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The Democrat Party needs to change its name as it certainly isn’t democratic.  The Democrats have shut down the government in order to prevent democracy from working.  By freezing the government, they are trying to prevent the MAGA agenda that the people voted for.  The Democrat’s method of operation is:  When you can’t steal the election, shutdown the government.

By making democracy dysfunctional, the Democrats are bolstering the power of the executive branch.  It is not possible to have a government as large as the one the Democrats have created and prevent it from operating.  The result is to move power to the executive.  

In order to function, democracy requires considerable unity.  If differences are too great, there cannot be compromise.  All of the Western “democracies” have reached that point.  European politics is fragmented.  No party can produce a majority government.  Consequently a coalition of parties has to be assembled whose purpose is to block the “wrong” coalition from governing or, more correctly, attempting to govern.  

In the US, still a two party system, it becomes impossible when one of the parties becomes ideological, as the Democrats have done.  The agenda of the Democrats is to transform the US into a Sodom & Gomorrah Tower of Babel in which all sexual preferences are normal and white racists are replaced by peoples of color.  DEI is how the Democrats symbolize this agenda. They have institutionalized it everywhere, even in science where research funding is provided on a DEI basis and not on the basis of the merit of the proposal.

A revolutionary party becomes insurrectionist, as we are witnessing today with Democrat mayors, city councils, governors, and federal judges resisting the deportation of the immigrant-invaders that the Democrats not only allowed in with their open borders policy but actually organized and financed the invasion with taxpayers’ money. See this.

The Democrats’ DEI ideology is anti-merit, which means that Democrats support legal privileges based on race, declared gender, and sexual preference.  It is the death of equality under the law and the resurrection of aristocratic privilege, only the privileges go to sexual perverts and darker-skinned peoples from outside the American tradition and mores.  In means the destruction of the country.

Senate Democrats Block Bill to End Government Shutdown for 11th Time.

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“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”—Thomas Jefferson

For a man supposedly intent on winning a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump spends an extraordinary amount of time waging war, threatening to wage war, and fantasizing about waging war.

Notwithstanding his dubious claims about having ended “seven un-endable wars,” Trump has continued to squander the American people’s resources and moral standing by feeding the military-industrial complex’s insatiable appetite for war—preemptively bombing nuclear facilities in Iran, blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean, and flexing military muscle at every opportunity.

Even the Trump administration’s version of “peace through strength” is filtered through a prism of violence, intimidation and strongman tactics.

It is the gospel of power, not peace—a perversion of both Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and the U.S. Constitution.

Thus we find ourselves at this peculiar crossroads: a president hailed by his followers as an “imperfect vessel” chosen by God to save the church and restore Christianity—while they turn a blind eye to his record of adultery, deceit, greed, cruelty, and an almost religious devotion to vengeance and violence.

If anything captures Trump’s worldview, it is the AI-generated video he shared on social media: a grotesque fantasy of himself wearing a golden crown, flying a military fighter jet, and bombing a crowd of protesters with brown liquid feces.

This is the man who claims to be “saving God”?

Dismissed by his devoted base as harmless humor—a cheeky response to the millions nationwide who took part in the “No Kings” protests on Oct. 18—Trump’s crude fantasy of assaulting critics with fecal bombs nevertheless begs the question: Who would Jesus bomb?

That question, of course, is meant less literally than morally.

To answer it, we must first understand who Jesus Christ was—the revered preacher, teacher, radical, prophet and son of God—born into a police state not unlike the growing menace of America’s own police state.

When he came of age, Jesus had powerful, profound things to say, about justice, power and how we are to relate to one another. “Blessed are the merciful,” “Blessed are the peacemakers,” “Love your enemies.”

A revolutionary in both spirit and action, Jesus not only died challenging the police state of his day—the Roman Empire—but left behind a blueprint for resisting tyranny that has guided countless reformers and freedom fighters ever since.

Far from the sanitized, domesticated figure presented in modern churches, Jesus was a radical nonconformist who challenged authority at every turn. He spoke truth to power, defied political and religious hierarchies, and exposed the hypocrisy of empire.

Jesus rejected politics as a means to salvation. For Him, faith was not about seizing power but serving others—helping the poor, showing mercy even to enemies, and embodying peace, not war. He did not seek political favor or influence; He actively undermined it.

That is not to say He was passive. Jesus knew righteous anger. He turned over the tables of the money changers in the Temple because they had turned faith into profit and worship into spectacle.

Yet even in anger, He refused to wield violence as a tool of redemption. When His own arrest approached, He rebuked His followers: “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.”

The Beatitudes summarize His message: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.” And when asked to name the greatest commandment, He answered simply: to love God with all one’s being and to love one’s neighbor as oneself.

In other words, we love God by loving our fellow human beings.

Jesus—the “Prince of Peace”—came not to destroy life but to restore it.

Which brings us to Donald Trump, the latest political “savior” anointed by Christian nationalists for whom the pursuit of a Christian theocracy now appears to outweigh allegiance to our constitutional democracy.

Seduced by political power to such an extent that the true message of Jesus has been taken hostage by partisan agendas, much of today’s evangelical movement has become indistinguishable from right-wing politics—defined by anti-immigrant and anti-homosexual rhetoric, material excess, sprawling megachurches, and a spirit of judgment rather than mercy.

Meanwhile, the wall of separation—between church and state, between moral authority and political coercion—is being torn down from both sides.

The result is a marriage of convenience that corrupts them both.

This is what happens when you wrap your faith in the national flag.

What is worse—far worse—than the Christian right selling its spiritual birthright for a political seat at Trump’s table is the blasphemy that has followed: the Gospel of Jesus replaced by the Gospel of the Military-Industrial Complex.

Within the White House, faith leaders gather to lay hands on Trump as he sits at the Resolute Desk, praising him for defending “religious freedom” for Christians—seemingly unconcerned that from that same desk he has signed death warrants for nearly every other freedom.

In the Pentagon, Trump’s Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, presides over prayer services where the name of Christ is invoked almost in the same breath as he boasts of preemptive strikes, righteous killings, and “peace through strength.”

Kristi Noem, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, prays in front of the cameras all the while boosting spending on military weapons for ICE by 700%, with significant purchases of chemical weapons and “guided missile warheads and explosive components.”

This is not Jesus’ Christianity—it is Christian nationalism: Christianity draped in the flag and wielding the weapons of war.

When leaders presume to act in God’s name, every drone strike becomes a crusade, every critic a heretic, every raid a holy war.

This is how war becomes a form of worship in the American empire.

What was once the Gospel of Peace has been replaced by a national creed that equates killing with courage, dominance with divine favor, and obedience with faith.

It is a blasphemous marriage of church and state—one that desecrates both Christ’s command to love one’s enemies and the Constitution’s mandate to keep religion free from the corruption of power.

Under Trump’s rule, this weaponized faith has found expression not only in rhetoric but in action.

It is there in the bombing of Venezuelan fishing boats—no declaration of war, no congressional authorization, no due process—men in small vessels labeled “enemy combatants” by fiat. It is there in the militarized ICE raids that tear families apart under cover of darkness. It is there in the persecution of journalists and dissidents accused of being anti-American. It is there in every detail of how, as one state senator warned, “the President is building an army to attack his own country.”

Each act is justified as righteous violence, sanctioned by a president who sees himself as both protector of the faithful and punisher of the wicked.

Yet beneath the veneer of divine mission lies the same old tyranny the Framers warned against: a ruler who mistakes executive power for divine right and turns the machinery of government into an instrument of holy war.

Both Jesus and the framers of the Constitution understood the same truth: faith and freedom cannot be imposed by force.

That is why the First Amendment forbids the government from establishing religion. The moment religion aligns itself with political power, it ceases to be faith and becomes ideology. The moment a president claims divine sanction for war, the republic ceases to be a democracy and becomes a theocracy of fear.

Driven by those concerns, the framers built a system designed to restrain ambition, limit vengeance, and guard against tyranny.

That constitutional system is being bulldozed before our eyes—just as surely as Trump is bulldozing his way through the White House, leaving wreckage in his wake.

And so we return to the question that started it all: Who would Jesus bomb?

The answer, of course, is no one.

Jesus would not rain destruction from the skies or bless the machinery of death. He would not mistake vengeance for virtue or domination for deliverance.

Jesus would heal the sick, welcome the stranger, and lift up the poor. He would drive the money changers from the temple, not sanctify the merchants of war.

Yet here we are.

Under Trump’s broadened definitions of “rebellion” and “domestic terrorism,” Jesus would be labeled a subversive, his name placed on a watchlist, his followers rounded up for “reeducation.” He preached compassion for enemies, defied authority, and stirred the crowds without a permit.

Were Jesus——a Palestinian refugee, a radical, and a revolutionary—to show his face in Trump’s American police state, he would fare no better than any of the undocumented immigrants being snatched up in the dead of night, stripped of any real due process, made to disappear into inhumane detention centers, and left to be tortured or die.

This is what happens when nations lose their moral compass: due process becomes a slogan, justice a privilege, and compassion a crime.

When even mercy is outlawed and truth branded subversion, the darkness is no longer metaphorical—it is moral.

It is midnight in America, a phrase evocative of Martin Luther King Jr.’s warning of a “midnight in the moral order.”

This is the time, King cautioned, when absolute standards pass away, replaced by a “dangerous ethical relativism.” Morality becomes a mere “Gallup poll of the majority opinion.” Right and wrong are reduced to the philosophy of “getting by,” and the highest law becomes the “eleventh commandment: thou shall not get caught.”

In this deep darkness, King said, there is a “knock of the world on the door of the church.”

That knock is a reminder, he warned, that the church “is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”

That knock still sounds today—steady, insistent, and largely unanswered.

It reverberates through religious institutions that mistake nationalism for faith and pulpits that confuse politics with piety. It calls us to rediscover the moral courage that resists tyranny rather than blesses it—to be, once more, the conscience of the state before the darkness becomes complete.

Whether we heed that call will determine what kind of nation we remain.

The time for silence has passed; the hour demands conscience.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, “we the people” must step up, speak up and speak out.

The tragedy of our age is not merely that presidents claim godlike power or that the citizenry themselves go along with it—it is that people of faith who should know better consent to it.

When Christians cheer the strongman who wraps himself in Scripture while shredding the Constitution—when they bow to the idol of safety, mistaking fear for faith—and when religious institutions fail to speak truth to power—we lose more than our freedoms.

We lose our moral and spiritual birthright.

This article was originally published on The Rutherford Institute.

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A few years ago, a heated debate erupted over the publication of Mattias Desmet’s The Psychology of Totalitarianism in which he presented his theory of mass formation to describe how a large mass of people becomes susceptible to a hypnotic-like state of delusion. I found the book fascinating and persuasive, and it seemed to offer at least a partial explanation of why so much of mankind behaved in such an obviously irrational way during the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, Dr. Peter Breggin countered with the argument that the vast majority of people were not deluded—that is, they had not suffered a psychotic dissociation from reality. As Dr. Breggin saw it, the irrational behavior we observed in so many was a normal response to being terrorized, isolated, propagandized, and manipulated by government agencies and their accomplices in the mainstream media.

At the time this debate took place, it seemed to me that both Breggin and Desmet made valid points. The depraved governments of the world and their media partners were indeed waging a campaign of terror and propaganda on their peoples, and also singling out for destruction the dissidents who were trying to restore reason and prudence to public discourse.

However, it seemed to me that propaganda and PSYOPs alone were not sufficient to explain why some people were highly susceptible to these manipulations, while others were immune. Pondering this prompted me to rewatch Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining, about a frustrated, recovering alcoholic writer who is demonically possessed by the evil spirits that inhabit the Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

I’d not watched the film in over twenty years, and was stunned by how effectively Kubrick captured the spiritual terror of the story. Virtually every shot captures two basic elements:

1). The susceptibility to evil in the frustrated writer, Jack Torrance.

2). The extreme evil that resides in the Overlook Hotel.

The trouble with Jack Torrance is that he doesn’t know himself. He is filled with desires and ambitions, but due to his inability, lack of discipline, and history of alcoholism, he cannot achieve the success he craves. His relationship with his wife and child is cold, and the audience senses he regards them as a burden and hindrance. Kubrick adds a subtle and perverse twist to his psychology in the film by having him look at a Playgirl magazine while standing in the lobby, waiting for his interview to be the hotel caretaker. You have to be paying very close attention to notice this, which gives it a subliminal quality.

Already in Jack’s interview, the hotel goes to work on him, as the interviewing managers go out of their way to emphasize that he will be tested by five months of extreme isolation after winter sets in. Revealing his essential lack of self-knowledge, Jack insists that isolation is precisely what he wants (so that he can write his novel).

As Jack and his family tour the hotel, multiple allusions are made to the extermination of the American Indians. There is also an extremely creepy scene in which the hotel cook, Richard Halloran, (played by Scatman Crothers) shows Mrs. Torrance and the boy Danny the hotel’s vast meat locker, the shelves of which resemble the wooden barracks in photographs of Nazi concentration camps. Again, you have to be watching very closely to notice these details, but they are definitely there.

In other words, the Overlook Hotel is a portal to hell, and in it resides all of humanity’s most terrible emotions—seething resentment, homicidal rage, the desire to dominate, control, and annihilate others.

And yet, only Jack is susceptible to the hotel’s evil. While his son Danny is able to see it, he isn’t seduced by it. Likewise, Jack’s wife—a simple, kind, and loving woman—is completely immune.

What are the qualities that make some immune to indoctrination while others remain highly susceptible to it? One could write an entire book about all the factors, but as food for thought, I suggest it has something to do with how much or how little we are given to the seven Cardinal Sins.

In Jack’s case, he suffers from Pride and the Wrath that arises when he cannot achieve his proud ambitions. In his mind, he is too good to be a mere schoolteacher, and he feels humiliated by the necessity of doing ordinary jobs to earn a living. Especially toxic is his impulse to blame others for his problems and to rationalize his rage.

When you closely examine the awful people who run our world today, you will notice that they are animated with pride and are quick to express wrath at those who oppose them. Lust, Greed, and Envy are also ubiquitous among this set.

Finally, we have our epidemic of extreme intellectual Sloth. In an 1822 letter, James Madison remarked:

A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

If the U.S. is to remain a Constitutional Republic with limited government, “We the People” are going to need to do a much better job of arming ourselves with knowledge. An ignorant people is extremely easy to frighten and manipulate, which is why tyrants have always shown a keen interest in censorship and distracting the people they rule with garish entertainment that conveys no knowledge or moral ideas.

Reprinted with permission from Courageous Discourse.

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A World Hungry for Love

We live in an age that has never been richer in information yet poorer in understanding.

People can communicate instantly across continents, but struggle to connect across the table.

We know the language of technology but have forgotten the language of the heart.

The paradox is everywhere. We have abundance without satisfaction, progress without peace, and knowledge without wisdom. Beneath our daily pursuits runs a quiet ache—the feeling that something essential has been lost. That something is love. Not the sentimental, marketed kind that fills our songs and screens, but the deeper force that gives life coherence, meaning, and direction.

Love is not a luxury. It is oxygen for the soul, the organizing intelligence of nature itself. It is both the beginning and the destination of every human journey.

What Love Truly Is

Love is the invisible current that connects all living things. It is not a commodity that can be earned or exchanged. It is not an emotion that rises and falls with circumstance. Love is the awareness of connection—the recognition that what lives in me lives in you, and in every creature, every cell, every star.

When we speak of “falling in love,” we are describing a temporary crack in the armor of separation. For a moment, the walls drop and we glimpse reality as it truly is: a unified field of energy and consciousness.

The spiritual traditions of the world, though differing in language, have always pointed to this truth. The Taoists called it harmony, the Buddhists compassion, the Christians God, the scientists coherence. All describe the same flow.

To love is to live in alignment with that flow.

Love does not demand—it allows.

Love does not possess—it honors.

Love does not divide—it integrates.

It is not blind; it sees clearly and still chooses connection.

Fear and Separation

If love is unity, fear is division.

Fear tells us we are alone and must protect ourselves at all costs. It whispers that there is not enough— not enough time, money, security, affection, or worth.

It is this belief in scarcity that turns nations against nations and hearts against hearts.

Every act of cruelty, greed, and deception has fear at its root.

Fear is love forgotten.

Our bodies even mirror this truth. When we feel safe and connected, the brain releases serotonin, oxytocin, and growth hormones—chemicals that strengthen the immune system and open the heart. When we are afraid, the stress hormones flood in: cortisol, adrenaline, norepinephrine. The heart constricts. The body prepares for battle or escape. We become less creative, less generous, less alive.

It is impossible to live fully while living in fear.

Reflection: In moments of anxiety, ask yourself: What would love choose here?

Conditioning and the Loss of Innocence

Every child is born radiant—open, trusting, and full of curiosity. A baby does not know how to hate, judge, or compare. But slowly, through the conditioning of family and culture, love becomes distorted.

We learn that affection must be earned, that approval is conditional. We hear “no” far more often than “yes.” We are rewarded for performance, not presence. Many grow up believing that love is transactional—something to be won through obedience, charm, or success.

A father who received “hard love” may pass it on to his children, believing he is strengthening them. A mother who was taught that emotion is weakness may withhold warmth, thinking she is preparing her child for life. Each generation inherits the unhealed wounds of the one before.

The result is a world of adults who are outwardly competent but inwardly starved for connection. They chase achievement, status, and distraction, mistaking these for love.

But love was never gone—it was only covered. 

Rediscovering the Source

Healing begins with remembering. Beneath every defense, every wound, every false identity, the current of love still flows. The work of life is not to create love but to remove the obstacles to its expression.

This remembering is both spiritual and physiological. The heart literally generates an electromagnetic field measurable several feet from the body. When we think loving thoughts, that field expands and synchronizes with others. When we harbor anger or resentment, it contracts.

We are transmitters of the frequency we call love.

To rediscover it, we must first quiet the noise of fear.

Practices for Remembering:

• Sit in stillness and breathe through the heart.
• Spend time in nature; let the rhythm of life reset your own.
• Speak truthfully, even when it trembles.
• Perform one act of kindness each day without seeking recognition.

These small practices rewire the nervous system for connection. They teach the body that it is safe to open again.

Love in the Body

Science now affirms what wisdom has always taught: love heals.

Studies show that compassion strengthens immunity, accelerates recovery, and even stimulates the growth of new brain cells. When we extend empathy to others, our own physiology transforms. The giver and receiver both flourish.

Dr. Bruce Lipton’s research on cellular biology revealed that cells exposed to nurturing environments thrive, while those in toxic surroundings wither. Humans are no different.

Love tells the body, You are safe. Grow.

Fear says, You are threatened. Defend.

In this way, love is not only emotional—it is biological. It is the organizing principle of life itself.

The Practice of Relationship

Love finds its most challenging and transformative classroom in relationship.

When two people open their lives to each other, they create a third entity—the relationship itself—which requires care, nourishment, and honesty.

Relationships reveal the truth about who we are. They mirror our wounds and invite our growth. If we approach them unconsciously, they repeat our past patterns of abandonment, control, or fear. If we approach them with awareness, they become sacred laboratories for awakening.

Love does not mean constant harmony. It means choosing connection even when discomfort arises.

It is the courage to remain open in the face of misunderstanding.

Healthy love looks like:

• Listening to understand rather than to win.
• Speaking with honesty rather than manipulation.
• Respecting boundaries while remaining available.
• Seeking growth instead of perfection.

Every argument offers a choice: defend the ego or nurture the bond.

The path of love always chooses the latter.

The Courage to Be Vulnerable

In a culture that equates vulnerability with weakness, opening the heart can feel dangerous. Yet vulnerability is the gateway to intimacy. Without it, love cannot breathe.

To say “I love you” is to expose the tenderest part of oneself. It is to stand without armor in a world that often rewards cynicism. But strength is not in the armor; it is in the willingness to take it off.

Men, especially, have been conditioned to hide emotion. They are told that real men do not cry, that sensitivity is shameful. Yet the science of tears tells another story. Emotional tears contain stress hormones; crying literally releases tension from the body. To weep is to cleanse, to heal, to make room for new life.

A person who can laugh deeply, weep openly, and forgive freely is not fragile—they are whole.

The Power of Compassion

Compassion is love in action. It begins when we recognize ourselves in another’s suffering. Compassion dissolves the illusion of separation by expanding our circle of care.

Every act of genuine kindness—every time we listen, comfort, or forgive—creates ripples that extend far beyond what we see. Neuroscience shows that compassion activates areas of the brain linked with joy and creativity. It reprograms us from survival to connection.

Compassion also has the power to transform society. Imagine political systems guided not by profit but by empathy, schools that teach cooperation instead of competition, economies that measure success by wellbeing rather than consumption.

These are not utopian fantasies—they are what love looks like at scale.

Reflection: What if compassion were our default mode instead of our emergency response?

The World Without Love

The absence of love is visible everywhere—in the hunger of children, in the isolation of elders, in the wars waged over imagined differences.

A nation that values wealth more than wisdom breeds poverty of the soul.

An economy that rewards greed creates emotional bankruptcy.

The teachers, healers, and quiet givers of the world remind us what is possible. When a teacher buys breakfast for a hungry child, when a neighbor checks on another after a storm, when forgiveness replaces revenge—these are small revolutions of love. They rarely make headlines, but they are what hold civilization together.

Without love, we become clever animals—efficient, ambitious, but lost.

With love, we remember why we are here.

Unconditional Love

Unconditional love is not sentimental approval or passive acceptance.

It is fierce, grounded, and wise. It sees through illusion but does not condemn. It allows freedom without abandoning truth.

To love unconditionally means to stop measuring worth—to see another as a soul in process rather than a project to fix. It means to release the need to control outcomes, to trust the intelligence of life itself.

The opposite of unconditional love is egoic love: “I love you as long as you love me.”

Egoic love bargains; real love blesses.

Living from Love

Love is not a mood to wait for; it is a muscle to develop.

We strengthen it through daily choice—choosing patience over reaction, empathy over judgment, generosity over grasping.

Each morning we can ask: Will I create fear today or love?

To live in love does not mean to avoid pain; it means to meet pain with awareness rather than resistance. Pain breaks open the walls that fear built. Many of life’s greatest awakenings come disguised as heartbreak.

Love is work. It requires attention, discipline, and humility. But it also rewards beyond measure.

When we act from love, we are aligned with the creative force of the universe itself.

Tools for Living in Love

Begin Each Day with Intention

Before rising, breathe deeply and affirm: “Today I choose love over fear.”

This single thought changes your physiology and sets the tone for the day.

Practice Active Appreciation

Notice what is right before fixing what is wrong. Gratitude shifts the brain’s chemistry toward optimism.

Slow Down

Rushing is a form of violence against the moment. Move with awareness; let each action be deliberate.

Communicate with Presence

Put down devices. Look into eyes. Listen not to reply but to understand.

Forgive Quickly

Forgiveness does not excuse behavior; it releases your bondage to it. It returns your energy to love.

Serve Without Agenda

Give time, attention, or kindness without seeking recognition. Love multiplies when shared freely.

Reconnect with Nature

The natural world vibrates with harmony. A walk in the woods, the sound of running water, the warmth of sunlight—all recalibrate the nervous system.

Meditate on the Heart

Visualize light radiating from your chest. Let it expand to fill the room, the neighborhood, the world.

Reflections for Practice

• When was the last time I chose fear over love?
• What does love feel like in my body—light, openness, ease?
• Who in my life needs forgiveness, and can I begin by forgiving myself?
• How would I speak, move, and decide if I remembered that love is who I am?

Write these reflections often. They are not questions to answer once, but doors to revisit again and again.

Love as the Universal Law

Love is not merely human; it is cosmic. Every atom in the universe dances in relationship with every other. The stars hold together by attraction; galaxies spin in communion. Life itself is a symphony of cooperation.

The mystics, poets, and scientists are all describing the same truth from different angles:

Reality is relationship. Separation is illusion.

When we love, we come into alignment with the fundamental rhythm of existence.

When we hate, we fall out of tune.

In this sense, enlightenment is nothing more than total alignment with love.

The Eternal Force

Can love die?

No more than energy can vanish. It only changes form.

A love that seems lost has simply shifted shape—into memory, into gratitude, into the subtle guidance of the unseen. Every act of love adds to the collective field of healing on this planet. No gesture of kindness is ever wasted.

Our task is not to manufacture love but to remember that we are made of it.

The heart’s true intelligence knows this even when the mind forgets.

The more we love, the more we see that there is nothing outside of love.

A Call to Live as Love

We are at a crossroads as a species.

Fear has had its centuries—wars, greed, domination, division. It has exhausted itself. The next evolution is not technological but emotional: the awakening of love as a global intelligence.

Each person who lives from love contributes to that awakening. Each act of kindness is a vote for a new world.

The invitation is simple yet profound:

• Choose connection over control.
• Choose curiosity over judgment.
• Choose generosity over competition.
• Choose truth over comfort.

Love is not naïve—it is revolutionary. It is the only power that can heal both the individual and the collective wound.

Closing Reflection

Love is the great teacher, the invisible companion, the pulse within every breath.

It asks us to look again, to see the sacred in the ordinary, to forgive what we thought unforgivable, to keep the heart open even when it trembles.

The journey of love is not about becoming something new, but about remembering what we already are: expressions of the same divine source, radiant and whole.

When we choose love—again and again, in small ways and great—we become the living proof that another world is possible.

Love is the antidote to fear.

Love is the foundation of healing.

Love is the essence of life.

The original source of this article is Global Research.

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This war will be won on the battlefield. Ukraine will prevail and rise back even stronger – WeAreUkraine, Apr 10, 2022

“This war will be won on the battlefield,” said [EU foreign policy chief Josep] Borrell on Twitter. “Ukraine will prevail and rise back even stronger. And the EU will continue to stand by you, every step of the way.”

Speech by President [of the European Council] Charles Michel to the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv – Consilium, Jan 19 2023

We are determined to help you win on the battlefield. When President Zelenskyy called me on February 24th, he said, “Charles, we need weapons, we need ammunition”. Three days later, we formally decided to provide lethal equipment to a third country for the first time in the history of the EU.

Boris Johnson vows Ukraine ‘will win’ as he visits Kyiv on two-year anniversary of war Independent, Feb 24 2024

Mr Johnson said: “On this grim second anniversary of Putin’s invasion I am honoured to be here in Ukraine. With their indomitable courage I have no doubt that the Ukrainians will win and expel Putin’s forces – provided we give them the military, political and economic help that they need.”

Ukraine Must Win, Regain Full Territory: Germany’s Merz – Kyiv Post, Jan 21 2025

Merz said he wants peace in Ukraine but not “at the price of submission to an imperialist power” and stressed that “Ukraine must win the war.”

“To me, winning means restoring territorial integrity,” said Merz, whose conservative CDU-CSU is leading in polls ahead of Germany’s Feb. 23 election. “Winning also means that Ukraine must have complete freedom to choose its political and, if necessary, military alliances.”

A few months later … and the delusion of ‘winning’ is gone …

Joint statement on Ukraine: 21 October 2025

Statement by President Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Starmer, Chancellor Merz, President Macron, Prime Minister Meloni, Prime Minister Tusk, President von der Leyen, President Costa, Prime Minister Støre, President Stubb, Prime Minister Frederiksen, Prime Minister Sánchez and Prime Minister Kristersson on Peace for Ukraine.

We strongly support President Trump’s position that the fighting should stop immediately, and that the current line of contact should be the starting point of negotiations.
…
Therefore we are clear that Ukraine must be in the strongest possible position – before, during, and after any ceasefire.

Russia will of course not agree to this ceasefire nonsense. During the Minsk agreement, which included a ceasefire in east Ukraine, the time was used to arm Ukraine and to prepare its army for further attacks. Russia wont fall for the same trick twice.

Lavrov Rejects Ceasefire: Russia Says Halting War Would ‘Preserve the Nazi Regime’ in Ukraine – Novinite, Oct 21 2025

Speaking to reporters, Lavrov criticized a joint statement by European leaders who reaffirmed their support for Ukraine and backed US President Donald Trump’s recent diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting. “A ceasefire now would mean only one thing – that a vast part of Ukraine remains under the control of a Nazi regime,” he said. “It would be the only place on Earth where an entire language is legally banned, not to mention that it is an official UN language and spoken by the majority of the population.”

Borell and Michel were right when they said that the war will be decided on the battlefield. But it wont be Ukraine that will be winning.

Russia has introduced a new version of the universal guidance kit attached to dumb bombs of previous ages. They now can reach up to 100 kilometer from their release point. Their precision is truly impressive (vid). Over the last week the Russian airforce dropped more than 250 of those per day!

Russian Geran drones have evolved further. The Geran-2 has a 90 kg warhead, night vision and some autonomous targeting capabilities. It can also be manually controlled via repeaters even over longer distances. The new Geran-3 with a jet engine is just coming in. It has a range of 700 km and carries a 250 kilogram warhead. It is cheaper than ballistic Iskander missiles while fulfilling a similar purpose.

After the Alaska summit between the Presidents Trump and Putin the Russian side had agreed to a ceasefire on long range infrastructure targets. Unfortunately Ukraine never held up to it. It continued to attack Russian refineries and electricity station. After a pause Russia countered with a major campaign against Ukraine’s energy and railway infrastructure. It will continue until Ukraine agrees to cease and desist from strikes on Russia.

Unless that happens Ukraine is in for a cold and very dark winter.

Reprinted with permission from Moon of Alabama.

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Writes Ginny Garner:

Lew,

During the last two years of his life, Charlie Kirk was evolving to an antiwar position due to the views of his millions of young followers and his own research. The TPUSA audience’s reaction to Tucker Carlson’s responses to their questions show Charlie’s supporters continue to be opposed to war. The first two questions were about foreign policy and Tucker expressed his opposition to pointless wars. These questions begin at 59:00.

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Thanks, Ginny Garner.

Yahoo News

 

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Writes Ginny Garner:

Lew,

I figure Steve Bannon has known for a very long time but he finally publicly said the Mossad runs the CIA. It’s at 6:20 in this video. He commends ODNI Director Tulsi Gabbard for her courage standing up to them when they tried to run her out of town. CIA (Mossad) has been lying to Trump peace negotiator Steve Witkoff three times a day in briefings attempting to sabotage any possibility of peace.

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Based upon the fact that most elected members of Congress are corrupt, I must conclude that these officials have chosen Communism which will lead to Civil War. Many citizens are still ignorant and apathetic as a result of brainwashing and  propaganda. However, I believe that a majority of our citizens still want the Middle-class American Dream,  with Justice and Prosperity in a Constitutional Republic. This paper will spell out comprehensively what must be done to preclude a Civil War.

1. Terminate all Foreign Aid and foreign Military Deployments. All of these expenses directly benefit the Evil Ones in the Deep state. We have no justified Interest in any country except our own. We cannot be invaded, we can only bedefeated by weapons of mass destruction or from within. This is why we have no reason to be in NATO.

2. Terminate the Privately-Owned Federal Reserve Bank, which will stop money printing to finance Wars-for-Profit and a multitude of scams. Replace Fiat Currency with Gold and Silver money, which will pretty much end inflation.

3. Stop all federal payments to states for functions unconstitutionally usurped from the states or for functions not authorized by specific Enumerated Powers in the Constitution. Either terminate the income tax or return most of the collections from a state to that state. The Income Tax reversed the roles of the states and federal government, making a Constitutional Republic impossible without these modifications..

4. Deport all illegal Invaders as fast as possible prior to the 2030 census. The Constitution states that giving aid and comfort to invaders is Treason. Communist Invaders have already commenced with attacks on citizens and police. The Draft may be required, as our military is too small to confront an deport invaders. If rioters resist using measures that could injure police, then deadly force should be used. So far use of deadly force has been too little and too late.

5. Writ of Habeas Corpus can be terminated in this situation of rebellion, invasion or threat to public safety. Lincoln did this during the Civil War.

6. There must be effective law enforcement to force elected officials and bureaucrats of the Administrative State to conduct their duties in a lawful manner. This is especially important since most officials have been bribed to support Communism and the Evil Ones in the Deep State.

7. It is well known that thousands of unconstitutional functions are performed by bureaucrats of the Administrative State. I call this the Criminal Enterprise, which maybe comprises 50% of Government. If I was to attempt to list them, no one would read this paper.

8. The American People have no faith or trust in the FBI or the National Security Agencies. I think the FBI should be disbanded and the security agencies be allowed only to gather information.

9. Many people believe, with good reason, that the election of President Trump saved us from a Civil War and bought us some time for Trump’s programs to blossom and save us from total Economic Collapse.

As an Economist, I can pretty much guarantee Unlimited Prosperity at an unheard-of level with the American Dream in full blossom for everyone willing to work, if the recommendations in this paper are followed. However if key elements are not followed,  I can foresee a Civil War with the Communists and  the Evil Ones in the Deep State aka Parasitic  Super-Rich Ruling Class aka Wealthy Families  aka the Zionist Jewish Lobby, etc., and their Minions in government.

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Rulers seek to rule. Well, that seems a bit obvious, doesn’t it? And yet, time after time, we elect new leaders, imagining that, “This new group will be better—they’ll represent us as they promised.”

Unfortunately, the democratic system doesn’t really work very well at all. The idea is supposed to be that if old leaders overstep their bounds, new candidates may come forth who promise a reversal of the autocracy of the previous group, and we elect them. They will then proceed to implement that reversal.

Of course, we all know that it’s this last bit that consistently fails to happen. The new group does not fulfil its promises to the electorate—in fact, it almost invariably seeks to increase its power over them. And as each group assumes greater power than the previous one, the country slowly declines, until ultimately, it reaches the state of tyranny.

But what is at the heart of this process? Why on earth does it never seem to happen that the new leaders actually diminish their power and become true representatives of those who elected them? Surely, we must get a few good leaders once in a while.

To answer this question, let’s have another look at that title, at the top of the page…

Rulers seek to rule. Ruling is not a side issue; it is not a by-product. It is their very purpose. It is the reason they ran for elected office.

But then, why do better, less-obsessed people not run? Well, they occasionally do, mostly at the lower levels of public office, where they soon find that politics is a nasty business and that their fellow office-holders detest them for their integrity. In effect, they find themselves isolated, much like New York policeman Frank Serpico—a lamb amongst vipers. In such an environment, it’s unlikely that a “good guy” will last long.

There arises the occasional Ron Paul, a beacon in the night, but the Ron Pauls are rare and even more rarely attain high office. Instead, those who are most likely to pursue public office and most likely to remain there are those that most desire to rule.

So, if we follow this reasoning along, who within a given society does most want to rule? Well, clearly, those who are the most obsessive in their desire to control others. Even more so if they possess this desire to a pathological degree.

In a small jurisdiction, this is less pronounced, because there are fewer people to run for office. The larger the country, the greater the likelihood that those who are pathological will not only come forward, but will do whatever it takes to succeed. Their odds of initial and continued success are therefore far greater than those of the “good” candidates.

If the above reasoning is correct, we’d find our legislatures full of pathological people.

In a large country, all candidates, in all parties, might well answer this description, resulting in a virtual guarantee that the top spots would be filled by those who are pathological. (Estimates hold that approximately 6.2% of any population are likely to be narcissistic. Sociopaths are at 4%.)

So, let’s test this out. Let’s look at a list of character traits of each of these psychopathies and ask ourselves if the descriptions fit any (or all) of our rulers.

Narcisism

• Grandiose sense of self-importance

• Preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success and power

• Requires excessive admiration

• Has a pronounced sense of entitlement

• Is exploitative of others

• Lacks empathy

• Demonstrates arrogant, haughty behaviour

Sociopathy

• Superficial charm and good intelligence

• Unreliability

• Untruthfulness and insincerity

• Lack of remorse and shame

• Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience

• Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love

In examining the traits above and comparing them to the traits we observe in our political leaders, we no longer wonder why our leaders are not more truthful, more reliable, more representative, less arrogant, etc. In fact, in any given situation, we can expect overreach from leaders in each of the following categories:

• An assumed right to power (over both the electorate and other sovereign states)

• Extreme lack of concern for truth or integrity (Reality becomes whatever the leader has most recently decided it is)

• Lack of true concern for the electorate on any level (although “concern” may very well be pretended)

• Inconsistency and unreliability in actions and policymaking

• Fascination with opportunities for armed conflict (both domestic and international)

• Carelessness in the sacrifice of the lives of others in combat situations (Armed conflict is an interesting game, rather than an unfortunate necessity)

Whatever nation the reader is from, he might reread the above description, whilst picturing each of the last several leaders his country has had, and ask himself if these traits apply. (Again, the larger the country, the more likely that all the boxes are ticked, with regard to every leader, regardless of political party.) In addition, if the reader decides to extend the exercise to those on the second and third tiers of power (deputy prime minister, vice president, chancellor of the exchequer, secretary of state, etc., depending upon the jurisdiction), my guess would be that these individuals would also fit the bill fairly well.

Right, then. We were already a bit glum about those who ostensibly were elected to “represent our interests”. Now, it appears not only that they are a bad lot, but that there’s little hope for improvement, short of exhuming Guy Fawkes and cloning him in large numbers.

So what can we glean from this exercise?

We can surmise that, whether a sovereign state was founded as a free republic (e.g., Ancient Rome or the United States), or whether it was founded right from the outset as an oppressive state (e.g., France or the Soviet Union after their respective revolutions in 1799 and 1917), it is certain that pathological individuals will be those who will most desperately seek office. This then means that, over time, the new state will invariably progress toward tyranny, until such time as the system is ended and started anew.

What this means is that the reader might wish to assess the point that his home country has reached in its decline and consider whether it has reached the point of diminishing returns as regards his own personal freedom to live his life as he sees fit.

The good news is that, at any point in history, countries exist that are at different stages of decline, and the reader has choices as to where he might reside, work, and invest, if he wishes to pursue them.

Reprinted with permission from International Man.

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In America, every voice counts — to a degree. Those more active in the political process count more. Simply being a precinct captain in your local party gives you leverage that the average voter does not have. There are other ways to magnify one’s leverage.

One way is to be a donor. It’s costly to run for office — $5 million to win some congressional districts.

Some Areas Of Distraction For President Trump

Ten months into this Trump term:

-the Epstein files are AWOL,
-anti-AIPAC Massie is being primaried,
-many deep state American criminals are walking free, including those who ran a coup on this country in the 2020 color revolution,
-patriots, innocents, and heroes still sit in jail,
-the Executive Branch is moving fast for government, but at a snail’s pace for many Americans.

While these are matters our President can fix with the right perspective and will, our President, instead of ensuring pardons for our heroes, is flying into Ben Gurion Airport, addressing the Knesset, and asking for the pardon of Benjamin Netanyahu.

This doesn’t feel like America First. This feels like the fastest moving and most transparent presidency that has ever existed, but it also feels misguided.

Was he lying the whole time?

Was he a decepticon?

Maybe.

But you know what, he also needed a lot of money to get elected.

So, What’s Your Point?

I, too, can write a spicy ideological take down of how flawed Trump is and how correct your stated values are.

I’m not doing that.

I’m writing about what is happening right now, and how you, personally, can have impact.

Why President Trump Is Predictably Distracted

Trump has repeatedly called Israel-first billionaire Sheldon Adelson generous, tough, and demanding — most recently during his October 13, 2025, visit to Jerusalem.

The Knesset, the unicameral Israeli parliament building, was built with a gift from James de Rothschild (1878-1957) of the Ashkenazi banking family. The building is located on Rothschild Street. As the US President stood before that assembly, he paid honor to Miriam Adelson and the late Sheldon Adelson, who have supported his campaigns.

Mrs. Adelson was an honored guest as Trump announced peace in Gaza through a large multinational agreement, along with a rebuilding effort.

While October 13, 2025 is not two years after October 7, 2023 in the Gregorian calendar, in the Hebrew calendar it is exactly two years. Trump specifically came on the 21st and 22nd day of Tishri 5786. He left as the holiday Simchat Torah was beginning, the two-year anniversary of the attack, which began on the 22nd day of Tishri 5784, around sunrise on October 7, 2023.

Some say Trump came to declare victory in the ethnic cleansing campaign, and to dance on the ashes, as he began to paint the public picture of Gaza as an international real estate development not populated by locals.

Some 67,000 Palestinians died in Gaza from Israeli bullets, bombs, and fire these two years. Depending on how quickly and plentifully aid enters Gaza, multiples more will likely die because of limited food, sanitation, housing, and medical infrastructure. This situation looks very distracted and very Israel-first.

I don’t care for Israel-first influence in US politics. I despise it. I am as America First as Ron Paul taught me to be long ago. Donald Trump took up that mantle, and has done a relatively good job putting America first — though I recognize the man has flaws.

I also understand that the piper plays the tune of the one who pays him, and Trump didn’t finance his own campaign.

Zionist money did. I am grateful to not have another Bushite presidency. Bush was right 3 out of 10 times. Trump is right 8 out of 10 times.

Why I Am Grateful To The Zionist Supporters Of President Trump

Trump deserves criticism. A lot. But you probably do too.

It’s easy to criticize another. It’s harder to partner with a person to build the future.

The Zionists, for all their flaws, do that. I am grateful to not have a Kamala Harris presidency. If I run into Miriam Adelson, I will thank her for that. I will also, likely, share a few other opinions. But first I will thank her for helping return Trump to the White House.

I know many well-resourced people who did not stand up for America the way Adelson did. Of course Adelson was likely more interested in what Trump would do for Israel, than what Trump would do for America. That does not change the fact that she helped give me 10 months of a president who gets it right 8 out of 10 times.

Yet, The Cheapskates And Do-Nothings Now Feel Entitled To Comment Without Shame Or Blame

In contrast to Adelson, at this late hour, a year after an election, many well-resourced cheapskates speak up. Did those of you capable, support Trump heartily last summer? No. Well, then you are part of the problem that created a vacuum for the Zionist donors, aren’t you?

Did those of you with the wherewithal to start a PAC for Trump (basically any literate American over 16), start a PAC for Trump?  No. Well, then you are part of the problem that created a vacuum for the Zionist donors, aren’t you?

Did you knock on doors Scott Pressler-style? Did you become a precinct captain? Did you have conversations with your 40 closest acquaintances? Did you do anything other than vote? Because that’s not enough.

I mean, there is only so far that finger pointing can get you.

And there is only so far that air support from the White House can get America. Trump cannot do everything from the Oval Office. He can’t change 80-plus years of failed policies and lazy freedom culture. He can’t change 80-plus years of Americans being nonchalant toward freedom.

I hate how incapable of cooperation many on the political right are. I love the individualism. I love the freedom. I hate the willingness to burn friends who are not perfect. I hate the selfishness when it comes to collaboration.

Your political rival is, in contrast, lockstep unified. American businessman Robert Welch (1899-1985), when he started the John Birch Society, made clear the dedication that communists have to their cause — that they tithe both fortune and time to that cause.

It’s an aberration to see the same from someone on the political right — especially their fortune.

How many times I have met conservatives and libertarians who won’t spend a penny without great hesitation — from the offering plate to charities, from pretty good candidates to pretty good companies. Many America First people will sooner buy slop from Costco than to spend $3 more buying eggs, butter, meat or other staples from a quality farmer.

I mean, it’s hard to take some vocal freedom lovers seriously.

No, it’s hard to take many vocal freedom lovers seriously.

So, I am happy for the Zionists on the political right. They are funding campaigns that bring some benefit to the American people, and to me personally.

If we can ever force AIPAC and their bedfellows to register as foreign agents, I suspect we will notice that wealthy Zionists priced many Americans out of the political process in both parties, and created $5 million congressional races. To force AIPAC to register is going to take a lot more rising to the occasion.

As I write this, many lukewarm Trump supporters write him off, while many Zionists are busy getting friends into his administration, and writing checks for the midterms next year.

They don’t feel bad about your lukewarmness for Trump or for the process. Your lack of resolve makes it easier for them to be more dominant.

What Happens Next?

Let me save you the suspense. Given the trajectory of the grassroots, Zionists and establishment Republicans will have increasing influence over this term, since so many in the grassroots are acting like born losers, while so many Zionists are playing an effective strategy in a predictable game.

I have no appetite for those who bail one year post-election because they aren’t getting what they wanted. Open your eyes and realize freedom isn’t free. You are going to have to work for it, especially after 80-plus years of neglect.

Some Fighters I Admire

Do you know who I admire? Steve Bannon. He found partners, started a successful podcast, became a voice of a movement, was put on trial, let off, put on trial again, thrown in prison, and is still going strong.

Is he perfect? Doesn’t matter.

Do you know who I admire? Robert Kennedy. He lost in 2024, lost again in 2024, swallowed his pride, joined the Trump team when it was in its darkest hours, is pilloried in the media daily, loses 8 out of 10 battles in a department that, on paper, he controls, and keeps pushing forward with small victories.

Is he perfect? Doesn’t matter.

Do you know who I admire? Jesse Benton. He helped advance liberty through Ron Paul’s campaign, helped advance liberty through Rand Paul’s campaign, helped advance liberty even through Mitch McConnell’s campaign. For years, he has been hounded by federal prosecutors for things no Democrat, even in the reddest of states, would see jail time for.

Is he perfect? Doesn’t matter.

Do you know who I admire? Steve Stockman, a man who was an activist troublemaker in and out of Congress before becoming the Jack Smith lawfare test case for what they did to Donald Trump. Still a warrior.

Is he perfect? Doesn’t matter.

Do you know who I admire? Thomas Massie, a man who acts out of conviction to represent his district. He is arguably the most impactful member of the House, including the Speaker. Absent some significant change in the Speaker’s demeanor, no one will remember the Speaker in 20 years, but Thomas Massie will still be remembered in 200 years. Each American can be a Massie, a virtually meaningless 1 out of 435 who leverages his position bigly, or every American can be the Speaker of the House, whatever his name is, a virtually faceless person who holds one of the most important offices in the country, yet lives his days as a valueless cog in someone else’s machine. Those are our two dramatic choices in life.

Is he perfect? Doesn’t matter.

I am a Christian. That means I have high moral standards for myself and when I screw up (which I do), I repent and accept my Savior’s forgiveness. I have high moral standards for others, and I also know that people aren’t perfect. I have appreciation for idealists who believe in freedom and stay in the arena.

At the same time, I know when people around me are hardly trying, and because of that, they are losing the greatest opportunity they have to revive freedom. Kudos to those likeminded people, those who truly believe in freedom and are truly America First.

Robert Welch said decades ago that communists tithe money and time to their cause. Those people are now deep within American institutions. Communists still tithe time and money, outside of work, to their cause. The institutions, however, now support their full-time work toward their cause. They are in every institution around you from police to church, from street sweeper to health official, from hospital to the real estate, and they are promoting their communist worldview.

In response to that reality, do you really think you are going to win back your country by folding on a pretty good president after 10 months and never having given so much it hurts to that fight, let alone waking up every day and giving so much it hurts EVERY SINGLE DAY to that fight.

I give so much that it hurts, and I do it every single day.

You can do the same. We can win this. We don’t have to lose this. Don’t fall for the enticing story of the doomers, the do-nothings, and the cheapskates who proclaim freedom in empty words and who do little of consequence.

Dear cheapskate who is complaining a year after the election — you are part of the problem. Please amend your behavior. Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

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The Russophobic Euro elites are trying to railroad the continent to war.

The 27-nation European Union this week unveiled a five-year plan “to get ready for war” with Russia.

The so-called “Roadmap on European Defense Readiness 2030” sounds like a war manifesto and a self-fulfilling prophecy, putting the EU on a disastrous collision course with Russia.

It is incredible that such an ominous direction is being blatantly dictated by an unaccountable elite in Brussels. Eighty-five years ago, the Third Reich had a plan to rule over Europe by dominating the Soviet Union. The EU elite are carrying on the plan.

As for the “defense readiness” (that is, “war readiness”) roadmap, the future is already here, not in five years. The EU is presently on a disastrous collision course with Russia.

Like the United States, the European Union has been at war with Russia through its proxy regime in Ukraine since February 2022, and before that, going back to the 2014 coup in Kiev.

Over the past four years, the EU has supplied nearly €180 billion of taxpayer money to weaponize a NeoNazi regime in Kiev. As we noted in last week’s editorial, that vast allocation (and waste) of resources is far greater than the EU’s own member nations have received for developing their economies and societies. When has the European public had a chance to vote on that? Decisions are being made by an elite cabal.

Unlike the Trump administration, the European Union under the influence of arch-Russophobes like European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas, has shown absolutely no will for finding a diplomatic resolution to the conflict in Ukraine. With honorable exceptions, most of the European governments are pushing the war hysteria. So, too, are the European media, as are the American mainstream media. Russia is the evil aggressor, no diplomacy, no dialogue with Moscow, no surrender, and so on. It’s war-on-autopilot.

The European bloc, at least at the official level, is completely dominated by NATO and intelligence agencies’ propaganda portraying Russia as the enemy. The CIA and Britain’s MI6 are no doubt pulling the strings and Europe is dancing like a pathetic puppet.

President Donald Trump held a two-hour phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday during which the two leaders agreed to meet in Budapest in the next two weeks. The meeting is a follow-up to their summit in Anchorage on August 15, to try to end the hostilities in Ukraine.

The EU leadership is implacably opposed to any such diplomacy. They were disconcerted by the meeting in Alaska because Trump treated Putin with respectful diplomacy. The latest news about a summit in Budapest is also peeving EU leaders. They are clamoring for Trump to deliver Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, which they will pay for. This is aimed at ensuring that diplomacy gets blown up.

Since the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014, the European Union has undergone a retrograde transformation to become a militarized bloc defined by obsessive hostility towards Russia. The EU is increasingly a clone of the NATO military alliance. Historically, the European Union stood for peace through neighborly trade and commerce. It was intended to have evolved from the ashes of the Second World War, ensuring that war would never happen again on the continent. In 2012, the bloc was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Not that that award means much, but it serves to illustrate the absurdity.

Over recent months, the EU has become fixated on a feverish war mentality. The economies of the 27 nations are increasingly marshaled by military production and spending. The whole purpose of the bloc is being defined as an existential confrontation with Russia. It seems significant that Von der Leyen and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have Nazi skeletons in their family wardrobes. The Baltic states, too, which have emerged as belligerent influences on EU policy, have nefarious links to the Nazi past.

The war mentality reached fever pitch in Von der Leyen’s State of the Union address on September 10. She opened by declaring that “Europe is in a fight” with Russia. She said it was a fight for “freedom and independence,” and she united the cause of the EU with Ukraine against Russia.

“Europe must fight… because Ukraine’s freedom is Europe’s freedom,” she claimed.

Von der Leyen, the former German military minister, and the European Union’s most senior official, who is unelected, was declaring that the bloc was at war. Now, not in five years.

In recent months with intensifying emphasis, the EU’s intelligence agencies (CIA, MI6 clones) have been warning of war with Russia as imminent, and there has been a suspicious surge in drone incursions in Poland, Estonia, Romania and Denmark, which have been blamed on Russia without any evidence.

All the while, European leaders and NATO chief Mark Rutte (a former Dutch prime minister, and an abject clone if ever there was one) have been calling for massive increases in military spending to “counter the Russia threat”. In March, Von der Leyen floated the figure at €800 billion for the bloc to spend on “defense”.

In 2014, the combined EU military spend was less than €200 billion. It now stands at €340 billion. That is an increase by 70 percent over a decade.

The roadmap unveiled this week sure enough delivers on Von der Leyen’s earlier astronomical figure. It is planning a total EU spend on military of €800 billion – more than double the current level and four times the level the EU spent 10 years ago.

This is insane and unsustainable. If it doesn’t escalate into an all-out war in Europe, the least damaging effect of such wanton militarism will destroy European nations from economic and political collapse.

It is clear that major decisions have been made behind closed doors to take the EU in a direction towards increased militarism where the civilian economies are transformed into war economies. That’s great news for military corporations and politicians who are sponsored (bribed) by lobbyists. European citizens are the losers and they are not being consulted about their fate. Their societies are being drained of vital resources, which are being sucked up by militarism and corporate investors.

To pull off this grand theft and deception, the EU relies on unelected bureaucrats like Von der Leyen, Kallas and Rutte to whip up Russophobia and “war fears”. The mainstream media plays its part by peddling intelligence propaganda to manufacture public acquiescence.

However, there is pushback to the craziness. The rise of populist (that is, more representative and democratic) parties is demonstrating contempt for the undemocratic EU ruling class. The protests in France throwing the government into chaos are motivated by disgust at the economic cutbacks for public services and workers’ rights while Paris throws billions of euros propping up the proxy war in Ukraine.

To their credit, governments in Hungary and Slovakia are speaking out against the warmongering of the EU towards Russia. Viktor Orbán and Robert Fico have criticized the militarization of Europe and are consistently calling for diplomacy with Moscow.

It is significant that Trump chose to meet Putin in the Hungarian capital for their next meeting, chaired by Orbán who described the event as “great news for people who want peace”.

The European-NATO leadership is displeased by the Budapest venue because it suggests following a diplomatic option instead of a policy of war-on-autopilot.

The Russophobic Euro elites are trying to railroad the continent to war. They can see no other way of doing international relations. They have committed the EU to war and dictatorial war spending that is criminal. They, therefore, cannot allow peace and diplomacy to succeed because that would be an admission of their criminal warmongering.

But their way is leading to the abyss.

The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.

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I spend too much time watching videos of perpetually angry Black people attacking and assaulting White people. Always easy targets. Usually in gangs. Often starting with a cowardly sucker punch. But you can’t ignore them. They’re everywhere. Earlier this year, the shocking frequency of them triggered what was dubbed Black Fatigue.

Now, I wrote about what I called African American Fatigue Syndrome a few years back. I’m not bitter over the simpler Black Fatigue catching on. We’re talking about the same thing after all. Bluntly stated, those of us who aren’t “African-American” are saddled with a minority group that we cannot help but interact with at times. This group, although only about 12 percent of the population, is a very loud demographic, and their concerns and alleged mistreatment at the hands of the other 88 percent of the people is drummed into our heads continuously by what Donald Trump has christened the Fake News. The rest of us are supposed to be unduly interested in the welfare of these “African-Americans,” even to the extent of prioritizing them over our own families. What, after all, is more important than a young Black man in the “hood?” Stop whining about living paycheck to paycheck, or the fact you aren’t paid enough to save any money. You should be concerned instead about “Reparations.”

Sure, you might have experienced a medical emergency and find it impossible to pay the bill that comes courtesy of our thoroughly evil Medical Industrial Complex. It might have impacted your “quality of life,” to use a favorite term of that same Complex. But what about all those Black children with indecipherable names, who are forced to graduate from high school without ever learning to read? Who can’t perform basic math problems? Of course, we all know that grammar and math are “racist,” but why aren’t you worried about how they can all become “influencers,” rappers, and other kinds of laughable celebrities? As Humphrey Bogart once said, your problems don’t amount to a hill of beans. Not to some resident of a real, genuine “hood.” Where the nights are full of high excitement. Will there be an actual drive-by shooting here? Will some “gangstas” kill other “gangstas” who “disrespected” them? Don’t tell me about your Parkinson’s Disease. Have you ever been really and truly “disrespected?”

The AI photo above reflects a tragic reality; Black males have long been prone to raping White females. Forget To Kill a Mockingbird. Look at the official crime statistics. While Black on White rape is all too common, Whites raping Blacks is so statistically negligible as to be considered nonexistent. Yet, Hollywood always depicts things that way, doesn’t it? Eldridge Cleaver bragged about all the White women he raped in his allegedly best-selling memoir, Soul on Ice. How could a major publisher not publish it? I don’t have to tell you that there are very few former altar boys controlling the major publishers. White women especially ate that stuff up. Accounts of White women being raped. Somehow, that’s cool, as long as the rapists were a particular magical color. Ask the German “activist” who apologized to the migrants who raped her. Or the German girl who was given a longer prison sentence than the migrant rapists for “insulting” them. You’ve come a long way from Hitler, baby.

As I’ve said before, I am fatigued beyond measure by the ghetto mentality. Ghetto issues. Ghetto “fashion.” Ghetto “music.” I have zero tolerance for hearing any more Black people yelling. About anything. Being called “racist” doesn’t bother me in the least. It’s a label that has lost whatever meaning it might have ever had. I think Trotsky invented the term, didn’t he? You know, the former Lev Bronstein from New York. Who became a leading figure in the “Russian” revolution. Wound up with an icepick in the head, Lev did. Now, that’s ghetto. That’s “keeping it real.” I think Lev might have invented the term “anti-Semitism” too. “Anti-Semitism” and “racism” go together. Like a horse and carriage, in the words of the old song. Those words were written by yet another non-Irishman, Sammy Cahn. Old Lev would have been proud. Which brings us to the more important part of the equation. Just who ensures that there is always an endless array of Black complaints? Who promotes this?

I’m sure anyone reading this knows the answer to that. It wasn’t a group of Mormons. Or lesbian Presbyterians. Or one-legged Eskimos. Or transgender Unitarians. If any other group held the kind of power that those who are whole or partially Jewish do, the sleeping Sheeple would at least be aware of it. Because our lapdog press would at least acknowledge it. The lame investigatory process, such as it exists in America 2.0, is controlled by this magical Two Percent of the population. From the FBI to the New York Times, Jewish concerns are front and center. Since the primary concern of powerful American Jews is unquestioned taxpayer support to the parasitic state of Israel, their concerns are most often expressed as Black concerns. It is they who have pushed and promoted Blacks to the exclusion of all others, since the days when some hoaxer with incredible foresight produced the Protocols of Zion. Even got Henry Ford on board. Poor Henry, invented the car and gets labeled a despicable “anti-Semite.”

This marriage of Black and Jew is so prevalent that you have turn off your critical thinking skills not to see it. Who promoted all those Black big band leaders, and then the early rock and rollers? They weren’t Christmas Celebrators, to use comedian Leonarda Joni’s phrase. Of course, there were many Black performers with talent, but that many? Who guided the careers of Black big band leaders like Duke Ellington, and early rock and roll artists like Little Richard and Chuck Berry? After all, weren’t they all being viciously discriminated against in those days? Well, to be fair, those “guiding” their careers did invariably cheat and rob them of their earnings. What were all those White audience members doing, cheering on people who couldn’t stay in the same hotel with? Who wrote all those Brill Building songs of the early 1960s? Carole King? Cynthia Weil? Gerry Goffin? Neil Sedaka? No Irish in that bunch. And they wrote most of those songs for Black artists to perform.

Who produced the slew of Black television comedies in the 1970s? I think Norman Lear is still alive. Ask him if he goes to a synagogue or a church. Why did Lear, and so many other prominent Jews, have such a strong desire to promote Black comedians, Black musicians, and more recently Black politicians? Why didn’t they just promote members of their own tribe as rock and roll stars, etc? Sure, there was half-Jewish Gary Lewis. And David Lee Roth. Dee Snyder. The Beastie Boys. K.I.S.S. Going back to the early days of Hollywood, Jewish performers still were disproportionately represented onscreen, as they absolutely dominated things behind the scenes. Think of all the poor White gentiles, standing there with Fender Stratocaster in hand, waiting for somebody’s nephew named Seymour to “discover” them. Call it “hate.” Call it “anti-Semitism.” It’s undeniable who runs our culture. And that culture, on the surface, has the visage and “style” of ghetto Black people.

Considering how many videos are produced, on a daily basis, of Black people behaving badly, a sane society’s response should be to expose and try to correct this behavior. It’s irrational behavior. It’s uncivilized behavior. And it’s behavior that we don’t see any other group engaging in. Yet this same behavior is perfectly normal for untold numbers of this one particular minority group. Unbelievably conceited and arrogant “self-esteem,” nurtured from childhood by the non-Irish overlords of our culture. Senseless and unearned pride from non-accomplishments. Hyper sensitivity over any perceived slight, colloquially framed as “dissing.” You don’t “dis” a Black person. In spite of their inflated self-worth, they can be deflated by the simplest critique. Well, more often driven to violence by criticism. Or even someone looking at them. Kind of like how Hillary Clinton and other elitists don’t want the commoners to gaze upon them. As with dangerous animals, it’s best not to attract their attention.

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“Divide and rule” tactics are as old as human conflict.  Instead of building consensus among the members of a tribe or nation, rulers exacerbate grievances that exist between social groups.  By doing so effectively, a military or political leader with only minority support can maintain control over a much larger group of people who refuse to work together.

Julius Caesar used this strategy to conquer Gaul.  The Ottoman Empire ruled over a great number of tribes using the same technique.  The British Empire controlled the Indian subcontinent in much the same way.  Turning potential enemies against one another enables an otherwise insufficient force to seize and preserve power.

Modern Western politics is an endless “divide and rule” operation.  Rarely do political leaders speak in terms that will unite strong majorities of their peoples.  Even more rarely do they speak of their nations as families or articulate ways for everyone to get along.  Instead, they divide society into groups of “oppressors” and “victims” and explain to anyone suffering why it’s someone else’s fault.

In parliamentary systems across Europe, there are so many political parties that national leaders rarely have majority support.  Floating political alliances often produce legislative results that the public could never have predicted.  For many years, I have regularly asked European friends and associates whether they view their national identity as more important than their European Union identity.  I’ve asked them point-blank, “Are you willing to give up national sovereignty for a single, continental government?”  Every single time — regardless of how pro-E.U. the person is — the answer is the same: “My nation comes first.”

Regardless of those expressed personal feelings, the European Union barrels ahead toward a single super-state.  What started out as a post-war trading bloc exercising few real powers has grown into a continental government with its own currency, president, debt, and growing budgets.  If the Eurocrats can successfully use the Russia-Ukraine War to scare member-states into action, there will soon be a single European military force.  WWI ended several historic empires on the continent.  WWII ended German dreams of a pan-European empire.  Eighty years later, a single European empire looks all but certain.

How did that happen?  Well, it certainly didn’t come from a Europe-wide referendum in which the half a billion citizens were asked whether they would agree to dissolve national borders and elect Ursula von der Leyen as president.  It came from steady incrementalism over many decades, during which local divisions were used to the political advantage of one overarching European government.  Don’t like your national government or local representatives?  Put your faith in the European Union, and all your problems will disappear.

There’s a reason the European Commission spends so much money on “democracy” movements within the borders of member-states: It has a vested interest in riling up the locals and diluting anti-E.U. sentiment.  These days, European Union officials tell the continent’s inhabitants that to be “anti-E.U.” is to be “pro-Putin.”  Europeans who prefer national sovereignty are dismissed as “dangerous nationalists” who spread “Russian disinformation.”  It’s a cynical yet effective way to build a European empire.

In the United States, two major political parties generally vie for power.  This means that a majority of citizens usually supports the elected president.  It does not mean, however, that the “divide and rule” dynamic is any less pervasive.  When discussing current events in the United States, corporate news talking heads are stuck on endless repeat: racism, white supremacy, Christian nationalism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, fascism, and hate.  Everything that news corporations publish is meant to turn Americans against one another.

Why would international corporations spend so much time working to divide Americans?  Because if American citizens are busy calling one another “racists” and “bigots,” then they’re not paying attention to how the federal bureaucracy is spending trillions of dollars in taxes.  We watch Republican and Democrat members of Congress call one another vile names leading up to an election, and then we watch those same politicians laughing with one another once they’ve been handed another term in office.

Republican and Democrat senators don’t despise one another.  They despise the American taxpayer who might object to whatever new spending boondoggle they have planned.  If you can keep Americans at one another’s throats, then nobody notices how many wars are being funded; how many corporate donors are being rewarded; or how much wealth is being transferred from middle-class households to “non-governmental” organizations, family foundations, foreign countries, and other profit-chasing special interests.

As for the vast federal bureaucracy that acts as a permanent government in the United States, it benefits when Americans are too busy yelling at each other to notice what its members are doing.  The CIA, FBI, IRS, and EPA, and the hundreds of other agencies, departments, and governmental bodies that enforce their will upon ordinary Americans, prefer for voters to waste all their energies screaming about pronouns and historic grievances.  While the politicians divide voters by relative “victimhood,” the permanent bureaucratic government rules over the people with little opposition.  While the politicians speak about “democracy,” America’s unelected bureaucratic empire grows.

For several decades now, European and American officials have used mass illegal immigration as the primary engine for their “divide and rule” operations.  The politicians justify their open border policies as humanitarian efforts to assist foreigners escaping oppression.  They even insist that Western nations are responsible for those claiming “asylum” by blaming “global warming” on Western capitalism and calling waves of unvetted migrants “climate refugees.”  All of that is just propaganda for the corporate news institutions to cycle on loop.

In reality, the endless arrival of foreign migrants supplies endless possibilities for manufactured social division.  How do you “divide and rule” a Christian nation?  Relocate millions of Muslims into the country and lecture the native population on “white supremacy” and “Christian nationalism.”  Celebrate “oppressed” cultures and condemn Western civilization as “imperialist,” “patriarchal,” and “racist.”  Accuse all those who love their country’s history of being “hateful bigots.”  Redefine traditional values as forms of “hate” and then criminalize “hate.”  Mass illegal immigration has become Western governments’ preferred “divide and rule” currency.

All of this engineered division within Western societies does raise an important question, though: If there is nothing left to unite us, how will we ever defend ourselves from civilizations that wish us harm?  If Western citizens see their neighbors as enemies, how will they ever work together to fight back real enemies?  Or do Western governments plan on dividing us until there is nothing left and America and Europe can just be handed over to Islamic conquerors and Chinese communists?

If submission to foreign powers is not the goal, then Western leaders need to throw their “divide and rule” playbooks in the fire and find ways to unite Western citizens once again.  Western self-hatred has one outcome: Western immolation.  If we do not rediscover the ties that bind us, we will be scattered to the wind.  If we do not remember how to honor our ancestors and our cultural history, those who do cherish their history will one day conquer us.  The European Union can scream about a looming Russian invasion all it wants, but it will not matter if other civilizations are allowed to invade its member-states.

At some point, Western nations must stop manufacturing division.  If they don’t, they will perish, and it won’t much matter who is ruling then.

This article was originally published on American Thinker.

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Cristina on Twitter asks, “Can you please write another of your beautiful posts about hope. I am not sure I have any left. We need hope.”

I don’t understand how anyone can be without hope right now, personally. The imperial propaganda machine is crumbling in ways we’ve never seen in our lifetime. They wouldn’t work so hard on shoring up narrative control if they didn’t need it, and their narrative control is falling apart.

Look at Israel. This is an arm of the empire that understands the importance of narrative manipulation so acutely that they’ve got their own term for the practice, “hasbara”, with countless systems in place for influencing the way westerners view the Zionist entity. But they’re losing.

Israel and its supporters are more keenly aware of how important it is to control the narrative than maybe any other population on earth, and yet they are losing control of the narrative. Worldwide support for Israel is plummeting, with more American voters sympathizing with the Palestinians than the Israelis for the first time in history.

For the first time in polling history, more Americans sympathize with Palestinians over Israelis.

And the shift just isn’t with Democrats.

Younger Republicans — those under 50 — are 41 points less likely than older Republicans to side with Israelis. pic.twitter.com/70oS87Fdz6

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) October 9, 2025

And Israel is panicking. They’ve been ramping up spending on propaganda and influence operations while billionaire Zionists like Larry Ellison use their fortunes to shore up more control over social media platforms and mainstream news outlets. They wouldn’t be doing this if they didn’t feel the need to, and it won’t even work. No amount of propaganda is going to cause people to unsee two years of live-streamed genocide. Propaganda is a powerful tool, but it isn’t magic.

The Zionists in the White House are panicking as well. Donald Trump has stated that his goal in securing a ceasefire was to rescue Israel from the PR crisis created by the Netanyahu regime, saying, “Bibi took it very far and Israel lost a lot of support in the world. Now I am gonna get all that support back.”

These sentiments were echoed in a recent 60 Minutes interview with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who said that the president “felt like the Israelis were getting a little bit out of control” and needed to rein them in, not for the sake of Israel’s victims but to “stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests.”

So we’re already at a point where elements of the empire are starting to change their behavior in response to public perception of the empire’s actions. They are not doing this because they suddenly evolved a conscience, they are doing it because they need to maintain perception management. They understand that if the public turns against them past a certain point, they’re in some very dangerous territory.

Every time history has seen the public rise up against their tyrannical rulers and lop their heads off, the world’s oligarchs and empire managers have sat up and taken notice. The rich and the powerful are always urgently aware that there are a whole lot more of us than there are of them and that we can use those superior numbers to get rid of them whenever we want to, so they have an existential interest in preventing us from wanting to.

That’s why Israel, the United States and their allies have poured so much energy into sustaining the most sophisticated propaganda engine ever created. They know that the empire they operate depends on the ability to manipulate the way normal people think, speak, act and vote, continuously steering us toward convenient thoughts and behaviors and away from inconvenient thoughts and behaviors.

This entire dystopia is sustained by mass-scale mind control, and the mind control machine is getting weaker and weaker by the day. More and more people are waking up to the fact that we are ruled by tyrants, that our politicians and media have been deceiving us, and that everything we were taught to believe about our nation, our government and our world was a lie.

So while in the short term things might look darker than ever before, what’s spelled out in the trends we are seeing tells us that the bars of our cage are made of melting ice. We are freeing our minds from the artificial delusions that have turned us into docile and obedient gear-turners, and awakening the healthy animals within us.

I find it impossible to feel hopeless under such circumstances. I don’t feel certain that everything will work out perfectly fine, but I find it impossible not to have hope.

They’re on the back foot. This has never happened before.

We’ve got a real shot at winning this thing.

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The meeting between Trump and Putin in Hungary, assuming the pre-meeting negotiations between the envoys of the two presidents get that far, is likely the last chance for peace instead of war.  An agreement between the two presidents will require large adjustments in position for one or the other or both.

Either Trump would have to understand and accept that the solution is to get NATO off of Russia’s border and agree to a mutual security agreement between Russia and the West, or Putin would have to give up his goal of a mutual security agreement that brings an end to hostility, sanctions, and ceaseless provocations of Russia.  How likely are Trump’s envoys for Ukraine, Gen. Keith Kellogg and Steve Witkoff, and Putin’s envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, to produce that mutual understanding?

It is possible but unlikely.  The envoys on both sides have their own agendas.  They will be working to serve their agendas.  Kirill Dmitriev represents Russian business interests whose contacts are in the West and who have few, if any, with BRICS.

Kellogg has international business interests and will be serving those interests.  Witcoff is a billionaire real estate developer and at times seems to represent Israel.  

None of the three envoys has any comprehension of the depth and danger of Russia’s insecurity with missiles positioned on a long front along Russia’s border.  Dmitriev, like the American enjoys, wants concessions from Putin that will allow Russian business interests to be working with Western ones.  Consequently, they will be working for their interests and not for removing the threat that is Russia’s concern.

Perhaps if American foreign policy commentary focused on the real problem and spent less time demonizing Russia and “exposing” Russian military and economic vulnerabilities, something positive could happen.  But there is no sign of commentary that deals with the real situation.

Simply ending the Ukraine conflict and agreeing that the territory reincorporated into Russia is Russian does not end the security threat presented to Russia from having NATO and US missile bases on Russia’s border.

What is required is a mutual security agreement and the end to all provocations of Russia.  

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Donald Trump seems to be following through in his second term as president on the threat of a United States war on Venezuela he made in his first term. Significant US military force has been recently placed near Venezuela ready for attack, the US has already destroyed several boats near Venezuela and killed most the people on them in a claimed effort to counter “narco-terrorism,” and Trump last week said he has authorized Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation and is considering attacks on land in Venezuela.

The justification the Trump administration presents for all this is that it is part of the US government’s drug war, an endeavor that has meted out death, destruction, and rights abuses decade after decade as drug use in America continues along. The Trump administration also recharacterizes alleged drug transport as “narco-terrorism” in an effort to gain legal and public support for hostile actions.

Trump seems not to be content to go to war against just Venezuela whose President Nicolás Maduro he has proclaimed is a drug kingpin. Trump on Sunday pegged the president of neighboring Western Hemisphere nation Colombia with the same accusation used against Maduro. Here is how Trump put it in a Sunday post at his Truth Social page:

President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia. It has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America. AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA. The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc. Petro, a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President Donald J. Trump

Notice Trump’s comment that the Colombia president “better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.” That is a threat of war.

Will Trump stop with just these two countries in a Western Hemisphere war spree? Trump, after regaining the presidency earlier this year, took actions in apparent preparation for war on Mexico as well — actions in line with Trump’s comments since his first term supportive of war on Mexica and argued to be for protecting Americans from drugs and terrorism as with wars on Venezuela and Colombia.

Reprinted with permission from The Ron Paul Institute.

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