A little detail from behind the wire. I was asked very recently for my thoughts on why President Trump is a giant of influence in world leadership, my response was simple: President Trump’s power is bottom up, historic global power structures are top down.
President Trump doesn’t just represent an office or title, nor does he simply represent the majority of the American people; President Trump’s voice is the voice of every ordinary person, what the non-English speaking world defines as “simple people,” and he channels a global message from the majority to the top of the highest power structures.
Smart leaders like Vladimir Putin recognize this power source, and they don’t challenge it – they align with it. Stupid leaders, those who do not recognize their national nakedness like Emmanuel Macron, attempt to avoid & manipulate it. The Make America Great Again doctrine is a borderless goal, empowering people to make their own lives great.
(VIA ABC) – […] Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday he stands by his comments from Brussels earlier this week on it being unrealistic for Ukraine to be offered NATO membership as part of a settlement, for it to regain its pre-2014 territory, or for U.S. troops to enter the country to keep the peace.
“My job today, and in Brussels, was to introduce realism to the conversation – the reality that returning to 2014 borders as part of a negotiated settlement is unlikely; the reality of U.S. troops in Ukraine is unlikely; the reality of Ukraine membership in NATO as a part of a negotiated settlement unlikely. And I stand by the comments that I made on that first day in the Ukraine Contact Group,” Hegseth said at a press conference in Poland Friday. (source)
Vice President […] Vance engaged in a bilateral meeting with the NATO Secretary General at the Munich Security Conference, noting the “president’s desire to see NATO spend a little bit more resources on defense,” a point also being echoed by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth while he continues to meet with his counterparts in Poland.
Vance also wants to ensure “NATO is built for future,” and said he wished that “NATO does a little bit more burden sharing in Europe, so the United States can focus on some of our challenges in these stages.”
♦ A conversation behind the wire – Within Eastern Europe there are very smart and pragmatic people, the kind of political research people who have clear eyes on the specific influences within the body politic. To a person each of them holds the opinion that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is directly connected to the narcotics trade in Europe.
If the U.S. intelligence apparatus maintains parts of their deepest black book operations through international drug sales, then it doesn’t take a leap to discover how the CIA influence in the background of Zelenskyy may be structured. Food for thought.
Corrupt Zelensky? How about Mayor Klitschko allegedly running illegal activities, including *****houses?
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The largest group of beautiful women I’ve even seen in one place was at the Dubai airport … boarding a flight to Ukraine.
“NATO does a little bit more burden sharing in Europe, so the United States can focus on some of our challenges in these stages.”?
How about we let them take on the full burden of their national security in Europe?!
Wow, you mean,….european countries actually seeing to their OWN defence?
WHAT a bizarre concept!
Funny, Germany ‘threatened’ to send troops to Greenlend, to defend it against a U.S. invasion, and then some wag pointed out they do not have ONE devision, capable of being deployed right now….not ONE!
France was first to promise the same.
Grenouilles Gelées!
Frozen Frogs!
Appreciate the visual.
What is even funnier Dutch is that they sat on their limp wrists and sent absolutely nobody to Ukraine in their defense – while barking at the prospect of confronting a nation that could easily wipe them off the face of the planet if it chose to do so.
A side note here, something that ‘struck me’ when re-reading my own words.
Our troops stationed overseas fill several roles. One is a rapid reaction force to stem the tide as it were until reinforcements can arrive. Another one that isn’t ever discussed is their acting as ‘human shields’ for the host countries against our mutual enemies, such as Iran and at various times Russia. Whether intentional or not, they also serve as a method of monetary subsidies – both the money injected into the local economies and that not having to be injected into the local defense spending as a result of their being there.
All of the above is fairly well known. What struck me though was that they also serve as ‘human shields’ to protect those countries against attack from us on the day that a majority of the nation truly understands fully just what some of them have schemed and done and intend yet to do – although that too can be flipped and instead they could become the stone that smotes the serpent’s head…
I’m all for removing most of our foreign bases and letting the populace take over the burden and cost of defense. They flaunt their healthcare in our faces when we have been ultimately paying for it. It’s time they grow up and feel the consequences of their own decisions.
I like how Hagseth makes the TEAM approach clear, and how he WASN’T “speaking out of turn” but in fact was playing exactly the role PDJT assigned him, in speaking realistically about whats NOT going to happen,..each member of the team has their part to play, and from Hagseths realism, to Vances spanking, the elites are getting their asses handed to them, and reality is they will “accept” whatever agreement PDJT and Putin negotiate, and LIKE it!
Not only is Zalenski irrelevant, but the elites who are trying to cling to power, are as well.
They can only delay the inevitable by increasing their application of brutal force, which only increases the size and strength of the true opposition, yearning to experience liberty.
They are trying to hold back a tsunami, or landslide; its just not possible.
Pete wouldn’t have said it and didn’t backtrack from it, because that is what President Trump’s position is, plain and simple.
Derp Alert.
Griffin became insane when Trump got in. 15-20 years ago, she was a “normal” media type on the Pentagon beat. Of course, back then, the UniParty reigned supreme. However, the level of editorializing in her X posts and elsewhere puts her at a Kaitlyn Collins or Acosta level. She is a disaster.
I wish they would remove her from Pentagon briefings. Especially after her comments about our Secretary of Defense. See ya, wouldn’t want to be ya!
“JD Vance attacks Europe.”
‘Nuff said, Ms. Griffin. Another example why Fox is irrelevant.
CIA… spreading influence via drugs, guns, and sex trafficking.
Burn it all down.
LilPimp Zelenskyy better accept the Trump-Putin Peace plan or he will FAFO.
IT WILL be Trumps plan or Nothing. He will have no choice. Trump has all the leverage from Billion$ to weapons.
I see rino senators trying to undercut the president.
Behind the rino senators are cabal from both sides of the aisle.
Senator Tactical Nuke, that Bannon was talking about, is in a very bad situation.
Please remember …
President Trump said …”We caught them all”…
Then I saw the Senate votes … IMO he caught the ones he needed to most aka the RINO’s!!!
I do not doubt he has caught them all and their backers. It is time for many to retire in front of a judge. A judge that rules on law and evidence, not purchased.
An ole saying, allow a child to touch the flame, he, she will never again.
We need to primary the most egregious actors(senators and congressmen alike )to scare the rest into submission.
Pour encourager les autres. 😁
Narco-trafficking with Z-man and the Ukraine in the midst of it all…..shocked , shocked I tell you. Ever since the OSS saw how easy it was to deal with organized crime in the name of national security over 80 years ago, it’s been childs play ever since.
“………Hegseth said Friday he stands by his comments from Brussels earlier this week on it being unrealistic for Ukraine to be offered NATO membership as part of a settlement, for it to regain its pre-2014 territory, or for U.S. troops to enter the country to keep the peace.”
That comment from Brussels was aimed directly at Putin, telling him Trump has no intention of putting US troops on Russia’s back door. A win for us and Putin. CIA busybodies hardest hit……
“CIA Bodies hardest hit…”
Agree with your conclusions above. The messaging carried by SECDEF and the VP for President Trump is aimed directly at the forces within our country that planned, then ignited this bloodbath for over 3 years now. And they financed it with our hard earned dollars. No compassion, not the slightest compunction that so many have been slaughtered.
Those forces must be calculating what their next move is… Do they do something or do they retreat for a while? This will be a lot more dangerous time than the recent successes we’ve been heartened by since the election.
John Ratcliffe, it is high alert time. I pray you and some trusted patriots are on your game.
Sundance, Bravo Zulu for what you do, sir.
Thank you, Sundance!
Yes! Cut them off. Kamala was loud and proud to announce we would violate a treaty made by Russia and Ukraine! That’s what started a war which has killed too many Ukraine and Russian troops! That silly simpleton is partly responsible for the deaths of many. She let her mouth try to cash a check her ass couldn’t handle.
Gee, you wonder how Kari Lake was frozen out of Arizona politics and how the GOP there – and Katie Hobbs – is bought off or threatened by the international cartels…