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[FullMoon]

Link to the monologue below. Keep in mind that it is over 40 minutes long.

https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-mono-jan-7

During the monologue, Carlson implies that China will be our main adversary in this war. He also says Russia is the key to determining who will win. Which is why Trump abandoning NATO/Ukraine and making nice with Russia should take top priority. If Trump fails to break Russia away from China, we will lose. Only if he succeeds will we have a chance.

John's analysis as to the Russian side was correct. It depends on how much they and Europe can make amends. At current levels that will take a long time and certainly be in China's favor. The European/Russian rivalry would be best wound down. There is no existential conflict between Russia and Europe. Europe got themselves into a hole by doing similar but much worse than we did. We have lots of options but what have they. We cut their pipeline and they don't even have cheap energy now.

[Navigator]

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/e ... -a-wartime

Edward Dowd: Trump is Building a Wartime Command Economy Without Declaring War

"This is a test run. He is setting precedent to apply this model across sectors..."

Trump is building a wartime command economy without declaring war.

He’s not trying to reform the defense sector. He’s preparing to subsume it. Strip the optics. What he’s doing is establishing direct state control over strategic capital flow using loyalty pressure, populist framing, and fiscal levers.

He’s not negotiating with defense executives. He’s declaring them subordinate.

This is a test run. He is setting precedent to apply this model across sectors:

•Energy will be next.
•AI after that.
•Healthcare eventually.

The pattern is simple. Any industry touching sovereignty, logistics, or frontier technology will be absorbed under mission-state logic. Private firms will still hold the equity, but the state will dictate the capital structure, production cadence, and narrative frame.

Buybacks are forbidden. Dividends are conditional. Salaries are capped. Output is mandatory. Time is compressed.

It’s a shift from incentive alignment to compliance enforcement. From persuasion to control. From “make defense great again” to “you now work for me.”


No modern president has dared cross this line because it exposes how thin the veil of corporate independence actually is when national purpose is invoked.

Trump just crossed it.

And the deeper layer: this only works if he’s confident the military, capital markets, and the public will comply. That’s the real signal. He knows they will. Or he knows enough of them will that the others won’t matter.

This is how American Caesarism starts.

Not with tanks in the streets.

With cash flow commands.

I applaud Trump going after the defense contractors and putting them on notice. But I don't think he is going to put all of industry/commerce under executive control.

Unless there is a real shooting war, in which case EVERYTHING will have to be put under some kind of governmental control (and this would be the care regardless of who is president)

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‘Greenland belongs to its people’: European leaders unite over Trump’s threats to annex territory

European leaders urge Trump to respect Greenland’s borders

Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland

While I certainly am fully in agreement (and then some) regarding Trumps actions vis a vis Iran and Venezuela, I am deeply worried about his rhetoric concerning Greenland, and NATO, as well as his significant reduction in the US backing of Ukraine.

Yes, Greenland is strategic. We have a base there (Thun). We could offer to greatly bolster our presence, and pay Greenland/Denmark for the privilege. We could even buy Greenland (btw, Truman tried to do this shortly after WW2). Hopefully Trump's rhetoric is meant to have one of these things happen.

Actually invading Greenland would activate NATO against the US, which would be a disaster of monumental proportions. NATO is still extremely important, especially in the face of Russian aggression. I think we should tone down the anti-NATO rhetoric a notch or two. Trump has been successful in getting the Europeans to increase defense spending somewhat, and the fear of Russia, especially for Poland and northern Europe is motivating them as well.

[Navigator]

Link to the monologue below. Keep in mind that it is over 40 minutes long.

https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-mono-jan-7

During the monologue, Carlson implies that China will be our main adversary in this war. He also says Russia is the key to determining who will win. Which is why Trump abandoning NATO/Ukraine and making nice with Russia should take top priority. If Trump fails to break Russia away from China, we will lose. Only if he succeeds will we have a chance.

John's analysis as to the Russian side was correct. It depends on how much they and Europe can make amends. At current levels that will take a long time and certainly be in China's favor. The European/Russian rivalry would be best wound down. There is no existential conflict between Russia and Europe. Europe got themselves into a hole by doing similar but much worse than we did. We have lots of options but what have they. We cut their pipeline and they don't even have cheap energy now.

I think that Tucker Carlson is completely in the tank for Russia. The idea of making Russia into a US ally against China is ludicrous. Russia is an aggressor and a full on partner with China.

I have always disagreed with John's take on Russia, and after Putin's invasion of Ukraine I believe that John changed his mind.

European/Russian rivalry is not going to wind down. It is only going to get worse. After the Ukraine, Russia wants the Baltics. Then they want their influence in Eastern Europe back. Russian ambitions are all aimed westward. Russia may actually cede territory in the far east to China in return for assistance in getting more European lands. I believe we will see this when WW3 starts.