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Darkwing

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Their top missile guy. Misery manager.

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Ulrike Franke

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Let’s look at those priorities:

. “the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests”
. Focus on Western Hemisphere
. nations should prioritize their interests
. “days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over”

After the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy elites convinced themselves that permanent American domination of the entire world was in the best interests of our country. Yet the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests.
Our elites badly miscalculated America's willingness to shoulder forever global burdens to which the American people saw no connection to the national interest.
They overestimated America's ability to fund, simultaneously, a massive welfare-regulatory-administrative state alongside a massive military, diplomatic, intelligence, and foreign aid complex. They placed hugely misguided and destructive bets on globalism and so-called "free trade" that hollowed out the very middle class and industrial base on which American economic and military preeminence depend. They allowed allies and partners to offload the cost of their defense onto the American people, and sometimes to suck us into conflicts and
controversies central to their interests but peripheral or irrelevant to our own.

• We want to ensure that the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable and well-governed enough to prevent and disco...age mass migration to the United States; we want a Hemisphere whose governments cooperate with us against narco-terrorists, cartels, and other transnational criminal organizations; we want a Hemisphere that remains free of hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets, and that supports critical supply chains; and we want to ensure our continued access to key strategic locations. In other words, we will assert and enforce a "Trump Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine;

Primacy of Nations - The world's fundamental political unit is and will remain the nation-state. It is natural and j that all nations put their interests first and guard their sovereignty. The world works best when nations prioritize their interests. The United States will put our own interests first and, in our relations with er nations, encourage them to prioritize their own interests as well. We stand for the sovereign rights of nations, against the sovereignty-sapping incursions of the most intrusive transnational organizations, and for reforming those institutions so that they assist rather than hinder individual sovereignty and further American interests.
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The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over.

December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM

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Tim White

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Explosions in multiple region of Ukraine tonight.

In Kyiv region, the whole horizon turned orange in Fastiv, south of the capital itself.

The Fakel Machine-Building Plant & Electrothermal Equipment Plant are located in the town.