Yes, Make America Great Again, but Don't Take Eyes Off Europe
As obvious as it may seem to say, the world is still a highly dangerous place.
As of Nov. 5, Americans have resoundingly rejected the neo-Marxist, "America Last" mentality about, if not outright designs on our nation.
The national tourniquet may have been applied on Election Night, but the bleeding probably won’t cease until some months after inauguration day.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has inherited a mess.
Our nation's 47th commander in chief will champion MAGA nation by taking the fight concertedly and directly to the "swamp."
Yet, make no mistake, he fully realizes our world today is only one miscalculation away from World War III.
Wars and brewing wars may be the new normal, but our new national security team would do well to place a high priority on Europe.
The globalists, elites, and neocons on both sides of the pond have made a hash of Europe.
Before, you surmise, as the media has taught you, that Vladimir Putin is the guy who did it, this writer would suggest that he is just one of several, in a globalist-neocon saga that has wielded a wrecking ball to Ukraine and the European continent.
Ukraine is not Europe’s biggest risk.
Illegal migrants are.
Like the United States over the past four years, Europe has heeded the clarion call of the United Nations International Organization for Migration (UN IOM) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) opening its borders, ignoring national immigration laws.
Europe is further down the road than the U.S. is.
Terror groups, clandestine state actors, gangs, cartels, drugs, and human trafficking are the byproducts of New World Order dreams.
We are on the edge of the precipice of that not far behind nightmare.
Unchecked migration has reached its boiling point.
New NATO member Sweden is now a poster child for the culture destruction chaos now endemic to Europe. In 2023 the peaceful Swedish endured 149 bombing incidents with over 10 tons of explosives seized by authorities.
In many of these incidents the bombers were as young as 13-14 years old.
Why? Swedish law will not prosecute you as an adult until you reach the age of 15.
Unelected globalists applaud this reshaping.
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, found out recently that standing with the people leads to a WEF approved, EU-built, brick wall.
A EU Court of Justice ruling which declared "a safe country of origin must be safe across all, not just some of its territory," denying Meloni’s intent to deport a Bangladeshi, and Egyptian nationals.
The EU parliamentary bodies care little for member state sovereignty.
There is growing resistance from members but only Prime Minister Orban of Hungary seems ready to die on a national hill.
So far.
The west-funded artillery shells continue to explode in Ukraine’s war with nuclear armed Russia and still no serious diplomatic work to end the conflict can be seen while the stakes of escalation rise.
EU leaders assured the world that unprecedented sanctions were leaving the Russian economy in "tatters."
That was almost three years ago.
Europeans have found great difficulty at the pumps and heating themselves.
Concurrently, no American leadership is in sight.
The effect of those sanctions combined with WEF-led climate change regulations and pacts, have essentially placed Europe on a path to deindustrialization.
The Netherlands is a great example of all these risk vectors converging.
How so?
The Dutch government closed and seized over 3000 generational farms to get at carbon targets, making new space available for illegal migrant housing.
A win-win if you look past the permanent damage to the Dutch economy and the erasure of private property rights.
Or perhaps the WEF/EU syndicate would see those as virtues and victories?
If you are an American, so what?
Don’t we have our own troubles?
Isn't it, "Charity Begins at Home!"?
We have serious issues to clean up domestically. Another seemingly obvious statement.
Yet our own illegal invasion, you know the one right in front of us, could blow up anytime those UN IOM bank cards dry up or nations like Iran or China activate cells.
Our finances are in deep trouble.
Forget the stock market and the Fed for a moment.
Dive into the unemployment rate and the "liquidity" of our banks.
The government’s unchecked check writing and growth are swallowing us whole.
Europe’s cultural implosion and decimated economy, coupled with the rise of sharia law, preference for climate regulations over individual property and liberty should serve as a crystal ball of sorts.
But like any crystal ball you have to be willing to look at it intently and carefully, first.
Up until the presidential election this was our fate too.
While we reverse course, we must encourage and help Europe to do the same.
Europe and the NATO alliance are indispensable to our national security.
Europe hosts U.S. forces in locations we paid for in blood, providing us with global power projection. American commerce depends on European markets.
Transatlantic economic cooperation has enriched the world lifting billions out of poverty.
In 2022 U.S. goods and services with the EU was estimated at $1.3 trillion.
Rejecting the UN/WEF ambitions of one-world government and reclaiming our liberty and self-governance from the swamp is job number one!
A close second is to help Europe do the same.
American leadership has been absent.
Let's start learning what he world is trying to teach us, right before our very eyes and ears.
The time for apathy is over. We have no choice in that regard — and never should.
Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt (retired) is a co-founder of Restore Liberty, a former deputy representative to NATO, a lifetime member on the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Newsmax contributor. The views presented are those of the author and do not represent the views of the U.S. government, U.S. Department of Defense, or its components. Read Gen. Holt's reports — More Here.