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Hemispheric authoritarianism: the Monroe Doctrine recast as the "Trump Corollary"

Ricardo Martins
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00 UTC
Trump
© Patrick SemanskyUS President Donald Trump
By reimagining the Monroe Doctrine through a national-populist lens, Donald Trump aims to reassert American hegemony at a time of strategic rivalry with China. The "Trump Corollary" is more than a symbolic gesture: it signals a deliberate embrace of power politics across the Americas.
"Reinvigorated by my Trump Corollary, the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well — and American leadership is coming roaring back stronger than ever before."
- President Donald Trump
Trump's statement marking the anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine reinterprets the original 1823 principle — non-interference of external powers in the Western Hemisphere — into a wider, ideologically charged assertion of sovereigntist U.S. primacy.

The "Trump Corollary," formally articulated in official presidential documents, reflects President Trump's effort to craft a legacy as a decisive shaper of American power, countering narratives that frame his presidency as contributing to the country's sharp geopolitical and economic decline.

It functions not only as a symbolic repertoire but also as a geopolitical means of shaping strategic narratives that justify a more assertive U.S. posture in the hemisphere, illustrated by proposals to take control of the Panama Canal, incorporate Canada and Greenland, and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America."

Comment: In a conflict of perceptions, bias is the lens that interprets the truth.

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Explosion

Is total war in our future? The prognosis

George Ford Smith
mises.org
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00 UTC
LincolnNetanyahu
© Screenshot/wallpapercave/KJNAbraham Lincoln • Benjamin Netanyahu • War Philosophies
Accusations of genocide in Gaza are present everywhere except where most people get their news — mainstream media — but is it fair to call the military action in Gaza a genocide? Is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intentionally trying to kill every Palestinian, women and children included, as part of a territorial expansion program called Greater Israel that might include a Trump Riviera? According to a UN resolution, "genocide" requires "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group."

Anthony Aguilar — a retired Green Beret and recipient of a Purple Heart — spent several months in Gaza at an aid distribution site under contract from a US motorcycle club whose charter calls for the elimination of all Muslims. Based on his experience with IDF personnel at the site, nothing less than genocide fits the description of what he witnessed.

Since we can't measure intent objectively, it might be more accurate to call the action in Gaza an unspeakable atrocity. One could argue that war itself is atrocious but certain incidents stand out as deserving widespread condemnation if only because of the horror they elicit.

Comment: To answer the question, the jury is still out!

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Crusader

Slovak PM Fico says he wants no part in Western Europe if Russian and Ukrainian lives are 'worth sh*t'

Thomas Brooke
ReMIx News
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:44 UTC
Robert Fico
© AP Photo/Denes Erdos, FileSlovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico: "If for Western Europe the life of a Russian or a Ukrainian is worth shit, I do not want to be part of such a Western Europe"
Vows to block EU military funding for Ukraine

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said he will block any European Union solution that finances Ukraine's military expenditures, accusing Western Europe of treating Russian and Ukrainian lives as being "worth shit" and of prolonging what he described as senseless bloodshed.

In a post on X, Fico said he had held an almost hour-long phone conversation with European Council President António Costa focused on EU funding for Ukraine. "While he spoke about money for the war in Ukraine, I kept repeating the senseless daily killing of hundreds to thousands of Russians and Ukrainians," Fico wrote. "If for Western Europe the life of a Russian or a Ukrainian is worth shit, I do not want to be part of such a Western Europe."

Comment: Fico is one of the few voices of sanity in the madhouse that is the European Union. So much so, that he was a victim of a nearly successful assassination.

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Earthquake

What the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy really means for Europe and the world

Kevork Almassian
kevorkalmassian.substack.com
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00 UTC
NatlSecurityStrat
© GTSC
There are moments in geopolitics when the real earthquake doesn't come from a war, a coup, or a coup attempt.

It arrives as a PDF.

While Mark Rutte tells Europeans to prepare for a "big war" (we all know with whom), the White House has quietly released the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS), and we should take it seriously.

Because this document is nothing less than the official obituary of the unipolar moment and a blueprint for a much colder, more transactional American foreign policy.

It is also a direct slap in the face of the EU establishment, and a lifeline - maybe - to a different kind of relationship with Russia.

Let's unpack what is really inside.


Comment: A recommended read.

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Better Earth

US secretly planning five-nation club including Russia to sideline G7 - media


RT
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:42 UTC
PutinTrump
© Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/FileRussian President Vladimir Putin • US President Donald Trump
The group, which would also include China, India and Japan, was reportedly outlined in Washington's longer security strategy draft.

The US is secretly planning to create a five-nation power bloc with Russia, China, India and Japan to sideline the Western-dominated G7, several media outlets have reported.

The idea was reportedly outlined in a longer unpublished draft of the US National Security Strategy released by the administration of President Donald Trump last week. According to the Defense One news portal, that version circulated before the White House published the unclassified document and reportedly proposed a new group, dubbed the 'Core 5', as a forum for dialogue among major powers outside the G7 framework.

Comment: Off base:
Russia has no plans to return to the Western-dominated G7 group, President Vladimir Putin has said, noting that its significance continues to dwindle.

In an interview with India Today on Thursday, published ahead of Putin's visit to the country, the Russian leader noted that many G7 economies now lag behind emerging economies in purchasing-power parity (PPP) terms, and that the group's share in the global economy has been steadily shrinking.

Still, he conceded the G7 - which includes the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan - remains "an important platform." "People work there, make decisions, discuss things, and God bless them."

According to Putin, he is not seeking to rejoin the group, and did not discuss the issue with US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner during talks in the Kremlin about Ukraine earlier this week.

Putin noted that he had stopped attending the group's summits even before the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014. Moscow was excluded from the then-G8 after Crimea seceded from Ukraine and voted to join Russia in a public referendum.

In June, Trump suggested that kicking Russia out of the group was "a big mistake," arguing that keeping Moscow on the inside might have prevented the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. At the time, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov agreed "it was a big mistake then to exclude Russia" but noted that the club had "lost practical significance."

Since its exclusion, Russia has focused on strengthening cooperation on other international platforms, in particular BRICS, which currently accounts for about 46% of the world's population and over 36% of global GDP, according to estimates by global financial institutions.


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War Whore

Europe continues to interfere in Ukraine's last chance for peace

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:35 UTC
StarmerZelMacron
© UnknownVolodymyr Zelensky • French President Emmanuel Macron • British PM Keir Starmer • 10 Downing Street • London
For those who understand the basics of attrition warfare, the outcome of the fight in Ukraine was obvious a long time ago. Russia's superior logistical position along with its grinding offensive tactics have worn down Ukraine's defenses and left the country with a desperate manpower shortage. The recent capture of the vital hub of Pokrovsk has now opened the door to an accelerating Russian advance.

The Russian offensive is gaining significant ground from Pokrovsk to the north, all the way to Kupiansk. The strategic city of Siversk is now largely under control of Russia according to geo-location mapping. Myrnohrad, also near Pokrovsk, has been flattened by artillery and FABs.

Ukraine's ability to stall Russian forces is faltering, allowing the Kremlin to move troops in a swift manner closer to maneuver warfare instead of the slow and methodical process of attrition. Ukraine continues to deny they are in trouble, but the writing is on the wall.

This helps to explain Europe's sudden interest in "peace negotiation", but not for the purposes of establishing actual peace. First and foremost, we know Europe is not interested in peace because they largely refuse to engage directly with Putin and Russia in negotiations.
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Attention

Biden trade officials shaped EU censorship law used to target Musk's X

Lucas Nolan
Breitbart
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:31 UTC
musk european union censorship laws battle lawsuit fine
© Tousi TV/YouTube
Newly revealed documents show that trade officials in the Biden administration coordinated with European Union counterparts in shaping provisions of the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) now being used to penalize U.S. tech companies, including Elon Musk's X.

Documents unearthed by the Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO) expose how trade officials under the Biden Administration worked with their EU counterparts to craft the same statutes that are now being used to fine Elon Musk's X.

The documents detail how the U.S. International Trade Administration and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative collaborated through the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council to develop shared policy priorities on digital regulations.

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Bell

They're not even trying anymore - Once you see, you can't unsee

NO1
Gold and Geopolitics Substack
Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:41 UTC
"They", the globalists, the institutions, ... "They" aren't even trying anymore. The lies have become so brazen, so obvious, so contemptuous of our intelligence that it feels deliberate. Like they're daring us to notice. Like they want us to see through it.
LA Headline
© Gold and Geopolitics
COVID showed us. Remember those rules? Masks. They work! Oh no wait? They don't. Actually they do, but only certain ones. Stay six feet apart - Fauci later admitted that number was just made up, no science behind it. Two weeks to flatten the curve. Then two months. Then indefinitely. Small businesses must close to stop the spread. But Walmart stays open because... well, because. You can't visit your dying grandmother, but mass protests are fine if they're for approved causes. Digital IDs to contain a virus.

And the most ludicrous? They weren't even following their own rules. California's governor dining maskless at French Laundry with lobbyists while restaurants across the state shuttered. UK officials throwing parties in Downing Street while citizens got fined for sitting on park benches. The people making the rules, the ones telling us the science was settled, didn't believe a word of it.

They lied to our faces. With consequences. Real ones. Businesses destroyed. Kids' development stunted. Communities atomized. People died alone because families couldn't visit hospitals. And the rule-makers? They were fine. They were always fine.

That's not incompetence. That's not mistakes. That's contempt.

Then you start looking around and realize the COVID lies weren't an exception. They were the pattern made visible. Remember when suggesting COVID might have leaked from a lab got you banned from social media? Labeled a conspiracy theorist, deplatformed, fact-checked into oblivion? Now it's openly discussed as the most plausible origin. No apology for the censorship. No acknowledgment that the "conspiracy theorists" were right. Just a quiet shift in acceptable discourse.
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Dollars

Elections impossible under Zelensky's 'terrorist regime' - exiled Ukrainian MP


RT
Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:48 UTC
Artyom Dmitruk
© Telegram / dmytrukartemArtyom Dmitruk.
Presidential elections in Ukraine are impossible under the "terrorist regime" of Vladimir Zelensky and his cohort, exiled Ukrainian lawmaker Artyom Dmitruk has said.

Zelensky, whose presidential term expired over a year ago, has repeatedly refused to hold a new election, citing martial law - which was imposed after the conflict with Russia escalated in 2022 and has been regularly extended by parliament.

Earlier this week, Zelensky said he would hold an election within 90 days if Kiev's Western backers can guarantee security. The shift came after US President Donald Trump accused the Ukrainian authorities of using the conflict as an excuse to delay elections, insisting that it's time.

Comment: There is more pressure on Zelensky to hold elections from various stakeholders while a peace deal is in the works. One way or another Zelensky will have to hold elections soon.

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Attention

Don't worry, be happy. All those who feared a dystopian future got it wrong

Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook Substack
Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:22 UTC
A world where corporations run the politicians, promote endless war and secretly manipulate public opinion through the media. Thankfully, these bleak visions never materialised.

Mega Corporations
© Jonathan Cook Substack
Try to imagine this utterly intolerable, dystopian future:

1. We reach a point where the corporations grow so large and so fabulously rich that politicians can no longer afford to upset them by legislating to curb their power. The corporations are simply too big to fail.

2. In fact, politicians only pretend to be in charge of policy. Like other sectors of society, their services are effectively bought by the corporations. Secretly, the politicians prioritise the interests of these corporations, and the billionaires who stand behind them, over the interests of the publics they are supposed to represent. Democracy serves as a facade behind which a kleptocratic class rules.

3. The corporations use their power to advance legislation allowing them to concentrate their wealth even further. They monopolise huge chunks of the economy, like a parasite feeding off the blood of its host. When they disastrously mismanage these monopolies, as they do intermittently, they lean on the political class - their servants - to bail them out with public monies.
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