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The Case for Ending Maduro’s Rule
Washington has spent over ten years being lectured by the same class of foreign policy caretakers who confuse timidity with wisdom. They warned that pressuring Maduro would spark chaos, that confronting a narcostate would destabilize the region, that any assertive move by the United States would summon ghosts from a century ago. They sold fear as strategy. They were wrong every time. And the loudest of them, Juan González, was a political adviser elevated into a national secu

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Nov 213 min read


China’s Other Front in the War Against the U.S.
For three decades, we’ve been under attack—and most Americans still don’t know it. While Washington argues over tariffs and spy balloons,...

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Jul 173 min read


The Age of Synthetic Reality Has Arrived
You don’t need to believe a lie to live inside one. You just need to be surrounded by enough of them, for long enough, until the truth...

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Jul 93 min read


Marco Rubio is Right
The CBS News article attempting to fact-check Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s warning about Tren de Aragua’s presence in the U.S. isn’t...

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May 193 min read


Trump’s Saudi Gambit
President Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia this week wasn’t just another diplomatic courtesy call—it was a signal flare across the...

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May 144 min read


The CCP’s American Infiltration
The latest congressional report on the Chinese Communist Party’s espionage operations in the United States should erase any illusions:...

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Feb 182 min read


Security Clearance Limbo
The United States is facing a national security crisis that few in Washington seem willing to acknowledge—the dwindling number of...

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Feb 164 min read


The Vanishing West
Western civilization is drifting into a demographic crisis. Marriage is increasingly dismissed, birth rates are collapsing, and the...

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Feb 113 min read


The Algorithm is Watching
The world of espionage has always been an arms race, a ceaseless battle between deception and detection. For centuries, human...

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Feb 102 min read


GITMO Gets a Trump Upgrade
President Trump’s executive order to detain criminal illegal aliens at Guantanamo Bay is the decisive action America has long needed. The...

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Jan 313 min read


Trump’s ODNI Pick Deserves Scrutiny
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was supposed to fix things. Created in 2005 in the wake of 9/11, it was meant...

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Jan 303 min read


Four Years of DEIA at CIA: A Failed Experiment Ends; Time to Refocus.
Four years of DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility) initiatives have officially come to an end, thanks to recent...

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Jan 252 min read


Petro’s Antics are a Threat to Colombia’s Stability and U.S. Relations
Gustavo Petro has made it abundantly clear that he’s less interested in leading Colombia and more interested in stirring up controversy....

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Jan 232 min read


How Bold Executive Actions Reassert National Security
January 20, 2025, marked a decisive shift in America’s trajectory. A new slate of executive actions signals a return to policies rooted...

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Jan 213 min read


Trump's Cease-Fire
The recent cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas represents a much-needed pause in one of the region’s most devastating...

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Jan 153 min read


A Gift to the Cuban Dictatorship
The Biden administration’s decision to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism is a catastrophic misstep, framed...

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Jan 143 min read


The Future of Supply Chain Wars
In the 21st century, wars aren’t fought exclusively on battlefields—they’re fought in factories, server farms, and shipping docks. Supply...

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Dec 31, 20243 min read


Chaos at the Darién Gap
The Darién Gap isn’t just a humanitarian disaster—it’s a front line in a war that affects every American family. This lawless corridor,...

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Dec 26, 20243 min read


Reclaiming America's Canal
The Panama Canal, once a testament to American ingenuity, now stands as a strategic vulnerability in the face of escalating tensions with...

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Dec 23, 20243 min read


Beijing’s Digital Trojan
China’s strategy for global dominance has gone digital, embedding itself in the systems we depend on and exploiting vulnerabilities to...

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Dec 18, 20243 min read
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