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Morning Brief 2025-08-05

August 05, 2025
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: AG Ken Paxton (Texas)
TOPIC: Arrest warrants are issued for Texas Democrats who fled the state in an attempt to stop new redistricting maps.

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.)
TOPIC: God is intertwined in America's DNA.

BOTTOM OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Kirk Cameron
TOPIC: The cultural movement taking OVER your local library.

Russiagate...

Report: DOJ launching grand jury investigation into Russiagate conspiracy allegations
Bondi is acting on Gabbard's criminal referral claiming intelligence community suppression.

Hunter Biden laptop letter author helped Clinton tie Trump to Putin in 2016
Mike Morell is perhaps best known now as the driving force behind the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter in 2020. But the former acting CIA director played an eerily similar, albeit less successful, role in Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 bid.

Brennan and Clapper may have reset the clock on prosecution with new Russiagate lies
By doubling down in a NYT op-ed, the disgraced intel chiefs may have reopened legal jeopardy.

News...

Trump administration ends Carter-era diversity hiring decree, restores merit-based testing
After 43 years of race-based restrictions on civil service exams, the DOJ scrapped the DEI-driven mandate, allowing federal agencies to prioritize competence over quotas.

Federal Judges Keep Defying Supreme Court Orders Against Trump Admin
An increasing number of federal judges are stymieing the Trump administration's agenda, and in many cases, in direct defiance of Supreme Court decisions.

California AG Bonta says state has retrieved at least $168B from Feds and filed 37 lawsuits
Bonta accused the Trump administration of violating the law and the U.S. Constitution and freezing federal funds that were legally approved for California.

Cincinnati official doubles down on mob attack comments, says beating was 'generational pain' release
Councilwoman Victoria Parks refused to resign after saying the white victim “got what he asked for,” invoking race as justification while the injured woman pleads for prayers and recovers from brain trauma.

Confederate general statue toppled in 2020 to be reinstalled in DC
A statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike that leftist agitators toppled and burned in 2020 will be reinstalled in D.C., the National Park Service said.

Texas cop under investigation after TikTok claims she’s writing tickets for not getting laid
A Harris County Constable’s deputy in Texas is under investigation after reportedly posting a TikTok claiming she was going to ticket drivers because she hadn’t gotten laid.

Bloodhound rescues injured 13-year-old trapped in ravine for 4 days
A trained K-9 from a Missouri prison unit tracked down a missing teen after 96 hours alone in the woods with a brain bleed, no food or water, and no way to call for help.

Biotech founder sliced open his own legs on camera to prove his product is safe for US troops
Pilgrim CEO Jake Adler filmed himself using the company’s wound-sealing gel Kingsfoil on fresh leg wounds to convince investors, scoring millions in funding and a Pentagon partnership.

Politics...

Abbott orders arrests of 'derelict' Democrats after they flout his deadline
After Texas House Democrats blew past a 3 p.m. deadline to return and restore quorum, Gov. Greg Abbott followed through — ordering their arrest, citing abandonment of office, and vowing they’ll face legal and political consequences for derailing redistricting.

Texas Dems Whine About Redistricting From Illinois, The Most Gerrymandered State In The Country
While claiming to defend democracy, fleeing Democrats ran to deep-blue strongholds like Illinois and New York — where their party carved maps to crush GOP voters and rig the system in their favor.

Hochul joins redistricting arms race, vows to cut GOP seats in New York
Following Texas and California’s partisan map war, Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged to redraw congressional lines to help Democrats, declaring “all’s fair in love and war” as she pushes to rig the battlefield for 2026 and beyond.

WaPo: This isn’t the same Democratic Party as Trump’s first term
The base has become more left-wing, more hostile to compromise, less proud of America, and increasingly frustrated with party leaders seen as too soft on Trump.

'China is happy': New memos expose Homeland Security’s concerns about Tim Walz CCP connections
The latest records provide more details about the internal Homeland Security discussions of Walz’s history with China.

The iPhone Update That Could Wreck Political Fundraising
A new feature will intercept text messages and might cost campaigns hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

Elon Musk Donated $5M To Trump-Aligned Super PAC One Month After Public Feud With President
Musk also gave $5 million each to the Senate Leadership Fund and Congressional Leadership Fund, which boost Republicans.

Jasmine Crockett sees Congress as the side hustle to her full-time ‘influencer’ gig
A new profile reveals the Texas Democrat is more focused on viral fame than legislation, treating public office as a platform for clout-chasing while offering no serious policy agenda beyond her carefully curated social media persona.

Economy...

New York Times makes big admission about Trump's tariffs
Trump's tariffs have become a "not trivial" source of revenue for the federal government.

Trump to 'substantially' hike India tariffs, accuses country of fueling 'Russian war machine'
Trump accuses India of buying Russian oil and reselling it for profit on open market.

EU To Suspend Retaliatory Tariff On US For 6 Months As Massive Trade Deal Is Finalized
"The EU continues to work with the U.S. to finalize a Joint Statement, as agreed on 27 July."

Trump’s tariff strategy is working — now it’s time to give small businesses a break
With record tariff revenue and booming investment, Trump has the momentum — but targeted relief for small businesses would cement his pro-growth agenda and win over Main Street in key swing states.

Capitalism Isn't Why You're Unhappy
Are you feeling bad? Sad? Lonely? Despondent about your life? Anxious about politics? Angry about the state of the world? The gurus and influencers and deep thinkers of the internet have identified the culprit, the reason, the overarching explanation for why everything, everywhere sucks all the time.

Immigration...

House Dem declares she is a 'proud Guatemalan' before American at Progressive International conference
Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez at a summit in Mexico City this weekend tells the audience while speaking in Spanish: "I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American."

DHS responds to Rep. Ramirez
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism ... Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.” – Theodore Roosevelt

CNN analyst: Trump driving historic drop in migration, tariffs hit record highs
Harry Enten highlighted a 60% plunge in net migration with 2025 possibly turning negative, as deportations soar, ICE hiring surges, and Trump targets both illegal and exploitative legal immigration.

California senator says illegal immigrants are long-term residents who just ‘happen to be undocumented’
Alex Padilla claims most illegal aliens are “critical to our economy” and simply “undocumented” residents, not lawbreakers.

Trump Administration Announces Major Tourist Visa Change
The State Department is proposing a rule requiring some business and tourist visa applicants to post a bond of up to $15,000 to enter the United States, a step critics say could put the process out of reach for many.

COVID...

Court upholds COVID shot mandate, says public health trumps bodily autonomy even if vaccines don’t stop spread
The 9th Circuit ruled that the government can force medical treatment if officials think it benefits public health, sparking warnings that the logic could justify sweeping mandates with no clear limits.

Israel...

'The Fruits of October 7': Hamas Leader Praises European, Canadian Calls for Palestinian Statehood
Canada, the U.K., and France plan to recognize a Palestinian state, a move that Trump said amounts to "rewarding" Hamas terrorists.

Dear President Trump: ‘Don’t let my little brother die like this’
I haven’t watched the video of my little brother Evyatar. I couldn’t. Just hearing what’s in it nearly shattered me: Evyatar, just 24 years old, barely skin and bones, digging his own grave in a Hamas tunnel, whispering that he hasn’t eaten in days. Whispering that he’s afraid he’s going to die there.

Poll: MAGA voters overwhelming back US military support for Israel
Trump's voters remain staunchly pro-Israel, with 90% of self-described "MAGA conservatives" backing U.S. military support for the Jewish state as it fends off threats from Iran and Hamas, according to a new poll by the Vandenberg Coalition and TargetPoint.

Trump administration cuts disaster funds for cities boycotting Israel
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency, updated its terms and conditions Friday such that any city found to be boycotting Israel will be denied disaster relief funds.

‘Abandoning the Very People It Was Established to Protect’: Red Cross Comes Under Fire After Disturbing Footage Shows Starved Israeli Hostages
The aid organization, which traditionally works to provide aid to hostages during armed conflicts, has not visited the Israelis held captive by Hamas.

The Simple Truth About the War in Gaza
Hamas’ strategy is to maximize suffering on its own side — and then have the world blame Israel. Our moral confusion is its chief asset.

Ukraine - Russia...

‘There Can Be No Winner In A Nuclear War’: Russia Responds After Trump Dispatches Submarines
“In our country, foreign policy is formulated by the head of state, President Putin,” Peskov said. He did not answer when asked if the Kremlin would tell Medvedev to cool down his rhetoric. The spokesman added that Moscow is not considering “any escalation” with the United States.

Putin’s ‘secret daughter’ denounces him in cryptic anti-war post
Elizaveta Krivonogikh, believed to be Putin’s youngest child, condemned the man who “destroyed” her and “took millions of lives” while working in a Paris gallery featuring anti-war art.

Canada...

Canadian PM Mark Carney the butt of jokes after cheeky Vancouver Pride parade snap goes viral
“Canada summed up in one picture. This is [why] Trump doesn’t take [Canada] seriously,” one X user quipped.

Europe...

Civilization collapse now 'inevitable' after chilling patterns in past empires are uncovered
A researcher analyzed the rise and fall of over 400 empires. He discovered chilling patterns that look a lot like the world we're living in today.

Coinbase torches UK as garbage-infested joke in new ad
A chirpy narrator insists “everything is fine” as viewers watch ceilings leak, walls rot, and garbage pile up indoors. Grinning Brits sing through the chaos, dancing past mold and misery. In the background: a kitchen quietly catching fire.

Giant rat size of dog caught in UK, and apparently there's more
Residents have been left disgusted after an enormous 22-inch rat was found in a home in Redcar and Cleveland.

Middle East...

Chinese oil firms quietly take over Iraq as Western majors scale back
Smaller, nimble Chinese companies are doubling down on Iraq’s oil fields with profit-sharing deals, cheap labor, and fast timelines — filling the void as U.S. and European giants retreat.

South America...

Smartmatic co-founder accused of bribing Venezuelan election official with luxury home
Federal prosecutors say Roger Piñate transferred a Caracas residence to former election chief Tibisay Lucena Ramírez through a shell company in 2019, allegedly to resolve a dispute with the Maduro regime — despite Smartmatic denying the timeline and calling the allegations false and misleading.

Entertainment...

Jimmy Fallon survives late night purge
NBC extended Jimmy Fallon’s contract through 2028 even as CBS axed Colbert and other hosts face budget cuts, political backlash, and cratering viewership.

I Don’t Even Like Alec Baldwin, But Dear Lord He Deserves Better Than This
If there is one thing I hate most in the world when it comes to modern marriage dynamics, it is the way wives treat their husbands like subservient buffoons. Actor Alec Baldwin is in such a marriage.

Judge denies Combs' request for bail ahead of October sentencing
The hip-hop star's attorneys argued that their client's case was "exceptional" because he and his team engaged in a "swingers" lifestyle that a jury found was not coerced.

Media...

Fired ABC News reporter admits network biased against Trump, calls coverage ‘inaccurate’ and ‘deaf’
Terry Moran said legacy media lacks viewpoint diversity, especially regarding Trump, and likened their reporting to “visiting a zoo to study tigers.”

Education...

Entire board of California charter school resigns after $180 million fraud scandal
A damning audit revealed a 2.8% graduation rate, nepotism, and misuse of public funds at Highlands Community Charter, prompting mass resignations and a state demand to repay the money.

AI...

Jim Acosta slammed for interviewing AI version of Parkland victim
The ex-CNN host drew backlash for staging a “grotesque” conversation with an AI-generated child to push gun control, with critics calling it unethical, exploitative, and pure political theater.

Science...

Massive, mysterious ‘hot blob’ beneath Eastern US is moving toward New York, puzzling scientists
U.K. scientists have discovered a massive “blob” of rock underneath the Appalachian mountains that’s slowly oozing its way toward New York City.

Billions of starfish have died in a decade-long epidemic. Scientists say they now know why.
A sea star wasting disease sparked a mass die-off from Mexico to Alaska, devastating more than 20 species and continuing today.

Sports...

'Punishment worse than death': Dave Portnoy says loser of fantasy league will be forced to read Kamala’s book
Portnoy said the last-place finisher in his league will be locked in a room with no phone and will have to read every page of Kamala's upcoming book and give a presentation that will be graded by ChatGPT, and if they fail, they will be forced to listen to the Kamala audiobook on repeat for 24 straight hours.

August 5, 2014 - Glenn feels sorry for Alec Baldwin... Border Patrol agent tells the truth about the border... Blood libel myth... Ebola... Israel's right to defend itself... Glenn says we need to find common ground, not just be against things...

From Pharaoh to Hamas: The same spirit of evil, new disguise

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The drone footage out of Gaza isn’t just war propaganda — it’s a glimpse of the same darkness that once convinced men they were righteous for killing innocents.

Evil introduces itself subtly. It doesn’t announce, “Hi, I’m here to destroy you.” It whispers. It flatters. It borrows the language of justice, empathy, and freedom, twisting them until hatred sounds righteous and violence sounds brave.

We are watching that same deception unfold again — in the streets, on college campuses, and in the rhetoric of people who should know better. It’s the oldest story in the world, retold with new slogans.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage.

A drone video surfaced this week showing Hamas terrorists staging the “discovery” of a hostage’s body. They pushed a corpse out of a window, dragged it into a hole, buried it, and then called in aid workers to “find” what they themselves had planted. It was theater — evil, disguised as victimhood. And it was caught entirely on camera.

That’s how evil operates. It never comes in through the front door. It sneaks in, often through manipulative pity. The same spirit animates the moral rot spreading through our institutions — from the halls of universities to the chambers of government.

Take Zohran Mamdani, a New York assemblyman who has praised jihadists and defended pro-Hamas agitators. His father, a Columbia University professor, wrote that America and al-Qaeda are morally equivalent — that suicide bombings shouldn’t be viewed as barbaric. Imagine thinking that way after watching 3,000 Americans die on 9/11. That’s not intellectualism. That’s indoctrination.

Often, that indoctrination comes from hostile foreign actors, peddled by complicit pawns on our own soil. The pro-Hamas protests that erupted across campuses last year, for example, were funded by Iran — a regime that murders its own citizens for speaking freely.

Ancient evil, new clothes

But the deeper danger isn’t foreign money. It’s the spiritual blindness that lets good people believe resentment is justice and envy is discernment. Scripture talks about the spirit of Amalek — the eternal enemy of God’s people, who attacks the weak from behind while the strong look away. Amalek never dies; it just changes its vocabulary and form with the times.

Today, Amalek tweets. He speaks through professors who defend terrorism as “anti-colonial resistance.” He preaches from pulpits that call violence “solidarity.” And he recruits through algorithms, whispering that the Jews control everything, that America had it coming, that chaos is freedom. Those are ancient lies wearing new clothes.

When nations embrace those lies, it’s not the Jews who perish first. It’s the nations themselves. The soul dies long before the body. The ovens of Auschwitz didn’t start with smoke; they started with silence and slogans.

Andrew Harnik / Staff | Getty Images

A time for choosing

So what do we do? We speak truth — calmly, firmly, without venom. Because hatred can’t kill hatred; it only feeds it. Truth, compassion, and courage starve it to death.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage. That’s how Amalek survives — by making you fight him with his own weapons. The only victory that lasts is moral clarity without malice, courage without cruelty.

The war we’re fighting isn’t new. It’s the same battle between remembrance and amnesia, covenant and chaos, humility and pride. The same spirit that whispered to Pharaoh, to Hitler, and to every mob that thought hatred could heal the world is whispering again now — on your screens, in your classrooms, in your churches.

Will you join it, or will you stand against it?

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

The great switch: Gates trades climate control for digital dominion

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The Big Tech billionaire once said humanity must change or perish. Now he claims we’ll survive — just as elites prepare total surveillance.

For decades, Americans have been told that climate change is an imminent apocalypse — the existential threat that justifies every intrusion into our lives, from banning gas stoves to rationing energy to tracking personal “carbon scores.”

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates helped lead that charge. He warned repeatedly that the “climate disaster” would be the greatest crisis humanity would ever face. He invested billions in green technology and demanded the world reach net-zero emissions by 2050 “to avoid catastrophe.”

The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch.

Now, suddenly, he wants everyone to relax: Climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” after all.

Gates was making less of a scientific statement and more of a strategic pivot. When elites retire a crisis, it’s never because the threat is gone — it’s because a better one has replaced it. And something else has indeed arrived — something the ruling class finds more useful than fear of the weather.The same day Gates downshifted the doomsday rhetoric, Amazon announced it would pay warehouse workers $30 an hour — while laying off 30,000 people because artificial intelligence will soon do their jobs.

Climate panic was the warm-up. AI control is the main event.

The new currency of power

The world once revolved around oil and gas. Today, it revolves around the electricity demanded by server farms, the chips that power machine learning, and the data that can be used to manipulate or silence entire populations. The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch. Whoever controls energy now controls information. And whoever controls information controls civilization.

Climate alarmism gave elites a pretext to centralize power over energy. Artificial intelligence gives them a mechanism to centralize power over people. The future battles will not be about carbon — they will be about control.

Two futures — both ending in tyranny

Americans are already being pushed into what look like two opposing movements, but both leave the individual powerless.

The first is the technocratic empire being constructed in the name of innovation. In its vision, human work will be replaced by machines, and digital permissions will subsume personal autonomy.

Government and corporations merge into a single authority. Your identity, finances, medical decisions, and speech rights become access points monitored by biometric scanners and enforced by automated gatekeepers. Every step, purchase, and opinion is tracked under the noble banner of “efficiency.”

The second is the green de-growth utopia being marketed as “compassion.” In this vision, prosperity itself becomes immoral. You will own less because “the planet” requires it. Elites will redesign cities so life cannot extend beyond a 15-minute walking radius, restrict movement to save the Earth, and ration resources to curb “excess.” It promises community and simplicity, but ultimately delivers enforced scarcity. Freedom withers when surviving becomes a collective permission rather than an individual right.

Both futures demand that citizens become manageable — either automated out of society or tightly regulated within it. The ruling class will embrace whichever version gives them the most leverage in any given moment.

Climate panic was losing its grip. AI dependency — and the obedience it creates — is far more potent.

The forgotten way

A third path exists, but it is the one today’s elites fear most: the path laid out in our Constitution. The founders built a system that assumes human beings are not subjects to be monitored or managed, but moral agents equipped by God with rights no government — and no algorithm — can override.

Hesham Elsherif / Stringer | Getty Images

That idea remains the most “disruptive technology” in history. It shattered the belief that people need kings or experts or global committees telling them how to live. No wonder elites want it erased.

Soon, you will be told you must choose: Live in a world run by machines or in a world stripped down for planetary salvation. Digital tyranny or rationed equality. Innovation without liberty or simplicity without dignity.

Both are traps.

The only way

The only future worth choosing is the one grounded in ordered liberty — where prosperity and progress exist alongside moral responsibility and personal freedom and human beings are treated as image-bearers of God — not climate liabilities, not data profiles, not replaceable hardware components.

Bill Gates can change his tune. The media can change the script. But the agenda remains the same.

They no longer want to save the planet. They want to run it, and they expect you to obey.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Why the White House restoration sent the left Into panic mode

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Presidents have altered the White House for decades, yet only Donald Trump is treated as a vandal for privately funding the East Wing’s restoration.

Every time a president so much as changes the color of the White House drapes, the press clutches its pearls. Unless the name on the stationery is Barack Obama’s, even routine restoration becomes a national outrage.

President Donald Trump’s decision to privately fund upgrades to the White House — including a new state ballroom — has been met with the usual chorus of gasps and sneers. You’d think he bulldozed Monticello.

If a Republican preserves beauty, it’s vandalism. If a Democrat does the same, it’s ‘visionary.’

The irony is that presidents have altered and expanded the White House for more than a century. President Franklin D. Roosevelt added the East and West Wings in the middle of the Great Depression. Newspapers accused him of building a palace while Americans stood in breadlines. History now calls it “vision.”

First lady Nancy Reagan faced the same hysteria. Headlines accused her of spending taxpayer money on new china “while Americans starved.” In truth, she raised private funds after learning that the White House didn’t have enough matching plates for state dinners. She took the ridicule and refused to pass blame.

“I’m a big girl,” she told her staff. “This comes with the job.” That was dignity — something the press no longer recognizes.

A restoration, not a renovation

Trump’s project is different in every way that should matter. It costs taxpayers nothing. Not a cent. The president and a few friends privately fund the work. There’s no private pool or tennis court, no personal perks. The additions won’t even be completed until after he leaves office.

What’s being built is not indulgence — it’s stewardship. A restoration of aging rooms, worn fixtures, and century-old bathrooms that no longer function properly in the people’s house. Trump has paid for cast brass doorknobs engraved with the presidential seal, restored the carpets and moldings, and ensured that the architecture remains faithful to history.

The media’s response was mockery and accusations of vanity. They call it “grotesque excess,” while celebrating billion-dollar “climate art” projects and funneling hundreds of millions into activist causes like the No Kings movement. They lecture America on restraint while living off the largesse of billionaires.

The selective guardians of history

Where was this sudden reverence for history when rioters torched St. John’s Church — the same church where every president since James Madison has worshipped? The press called it an “expression of grief.”

Where was that reverence when mobs toppled statues of Washington, Jefferson, and Grant? Or when first lady Melania Trump replaced the Rose Garden’s lawn with a patio but otherwise followed Jackie Kennedy’s original 1962 plans in the garden’s restoration? They called that “desecration.”

If a Republican preserves beauty, it’s vandalism. If a Democrat does the same, it’s “visionary.”

The real desecration

The people shrieking about “historic preservation” care nothing for history. They hate the idea that something lasting and beautiful might be built by hands they despise. They mock craftsmanship because it exposes their own cultural decay.

The White House ballroom is not a scandal — it’s a mirror. And what it reflects is the media’s own pettiness. The ruling class that ridicules restoration is the same class that cheered as America’s monuments fell. Its members sneer at permanence because permanence condemns them.

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Trump’s improvements are an act of faith — in the nation’s symbols, its endurance, and its worth. The outrage over a privately funded renovation says less about him than it does about the journalists who mistake destruction for progress.

The real desecration isn’t happening in the East Wing. It’s happening in the newsrooms that long ago tore up their own foundation — truth — and never bothered to rebuild it.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Trump’s secret war in the Caribbean EXPOSED — It’s not about drugs

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The president’s moves in Venezuela, Guyana, and Colombia aren’t about drugs. They’re about re-establishing America’s sovereignty across the Western Hemisphere.

For decades, we’ve been told America’s wars are about drugs, democracy, or “defending freedom.” But look closer at what’s unfolding off the coast of Venezuela, and you’ll see something far more strategic taking shape. Donald Trump’s so-called drug war isn’t about fentanyl or cocaine. It’s about control — and a rebirth of American sovereignty.

The aim of Trump’s ‘drug war’ is to keep the hemisphere’s oil, minerals, and manufacturing within the Western family and out of Beijing’s hands.

The president understands something the foreign policy class forgot long ago: The world doesn’t respect apologies. It respects strength.

While the global elites in Davos tout the Great Reset, Trump is building something entirely different — a new architecture of power based on regional independence, not global dependence. His quiet campaign in the Western Hemisphere may one day be remembered as the second Monroe Doctrine.

Venezuela sits at the center of it all. It holds the world’s largest crude oil reserves — oil perfectly suited for America’s Gulf refineries. For years, China and Russia have treated Venezuela like a pawn on their chessboard, offering predatory loans in exchange for control of those resources. The result has been a corrupt, communist state sitting in our own back yard. For too long, Washington shrugged. Not any more.The naval exercises in the Caribbean, the sanctions, the patrols — they’re not about drug smugglers. They’re about evicting China from our hemisphere.

Trump is using the old “drug war” playbook to wage a new kind of war — an economic and strategic one — without firing a shot at our actual enemies. The goal is simple: Keep the hemisphere’s oil, minerals, and manufacturing within the Western family and out of Beijing’s hands.

Beyond Venezuela

Just east of Venezuela lies Guyana, a country most Americans couldn’t find on a map a year ago. Then ExxonMobil struck oil, and suddenly Guyana became the newest front in a quiet geopolitical contest. Washington is helping defend those offshore platforms, build radar systems, and secure undersea cables — not for charity, but for strategy. Control energy, data, and shipping lanes, and you control the future.

Moreover, Colombia — a country once defined by cartels — is now positioned as the hinge between two oceans and two continents. It guards the Panama Canal and sits atop rare-earth minerals every modern economy needs. Decades of American presence there weren’t just about cocaine interdiction; they were about maintaining leverage over the arteries of global trade. Trump sees that clearly.

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All of these recent news items — from the military drills in the Caribbean to the trade negotiations — reflect a new vision of American power. Not global policing. Not endless nation-building. It’s about strategic sovereignty.

It’s the same philosophy driving Trump’s approach to NATO, the Middle East, and Asia. We’ll stand with you — but you’ll stand on your own two feet. The days of American taxpayers funding global security while our own borders collapse are over.

Trump’s Monroe Doctrine

Critics will call it “isolationism.” It isn’t. It’s realism. It’s recognizing that America’s strength comes not from fighting other people’s wars but from securing our own energy, our own supply lines, our own hemisphere. The first Monroe Doctrine warned foreign powers to stay out of the Americas. The second one — Trump’s — says we’ll defend them, but we’ll no longer be their bank or their babysitter.

Historians may one day mark this moment as the start of a new era — when America stopped apologizing for its own interests and started rebuilding its sovereignty, one barrel, one chip, and one border at a time.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.