Communist Twister: The Foreign Policy Contradiction Nobody in Conservative Media Will Touch

Make It Make Sense

I invented a new game. I call it Communist Twister. Here is how you play. You take the loudest voices in conservative media, the ones screaming that Democrats will turn America into a communist hellhole, and then you ask them to explain why the President of the United States is publicly bragging about his very good relationship with Kim Jong-un of North Korea.

The most communist regime on the face of the earth. Not kind of communist. Not a little socialist. North Korea. The place where people are executed for watching foreign movies.

And the punchline? North Korea just sent fifty thousand additional troops to Ukraine to help Russia. Fifty thousand. While we are scaling back military exercises with one of our most critical Pacific allies because it might upset Kim’s feelings.

The Influencer Industrial Complex Fails Again

Here is what the Sean Hannitys and Jesse Waterses of the world are doing instead. They are chasing some far-left streamer named Hassan Piker around trying to make him the face of American communism. Meanwhile, that same far-left guy is going on television praising Trump’s North Korea diplomacy because, from a communist’s perspective, it looks pretty good.

Think about that for a second. The conservative boogeyman communist influencer and the Republican establishment are on the same side of a foreign policy question. That is not a paradox. That is a flashing neon sign that something is deeply broken in how we are being talked to.

• The contradiction is real: You cannot campaign on stopping communism and then publicly celebrate your personal friendship with the world’s most brutal communist dictator.
• North Korea’s actions tell you everything: Fifty thousand troops to Russia while we soften our alliance with South Korea is not a diplomatic win. It is a signal.
• Defense contractors wrote this playbook: The reason we never properly transitioned South Korea to self-reliance is the same reason any government program never ends. Too much money flowing to too many connected people.
• Conservative media is not going to cover this: Because covering it honestly would require admitting the contradiction, and that breaks the narrative they get paid to protect.

What Is Actually True

I will give you what the talking heads will not. Should South Korea be carrying more of its own defense burden after seventy years? Yes. Absolutely. That is a reasonable position and one I have held for a long time. But you do not do it by blindly trusting a dictator who is actively helping our adversaries fight a land war in Europe. You do not do it via tweet. And you do not abandon allies without a real transition plan.

The execution here is a disaster wrapped in a contradiction wrapped in a tweet storm. And the people who should be holding this administration accountable on the foreign policy right are too busy playing make-believe with a streaming communist to notice.

I notice. That is what I do.