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Holy shit…

Trump just shut the door on the age of globalism and US interventionism, slams the Deep State Libs and Neocons, and is promoting a lasting peace in the Middle East.

Every anti-Trump narrative just went up in flames.

Since 1898, the guys who developed and executed U.S. foreign policy have modeled it after British foreign policy during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries—that is, a policy of meddling in the affairs of the rest of the world in an effort to expand British domination.

On the whole, the British were considerably better at global meddling to their advantage than the Americans have been. This was because the guys who staffed the East India Company and later the Foreign Office tended to be educated and deeply interested in the peoples (and their languages) they were tasked with dominating. Richard Francis Burton and T.E. Lawrence were notable examples of British army officers who were capable of forming real relationships with foreigners.

Since World War II, U.S. foreign policy has increasingly neglected diplomacy and instead relied on U.S. aircraft carrier power projection—that is, “Do what we tell you to do or we’ll bomb you.”

During the presidency of George W. Bush, this policy was intensified to “Do what we tell you to do or we will bomb you and then overthrow your regime and replace you with an American-compliant regime.”

That U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East for the last twenty-two years has achieved nothing but death, destruction, instability, and mass migration to Europe has not dissuaded Washington’s foreign policy establishment to change tack.

On the contrary, the guys who fervently pursued the Bush-Netanyahu doctrine of regime change have made it clear that they want to continue on the same course.

Yesterday in Riyadh, President Trump announced that he IS changing tack in the Middle East. His speech struck me as one of the most remarkable foreign policy pronouncements in American history.

Yesterday’s most important story was, predictably, the one least covered by corporate media. The AP ran its quiet version under the bland headline, “Trump lays out Mideast vision as he looks to revamp US approach in Iran, Syria and beyond.” Trump laid out much more than a Mideast vision. He described the controlled demolition of globalism itself. It was not just a blockbuster business trip. He practically eulogized the entire NGO-industrial complex, right at ground zero on foreign soil.

The trip was especially significant because it was President Trump’s first sojourn abroad. His first stop was Saudi Arabia, where he was personally greeted by the Kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Salman (MBS). The contrast with Biden’s 2023 visit could not possibly have been more stark. For Trump, the Saudis rolled out the purple carpet —a royal designation— and MBS met the President personally at the bottom of the jetway.

But hapless Biden got no carpet, and was greeted at the airport by some flunkie. And don’t get me started about his feeble fist bump when the Cabbage in Chief finally did meet MBS.

Roll Call published the transcript of Trump’s Riyadh speech. In the address, without explicitly naming it, the President crushed the deep state. ...

In other words, Trump declared nothing less than the end of America’s “soft power” regime. When he mentioned “so-called nation builders,” “liberal non-profits,” “Western intervention” and “lectures on how to govern your affairs,” he was speaking specifically about the deep state’s USAID-funded NGO complex and CIA-fueled color revolutions.

In effect, he announced that we’re pulling our rainbow-colored propaganda out of your hair.

No more feminist theory workshops in rural Afghan villages. No more state-funded LGBT influencer campaigns on Saudi TikTok channels. No more Ethiopian trans operas. No more drag shows at embassies and academic lectures on inclusive urban planning in Bedouin villages. No more “development grants” leveraged for ideological compliance.

The Saudis’ purple carpet led directly to a new global alliance based on mutual respect, economic cooperation, and —critically— non-interference.

The President put his finger on the main problem with the whole soft-power enterprise: globalists are morons. We’re from Geneva, and we’re here to help! Trump correctly said, “They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves.” He offered receipts: Kabul, Bahgdad, “and so many other cities.” He flatly declared that the deep state interventionists were tinkering with “complex societies they did not even understand themselves.”

By ending Syrian sanctions and offering to deal with Iran, Trump declared the end of permanent enemies and endless wars. He prioritized trade over intervention, strength over sanctimony, and peace through respect and reciprocity.

Iranian official says they are willing to sign a nuclear deal with Trump, in exchange for lifting economic sanctions!

Shamkhani says that Iran will commit to never making nuclear weapons and getting rid of their stockpiles!

This development coming while Trump is in Qatar and Putin is in Iran, is NOT AN ACCIDENT!

I’d be willing to bet anything that there are some secret meetings going on, and lots of negotiations we as the public are unaware of. All these leaders are in such close proximity, and it appears some deals are being made.

The “Trump wants war with Iran” narrative is about to go up in flames, and Trump might be bringing peace to the Middle East.