Posted on 02/14/2025 11:37:04 AM PST by SoConPubbie
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.
“Execute”? I get how that is a proper term in this context,
but I would have used “Implement”.
Of course, nobody asked me for the wording.
If Trump is at all serious about the fentanyl traffic across the border, the CIA's use of the drug trade as a source of illicit cash flow must end. The blowback from it hasn't been worth the advantages. One must wonder also if the Fed is involved in it as a way to print dollars that don't come home.
What is the exact source of your butt hurt the Trump?
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