Trump’s New National Security Blueprint Is NOT What The Media Says

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Trump’s practical worldview. Okay, I, you know, despite the mainstream media out there, both sides, because both the left and the right, whether it New York Times, Wall Street Journal, they are neocons at heart. They always have been. And they put out a national security strategy paper. It’s 33 pages.

long and they’re counting on the fact that most Americans are not going to read it. So their job is to take it. It’s not even that long. It’s a bloody 33 pages. Okay. Get through it very quickly. And I suggest you do so. Okay. Now just Google 33 page national security. It’ll pop up. Um, the ideas that Trump puts forward, um, are practical, practical. Um,

I don’t understand our current tact when it comes to what we’re doing in the Caribbean with Colombia and Venezuela and the buildup there. And he talks about this, you know, Western hemisphere Monroe dark doctrine type light and going after drug traffickers and all this stuff. I know yesterday in a political interview, he alluded to, he might, you know, conduct.

military action in Colombia and Mexico, at which quite frankly, I highly doubt. I’m sticking. I’m sticking with my thesis that Venezuela is about oil. Pure and simple. know, to control, have control over the world’s largest oil reserve is, well, it’s saying something, a lot of power.

that goes along with that. Just leave it at that. A lot of people are getting bent out of shape with this paper because of, we’re saying we’re going against our allies in Europe. Where yes, we’re pushing back against our allies. We shouldn’t do that. It’s been a big call for some time. I’ve even said the same thing is that, I don’t know why.

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NATO is this necessity, why we need to have NATO, why it even matters at this point in time. In fact, NATO, whenever you baby someone, maybe a kid, okay, and you baby your kid and you don’t allow your kid to grow up, are you helping that kid?

No, you’re not. You’re holding them back. our implied defense of Europe with NATO for a period of time has allowed for their social welfare states to get completely out of control where, again, they can’t manage them. I mean, I can point the finger at ourselves to where at that point in time in this country as well, because

We went all in with social welfare, 1960s, and we just went on steroids, it never got better. Brought in all of this mass illegal immigration, can’t afford it. Social Security is obviously a Ponzi scheme. We have our issues as well, but we also are the world’s reserve currency, which allows us to get away with highway robbery, if you will, when it comes to our fiscal situation and where we’re at. Anyway, back to the…

the paper that was put out in Europe and people getting the vapors. I’m here to tell you that.

You’re going to get a large swath of Europe that will agree with what Trump put out wholeheartedly. Wholeheartedly, they agree with this. Europe and the way Europe is structured with Brussels, it’s not on the upswing. Okay, they’re holding on for dear life here. I’m to read to you from the paper, Promoting European Greatness.

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American officials have been used to thinking about European problems in terms of insufficient military spending and economic stagnation. There is truth to this, but Europe’s real problems are even deeper. Continental Europe has been losing share of global GDP down from 25 % in 1990 to 14 % today, partly owing to national and transnational regulations that undermine creativity and industriousness. Yeah.

This is accurate.

This is accurate and they know it!

They know it. They know it. They look take a good hard look in the mirror. They’re aware of this. Okay, they will. And again, there’s nothing wrong with us reminding them of this. But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife.

censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birth rates and loss of national identities and self-confidence. Anything in that paragraph that is wrong? No. No. Again, I do believe I think Trump likes Europe. I do. I think he looks, I think he thinks it’s, you know, I think it’s not, who doesn’t?

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I love going there, but he doesn’t want it to fall apart.

Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less as such. It is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and military strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation.

This lack of self-confidence is most evident in Europe’s relationship with Russia. European allies enjoy significant hard power advantage over Russia by almost every measure, save nuclear weapons. As a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine, European relations with Russia are now deeply attenuated and many Europeans regard Russia as an existential threat. Managing European relations with Russia will require significant US diplomatic engagement, both to reestablish conditions of strategic stability

across Eurasian landmass and to mitigate the risk of conflict between Russia and European states. It’s a core interest of the United States to negotiate an expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine in order to stabilize European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war and reestablish strategic stability with Russia, as well as to enable the post hostilities reconstruction of Ukraine to enable its survival as a viable.

state and it goes on and a lot of people again have major issues with that as well. you’re appeasing Russia, you’re ponying up to Russia, you’re doing this. Again.

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Was there any doubt at all, quite frankly, of what the outcome was going to be with this? I didn’t see it from the get go, saying this is a very, very difficult situation to begin with. And I’ve recognized, we’ve talked about how…

We played a part in this going all the way back. I’m not going to go back and recant the entire thing. This podcast has done in the past, going all the way back to the George H.W. Bush administration and backing away from some of the things that we said we were going to do. do I think that they have to come up? Yeah, they’re going to have to come up with something.

We’re going to continue to.

continue to throw more and more money and weapons at Ukraine. And this, it’s almost like a trench warfare type of situation where it just grinds on, grinds on, grinds on. I think we’re all aware that if Russia really wanted to, they could wipe out the place. And I don’t think that it’s obviously something that they don’t want to do.

Where are we at right now? Well, every single publication in the country right now is coming out and they’re saying okay Trump is is Going easy on china and going easy on russia and backing away from our allies. I I don’t see it that way I don’t and again, like I said, i’m an equal opportunity basher here on the program I really think that he wants to come to some sort of conclusion with this because

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It doesn’t make any sense. In his heart of hearts, guy’s a businessman, no doubt about that. And he sees, again, he sees opportunity costs going out the window, quite frankly, and the ability for us to do business down anywhere, Ukraine and Russia. And again, he just wants to see business being done. He doesn’t want to see people dying. And I applaud him for that. It’s one of the things that, you know, I’m thrilled about.

as far as his foreign policy is concerned, know, much more libertarian tact. I hope, I hope, again, I don’t know. The latest we’re hearing from Zelensky is he’s a hard no on giving away any sort of territory. We’re gonna see what the next steps are. But as far as this is concerned, I don’t have any problem with what they’re saying at all. Do I have a problem with the United States?

getting involved in invading South American countries. Yeah, that’s not going to end well. That’s not going to end well and hopefully it’s just a show. Watchdogonwallstreet.com.