🇺🇸 Why Elbridge Colby Matters

Elbridge Colby is Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as under secretary of defense for policy, but Sen. Tom Cotton is thinking about derailing his nomination.

What makes Colby, who served faithfully in the first Trump administration as deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development, more objectionable to Cotton than Tulsi Gabbard or Robert F. Kennedy were?

The answer, Cotton has indicated, is that he believes Colby is insufficiently fearful of Iran’s nuclear program.

Beyond that article, Colby has called for Washington to prioritize checking the power of Communist China over further commitments to the Middle East.

Elbridge Colby is a threat to the neoconservatives’ place in the middle layer of politics. He’s the anti-Kristol—a Harvard-educated, right-leaning intellectual, at home in a think tank or appointed government position, with a vision of what Republican foreign policy should be that is sharply at odds with the neoconservatives’.

https://www.compactmag.com/article/why-elbridge-colby-matters/

🇺🇸📝 zerohedge: Instead of various hot takes on a "Mar a Lago accord", just read the original paper from Stephen Miran on which the Trump 2.0 policy framework is based (and why you should be even longer gold and bitcoin).

🇺🇸 A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System - Stephen Miran

https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/research/638199_A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇺 Trump proposes trilateral agreement with China & Russia to mutually decrease military budgets by 50%, per Ken Klippenstein:

"One of the first meetings I want to have is with president Xi of China, president Putin of Russia & I want to say let's cut our military budget in half."

🔗 unusual_whales

🇺🇸 President Donald Trump says he and Elon Musk will be personally going to inspect the gold at Fort Knox.

🔗 America

🇩🇪 CDU party wins the German election, the AfD sees the biggest gain and comes in second. The far-left Linke surges to 8.5%, according to the first projection.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's left-wing SPD has suffered its biggest defeat in the party's history.

🔗 Disclose

🇩🇪 Current implosion of German industry is comparable with Great Financial Crisis and Covid lockdown, but this time outside of a global recession. It is all self-inflicted, this is what happens when blind left green ideology replaces common sense.

📝 The German ZEW Current Conditions graph indicates economic analysts' assessment of Germany's present economic situation.

🔗 Michael A. Arouet

🇺🇸🇲🇽 US State Department:

We designated cartels like Tren de Aragua as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. This unlocks new diplomatic and economic tools. It cuts off their commercial ties, disrupts banking, and targets shell companies. This is a crucial step against groups who terrorize countries and run human trafficking operations.

🔗 StateDept

🇺🇸🇲🇽 US Border Czar: "We're Going To Wipe Drug Cartels Off The Face Of Earth"

US Border Czar Tom Homan told Fox News' Jesse Watters that President Donald Trump intends to dismantle the command and control centers of Mexican drug cartels, vowing to "put them out of business" and "wipe them off the face of the Earth." These are strong words against cartels that have fueled a drug overdose crisis responsible for the deaths of 100,000 Americans each year.

Watters asked Homan how cartels have adapted in the last 30 days since Trump's 'America First' border policies of placing the military by the thousands on the southern border...

Homan responded: "Look, they're going maritime. We knew they would. That's why Coast Guard patrols increased by three times. So we're going to shut them down maritime too."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-border-czar-were-going-wipe-drug-cartels-face-earth

🇲🇽🇺🇸 Mexico Plans to Change Constitution to Protect Drug Cartels From U.S. Military Strikes

According to the terms proposed by Sheinbaum, amendments to Articles 19 and 40 of Mexico's constitution would prevent foreign investigations or military actions without the approval of the Mexican government.

The First Amendment would prohibit foreign actions that harm the country's integrity, independence, or sovereignty.

The Second Amendment would enforce automatic pretrial detention and the maximum penalties for individuals involved in illegal arms trafficking or foreign nationals violating Mexico's sovereignty.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/02/22/mexico-plans-to-change-constitution-to-protect-drug-cartels-from-us-military-strikes-n2652640

📝 Luke Gromen: A critical “origin story” of current domestic U.S. politics & of the US’ interactions with the world that has been ignored & continues to be ignored by most Washington Consensus-centric & Atlanticist-centric pundits

🔗 Luke Gromen

🇨🇦 Insane reversal

🔗 Polling Canada

🇺🇸Over the past 30 years Amish communities have expanded westward out of New York and Pennsylvania, into Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin and beyond. They've already reached Idaho and soon they'll be in the Pacific Northwest. It's just the Oregon Trail all over again

🔗 Liam

🇺🇸 The White House on X:

"AMERICAN VICTORY: Tim Cook Announces Apple to Spend $500 Billion in America"

🔗 WhiteHouse

🇹🇷🇪🇺 Erdogan says only Turkey could save the European Union from the troubles it has fallen into due to Ukraine war. Ankara could remedy European defense, revive the aging population in the continent

“This could only happen with Ankara’s EU membership”

🔗 ragipsoylu

🇹🇷🇺🇦 Türkiye urges realism on Ukraine’s NATO bid, cites security concerns

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan: We are in favor of Ukraine to be a NATO member. This was the statement from our President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, so this is our official position

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkiye/turkiye-urges-realism-on-ukraine-s-nato-bid-cites-security-concerns/3491590

🇨🇦🇺🇸 Tim Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, warns that the tariff problem can become an inflation problem for the Canadian economy

🔗 EconomicWoes