Based Camp - Based National Security？ Trump Lays Out a Plan

00:00:00.000 Hello, Malcolm. I'm excited to be speaking with you today because we have reached a new era in

00:00:07.780 American geopolitical strategy. The days of Team America World Police are over. We are gone from

00:00:17.040 America. Yeah, we've gone from that basically to America. Don't look at me. I don't know.

00:00:24.680 No, I really like this. The Trump administration basically released a plan for how we're going to

00:00:29.340 act in terms of national security going forwards. And they said that essentially Europe has been

00:00:33.900 taken over by hostile actors. Can you let me? In November, the Trump administration released a

00:00:41.040 new national security strategy that is pretty based. It basically reframes the EU from a partner

00:00:47.440 to a problem quite clearly, which is amazing. And it insists that countries basically need to handle

00:00:54.380 their own problems. In other words, like the big shift, if you just want to sum it up,

00:00:59.000 is that America has gone from being helicopter parent to being the F around and find out parent,

00:01:04.240 which is exactly our style of parenting. Yeah. And like even per our style of parenting,

00:01:09.120 we don't just do it because we're lazy and selfish that we are. We do it because it produces better

00:01:15.700 outcomes. Like it produces children who are not feckless and helpless. It produces people who can

00:01:23.080 solve their own problems. So, you know, a lot of people right now, they're admittedly pretty mad

00:01:27.720 about this. And we're like, you know what? This is good for you, sweetie. Like you need to,

00:01:32.540 you need to learn how to solve your own problems. And I love it. I love it. And you know that it's

00:01:38.480 good because Redditors be mad. And when prompted to explain the new strategy, like here's some quotes

00:01:44.940 from your just representative Redditor. The EU is in Putin's way. The US is currently in the habit of

00:01:52.460 agreeing with Putin on everything, word for word. Also the leader of the US, because they can't even

00:01:57.400 refer to him by name. He's like Voldemort to them. No, 100% though. It's making a lot of noise to

00:02:03.960 distract from being the name mentioned in most of those Trump files from Epstein's pedophile island

00:02:09.240 that everyone isn't on the list once released. This is a good distraction. Another person wrote,

00:02:15.060 the EU doesn't allow Trump's shady real estate business. So there are no Trump towers here.

00:02:20.920 He is now making deals with Hungary and other right-wing led countries to finally get a foot

00:02:25.460 in EU soil. But as for business opportunities, he is rather friends with Russians and Arabs who

00:02:31.140 flatter him as much as they can. And another Redditor took some choice quotes from this new strategy

00:02:37.640 document that was released by the White House in November. That really goes to show kind of just one,

00:02:43.280 how much this would make leftists mad. But like all these quotes, I read them and I'm like,

00:02:47.360 yeah. So one quote, our elites, this is, this is from the document itself. Our elites badly

00:02:54.060 miscalculated America's willingness to shoulder forever global burdens to which American people

00:02:59.440 saw no connection to the national interest. Also.

00:03:02.920 They're like, I hate that. How very dare. And I'm like, yeah, absolutely. It's yeah. I mean,

00:03:09.460 I do love this because it's, they see this as damning and I'm like, no, this is fantastic.

00:03:13.980 Another, the days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over.

00:03:20.280 Yes. Thank you.

00:03:22.540 This is all wrong. How dare you?

00:03:26.360 You have stolen my dreams. People are suffering.

00:03:31.780 Right. Another, we will assert and enforce a Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. And I'm like,

00:03:37.760 yeah, absolutely. This is why he was voted into office people. Like, you know, Monroe, he did. Okay.

00:03:42.520 Can we start something a little fresh? Another, Europe's economic decline is eclipsed by the real,

00:03:49.040 man. More stark prospect of civilizational erasure. Yes, actually. And another, we want Europe to 0.90

00:03:58.000 remain European to regain its civilizational self-confidence and to abandon its failed

00:04:04.160 focus on regulatory suffocation. Oh, like I cannot tell you. Like the scene for me is that scene where

00:04:11.400 that woman basically has an orgasm in a restaurant at this point. Like, I'm just like, oh, like this is 0.95

00:04:15.300 just such a, I love it. They're going to be like, what? They want Europe to stay European.

00:04:20.760 That's well, but also like the, when I was in college in, in, in Cambridge and we, we did a

00:04:27.400 visit to the EU, I was at first it was like, oh, the EU like prestigious gotta be, it's gotta be cool.

00:04:33.340 Right. And I came away so angry, like just, it was just bureaucracy, bureaucracy, bureaucracy. I was

00:04:38.820 horrified. I was like, this, this thing needs to be burned down. It is, it is, it is literally like the, 0.98

00:04:44.160 it is holding a pillow over the face of Europe going, shh, and I don't like it. Okay. Final quote

00:04:51.640 from Reddit in brackets, America goal, America's goal is, end brackets, cultivating resistance to

00:04:58.840 Europe's current trajectory within European nations. Absolutely. Europe is not going in a

00:05:03.600 good direction. An analogy that you've used with journalists is like, basically there's,

00:05:09.000 there's an anchor that's, that's like slowly falling off a ship and everyone is like chained to

00:05:13.640 the anchor and America's like removing their, their ankle from the chain because the anchor

00:05:18.560 is quickly like now more quickly sliding into the ocean. And it was like, why are you removing

00:05:23.040 yourself from the chain? And you're like, dude, it's going into the ocean. Like I'm not tying

00:05:26.560 myself to this, but I'm, I'm, I'm really excited about this. And also in more seriousness though,

00:05:32.580 I think this is all perfectly serious and I'm not joking about any of it. We as citizens,

00:05:37.100 but I think pretty much anyone in the world, because we're all affected by American foreign policy,

00:05:42.120 should probably be aware of what the shift in strategy actually entails. And so I wanted to do

00:05:46.720 a little look into it. So let's, let's, let's go over it. You know, we won't go too deep, but we'll,

00:05:51.860 we'll get the important stuff. Okay. And I'd love to just hear your reactions to this. So does that

00:05:56.360 sound good? Like I'll tell you what's going on and you tell me what it means. Cause that's kind

00:05:59.980 of how our relationship works. Yeah. You did the thinking. I do the stating. So it's just cause I'm a

00:06:07.500 man. Yeah. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. Brains of bronze. I do, I do the work. I clean. So first

00:06:15.140 what, what I wanted to look at with this document is what is actually changing about strategy with

00:06:21.160 the U S like what's going to be different now, because that's all that really matters. Right.

00:06:24.700 I mean, as far as I'm concerned. So the really big thing is again, this takes away the America world

00:06:29.940 police imperative that has been slowly been fading away. Anyway, it replaces a global rules-based order

00:06:36.340 and democracy promotion language, which of course you saw with like things like USA,

00:06:40.660 which we've already dismantled with a much narrower definition of us interests focused on sovereignty

00:06:46.780 borders and domestic strength rather than universal values, which absolutely I'm for also weirdly,

00:06:54.520 I feel like, you know, the whole joke with, with team America, world police, the movie was like

00:07:00.780 the conservatives were all about this, you know, like go blow up. Like, you know, like

00:07:05.680 fix things and like make, so, so progressives in the past were like, Oh, you know, how dare we go in

00:07:12.500 and impose our values on these other cultures. And now we're like, you know what, we're just going to

00:07:16.680 like, but the reason it shifted because, and we've mentioned this many times in the nineties,

00:07:24.800 the dominant culture in the United States was Judeo-Christian culture. Today it's the urban

00:07:29.920 monoculture. So of course, now that they're the dominant culture, they want to use the apparatus of the

00:07:35.060 state to push their culture into other countries in the same way that the Judeo-Christian culture in 0.62

00:07:40.900 the United States did, uh, back in the nineties. Yeah. It's just so funny because at first they

00:07:45.480 were like, how dare you intervene? And then they're like, how dare you not intervene? How dare you not

00:07:50.040 intervene? What are you doing? Yeah. Ask for this. Yeah. So this, this, there's also a shift in really

00:07:56.340 elevating the Western hemisphere to the top priority and it's making migration and drugs and cartels and

00:08:02.240 China's regional footprint, the central focus, instead of putting great power competition with

00:08:08.360 China and Russia and the Indo-Pacific or Europe at the core, which is what we had before. It treats 0.88

00:08:14.040 mass migration itself as a primary national security threat and justifies using military force, including

00:08:20.420 cross-border strikes on cartels, as a routine tool for hemispheric enforcement, far beyond the earlier

00:08:29.140 strategies of law enforcement and humanitarian framing. And I think this is really prescient

00:08:35.200 of the Trump administration strategy. Yeah. It's our Bob strategy. They just adopted our parenting

00:08:43.180 philosophy. Some parenting strategies, when a child is misbehaving, you like have to hold them down

00:08:49.540 until they stop. That's like invading and maintaining a space. Yeah. And other parenting strategies,

00:08:55.900 you like sit down and you talk with them. That's like the UN strategy. Like we're going to send

00:09:00.500 you up on the scene. We'll see. And Trump just turned Soleimani into salsa. Bop. Yeah. Just bop. Just

00:09:06.060 bam. Boom. Yeah. Big, beautiful turrets you have. Yeah. It'd be a shame. Exactly, man. Like that's,

00:09:12.380 and I think it, it, one, it's more lightweight, it's more effective, and that is going to be the future

00:09:15.920 of foreign policy. And I think this is, it's really helpful to see this in the strategy document,

00:09:20.580 because what we're seeing now is a sort of literary formalization of something we've already

00:09:26.400 seen in practice. And I really, one, I also love that. I mean, you know, we are like 100% against

00:09:31.320 deontology. Actions speak louder than words for us. And also like results speak louder than like,

00:09:37.640 you know, the, the performativeness of anything. And what we're seeing here is that the administration

00:09:42.700 has already spoken with its actions. Now it's just sort of presenting the philosophy behind it,

00:09:47.000 but we don't have to be like, well, we'll see if they actually follow through because this is what

00:09:50.340 they've been doing already. So I also really like that about this. Another thing that's shifting

00:09:54.680 is we're reorienting, reorienting our alliances in our European policy, especially around burden

00:10:00.840 sharing and trade balances and Western identity. While we also openly critique European migration

00:10:07.500 and regulatory policies, instead of emphasizing cohesive liberal institutions and shared democratic

00:10:13.320 values. Like we're not like, oh, we're working with the EU on promoting democracy when we're like,

00:10:18.980 Europe, what are you doing? Like, why are you erasing yourself? Like you're falling apart. And

00:10:23.420 we're also kind of like, I think there's this in the document, you see this over and over this like

00:10:28.240 general acknowledgement that Europe has lost the plot and basically shot itself more and more like

00:10:34.300 not, it hasn't even shot itself in the foot. It's like shot an essential artery in its leg and it's

00:10:39.840 bleeding out. And like, well, it was nice to know you. Yeah. Yeah. It was like Europe. I'm sorry.

00:10:45.940 Like you're over now. I think maybe a better metaphor is like, we, we understand now that

00:10:51.460 like Europe is, is, is like terminally ill or like irreparably addicted to fentanyl. And like,

00:10:57.280 there's just no way around it. And we're like, I'm sorry, I have to disassociate from you. Like

00:11:00.940 there's, you are not listening. You are incapable of listening at this point. I have tried to help you

00:11:06.120 multiple times. It's over now. Like you need to help yourself. I do like that. They talk about

00:11:11.520 promoting, you know, European values in Europe where they can basically be like, we can't put

00:11:17.020 a foot on the lever to try to prevent the civilizational collapse of Europe. Like we

00:11:21.080 will. But actually, so I'm, I'll jump ahead to, to, cause the other key thing is sort of what does

00:11:26.180 this mean for our relationship with Europe? And my favorite thing about, or I think maybe the most

00:11:31.560 clever thing that surprised me about this document insofar as it relates to our, our relationship

00:11:36.460 with Europe is it basically, it's like, it says we're not, we're not, the United States is not

00:11:41.920 going to closely work with the EU anymore, but it is going to essentially work with, how do they word

00:11:47.660 it? They calls for cultivating resistance to the EU's current trajectory by encouraging and working

00:11:54.040 with euros, euroskeptic or patriotic parties and governments inside member states, rather than

00:12:00.920 primarily channeling relations through Brussels. In other words, it's going to go to like the

00:12:06.400 dissident nationalist parties. Well, like, like Vance did when he met with the AEL in Germany.

00:12:11.420 Exactly. And here it is formalizing that as a policy, but I think it's really brilliant. And

00:12:16.700 this never would have occurred to me as a formal geopolitical national defense strategy, like,

00:12:23.520 because I'm like, well, okay, like Europe is being written off, but no, the United States isn't

00:12:28.580 actually writing off Europe. The United States is choosing to invest in the facets of Europe that may

00:12:33.520 have a shot that are not terminal. And I like that. I think that's really cool. Now, of course,

00:12:39.540 people on the left are like, Oh, like they're just going to invest in white nationals parties and like

00:12:45.740 all these things. Right. But like what they're really trying to do is, is like, these people are

00:12:50.220 attempting to create a sustainable version of Europe that isn't going to be completely financially

00:12:54.960 drained. That may be solvent. That may have a shot at a future. And we will try to build alliances with

00:13:00.380 them and the rest, like, I'm sorry, but they're gone. And I love that. I think that that's really,

00:13:04.420 really cool. But of course, they're also like, Europe, you got to pay for your own stuff. Now,

00:13:08.740 you know, we're not gonna, we're not gonna bankroll you anymore. There there's less deference to EU

00:13:14.160 institutions in general, like they acknowledge that you guys are just bureaucratic. It's it's like,

00:13:19.400 just like Sid, they're robots. They don't feel anything.

00:13:21.680 They're just robots, Morty. It's okay to shoot them. They're robots. 1.00

00:13:28.040 Yeah. And it's much more strict with US security guarantees. Like, sorry, we're not gonna like come

00:13:43.040 in and solve your problems. Like you need to solve your own problems. And I think that's really cool.

00:13:48.620 I mean, it's still frames quite cool to see formalized because so much of, you know, Trump

00:13:53.460 doctrine, you know, he'll say it and his fans may get it. But then, you know, he takes the White House

00:14:00.920 and his team took the White House, like the first administration of his. And they weren't putting

00:14:05.220 stuff together like this because they didn't get it yet. They were like, well, they were so busy

00:14:09.980 basically dealing with an openly antagonistic deep state that was actively undermining every move

00:14:15.640 that like, what could they do? Really? Yeah. I mean, I loved what happened with the deep state that

00:14:22.660 we went through the saga where they were like, the deep state doesn't exist. It's a paranoid

00:14:26.820 conspiracy. And then we find out that Biden is like, basically incapable of thinking. And we're like, 0.92

00:14:33.280 shouldn't we like, be doing something about the fact that we don't know who's running the government

00:14:38.840 right now? And the left was basically like, oh, no, it's a bunch of unelected and really competent

00:14:43.360 officials. I'm like, well, that's the thing we were worried about. Trust me, bro. Yeah,

00:14:51.200 it was not great. We were talking about what do you mean? Like they went from the deep state isn't

00:14:57.820 real to actually the government's in good hands because the deep state's been running it all along.

00:15:02.700 Yeah. But speaking of the deep state, what I love about this too, and I just feel like I feel so heard

00:15:07.380 is that Europe is very distinctly framed in this document as undergoing civilizational decline

00:15:15.700 because of migration and regulation. Like they're being explicit about it. They're like Europe,

00:15:21.840 like you boned, like demographic collapse, like just economically and specifically like the EU driven

00:15:28.160 regulatory morass you are imposing on your own people. Because, you know, we've done episodes on

00:15:33.360 like, well, Europe is opting out of relevance because of their privacy rules, because of their

00:15:39.080 AI rules, because of all these things that they really are economically and technologically,

00:15:45.580 let alone civilizationally, you know, like opting out of the future.

00:15:49.040 Recently, which I thought was really big is, you know, we have a whole episode on like EU's erasing

00:15:53.620 itself from history because it's erasing itself from AI training data, right? You know,

00:15:56.880 I mean, you can't easily. And I love, I love though that the US like government, or at least

00:16:02.800 the Trump administration is openly recognizing that.

00:16:05.740 Well, they had their pro AI thing that everyone was freaking out about recently.

00:16:08.780 Their one AI rule, you know, for, for, for every state, every region, which everyone freaks out

00:16:13.480 about because they're like, it's an executive order. You can't do that at an executive order,

00:16:16.460 which I mean, you can't, but large companies will find a way to use that because they don't care,

00:16:20.640 you know, what you as a state have to say if they're operating in every state, right?

00:16:24.980 Which makes a lot of sense, but outside of the, the Trump executive order on AI,

00:16:30.540 the, the other big problem, which you told me about the EU and AI is EU has been trying so hard

00:16:36.020 to make themselves green for a long time that they've been cutting down the amount of power

00:16:39.480 that they're producing. And there's basically nowhere in the EU where it is cost effective

00:16:43.500 to run giant data centers anymore.

00:16:45.860 Yeah, it is. It's a thing. So also there's so clearly, right? Like we're, we're stepping away

00:16:51.680 from the EU, right? Like we're, we're, we're awkwardly like sidestepping, you know, at the

00:16:56.840 party, like away from what used to be our good friend, which is great. I'm just loving it.

00:17:02.680 But it's also kind of, then the question is, and we need to ask this and look at this, who then are

00:17:08.540 our new allies? And in this document, there's a very clear elevation of some alliances and

00:17:15.000 deprioritization of others, not just Europe. The new emphasis really is on partners in the Western

00:17:20.460 hemisphere and like-minded, but not necessarily liberal governments elsewhere. And this is where

00:17:26.880 a lot of very progressive policy outlets are freaking out because it used to be like, well,

00:17:31.700 if they're urban monocultured and if they're quote unquote democratic, then they're going to be our

00:17:35.480 ally. Whereas the, the focus here is more on, I would say alignment of, of interest in sovereignty

00:17:45.760 and like mutual interest. And like, even if you're a totalitarian government, as long as our ends,

00:17:52.680 like our desired end state and our, our mutual respect for sovereignty is there, like we're,

00:17:57.220 we're happy to work together. So the document defines a strategy of what they call enlist and

00:18:01.920 expand in the Western hemisphere, which prioritize, prioritizes regional champions. It will help the

00:18:07.580 U S block migration, fight cartels and secure supply chains. And it's signaling that such

00:18:12.920 hemispheric partners could receive more U S troops or security assistance and that economic integration

00:18:18.660 than many traditional allies outside the region. And so it's kind of like, I mean, I think in a very

00:18:24.100 practical way, like we'll help you if you help us, like it's much more mercenary, which being able to

00:18:33.460 take this perspective actually gives us a lot more flexibility diplomatically. And I feel like it's a lot

00:18:39.480 more transparent as well. Right. So for example, like if you can, which Trump was able to do,

00:18:46.360 which is what the way he was able to end the war in Gaza was to get Erdogan on his side, right? Like

00:18:51.880 Turkey. And then, you know, the fact that he's able to go to Erdogan and be like, Hey buddy, like,

00:18:57.460 I understand that like, not exactly a democracy, not exactly, you know, friends with the Europe and the

00:19:03.860 way that things are done, but like maybe, and if he had been a progressive, he wouldn't have been

00:19:09.060 able to make that deal. He wouldn't have been able to go to him and be like, Hey, like, let's talk

00:19:11.740 this through, like, let's figure something out. Right. Yeah. But under this new system, he's able

00:19:15.340 to be like, look, you're broadly conservative, right? I'm broadly conservative, right? Like we have

00:19:20.980 a lot that we hate about those people in the EU together. Well, and I want to be clear that the

00:19:27.580 document still names NATO and a bunch of also Pacific allies like Japan and South Korea and

00:19:33.880 Australia as important, but more like the really important theme here is that it's conditioning

00:19:39.180 the close cooperation on higher defense spending and tougher economic policies toward China. And it

00:19:45.060 also gestures toward a de facto great power tier with the US, China, and Russia as the key shapers of

00:19:52.740 border, implying that many other states will be treated more as like swing partners or sub-regional

00:19:59.400 allies rather than like specific partners. I think, you know, it's not really relevant economically on

00:20:07.080 the global scale, geopolitically, like, yeah, but here's like, here's how it actually stands with

00:20:12.740 Russia. Cause this all, cause that like matters, like, you know, so where do we sort of stand with 0.96

00:20:16.480 Russia and Ukraine? And it's, it's no longer like, well, here's how things would be fair. 0.82

00:20:22.460 Like here's where, you know, it's, it's not the parent who's like, well, to be fully fair,

00:20:27.380 like you need to give Jimmy back this and you need to apologize to him. It's more just like,

00:20:31.900 shut up and stop fighting. It's just like, stop, like, just stop. I don't care anymore. I don't

00:20:36.840 want to hear it. Just shut up. Or I will like, you know, box all around. I don't care. Yeah. And 1.00

00:20:42.780 it's not like a, well, like, so, so this, this document kind of implies like, honestly,

00:20:47.700 if you guys just shut up, just stop. I don't care if the borders are right where they are right now,

00:20:53.940 just stop. Like, it's not like, well, you have to give back this land and we're going to broker

00:20:58.000 this. It's no, it is just stop. And I think that that's honestly a much more pragmatic approach.

00:21:04.160 And so when it comes like to what the document is clear is it's basically like, we want this to

00:21:10.840 stop it. Quote, an expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine. And it wants a restoration

00:21:17.160 of quote, strategic stability with Russia. And it's honestly like it is, I will, in all fairness,

00:21:25.840 it's, it is not very antagonistic toward Russia, but I also kind of get it because, and I, it is

00:21:33.280 more antagonistic towards the EU than Russia in many ways, but I think that's because it inherently

00:21:38.580 recognizes the long-term damage that the EU has done to Europe. Like Putin may be, he may have boned

00:21:46.740 the Russian people by like shredding the male population and, and preventing that, like, you 1.00

00:21:54.220 know, accelerating demographic collapse in Russia, but he was one person like the EU, like these people,

00:22:00.740 like this is like a giant, huge organization that is systematically and permanently neutering the EU.

00:22:06.180 And this is like many countries. I feel like that's, that's a little more insidious. And it's

00:22:10.240 like the U S seems a little more angry about that. There's kind of a similar situation with Taiwan

00:22:15.060 as well, that the document elevates quote, deterring a conflict over Taiwan, ideally by preserving

00:22:22.660 military overmatch end quote. So it's really just trying to say like, we're trying to make it clear

00:22:29.960 in war games and like in from a strategic calculation to China, that it is not worth it to China to invade

00:22:36.240 Taiwan. But it's also clear from the document that if in the end, China were to invade Taiwan,

00:22:41.640 the emphasis would be on getting other allies in the region to lead and kind of how, like we did

00:22:47.420 with Ukraine, like maybe we'll provide some weapons, like we, and you'll have to buy them from the U S and

00:22:53.440 we'll all be benefiting from it, like with Israel, but you know, we're not going to like, we're not 0.63

00:22:59.100 going to do anything ourselves per se. Like it's very much the BOP strategy or like, we may go in

00:23:05.940 and vaporize someone, but we're not going to like get super involved. Like what we did with Iran. 0.73

00:23:10.240 I think what we did with Iran is very indicative of what we can expect in general with U S foreign 0.99

00:23:15.200 policy in the future until of course the Democrats come and take over and decide that they're going to do

00:23:19.340 something. But I think at that point we're, we're so financially screwed as a country that we won't

00:23:24.960 be able to afford to return to the old team America world police format. So I think honestly,

00:23:30.420 this is here to stay. And I think we're going to get used to it because in the end, this policy is

00:23:36.040 what I would expect from any country in their national security policy, like this whole world

00:23:41.980 police, like we're going to go and take care of the world strategy or policy that United States has had

00:23:47.600 since world war two, which we only really adopted like for a variety of complex reasons after like

00:23:55.120 the middle of world war two, right? Like in the beginning, we were like, hands off any normal

00:24:00.200 country, their imperative is to focus on stuff within their borders to take care of their own

00:24:06.520 citizens. I mean, that's the whole conflict with, you know, internally with Israel that I think is

00:24:11.320 driven so much unnecessary antisemitism is that people like, wait a second, like, why are we sending aid

00:24:17.220 to like Israel? What, what about me here? Like, stop this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean,

00:24:24.260 like, so also, you know, when you look at there's, there's not a lot of direct mention, for example,

00:24:28.640 of our policy in Africa, like, well, but what about what's happening in Darfur right now? Like,

00:24:33.460 you know, there's, there are genocides taking place, right? Like terrible things are happening in

00:24:36.880 the world and they are terrible, but in the end, it's our responsibility is to solve problems for our

00:24:44.520 own citizens. Like that's who pays our bills. They're the ones that we need to take care of.

00:24:50.700 I'm, I'm, I'm. And I see this being electorally a really smart position to be taking. Yeah. 100%.

00:24:56.120 Yeah. I think it's, it's, it's what the average American wants. I think it's what people voted for.

00:25:00.040 Yeah. Yeah. Certainly if like Kamala Harris had won, maybe I would see that there'd be more of a

00:25:05.580 mandate for our interventionism in things like the genocide taking place in Darfur, which of course

00:25:13.320 wouldn't be happening anyway, because no, the genocides in Palestine, didn't you know, Malcolm,

00:25:17.200 didn't you know? Yeah. Didn't you know? This genocide doesn't matter because it's happening to

00:25:21.500 black people apparently. Yeah. Screw them. But yeah, I just, I think this is absolutely fantastic. 1.00

00:25:28.340 I think this is extremely favorable. Oh, by the way, yes, the U.S. still does, speaking of Palestine,

00:25:34.820 see Israel as a key ally, but very, it's very toned down. This is a very muted thing. We're like,

00:25:40.600 okay, sure. Like they're a strategic ally in the region, but it, it very, the document explicitly

00:25:46.940 is like, we're over the forever wars. We are no longer, this is no longer a region that we prioritize

00:25:54.420 there. The document does refer to quote, ensuring that Israel remains secure, but it wants to protect

00:26:02.200 energy flows and shipping lanes and continuing U S interests that, that are relevant in the area.

00:26:07.920 But it definitely is like, this is, this is not our priority. Our priority is our border security.

00:26:17.320 And, you know, as demographic collapse plays out, like Peter's eye hand in his book,

00:26:21.420 the end of the world is just the beginning was really all about this. Like this was exactly what

00:26:26.620 you would expect as countries start to price in demographic collapse and recognize the declining

00:26:33.940 relevance of many countries and regions, both politically, but from a defense and population

00:26:38.880 standpoint as well. So I think this is important for everyone to just sort of internalize is like,

00:26:43.280 here's what we can expect from the U S and here's what we can't expect. And I think this is also really

00:26:47.860 going to influence how warfare is going to play out in the future. Bop strategy is going to pervade. 0.92

00:26:52.160 Yes. I love it. We need to get on the militarization of bopping when the countries get out of line and

00:27:00.800 they're not listening, they get smacked on the nose. It was a, well, I mean, I think we really did.

00:27:04.980 That was like Iran recently, right? Like that was very much a bop strategy. 0.78

00:27:09.000 100%. Yeah. Right. It was okay. We'll, we'll bomb a bunch of infrastructure for like two days and then

00:27:13.860 stop. And when it was even like, you know, Israel loosened, loosened the lid. They were like,

00:27:19.500 like, we came up and we're like smash and then, you know, opened it for you. Yeah.

00:27:25.880 Someone else has to work with us too. And I think that it's such a great example because Israel did

00:27:31.240 the vast majority of the legwork and Israel benefited from the vast majority of the legwork.

00:27:36.840 Now we absolutely did benefit from, from the contribution that we made, but again, like the

00:27:42.980 big emphasis here, which is emphasized again and again, is like, okay, Europe, sure. We'll work with

00:27:47.400 you, but you're going to have to pay for like the value that you need. Like when you benefit primarily

00:27:51.920 from this, you need to pay primarily for it. We're not going to bankroll you anymore. Someone once said

00:27:57.700 also like the best way to understand Trump and his decisions, which I should probably do this is read

00:28:03.840 art of the deal. He said that after reading art of the deal, like you can really understand like

00:28:08.700 the vast majority of Trump's policy decisions. And, and I do think that it really shows up when he's

00:28:13.980 like, we got a bad deal. Like, it's like, why are we paying for this? Why are they paying

00:28:18.320 for this? Like, this is not, I think maybe we should be looking at that, but I do appreciate

00:28:23.060 that. I mean, what are you going to do? I thought it was, it was ghostwritten mostly, right?

00:28:29.080 Yeah. But it's like the spirit of his strategy.

00:28:31.380 Basically based on interviews with him or something.

00:28:33.060 Yeah. So he didn't write it obviously, but like he, it's still, it was very much his thing. And

00:28:40.280 yeah, it 100% it is, it is a description of his strategy with regard to business dealings and

00:28:48.600 whatnot. No, it's, you know, he didn't write it though. Let's not delude ourselves. But when I say

00:28:54.920 mercenary, I don't say it in a derogatory fashion, but of course, you know, the, the, the progressives

00:29:00.500 on Reddit who decry this, the, the, the liberals who are writing about this and freaking out you

00:29:06.060 know, they are saying things like mercenary and they're saying things like, Oh, we're no longer

00:29:09.080 the world police. And they, they mean it in a really bad way. We're no longer the world police,

00:29:14.420 but also there it's, I think it's very, it's like a deeply, it's a deep ideological divide.

00:29:20.020 There is helicopter parenting and there's F around and find out parenting. Right. And we,

00:29:25.620 we are in that quadrant of F around and find out. And I, yeah, I think on a, from a geopolitical

00:29:32.540 standpoint, I'm in favorite as well. So I love you very much, Malcolm. And what am I making

00:29:36.620 you for dinner tonight? We're doing the curry that you started to, I don't know why you

00:29:40.740 started to thaw it out, but you started to thaw it out. Because it's getting to the point

00:29:43.660 where that, that like, you can only keep curry frozen for so long. Like, okay, well let's

00:29:48.720 do it. Mango curry. I'm making sourdough tonight. So you just want that with sourdough to like

00:29:53.180 dip in it or something? No, it will not taste good with sourdough. It's a, it's a,

00:29:56.080 like a military curry. So it needs to be with rice. Okay. And so we'll cook it. You may want

00:30:00.700 to add a bit of like coconut oil or something to it. We don't have coconut oil. It'll come

00:30:04.420 down and taste it a bit early. That's supposed to be how we're handling it.

00:30:07.300 What I can do, how about I saute some peppers or no? I do not think that that's going to go

00:30:13.620 well with mango curry. Okay. Then I'm just, yeah, I'll, I'll just simmer it in a pan to warm

00:30:17.120 it up and we'll go. Sound good? Yep. That works for me. Oh, and would you like me to try to make

00:30:24.060 cuddle corn? I mean, the kids will eat it now, but you could tell me if you like it and then I can

00:30:27.500 make a batch dedicated just to you. Oh yeah. Let's try cuddle corn. See, see how that's done. You are

00:30:32.900 such a thoughtful wife. Then I could just like, you know, we can put it in a container and you can 1.00

00:30:37.280 take it to your room. Like, I'm not suggesting you eat it for dinner, but like, I'm going to be down

00:30:41.640 there anyway. Shall I? Yeah. Okay. I love you so much, Malcolm. And I love America. God bless you

00:30:49.040 and God bless America. Why? Oh my gosh. Have a good one. Bye.

00:30:58.260 Oh, Titan. Are you fighting like a power ranger? Which power ranger are you?

00:31:07.380 Do you slay bad monsters?

00:31:11.640 Toasty, are you a power ranger?

00:31:19.020 Yeah.

00:31:22.660 Are you the power ranger?

00:31:25.920 What are you working on, Octavian?

00:31:28.300 That is not a good game. That is not what you said you were playing.

00:31:34.520 No more computer.

00:31:36.100 No.

00:31:36.440 Take one.

00:31:49.000 Dino nuggets. So you can become a dino ranger?

00:31:51.260 What?

00:31:51.820 So you can become a dino ranger?

00:31:53.420 What?

Based Camp - December 12, 2025

Based National Security？ Trump Lays Out a Plan

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