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"U.S. can no longer be the sole author of the terms, we have to share power with China." Tucker:

If you haven't been NOTICING this about Tucker Carlson, then you should by now. This is a mask slip moment. What he's touting here is multipolarity, which is nothing more than a politically correct way to say American decline. The Chinese Communist Party has been chanting the exact same tune for years - a “peaceful rise,” a “multipolar world order,” and “shared power” with America. They couch it in such docile language knowing full well what it means - the slow erosion of American primacy while they build up their military capacity, steal tech, and dominate global supply chains. Furthermore, Pax Sinica (a Chinese-led world order) and Pax America are fundamentally incompatible and mutually exclusive. They are antithetical systems. One cannot expand without shrinking the other. Beijing explicitly views the current US-led order as “an unfair constraint to its rise” and wants to replace its norms with its own. Indeed it has violated many of these terms that defined the Post WWII order and the US, until Trump came along, did nothing in response to these violations. These include trade violations, territorial claims in the South China Sea, sketchy dual-use operations and tech, etc. Multipolarity or “sharing power” is not a peaceful compromise - it’s the transition phase between one Pax and the next. The CCP has never hidden that it wants a China-led order. The United States (until recently) never hid that it intends to preserve the one it built. These two peaces cannot coexist any more than Pax Britannica and Pax Germania could have co-ruled Europe in 1914. That’s why “multipolarity” is just Western declinism with better branding. America First isn’t about imperialism. It’s about refusing to live under rules and norms written in Beijing. Tucker has shown he's not America First.

If you haven't been NOTICING this about Tucker Carlson, then you should by now. This is a mask slip moment. What he's touting here is multipolarity, which is nothing more than a politically correct way to say American decline. The Chinese Communist Party has been chanting the exact same tune for years - a “peaceful rise,” a “multipolar world order,” and “shared power” with America. They couch it in such docile language knowing full well what it means - the slow erosion of American primacy while they build up their military capacity, steal tech, and dominate global supply chains. Furthermore, Pax Sinica (a Chinese-led world order) and Pax America are fundamentally incompatible and mutually exclusive. They are antithetical systems. One cannot expand without shrinking the other. Beijing explicitly views the current US-led order as “an unfair constraint to its rise” and wants to replace its norms with its own. Indeed it has violated many of these terms that defined the Post WWII order and the US, until Trump came along, did nothing in response to these violations. These include trade violations, territorial claims in the South China Sea, sketchy dual-use operations and tech, etc. Multipolarity or “sharing power” is not a peaceful compromise - it’s the transition phase between one Pax and the next. The CCP has never hidden that it wants a China-led order. The United States (until recently) never hid that it intends to preserve the one it built. These two peaces cannot coexist any more than Pax Britannica and Pax Germania could have co-ruled Europe in 1914. That’s why “multipolarity” is just Western declinism with better branding. America First isn’t about imperialism. It’s about refusing to live under rules and norms written in Beijing. Tucker has shown he's not America First.

🔴 We have waited for this. And now it’s happening: a stark rebuke of the Islamic regime in Iran by one of the Arab world's most senior diplomats. Iran’s ideology claims it defends Islamic causes. But the bare facts are now exposed: for 47 years Iran has used a proxy network funding and promoting Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas, and allied militias across Iraq, Syria, & Sudan all in the name of “a resistance movement defending Islam and the Palestinian cause”. It is a sham that many fell for. Arabs countries finally calling bs on Iran is highly significant and the final nail in the coffin of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Watch:

𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗢'𝗦 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘'𝗦 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗪𝗢𝗡'𝗧. Mark Rutte leads the most powerful military alliance on earth. He just looked directly into the camera and said what Germany, France, and Britain have been carefully avoiding saying out loud. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁'𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. He laid out exactly why. Iran's nuclear capability and ballistic missile program pose an existential threat to Israel. A direct threat to the entire region. A threat to Europe. A threat to the whole world. The NATO Secretary General — the man whose entire job is the collective security of the Western alliance — is saying that what Trump is doing is not optional. It is necessary. This matters enormously. Rutte is not a Trump ally. He is not an American. He is the head of an institution that has been repeatedly criticized, pressured, and threatened by Trump over burden-sharing. He has every political incentive to hedge, equivocate, and issue carefully worded statements that satisfy nobody and offend nobody. Instead he praised the president's leadership on camera — directly, without qualification. The contrast with European heads of government is stark. Keir Starmer said it was "not a NATO mission." Germany said it was "not our war." France wouldn't send its aircraft carrier. They applaud the outcome while refusing to share the burden — and they won't even say publicly what their own alliance chief is saying privately and now publicly. Rutte knows the truth that Europe's elected leaders are too politically cautious to admit: the Iranian nuclear program was not a problem that was going to solve itself through diplomacy, sanctions, and strongly worded UN resolutions. Seven American presidents tried that approach. The centrifuges kept spinning. The missiles kept improving. The proxies kept k!lling. Trump did what needed to be done. The head of NATO just confirmed it. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗢 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 — 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.

Indeed. Whenever Jews are attacked (typically by Muslims), it is important to redouble our efforts to fight against Islamophobia.

UAE crushes 7 Iranian ballistic missiles + 16 drones in ONE day! Total since the start of the cowardly Iranian aggression: 352 ballistic + 1789 drones destroyed. The failed Iranian regime wastes its arsenal targeting a peace-promoting nation with a shining, successful development model in the region—instead of facing its own collapse and internal weakness. UAE defenses mercilessly smash every act of aggression. The Emirates stand unbreakable

Distinguished Columbia Univ. Prof. Jeff Sachs on current geopolitics: "In many ways, the US can not compete with China [in both manufacturing and diplomacy]... And I think we all feel it's not a temporary phenomenon but really the end of the US [and Western] led geopolitics."