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1 posted on 08/20/2025 9:18:02 AM PDT by ransomnote
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Will his 'peace through strength' ultimatum finally end the war in Ukraine?

If the Lord wills it so then it will be so.
2 posted on 08/20/2025 9:21:13 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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Fantastic article, thanks for sharing it.


3 posted on 08/20/2025 9:25:07 AM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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Lindsey Graham and the ghost of John McCain were deeply saddened.


4 posted on 08/20/2025 9:27:04 AM PDT by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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“ TAKEAWAY 3: The Audit is Non-Negotiable. This was the bombshell. Trump’s primary focus wasn’t on maps or battle lines. It was on receipts. He demanded a full, independent, forensic audit of the $200B+ in U.S. aid. “Show us the money” is the new foreign policy doctrine. This is what terrifies the swamp more than any Russian tank

Will this really happen? I remember when Biden gave Ukraine one of the first batches of billions of dollars, a few congressmen tried to get accountability into the gift. It got voted down. That shocked me. IIRC there was an actual vote on the floor of Congress. Every person who voted down accountability should be investigated.


6 posted on 08/20/2025 9:28:36 AM PDT by Freee-dame (P)
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The real take away-

“the death of the old order and the return to realism. The world that existed two days ago is gone”

Great piece.
Compelling writing.
The cold-shower the whole world needs.


8 posted on 08/20/2025 9:29:00 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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I certainly hope all that will come to pass.


9 posted on 08/20/2025 9:33:19 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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There certainly is a tectonic shift taking place, long overdue. Whether all the author's bullet points will come to pass is not yet known. But the looks of panic on the faces of European "leaders" are worth the price of admission.

"Something's happening here but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?"

10 posted on 08/20/2025 9:39:07 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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The war that's about to escalate is the one between Trump and the corrupt globalist establishment in Washington D.C. when the findings of that audit are made public.

That is assuming that: 1.) the audit is actually conducted; 2.) the audit is conducted by people who are trustworthy and not on the take; 3.) the audit, when completed, is made public.

Awful lot of assumptions there.
12 posted on 08/20/2025 9:45:31 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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Really nice rundown of points!


13 posted on 08/20/2025 9:52:19 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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“The Audit is Non-Negotiable. This was the bombshell. Trump’s primary focus wasn’t on maps or battle lines. It was on receipts. He demanded a full, independent, forensic audit of the $200B+ in U.S. aid.”

There’s no evidence for this anywhere besides this guy’s assertion. Or is it fantasy?


14 posted on 08/20/2025 9:52:42 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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The whole premise that "foreign wars" are "bleeding" America dry is simply nonsense.

Total food stamp spending -alone- in 2024 was $99.8 billion. Total Medicaid spending was $908 billion. Total "aid to children" $567 billion.

That's $1.6 trillion alone, per year, every year.

That's what the Dems buy votes with. It's the out of control domestic spending that driving the country into bankruptcy.

15 posted on 08/20/2025 9:57:05 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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TAKEAWAY 2: The Beggar. Zelenskyy’s green t-shirt charm has lost its magic. Without the bottomless well of U.S. taxpayer money, he is not a global hero; he is the leader of a corrupt, struggling nation. For the first time, he was forced to listen instead of lecture. He came for a check; he left with a list of demands.

The days when Ukraine could hire the drug addicted whore monger sons of American 'elites' is OVER FOREVER. No more 'favors' in exchange for taxpayers money. Eff democrats..

17 posted on 08/20/2025 10:15:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (Superman joined ICE: - - Lex Luthor drinks Bud light, drives a Jaguar and is a registered democrat)
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" IMPLICATION 3: The Real Target is D.C. Corruption. This maneuver is not just about Ukraine. It's about using the audit to disinfect the rot in Washington. The defense contractors, the USAID grifters, the political families who suddenly got rich—they are the real target of this new policy. The cleanup starts abroad but ends at home.

IMHO, this is the kernel...
The deep state is about to be castrated if this happens...

19 posted on 08/20/2025 11:27:37 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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3: The Audit is Non-Negotiable

Hate to be a downer but I find it impossible to believe the actors thus threatened won’t inevitably take another shot at Trump. He is screwing with them bigtime and he’s not gonna lighten up. They effed with a tiger and really really pissed him off. And they know it.


20 posted on 08/20/2025 12:13:45 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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Thanks for posting this, excellent article.
Praying people will wake up to the truth of where “we the sheeple” have been heading. So many have been misled.

May God turn many, many hearts to Himself, Who so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16

I can’t stop there...3:17 “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him. 18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who practices the truth (true believers) comes to the light, that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”

These were Jesus’ words to Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a ruler and teacher of Israel, when He was telling him that unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
[John 3] It is a spiritual new birth.

Praying for our nation, for the world we’re living in.

The spiritual new birth:

John 6:40, For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him, may have eternal life; and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”


21 posted on 08/20/2025 12:19:10 PM PDT by TurkeyLurkey ( )
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Thanks for posting this, excellent article.
Praying people will wake up to the truth of where “we the sheeple” have been heading. So many have been misled.

May God turn many, many hearts to Himself, Who so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16

I can’t stop there...3:17 “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him. 18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who practices the truth (true believers) comes to the light, that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”

These were Jesus’ words to Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a ruler and teacher of Israel, when He was telling him that unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
[John 3] It is a spiritual new birth.

Praying for our nation, for the world we’re living in.

The spiritual new birth:

John 6:40, For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him, may have eternal life; and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”


22 posted on 08/20/2025 12:19:54 PM PDT by TurkeyLurkey ( )
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Ransom, what do you know about @FinalTelegraph? Apparently, you hold him in high esteem.


23 posted on 08/20/2025 12:41:26 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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That audit will never happen.

Everyone knows it will show millions diverted to offshore bank accounts, Bidet* Crime Family, etc.


24 posted on 08/20/2025 3:33:54 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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"... died in the Oval Office..."

I still remember back 30 years ago, when it was called the Oral Office.

26 posted on 08/20/2025 4:10:53 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Unity? Of course! I pledge to respect your President as much as you respected mine the past 4 years.)
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