The Ironic Curtain; Europeans who lived under communism hate it. Those spared pursue it.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference shook up the European leadership by reminding them of the dangers of communism. He did this because his grandpa, Pedro Víctor García, a refugee from Castro’s Cuba, taught him well about the dangers of communism.

Four Fires, One Ally With a Hose: Why NATO Has to Grow Up So America Can Survive

At the Munich Security Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio did something unusual in modern diplomacy: he told the truth politely. He reaffirmed America’s commitment to Europe, praised NATO, spoke warmly about shared history and civilization—and then, in effect, slid a note across the table that read: You’re going to have to handle more of your own business.

You’re Already in the War — You Just Missed the Declaration

The wars of the future—and increasingly, the wars of the present—will not announce themselves with bombs and bullets. They will arrive as confusion, contradiction, outrage, and exhaustion. You won’t know when they start. You won’t know who started them. You won’t even agree with your neighbors on whether they’re happening at all.

When Money Becomes a Weapon: China’s Digital Yuan and the Quiet War for Economic Power

To understand why this matters, you have to strip away the marketing. A CBDC is not “digital cash.” Cash is anonymous, final, and indifferent. A CBDC is programmable, trackable, and conditional. It is issued directly by a central bank, lives on state-controlled rails, and behaves exactly as policy requires it to behave. That makes it extremely attractive to governments that prefer obedience over ambiguity.

Anti-ICE Virtue-Signaling is Disgraceful; Concern for Illegal Aliens but not US Citizens is infuriating

I am sick and tired of all the virtue-signaling about the unnamed “neighbors” of Minnesota protestors who are supposedly being “attacked” by ICE and other federal officers in the illegal immigrant sweeps that have been ongoing over the past couple of months. Note: the vast majority of those “neighbors” are illegal aliens because that is …

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America shrugged; Maybe the UN can sell Dictator Scouts cookies as we stop footing its bills.

The UN’s decision to cut programs instead of the bureaucracy reminds me of how school board members threaten to cut football and basketball after voters dare vote down a school levy. Cutting the number of assistant school superintendents never enters their minds.

Why Does the US Seem to be in Turmoil? By George Mcclellan

We’re not in turmoil, we’re in a needed readjustment because we have a leader who is doing what Americans want done, to return America to Americans, not allow a squalid bunch of freeloaders brought here to survive off the American taxpayers and alter or change our culture because they don’t like it.

NATO Was Yesterday: The New Fight Starts in the Western Hemisphere

The National Security Strategy tells you what’s coming, what matters, and—most importantly—what’s about to get funded. Not because the NSS is magical. Because in Washington, priorities aren’t real until money gets thrown at them like confetti at a parade.

EU is Splintering

Europe is headed for another civil war. They had two in the previous century, the Great War (rebranded later as World War I) and World War II. This one splits the East from the West as the Eastern countries trapped by communism under the Soviet Union do not want to be part of the Western countries foolishly chasing communism and embracing the Muslim invasion.