KURT SCHLICHTER: Trump Has Reset the Strategic Chessboard and People Are Blackpilling?

The Chinese were going to take over the Panama Canal. That’s not happening. Remember Venezuela and all the trouble it was causing? Maduro is gone. The interim authorities cut a deal, and we’ve got governance rights, a stake, and guaranteed offtake on fields holding about 65 billion barrels, on top of our own roughly 46 billion. That is a huge chunk of the world’s known supply. It is preferential access to a huge heavy-crude reserve China wanted, in our hemisphere, at production cost.

And look at the rest of Central and South America. USAID has been shut down. We’re not subsidizing leftists anymore. Right-wing government after right-wing government is taking over; the next likely to be in Brazil after the October 25 runoff, where Flávio Bolsonaro already led Lula in the first round. Sure, a few holdouts remain, like Cuba and Nicaragua. Well, go short on Cuba. If you think Marco Rubio is going to let those commie bastards live past the Trump administration’s sell-by date, you’re hallucinating. And as Cuba goes, so does Cuba’s commie Mini-Me, Nicaragua. When it collapses, look for the domestic fallout as the contacts and collaboration with senior Democrats get exposed.

Remember the stuff about Greenland? Everyone had a big laugh. The only people laughing now are the ones who are stupid or who think you’re stupid. Trump’s hard-nosed negotiations produced a deal with Denmark and Greenland that, once their parliaments ratify it, gives the United States broad military access and a veto on adversary bases and commercial exploitation. We will have a free military hand in the key terrain at the top of the world. Greenland is full of resources, and it sits on the path missiles would take to hit the United States from much of the rest of the world. By dominating that approach — and we’re going to dominate it — the American homeland’s security has been massively enhanced.

With the Americas secured, we can look out toward the main threat.

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