites, though few in number, have more controlling power over the direction of government.
It is not accidental the EU has appointed officials and unelected bureaucrats in Brussels as the primary decision-making authority. By its very nature the EU collective requires a central planning authority who can act independent of the underlying national voices.
As the Trump Doctrine clashed with the European global elite, the withdrawal of the U.S. financial underwriting created a natural problem. Subsidies are needed to retain multiculturalism. If a national citizenry has to pay for the indulgent decisions of the influence class, a crisis becomes only a matter of time.
Wealth distribution requires a host.
Since the end of World War II, the U.S. had been a bottomless treasury for EU subsidy. The payments have been direct and indirect. The indirect have been via U.S. military bases providing security, the NATO alliance, and also by U.S. trade policy permitting one-way tariff systems. Both forms of indirect payment were being reversed as part of the modern Trump Doctrine.
Similarly, in Mexico the Trump Doctrine extended toward changed trade policies, this time via NAFTA.
The restructuring of NAFTA into the USMCA disfavors multinational corporations and financial holdings who have exploited structural loopholes that were designed into the original agreement.
With President Trump confronting the NAFTA fatal flaw, and absent of the ability of corporations to influence the direction of the administration, the trade deal ultimately presented the same outcome for Mexico as it does the EU – LESS DOLLARS.
However, in Mexico, the larger systems of government were not as strongly structured to withstand the withdrawal of billions of U.S. dollars. The government of Mexico is not in the same position as the EU and cannot double-down on more oppressive controls. Therefore, the authentic voice of the Mexican people was more likely to rise.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) is a nationalist, but he is not a free-market capitalist. AMLO is more akin to soft-socialist approach with a view that when the central governing authority is constrained, and operates in the best interests of its citizens, equity can be achieved.
The fabric of socialism runs naturally through the DNA strain of Mexico, and indeed much of South America. This is one of the reasons why previous Mexican governments were so corrupt. Multinational corporations always find it easier to exploit socialist minded government officials.
When bribery and graft are the natural way of business engagement, the multinationals will exploit every opportunity to maximize profit. Withdraw the benefit (loophole exploitation) to the financial systems, and the bribery and graft dries up quickly. A bottom-up nationalist like AMLO, is the ultimate beneficiary.
The authentic-sense of the Mexican people rises in the persona of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador – who actually does personify the underlying nature of the classic Mexican class-struggle.
Thus, we saw two similar yet distinct outcomes of the Trump Doctrine. Within a highly structured U.K. parliamentary government the leadership becomes more authoritarian and rebukes the electorate; and in Mexico a less structured government becomes more nationalist, more prideful, and embraces the underlying nature of the electorate.
It is not accidental the historic nature of the U.K. is a monarchy (top down), and the historic nature of Mexico is populist (bottom up). Revolution notwithstanding, both countries responded to the Trump doctrine by returning to their roots.
REMINDER April, 2018 – SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in said U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, a South Korean official said on Monday.
“President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace,” Moon told a meeting of senior secretaries, according to a presidential Blue House official who briefed media.
Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday pledged at a summit to end hostilities between their countries and work toward the “complete denuclearization” of the Korean peninsula.
The Sage of South Florida has spoken. what an excellent set of cliff notes of the Trump policies. thank you, Sundance.
I like SD more than Mencken.
Same here, however, there seems to be a tight coefficient of determination between my age and Mencken making sense to me. Dang hard to grow older and not gain a heathy dose of cynicism
Haha, well said!
Thank you Sundance for your detailed explanations. Yes we are living in a true never seen before revolution where the good life of the 20th century has produced money/power-hungry elitists who are so evil they promote a “safe” deadly weapon in order to kill millions of Earth’s inhabitants, without consequence.
“It is remarkable to contemplate what might have been…”
Yes it is.
Sadly, there are people who are either incapable or uninterested in contemplating anything.
Then there are the people who really just don’t care one way or the other.
Some people just want to watch the world burn
And a lot of people think they’ll be the last ones eaten by the alligator.
… what’s new on Netfix like… you know… the important things in life…
This,,,we could see the possible,and they stole it all away..
If we and the rest of the citizens of the nations had not seen the possible, would we even be standing up against these evil persons today?
Will we continue to rise, remembering what had been just a few short years ago?
If Trump had not been successful, more generations would be succumbing to Obama’s “New Normal.” jmo
I had a very wise father, and he often commented that it was the goal of Madison Avenue and American business to keep the public preoccupied with financially surviving. When the public is worrying about their finances, it keeps them focused and out of politics.
Thank you. An excellent article.
“All we are saying is give peace a chance…”
The operative word is “saying” it’s only talk. The same group that deified the Beatles in this case John Lennon and the big deal at the time was Vietnam, are now screaming blow up the Ukraine and lets defend Taiwan at all costs.
You know. “Make love not war” have a new lyric; “All we are saying is give war a chance” …all as long as we can, remove God, have sexual confusion, forced injections, 3rd world invasions, hyper-inflation, criminal syndicates for governments (WEF), racial strife, chaos-chaos-chaos…then it’s okay to blow the hell out of anything thing you like.
The swamp and the swamp rats are vicious, blood thirsty, demons and they don’t give a rip how many people they have to kill to achieve their dystopia (Cuba), “The ends justify the means – If it feels good do it – Stick it to the man” Now we can whip those slogans into reality and it’s ugly and dark. No thanks.
God Help Us!
Ultra-MAGA!
And bugs. You can’t forget the bugs.
If you don’t understand why both parties hate Pres. Trump, Read Sundances bullet points again.
Peaceful solutions don’t sell bullets and bombs.
Or the bandages.
Raytheon blows it up. Haliburton puts it back together.
Sundance, you’re way more focused and articulate than President Trump, who in that long interview with Tucker, seemed to be a Poster Boy for ADHD. If you were the face of the Trump campaign, he might win. However, Trump would be jealous of your erudition and find an excuse to fire you. IT HAS TO BE ALL ABOUT HIMSELF! He’s fatally flawed.
Sundance for President!
You should be president .
NOT.
blah blah blah – all about himself – fatally flawed. The man has done more for this country than countless others before him!!! You, Bob as an American, reap his harvest!- you could have thrown in *something* nice to say!
We might be giving Bob Hickok too much credit. Is he really an American. Doesn’t sound like one. Maybe he’s a wantabe but then again?
“Fatally flawed”.
An alliteratively apt description of an assessment that conflates a written analysis with an hour of off the cuff responses to an interviewers questions; responses that can alter the course of human history.
A ” fatally flawed” assessment that also relies on the ability to read President Trumps mind and the ability to accurately predict future events.
God bless Sundance and his source of inspiration; his Commander In Chief, the courageous visionary genius,President Trump.
MAGA success comes from successful Team Work.
Thankfully, President Trumps MAGA Team is not “fatally flawed.
“It is remarkable what might have been”
Yes. If President Trump had locked up Hillary when he was elected, Russiagate would have been prevented. If neocon rats like Pence were treated with contempt instead of job offers, the Fedsurrection would have also been prevented.
If President Trump had nominated an honest outsider to lead the FBI instead of that weasel Wray, maybe homeschooling Michigan parents like me and my wife wouldn’t be on the domestic watch list with feds always up our butts.
I loved President Trump and still love him, but what political solutions is he offering to We The People?
You censor all talk of rebellion in total disregard for the 1st amendment, using the same justification used by the feds behind Twitter: “It is our server, we can censor who we wish”
The day that the domestic war goes hot, there is no crossing the line. If you are standing with censors, you meet a censor’s fate.
THAT is free speech. It isn’t pretty. It might sound hateful. I don’t care. The second you censor it, you become just another Twitter fed waging war on free speech.
Pick a side. NOW. Not two years from now. Many of us families already targeted by the feds will have a hard time holding out for two years, only to watch Dominion and the CIA cancel our votes again.
I will fight first. Don’t stand with the enemy…
First, apparently you’ve not been paying attention. President Trump is the only candidate who is releasing weekly policy platforms which provide considerable detail, including how he intends to dismantle the deep state. Check out his website to catch up.
Second, in response to your words: “rebellion” “domestic war goes hot” don’t wait, do it NOW “I will fight first” ——-
I hope it is okay if I repeat part of a comment Bessie2003 made yesterday that resonates for me in these times:
Bessie2003
April 12, 2023 4:21 pm
Battle Thread, pg 2
(excerpt of Bessie’s comments)
“Today’s Tessa Substack is a timely reminder, titled “Is Your Hero from the CIA?”
https://tessa.substack.com/p/fake-heroes
. . .Please don’t let the CIA to trick you into an angry mode…
If your hero whom you love and respect is leading you into rage…
. . . What happened with the Proud Boys, over 50 members were actual FBI agents and/or direct informants – more than 2/3 of the actual membership!
Similar to the kidnapping plot against Governor of Michigan, also the majority were agents or paid informants . .
. . .
Expect we will see lots more of that, so we need to learn how to ‘read sign’ . .”
Sit on your hands out of fear of undercover feds and you have already freely given away the rights they are trying to take from you by force…
Not sitting on my hands at all. I’m actively involved in with election integrity projects.
I am pretty sure you are not advocating any sort of armed rebellion because you and I and the average cantaloupe would know that regardless of one’s views on that approach, it is ridiculously dumb to advocate people chat about such things on an online forum.
So pretty sure that’s not your intention at all. I for one am rolling up my sleeves with every legal means of reducing voter fraud between now and 2024. What’s your plan specifically?
Online forums are the modern town square. I live with the feds up my azz at all times…peeping out my cameras, televisions, listening to calls, tracking my internet searches, all in violation of the Bill of Rights.
I don’t care how many treasonous oathbreakers want to record my speech. My speech is protected and guaranteed by the 1st amendment. Their spying on me is an act of treason, and I will happily be the 12th guilty vote on every jury trial these feds face for treason. I will also happily help pull the rope.
I do not fear traitors. Nobody should…
Have no idea what you’re advocating we do specifically. But regardless, I would never participate with any project or get into a metaphorical foxhole with someone who’s discernment I don’t trust.
Have you ever read the book Gift of Fear? Fear is actually a useful aid, an instinctive discernment. I also appreciate courage when it is combined with discernment. But I’m not in favor of recklessness to prove fearlessness.
I’m no one’s boss, don’t want the job. You do you. For myself, I’m prioritizing every legal endeavor to ensure election integrity. Again, what is your plan specifically?
My plan is to expose every undercover fed on social media pretending to be a real person in a fed puppet show.
So far my plan is proceeding exactly as planned, wouldn’t you say?
Sounds like you are on the wrong platform.
In the free fall collapse of American power, influence and prestige, we’re witnessing the payoffs to foreign powers for the installation of the illegitimate Biden regime.
Remember, team Trump Must Go!, everyone who is anybody, foreign and domestic, saw by the fall of 2019 that Trump was headed toward reelection in a landslide via his existentially threatening Peace and Prosperity plan.
Perhaps the most salient example of the Trump Doctrine is the rapprochement he was on the cusp of with Iran. You don’t have to wonder what the contours of it were since its the deal China inked between KSA and Iran. The Biden regime played its role in driving these parties into the arms of China, ensuring all geopolitical gains went to it at the expense of the US.
Am I the only one who remembers that right as 2019 was coming to a close and 2020 beginning, the US Embassy in the Green Zone was attacked by “protesters,” and threats reported to other embassies. The not-so-supreme leader of Iran and, oddly enough, Democrats like US Senator Chris Murphy, used the same Ayatollah Khomeini messaging from 1979, that Trump was powerless to do anything about it. It was glaringly obvious that a pitch perfect replay of the original Iranian Hostage Crisis that sunk Carter’s reelection was in motion. In the event, after Soleimani was taken out, it was off to the races with the Covid.
“Biden” et. al. belong to China. Yet achieving the greatest foothold over the USG perhaps ever by a foreign power has proved a management nightmare. Listen to Trump’s interview with Tucker with this in mind. Trump was clearly speaking to a foreign audience about the monumental, if not existential, risks to the planet, including not the least China, from having a ‘Yeltsin’ illegitimately installed in the White House.
Believe me, every foreign power knows that Trump is speaking the truth when he belabors that the Ukraine War would not have happened if the 2020 election weren’t stolen. Nor the sabotage of the NordStreams for that matter. Unless I miss my mark, the primary trigger for the Mar-a-Lago raid, and the document collections from Biden, Pence and God Knows Who Else, was to retrieve anything showing what I’m sure of, plans to destroy NordStream were presented to Trump and he wholesale rejected even using allusions to them in negotiations with the Europeans.
Even reasonably intelligent middle schoolers understand that the world is an exceedingly dangerous place with a cognitively gone, illegitimate POTUS.
The US is unstoppable when led by a POTUS pursuing the national interest and those of the American people.
The Kallorama Whitehouse reversed almost everything that Trump achieved. Biden has provided cover for Barry’s 3rd term.
Team O’biden was up and running full blast with zero roadblocks and accountability.
All of the politics we see are symptoms of the greater moral and spiritual crisis. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 established a world order of nation states. Both China and the globalist cabal are against the Westphalian system. The globalist cabal sees the trillions at stake for themselves, completely ignoring the reality that you cannot serve both God and money. It was someone else who promised, “All this I will give you if you bow down and worship me.” I recently did a deep dive into the prophet Isaiah. Over and over his nation tried to find security through politics, treaties, trade agreements and the like, but ignored their source of peace and strength. As Sundance stated in an earlier post, first you have to get right with God. “Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
Good leaders are important and are a blessing. But what can change a corrupt society? And what was God thinking when He allowed corrupt manipulators to install the doddering puppet the whole world disrespects?
Wonderful pictures! They all tell the same beautiful story. But like Sauron in the Lord of the Rings (the Deep state), they hate all things good and beautiful. They foment division and what is ugly/disgusting at home and abroad. They only spread what is vile and dark. They hate themselves and those that don’t hate themselves. The Lawfare is a tool to destroy what is good, what they can’t have because of their evil hearts. It goads them they don’t enjoy what the simple man has–a God-loving family, laughing at the simple, even if he lives in a box for a house and has an old squeaky truck outside.
…And the left demonizes Trump…I see so many leftist posting what an abysmal failure he was. ..They’re soooo much better off with Buden. How can people be so blinded with unsubstantiated hatred?
This has to be one of the best reads I’ve ever read about Trump…Thank you very, very much for this Sundance.
Trump’s Nord Stream position never made any sense to me. When Trump campaigned for the presidency in 2016 he often said “wouldn’t it be nice if we got along with Russia”. Of course Trump was right! – there was no reason why the United States shouldn’t get along with Russia and yet as soon as he becomes president he is railing against Europe for buying natural gas from Russia?
There was never anything wrong with Europe buying natural gas from Russia. It was the cheapest and most abundant source of clean fossil energy for Europe and in fact had been a source since Russia was part of the Soviet Union. Trump argued “why should the United States be spending all this money to protect Europe from Russia when Europe is spending billions on Russian gas”. It was a hollow argument because Russia was not a threat to Europe. It didn’t need “protecting from Russia”. At the same time that Trump was complaining about Europe buying gas from Russia the United States was buying heavy crude oil from Russia to make up the loss of heavy crude from Venezuela.
Trump likes to say that if he had been president, Putin would not have invaded Ukraine but the fact is during the Trump presidency provocations against Russia were steadily ramped up. US opposition to Nord Stream and the sanctions put in place on participants was an act of economic war against Russia started by Trump! Economic wars lead to real wars! During Trumps term he started arming Ukraine with lethal weapons that even Obama knew would have been considered too provocative for Putin. During the Trump term US forces including CIA were heavily involved inside Ukraine arming and training Ukrainian forces including NAZI militias. Does anyone think that this would have escaped Putin’s attention?
I not convinced that had Trump won a second term that we wouldn’t be in this proxy war with Ukraine. People like to believe that Putin wouldn’t dare invade Ukraine if Trump was president because Trump was so “tough” but what was Trumps response when Iran bombed an American military base in Iraq severely injuring and almost killing many American soldiers? Trumps response was he did nothing because he learned after killing General Soleimani that the Iranians would not back down and Putin is another world leader who will not back down. He can not be intimidated by any amount of American bravado.
I’m sure most will disagree with my comments but I think we have to be realistic. Trump is far from perfect and when we look back at his time as president when it came to foreign policy he mostly squandered his four years in office. Imagine how different the world would be today if Trump had put into action his words about having better relations with Russia. Instead he was a complete captive of the permanent war party in Washington.
Finally I don’t understand why Europeans are putting up with this situation. The United States has taken deliberate actions to destroy the European economy and the European way of life. Energy which is the life-blood of any nation has increased up to 7000% in price in some parts of Europe. If the Europeans have any self-respect they will get out of NATO and tell the United States to get all its troops and military bases out of Europe. With the deliberate destruction of Nord Stream the United States has shown it is not a true ally of Europe. Europe’s future is with Russia and China.
Thanks Comrade. You are correct about many who disagree with you.
Well said. The above article reads like a “just-so” story which, while not inacurrate in any particular detail, is never the complete picture, as you pointed out. Sundance has on occasion said, “choose you fighter”. I think what you and less frequent contrarians like myself are pointing out is the larger, uncomfortable reality that we have no fighter, as if having a fighter means we can expect someone to step up make everything OK so we can all go back to our lives of entertainment and ignorance. No. Donald Trump is not going to make everything OK, and certainly not so we can go back to the patterns that got us here to begin with. The only fighter we have, if any, is in the mirror. The extent to which we, as a collective species, fail to learn that lesson is the extent to which we ultimately deserve to be conquered. Thankfully, there are signs this learning is happening and will happen, with or without a second Trump presidential term.
Throughout history, successful fighters, especially those facing overwhelming odds, have alwayss had a charismatic, courageous, visionary leader.
Pick your fighter == pick your leader.
Hopefully President Trump will be available for at least another seven years.
If not we’ll be lead once again by pale imitations, mediocres, inepts, and/or unimaginatives ie the types of leaders most of humanity has always had.
Leaders and fighters like President Trump are exceedingly rare.
Academic opiners and neo antoinettes still astonish me but thankfully no longer enrage me.
I wonder if President Trump was hamstrung by the Russia gate false narrative by the deep state – also as a means to try to control His narrative on Russia. He could not really be proactive with Russia since our intelligence departments were accusing him with ties to Russia.
I think that was the big problem. Even before he was sworn in the media was painting Trump as a puppet of Putin and in response Trump adopted a very bellicose stance with Russia so as to show he was not beholden to Putin. That was a big mistake by Trump – he allowed the big lie told about him to influence foreign policy with Russia. I’m surprised that Trump didn’t realize that he was being manipulated by these lies.
Let me ask every American this question. Is this the way the Department of Energy is suppose to function? Blow up other countries’ energy sources and distribution? Biden is a criminal and has crimes against humanity on his shoulders!!!
Trump does deserve the Nobel Peace Prize! But I’m quite sure that “TDS” reigns in that committee, too.
“You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone.”
yep Donald Trump was bad for the the business of government….
Pretty much it in a nutshell.
Brilliant article and so clearly explained.
Then, it becomes obvious that the Russia-collusion hoax and impeachment #1 had two purposes. To “get Trump”. But they also served to prevent him brokering any peace between Ukraine and Russia on which the multinational corporations and banks were counting to make billions from tax payers.
What a difference between Biden the criminal moron and Trump, the businessman.
But, ending the Ukraine War in 24 hours is just bombast, akin to Mexico paying for the wall.
Government is still about the nuts and bolts, not just deals at the top.
“Ending the war in 24 hours is just bombast”.
The armchair opiners source: trust me.
Response: 😘😂😂 thanks but, nope
I wish this was presented in two separate articles.
Would have been nice to see the MacGregor part of the interview too.
MacGregor is a tool.
MacGregor reminds me of the old adage that the military, in their present outlook, always seems to make their plans based solely on how wars in the past were fought.
I think is the nature of those in the military, especially the retired, their only frame of reference is ‘what was’ and not, as Sundance points out ‘what might be’.
MacGregor == Maverick and personal Trump hire. When Trump hired him, the Regime was outraged.
Hes always been at odds with the CIA.
This is the conundrum. Usually those at odds with the CIA aren’t aren’t to talk about it; the political talking heads in this country are rife with controlled opposition players so it’s hard to tell anymore and I don’t really even try, until we have ‘by their works we will know them’ manner in which to work from to see who has the last laugh.
.McGregor is a tool”.
Fortunately, MacGregor has become a very useful Trump “tool”; a tool he personally hired and placed at the DOD after his famous post election purge of that Department.
By personally choosing to elevate MacGregor, President Trump gave him additional credibility and amplified his reach which has increased MacGregors ability to counter the NWOs relentless Neocon War Machine PsyOps around Ukraine.
Thank God for useful “tools”.
I wonder if this EU technocrat is going to be fired?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/slovakias-central-bank-leader-fined-132956014.html
Corruption and the EU go together like a hand in a pocket.
We’ve got stories where Sh*thead Zelensky wants the banks to cause a world war. Also, we have the big banks following orders from Circus Carney and Billion Dollar Bloomberg:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/l-gs-fund-arm-back-102022009.html
You have to have a serious mental illness not to see the goodness and wisdom of this man.
Ignorance is not a mental illness. Ph.D.’s might be, though.
No snark. I’ve got at least six immediate family members with a bunch of initials after their names, and they’re all flaming liberals.
It’s come out recently at least 4 times when President Trump declined the neocons demand for war.
One was over an American recon glider / drones shot down near Iran. Advisors had a “strike package” ready to go that would only kill a few dozen Iranians.
Modern Chinese history, on the other hand, demonstrates nicely the power of economics on the world stage.
And that is exactly why Trump’s Agenda 47 is so necessary – to make the US once again a manufacturing power in the world.
Here is a link to a “Wah”ington Post article about Hunter Biden posting some stuff on the internet. It looks like he has some friends. I wonder if the Chinese gave this stuff to the Russians?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents/
If Joe Biden was in President Trump shoes in one of those photos he would be praised and be in the history books for the best foreign policy broker ever. Bar none!
I still remember President Trump’s speech at the US-ASEAN conference. It made that much of an impact in my memory because even there the Trump Doctrine was emerging, the celebration of the different nation’s natural way of being, the personality so to speak which makes up each nation.
It’s a short speech, which is also an indicator of speaking truth, truth doesn’t need an encyclopedia of words to get to the heart of the matter.
https://la.usembassy.gov/remarks-president-trump-5th-u-s-asean-summit/
😍😍😘
Sadly some “never Trump” people, who held their nose and voted for Trump the first time are back to “he can’t win” and have lost their way again. Typically they can’t name one significant Trump policy they disagree with, but point to his “character flaws.” With silence I wait for their response to “which recent President’s character was not flawed? Biden? Obama? Clinton? Bush I or II?
The only cure is a “media fast” (strict 7-14 days) usually enables the grey matter to become rational and critical again, as designed.
A nugget of gold from before the 2016 election: not-yet-President Trump was asked whether he preferred to be loved or feared.
His response was, “Respected.” And Sundance has just reminded us of so many reasons why the President earned that respect. I believe the President anticipated how much he would be feared, and by whom, but I honestly don’t think he ever anticipated how much We the People would love him.
One of the most informative analysis of American foreign policy and President Trumps unique attributes to change course direction towards a national respect for all counties and a movement towards peace as the goal for the greater good.