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

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Trump just released a 33-page national security strategy — and the media is counting on you not to read it. Instead, they’re cherry-picking, rage-baiting, and calling it “radical.” But if you actually open the document, the worldview Trump lays out is practical and brutally honest about the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Russia, and America’s limits.
In this episode, we break down:
 • Why the buildup around Colombia and Venezuela has nothing to do with “narco-trafficking”
 • How control of the world’s largest oil reserves shapes U.S. behavior — no matter who’s president
 • Why Trump is challenging Europe and pushing NATO to grow up
 • How European decline — from demographics to GDP to identity — is driving their political panic
 • Why Europe quietly agrees with Trump more than the media wants to admit
 • Why stabilizing Ukraine quickly is now a core U.S. interest
And how Trump’s business-minded foreign policy contrasts with the neocon approach of endless war!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Trump's practical worldview. Okay, I know, despite the mainstream media
out there, both sides, because both the left and the right,
whether the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, they are
neo cons at heart. They always have ben and they

(00:38):
put out a national security strategy papers thirty three 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
thirty three pages. Okay, get through it very quickly, and
I suggest you do so. Okay, it's Google thirty three

(00:59):
page national Security. It'll pop up. The idea is that
Trump puts forward are practical, practical. I don't understand our
current tact when it comes to what we're doing in

(01:21):
the Caribbean with Colombia and Venezuela and the build up there.
And he talks about this, you know, Western hemisphere, Monroe
dark doctrine type light and going after drug traffickers and
all this stuff. And I know yesterday in a Politico
interview he alluded to you might you know, conduct military

(01:42):
action in Colombia and Mexico, which quite frankly, I highly doubt.
I'm sticking. I'm sticking with my thesis that Venezuela is
about oil, pure and simple. You know, roll have control
over the world's largest oil reserve. Is uh, well, let's

(02:07):
say in something there's 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 we are. We're pushing back
against our ally shouldn't do that. It's been a big

(02:28):
call for some time. I've even said the same thing
is that, you know, I don't know why NATO is
this necessity, why we need to have NATO, Why why
it even matters at this point in time, in fact,
NATO NATO. Whenever you you baby someone, you're a kid, okay,

(02:58):
and you baby your kid and you don't allow your
kid to grow up, are you helping a kid? No,
you're not, You're holding them back, and our implied defense
of Europe with NATO for a period of time has
allowed for their social welfare states to get completely out

(03:22):
of control, where again they can't manage them. I mean,
I can point to figure out ourselves too. We're at
that point in time in this country as well, because
we went all in with social welfare nineteen sixties and
we just went on steroids. It never got better. Brought
in all of this massive legal immigration, can't afford it.

(03:44):
Social securities 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 the highway robbery,
if you will, when it comes to our fiscal situation
and where we're at. Anyway, back to the paper that
was put out and Europe and some people get in

(04:07):
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 whole heartedly. Whole heartedly. They
agree with this Europe and the way Europe is structured

(04:29):
with Brussels. It's not on the upswing. Okay, they're holding
on for dear life.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Here.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
I'm going to read to you from the paper Promoting
European Greatness. 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,

(04:56):
down from twenty five percent nineteen ninety to fourteen percent 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.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
They know it.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
They look, take a good hard look in the mirror.
They're aware of this. Okay, they well, and again there's
nothing wrong with us reminding of 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

(05:44):
transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship or free speech
and suppression of political opposition, creating birth rates and loss
of national identities and self confidence. Anything in that paragraph
that is wrong. No, no again. I do believe I

(06:08):
think Trump likes Europe.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
I do.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
I think he looks. I think he thinks it's you know,
I think it's not. Who doesn't I love going there?
But he doesn't want it to fall apart. Should present
trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in twenty years
or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether

(06:32):
certain European countries will have economies in militaries 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.

(06:55):
European allies enjoy significant hard power advantage over Russia by
almost every men mere save nuclear weapons. As a result
of Russia's war in Ukraine, European relations with Russia are
now deeply antinuated, and many Europeans regard Russia as an
existential threat. Managing European relations with Russia will acquire significant
US diplomatic engagement. Both the re established conditions of strategic

(07:17):
stability across your Asian land mass, and to mitigate the
risk of conflict between Russia and European states. It's a
core interest in the United States, and negotiate an expeditious
cessation of hostilities in Ukraine in order to stabilize European economies,
prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war, and re

(07:38):
established 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

(07:58):
this again. Was there any doubt at all, Quite frankly,
what the outcome was going to be with this, I
didn't see it from the get go, saying this is

(08:21):
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 George H. W. Bush,
administration and back and away from some of the things

(08:46):
that we said we were going to do. Anyway, Do
I think that they have to come up, Yeah, they're
going to have to come up with something. We're gonna
can continue to continue to throw more and more money
and weapons at Ukraine, and it's it's almost like a

(09:12):
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,

(09:37):
every single publication in the country right now is coming
out and they're saying, Okay, Trump is going easy on
China and going easy on Russia and back and away
from our allies. I don't see it that way. I don't.
And again, like I said, I'm an equal opportunity to
bash her here on the program. I really think that

(09:59):
he wants to to some sort of conclusion with this
because it doesn't make any sense in his part of arts.
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 the

(10:22):
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 thrilled about. As far as
his foreign policy is concerned, you know, much more libertarian tact.
I hope, I hope. Again, I don't know. The latest

(10:44):
we're hearing from Zolenski is he's a hard no on
giving away any sort of territory. We're going to 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, you know, getting involved in invading South American countries. Yeah,

(11:06):
that's not going to end well. That's not going to
end well. And hopefully it's just a show. Watch Doog
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