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14 Apr 2026

When Do You Play Trump Card?

What is the Trump Card? And when do you play it?

Some analysts are now asserting the Trump card involves a Naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. No ships going into the strait means Iranian exports are cut off. In essence, the blockade halts Iranian trade of its oil. How long can Iran hold out if it’s not earning export sales? Can it survive as a nation?

Similarly, a blockade will extend pressures on the United States as well. Oil prices will remain high indefinitely. The grumbling will get fierce.

Is Trump fighting the Iranians at this point, or the City of London? The Europeans most certainly did not help us with containing Iran. is it because they have skin in the game? Pray. Here’s more from And We Know.

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12 Apr 2026

Spain First: Bye, Bye NATO?

President Donald Trump is now weighing his options as far as possible closings or downsizings of American military bases across Europe. Where will he pull troops from first?

It’s looking like that might happen in Spain, after the socialist government there ridiculed Trump’s requests for assistance in the Iran War and closed off Spanish airspace to American flights.

The U.S. formerly operated full-scale bases in Spain, but now does not. However, there are Naval and Air Force troops  stationed at two bases under Spanish control — the Rota Naval Base outside Cadiz and the Moron Air Force Base near Seville. Don’t be surprised if those arrangements come to an end. Here’s more from Trish Regan.

 

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11 Apr 2026

Major Shift In Global Power

President of the LaRouche Organization and Editor of the Executive Intelligence Newsletter, Harley Schlanger, rejoins the program to break down the escalating tensions around the world. We discuss the war in the Middle East and what it signals about the shifting balance of global power—and how these shifts are driving behavior that is anything but typical on the world stage.
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We also discuss my landmark lawsuit and why Harley believes it carries implications far beyond my personal situation, touching on issues that affect the broader public and the future of independent voices worldwide. Here’s more from Sarah Westall on Business Game Changers.

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10 Apr 2026

Stay With Me Deplorables

The [Deep State] is now panicking. President Donald Trump is dismantling their system worldwide. He is removing the terrorist organizations across the globe.

The mission is clear. Prepare the military. Wake the people up to the [Deep State] agenda. Expose the system. Show the people how they take the money and use it to prop up their system. Dismantle the [Deep State] system worldwide. Take control of the House and Senate.

Once Trump has this leverage, accountability and justice. People are going to love how this movie ends. Here’s more from the X22 Report.

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09 Apr 2026

NATO: Die On The Vine!

Here’s a brutal reality check for the NATO free-loaders!

Germany’s invasion of France wasn’t our war, yet Franklin D. Roosevelt still sent military equipment, and later soldiers, to retake Western Europe. However, Europe’s cold shoulder may not be out of spite, but an inability to help at all, explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

“They have dreamed of utopia and a good life, and the result is that their fertility rate is 1.3. They are shrinking. They are aging. They’re not competitive. So they don’t have the manpower, even though they have a 450 million-person population. Europe is larger than us by 100 million. “

And even though they have a $22 trillion GDP, which is the third-largest, apparently they don’t want to invest that in their own defense, or they haven’t so far. They don’t want us to use it when we need it.”

 

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08 Apr 2026

They Gutted Our Industries

One year after Liberation Day, the results are in — and they’re exactly what President Donald Trump promised. Susan Kokinda breaks down the blowout March jobs report (178,000 new jobs vs. 60,000 expected), the 55% drop in the trade deficit, and the hard manufacturing data showing American industry is expanding for the first time in decades, proving that Trump’s break from the British free trade system is working.

She then turns to the strategic front, where neocon architect Robert Kagan inadvertently confessed in The Atlantic that eighty years of American wars in the Middle East were never about our security — they were about enforcing the “liberal world order” — and where Trump’s questioning of NATO membership is cracking the imperial architecture wide open.

From China’s view of Trump as the “least hawkish person in Washington” to Putin’s economic diplomacy with Egypt, a new world of sovereign nations making sovereign deals is emerging in real time. What the establishment calls “going rogue,” Kokinda argues, is simply what independence looks like. With midterms less than nine months away, the fight to secure it is just beginning. Here’s more from Promethean Updates.

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08 Apr 2026

What Now, NATO?

After 77 years, the greatest alliance in human history is definitely showing its age.

Can a rudderless and increasingly anti-Western Europe be counted on any longer to provide the money and effort needed to save itself? Do we need to have a “tough-love moment” with our old friends from NATO?

Here’s a new version of The Right Angle, moderated by Steve Green and joined by Scott Ott and Bill Whittle.

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07 Apr 2026

ABC, Times : Fake News Fronts!

Once again, the fake news chumps at the New York Times and ABC have attempted to destroy President Donald Trump. This is nothing new.

ABC’s reporters and news anchors have lied like rugs and been unequivocally biased for years. When you designate a leftist prick like George Stephanopoulos, the former spokesman for President Bill Clinton, as your political reporter, you are making a pretty clear statement that everything you report or say will be flat-out propaganda.

Likewise, the New York Times couldn’t correctly  identify NATO while attacking Trump. The Times called it the North American Treaty Organization, while NATO actually stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. What a kindergarten mistake!

Here’s more on NATO, Marco Rubio, Iran, the rescued pilots and political corruption from And We Know.

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03 Apr 2026

New Drone Defense Pioneered

NATO might be an absolute wasteland, but countries in Eastern Europe are serious when it comes to defending themselves. They not only devote a higher proportion of their budgets for military defense, they also are developing new weapons to protect against drones.

Here’s a compact and inexpensive, yet quite versatile new drone defense system jointly developed by Poland and Estonia. As Russia has embraced the drones coming out of Iran, these Eastern European nations are not sitting pretty like the fools in Spain and France. Here’s more from Steve Turley.

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02 Apr 2026

End Of The Endless Wars?

Has President Donald Trump run an end game against the endless wars? Will we see a more stable and peaceful Middle East in the aftermath of the Iranian War? Has Trump defanged the Mullahs by stripping away their weaponry as well as their capacity to build new bombs, drones, planes and war ships?

How about NATO? None of America’s NATO’s allies took part in the Iran War, and some of those nations — like Great Britain, France and Spain — actually thwarted the U.S. military. There’s no reason whatsoever to continue making payments to NATO. We should reserve our spending for European defense for those nations like Poland, Hungary  and the Slovak Republic that actually support the United States and have shown they are serious about maintaining a defensive posture.

Is Trump also ready to end the Federal Reserve? Will the U.S. Treasury become our federal government’s financial agent, rather than allowing central bankers to make huge bundles off the taxpayers’ dollars?

Pray! There’s plenty more in this new edition from And We Know, including a look at the rogue judges who occupy so many of our nation’s courts, as well as penal institutions, among them Alcatraz.

 

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