[AmericanThinker] Marine Le Pen was just banned from running for president of France for five years. That’s more like forever. Le Pen is deemed a criminal and sentenced to wear an electronic tag for a couple years. A French court claims she embezzled. But why would we believe a French court any more than we believe a Manhattan or D.C. district court? Trump’s been through those wringers.
Macron and his mates did to Le Pen what Romanian elites did to Calin Georgescu, the populist candidate for president there. Reportedly, he was the frontrunner. If you smell a rat, you’re right.
French judges are partisan, but not French partisans. They’re shills for the European Union. The EU is a trans-European bureaucracy led by French and German elites to dominate the continent. American "progressives" envy the EU. The British voted out the EU, but their ruling class wants back in the club. Notice where all these "brilliant" idea of environmentalism, gender equality, unrestricted immigration, laws of war that favor terrorists, (very) selective human rights, etc... originated
Europe is reverting. Tyranny -- softer versions for now -- is making a comeback. That coincides with the moral rot infecting Europe’s elites. (U.S. elites, are infected, too, but that’s for another day.) They loathe western civilization. They’re contemptuous of those who spurn what amounts to nihilism. They’re corrupt and incompetent, driving their nations off cliffs with globalist nostrums and governance.
France, Germany, and Britain, once the pillars of Western Europe, are squandering their inheritances. Their leaders are flooding Europe with Muslim diaspora, leading to increasing social strife and crime of all types.
Britain was once a bastion of rule of law, rights, and democracy. What marks Britain today is decay and descent. Self-loathing elites -- wet Conservatives are in that mix -- are "transforming" Britain with hordes of Muslim migrants. Cultural suicide is underway.
Sweden, where violent crimes and rape were practically unheard of, is plagued by rape.
It’s bad in Sweden, but no better in Britain. The British elite, as policy, seem to accept the crime cesspool they’ve created as a price of diversity.
Brits are fearful to walk London streets. London was once a safe city. Say anything about London’s crime spike or Muslim gangs raping English girls, and the police are knocking at your door. In a Stalinist twist, British cops are after anyone posting memes or social media comments deemed offensive by the ruling class.
...Europe’s economies are being run into ditches.
...What’s causing the nosedives? Mitcha cites Europe’s ruling class’s cultish devotion to radical green polices.
...Then there’s the matter of war. Europe’s elites, like America’s, are obsessed with Russia. What is it about despots and wannabes need for wars? Didn’t Orwell have something to say about that? He did, indeed. Penned Orwell:
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Per Investopedia, "Russia's natural resources reserves are worth $75 trillion by Statista's estimate." The Ukraine war is useful in destabilizing Putin’s regime. If successful, then comes the booty.
Another reason is that despots need boogeymen to distract their subjects from their miserable rule. Putin -- no altar boy -- fits the bill. IMO, if they'd left Russia alone in the 90es, it would've broke up.
It’s curious that nations -- here we add Germany and France -- whose economies are faltering and whose militaries are 98-pound weaklings want to tangle with Russia, which owns a formidable conventional military and a nuclear weapons arsenal comparable to the U.S.
We wonder, have Germans forgotten Stalingrad? Are the French hazy about Napoleon’s venture east? History forgotten is the stuff of hubris. Or is conceit trumping history?
Betting here is that the Brits, French, and Germans hope that a dustup with the Russians in Ukraine would provoke Putin to lash out at a NATO country, thereby triggering Article 5 of NATO’s treaty. An attack on one NATO member is an attack on all NATO members, goes the proviso.
Do you see where this is going? Our NATO allies may wish to bait Putin into an attack that obligates U.S. intervention. Tangling with Russia would be folly surpassing the folly of World War I, which was the catalyst for Europe’s unraveling. I blame the Russians. When Soviet Union fell, West Europeans decided that it's 19th century again and Europe is center of the Universe again.
Donald Trump is no one’s fool. America First is certainly about reviving U.S. prosperity. That includes spreading the wealth to middle-income and working-class Americans, who, for a generation, have seen wages erode, jobs disappear, and costs rise. The American pie isn’t just for coastal elites.
The tariffs Trump will levy on EU members is, yes, about a fair shake for American producers and workers, but it’s as much about making the nation more secure and self-sufficient.
Splendid isolation for the U.S. is long gone. Yet, in an increasingly dangerous world, there’s greater urgency for the U.S. to be more independent. That doesn’t mean eschewing trade, nor does it mean a go-it-alone approach to national security. Working with other countries based on overlapping interests provides important safeguards. But NATO membership is becoming problematic for the U.S. because Europe is becoming problematic. Trump has long suggested that.
Consider this: If NATO’s big three -- Britain, France, and Germany -- are veering toward despotism; if their economies are being run to ground by extreme green doctrine; if their elite continue importing alien -- and often hostile -- populations in compliance with globalist creed; if the big three want war with Russia... well, then, where is the nexus of vital interests with a Trump-led U.S.? Divergence, not commonality, seem to be the future, barring upheavals across Europe that returns sanity to European affairs.
Some may claim that disentangling from Europe now may be premature. Tomorrow, though, it may be a necessity.
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Since, we have fought and Won 2 World Wars to free Europe from Europe.
After 70+ years, of the US Gov and US consumers, having spent $Trillion$ supporting Europe, defending it, rebuilding their economy, buying their products and more.
I think, it is time to let Europe screw itself over again.
Aw, come on! Who is up for some nation-building? I thought the plan was to oppose authoritarian regimes by staging color revolutions.
Admittedly, fixing Europe would be a long term project of almost beyond Trumpian scale. But if we are getting out of the color revolution business, both here at home and abroad, there is probably a good-sized chunk of the intelligence community we can sell off.
[Townhall] What happened with Marine Le Pen, the most popular politician in France who was just banned from standing for election on the flimsiest of pretenses, is no exception. It’s becoming the rule around the West and in other places, too, where being outside the mainstream of authorized establishment left-leaning globalist politics has become criminalized. In some places, like the UK and Spain, it takes the form of persecuting people for saying things that those in power don’t want to hear. In other places, like Germany, upstart populist parties that earned a significant number of votes are informally, and sometimes formally, marginalized and threatened with being banned. But it’s the criminal persecution of leaders that is becoming the go-to. It happened to Bolsonaro in Brazil, Netanyahu in Israel, Georgescu in Romania, and Le Pen in France. In each of these cases, the establishment authoritarians essentially attempted to frame a politician they couldn’t beat at the ballot box. Of course, their American analogs tried to do the same thing to Donald Trump here, and when that didn’t work, their allies tried to murder him. Thankfully, they failed at both — with the people who instigated these atrocities too dumb to know that they are the ones who should be the most thankful they failed.
These are not the acts of strong and confident leaders who believe in the strength and popularity of their ideology. These are the cowardly acts of authoritarians who differ from Putin not in their nature but only in their extent. They haven’t thrown anybody out of a fifth-story window yet that we know of, though we don’t know if they actively put the murderer who tried to kill Trump in Butler up to it — the one who tried to ambush him in Florida was an active member of their collective — but they would’ve cheered if either attempt had succeeded. Thankfully, America was not so far gone that the people’s choice could not prevail, though the resisters in the judiciary, the regime media, and elsewhere are doing everything they can to ensure that the man the people elected to govern can’t actually exercise the powers of office.
The European authoritarians, however, still have the ability to crush dissent. There are several reasons why, including the fact that most of the good Europeans long ago left for America, and the ones who remain are largely degraded and pathetic people. After all, Europe is an exhausted culture, too weak both morally and spiritually to come to its own defense. Its glorious cathedrals are museums now, and its armies are jokes. They can’t find the will or the courage to defend themselves, and Europeans have turned over their governance to corrupt, globalist fools who invite the Third World in to complete the destruction of what was the mother of civilization.
Americans are saddened and sickened by them. It’s difficult to explain to Americans why we should spend our treasure and put our blood on the line for nations that oppress their own people and embrace sham democracy. Even the UK, the father of our democracy, has turned into a political deadbeat dad. Why should we have a special relationship with a country that sends cops to the house of parents complaining about school policies? Under the Democrats, they tried to do that here, and we rejected it. We demonstrated at least a modicum of manhood in the face of this petty tyranny. But until the Europeans demonstrate their commitment to doing something about their own enslavement, it’s unclear how we might help. We certainly shouldn’t be protecting them from other European dictatorships — we have no interest in refereeing among oppressors. The fact that they need us to do so reflects their decision to essentially disarm and become pathetic welfare states teaming with foreign parasites and native cowards.
In short, America cannot be expected to — and is not going to — care more about Europe than the Europeans do.
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”
~ Hillel the Elder, Pirke Avot (Ethics of Our Fathers) 1:14
Our response as Americans to fascist acts like the framing of Le Pen should be loud and bold condemnation and contempt. What they are doing is truly disgusting — and dangerous, too. We should say so, especially since their citizens can’t without fear of a knock on the door. The European ruling class hates hearing it, especially when JD Vance goes overseas and tells them the truth to their smug, pale faces. Their fussy fury when he exposes their fake democracy and lies about freedom is hilarious. But all they should get from us is talk. We should let them fend for themselves. They are unworthy of a special relationship, and it’s impossible to frame a coherent or compelling explanation of why a single American paratrooper should die in defense of any country that refuses to allow its most popular politician to run because the establishment dislikes her platform.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] US Cyber Commander and NSA Director General Timothy Ho has been removed from his post.
Lieutenant General William Hartman, who was Ho's deputy at Cyber Command, will take over Ho's duties at Cyber Command. Sheila Thomas, the NSA's deputy director, will take over Ho's duties at the NSA.
Ho, who took up his post in February 2024, was fired along with his deputy Wendy Noble. The reason for Ho's dismissal is unclear.
However, there is no smoke without fire. In recent months, reports have emerged about potential plans by Donald Trump to divide "responsibility" between Cyber Command and the NSA and no longer appoint a single leader.
Democrats were quick to condemn the dismissals. This move by the new presidential administration has also caused bewilderment in American expert circles.
But! The dismissal of Ho and Noble follows the dismissal of several aides from the White House National Security Council. According to multiple reports, these firings were initiated by right-wing activist Laura Loomer. at a meeting with Trump She also played a decisive role in Ho's dismissal.
Loomer stated verbatim:
"NSA Director Tim Ho and his deputy Wendy Noble have shown disloyalty to President Trump. That is why they were fired. As a Biden appointee, General Ho could not serve in the Trump administration given the fact that he was personally recommended by General Milley, whom President Trump accused of treason. Why do we need an NSA director recommended to Biden by Milley, who told China he would side with them against Trump!?"
It is worth noting that there was recently a major scandal with the Signal messenger, which is used by Trump's entourage. And leaks from "secret chats" were used to attack Trump's entourage. Signal servers are under the control of the NSA.
This time, Trump decided not to give up his own (unlike in 2017), so instead of resigning Waltz, whom the Democrats and Deep State representatives in the intelligence community tried to remove through this scandal, they are demonstratively removing the head of the NSA.
The purge of disloyal personnel in the army and special services continues. And this is far from the end.
The head of the US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency (NSA), General Timothy Ho, was dismissed from his post. This was reported on April 3 by The Washington Post.
Ho was the head of U.S. Cyber Command, which coordinates the Pentagon's cybersecurity operations. The dismissal was sudden, and the reasons for Ho's departure are unknown, two current and one former U.S. official told the publication. Lieutenant General William Hartmann, who served as Ho's deputy at Cyber Command, has been appointed acting director of the NSA.
In addition, along with Ho, his deputy Wendy Noble was fired and transferred to the office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence.
It is noted that Ho's dismissal provoked protests from Democrats in the US Congress.
“General Ho served our country in uniform, with honor and distinction, for more than 30 years. At a time when the United States faces unprecedented cyber threats … how does his removal make Americans safer?” asked Sen. Mark Warner, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Ho has led the NSA and Cyber Command since 2023. Both agencies play a leading role in ensuring the nation's cybersecurity. The NSA also supports the military and other national security agencies by collecting and analyzing vast amounts of data and information from around the world.
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Laura Loomer, an investigative journalist and activist, confirmed on Friday that she “referred” National Security Agency/Cyber Command Commander Gen. Timothy Haugh for “firing,” and indicated she did so because he was handpicked by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad]
The world economy today is fundamentally different from yesterday. The system of world trade centered on the United States... is over. Our old relationship of ever-deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80-year period in which the United States assumed the role of economic leader... is over. While this is a tragedy, it is also a new reality."
(c) Canadian Prime Minister Carney
Well, that's fine, although it was inevitable.
Under Biden, the US realized the inevitability of the collapse of the old Washington world order and bet on reshaping it in their favor as part of constructing a new world order. The key bet was the defeat of Russia. In case of victory, the globalists could count on preserving the old economic system.
But since they failed to defeat Russia, and Russia became one of the actors generating the processes of forming new economic systems untied from the globalist model, this made the dismantling of the globalist economic model inevitable, which is what Trump is doing, refusing the slightest hint of "free trade" and "globalist economy", returning the US to the stage of economic protectionism and military-political imperialism. And thus the collapse of the Washington world order that existed since the early 90s is completed.
Russia has already won its existence in the brave new post-Washington world. There is currently a military-political and economic struggle going on over how advantageous and strong Russia’s position will be within the framework of the new world order.
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Why We Should Be Very Angry About the Tariffs — and Why Trump Is Right Again ...For decades, our so-called allies and trading partners have been gleefully waging economic warfare on the United States, with the full permission — no, the encouragement — of prior administrations. China flooded our markets with cheap steel, violating trade norms and collapsing American mills. The European Union protected its own industries while slapping barriers on ours. Japan, Taiwan, and others enjoyed one-sided access to our consumers while shielding their own markets with layers of red tape and tariffs.
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Canada will lead the world – PM Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has condemned US President Donald Trump’s new slate of tariffs, declaring that Ottawa stands ready to become the global economic leader in place of Washington.
[FoxNews] Space Force Gen Chance Saltzman warns US-China commission that China’s rapid advances in space warfare – including satellite tracking and quantum tech – could soon eclipse US dominance
"Mind-boggling" is the word Space Force Gen. Chance Saltzman used to describe China’s explosive advances in space as he warned the U.S. is on a path to losing its dominance in orbit.
Testifying before the bipartisan U.S.-China Commission on Thursday, Saltzman said China is "heavily investing" in both ground-based and space-based weapons designed to disable enemy satellites, including kinetic strikes, radio-frequency jamming and directed energy weapons.
The U.S., meanwhile, is "resource limited" and still weighing "which ones we could get the most utility out of," he said.
The general’s testimony came as Congress weighs how to counter growing Chinese aggression in space and whether the Space Force has the tools to keep pace. China increased its military spending by 7% this year, stockpiling anti-satellite missiles and claiming to possess directed energy weapons that use concentrated energy beams to jam satellite signals.
There’s also a risk if China were to destroy a satellite in orbit, an action that could trigger a global catastrophe, Saltzman warned, pointing to lingering debris from Russia’s 2021 anti-satellite missile test and China’s 2007 test, which continue to threaten spacecraft safety.
China’s space-based targeting capabilities have "grown most impressively" in recent years, Saltzman said, with hundreds of satellites now dedicated to tracking U.S. assets in orbit. That expansion has given the Space Force a "new mission set": to deny China the ability to surveil American satellites in real time.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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