Brandon Weichert: ‘The US🇺🇸 should rely on its economic attractiveness and STOP relying on military force first and covert operations.’ ‘In the book I talk about a continental system based on trade, identifying where Canada, the United States, even Mexico can cooperate on things like rare earth minerals, critical minerals, oil, where we can cooperate and come together in a continental system. It doesn’t mean that we have to invade Canada or kill Mexican leaders, I was not saying that. What it means is though, there’s so much abundance and wealth in the Americas. Every country in this hemisphere has the ability to cooperate together and to exploit and trade those resources together with each other first before seeking to sell them to China or Russia, we have the ability here to attract. America still has a powerful attractiveness to it economically. We have to be able to rest on that and stop using military first and covert means.’ —@WeTheBrandon, Author of ‘Fortress Americas: A New Monroe Doctrine’ Watch the full interview 👇

Brandon Weichert: ‘The US🇺🇸 was NOT supposed to be an adventurous IMPERIAL POWER going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.’ ‘The reason I wrote the book is because last year, the Trump administration announced in their National Security Strategy memo and then again in their National Defense Strategy memo: judge us by the wars we don’t fight, not the wars we do fight. That’s what they said. And we were going to be focusing, they said, on the Western Hemisphere. Now, obviously, the Donroe Doctrine is not what I had in mind, but the idea that we were going to be doing Western Hemispheric defence on top of focusing on domestic issues here in the United States, that was what I thought was the Trump agenda, the Trump doctrine, if you will. But then by February 28th, as you know, the whole thing changed. It’s as if the President didn’t even read his National Security Strategy memo. So I felt compelled to write a book that reminded readers why we are not supposed to be this expeditionary, adventurous imperial power, going abroad in search of monsters to destroy, as John Quincy Adams once famously said, and we are supposed to be focused much closer to home. And now it’s a tripolar system internationally, trending multipolar. You could already say it is multipolar, but really there’s three main powers right now that are military and economic, and that’s the United States, China, and Russia. We need to have a better strategy than the one we’ve been using since 1991, because that one was predicated on hegemony. Well, we can’t be a hegemon anymore. We have spheres of influence, and we’re going to need to enforce the spheres of influence. China’s doing that in their part of the world. Russia’s doing that in their part of the world. We haven’t been doing it in our part of the world. And the key thing here is when I say enforce the sphere of influence, it’s not military first. It’s not send CIA paramilitaries to a country we don’t like in Latin America and knock off the country. The whole currency of the realm in 21st century international affairs is geoeconomics. It’s trade. First and foremost, it’s the economy, and so you have to be able to make your first point of contact in terms of foreign policy the economic front. The United States used to be good at this. This was what the founders wanted us to do. I quote George Washington effusively in the book. This goes back to the founding, a commercial republic, and that’s what we need to go back to. And unfortunately, under this President, we’ve lost sight of that completely.’ —@WeTheBrandon, Author of ‘Fortress Americas: A New Monroe Doctrine’ Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇

Brandon Weichert: ‘Trump-Putin-Xi Summit will be a MEANINGLESS PHOTO-OP. The Ukraine proxy war will continue because the CIA is ROGUE.’ ‘If this trilateral summit happens at all it’ll be nothing. It’ll be meaningless because Trump’s a lame duck. Anything he said, and by the way, he’s agreement incapable as Lavrov said. This is true. Even without losing the majorities in Congress, he was always agreement incapable because he’s surrounded by pro-Ukraine neocons. So the idea that the trilat will be anything other than a photo-op. But Ukraine in particular is not the President’s war. He clearly has given orders to de-escalate, and CIA is doing whatever they want because CIA is rogue under this President. No one has the ability to rein CIA in. And having Ratcliffe, who’s deeply compromised and weak, and in agreement with the war, having Ratcliffe as the top of the agency allows the CIA bureaucracy to run wild while Ratcliffe runs interference. So the Ukraine war will continue. As for the Democrats, this is where in terms of foreign policy, they’re right on the Middle East. They’re way off on Ukraine… So you have a lot of problems in terms of getting the Democrats to be reasonable on the Ukraine war. So in that way, yes it’s more worrying. However, I do not believe the Russians will use nuclear weapons, even if the war continues. I think that Putin has been much more even-handed in this than the Americans have been.’ Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇 @WeTheBrandon

Brandon Weichert: ‘The US🇺🇸 should WALK AWAY from any Taiwan conflict with China🇨🇳. It may NOT even be winnable militarily.’ ‘I don’t want to attack China…I have always talked about a defensive measure in our part of the world and then cooperation where we can with China. I’ve written at the National Interest years ago that the first island chain we should walk away from, because it’s not winnable militarily. I don’t even know if all the Taiwanese people really are as anti-China as we’re led to believe. On the midterm election results, I got a message from some one of one of our regulars in China who’s a big investor in Shanghai and he sent me an email saying the Chinese have a two-year window to further insulate themselves from any potential tariffs that the next American President might want to subject them to… And I think that the way the Chinese are viewing this is smart they’re viewing this as the American system’s going to be at the very least gridlocked for the next two years. Nothing’s going to get done. Anything in terms of foreign policy happens is all going to be directed at the Middle East and Europe. This is another window of opportunity for the Chinese to shore up their further defences and trade, and then to come, you know, to the new two years from now, come at it from a position of even greater strength.’ Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇 @WeTheBrandon

Brandon Weichert: ‘Donald Trump has brought up using NUCLEAR WEAPONS against Iran A LOT, the generals are constantly having to distract him.’ ‘I have been very worried. The N-word, nuclear war, has been a real nightmare of mine since about July… And the reason I was saying this back then is because people I still talk to in government were saying the President is bringing it up a lot with the joint chiefs, with the generals, and the generals are constantly having to change the subject like you would with a toddler. Like, “Oh, look at that, oh, look at that, we’ll use the MOAB instead.” That’s scary, and it means it’s on his mind, and we don’t want to have a President where that’s top of mind, particularly in an offensive capacity. But I watched the midterm results and they’re so decisive, there’s such a rebuke of this thing, whatever you want to call MAGA now, “Make Israel Great Again,” I think is what we should call it. You can’t help but say the President is done for. If he continues on as President for two years, which I don’t know if he will, if he continues on for the next two years, he’s basically a hostage of the Democrats in a gilded cage called the White House. He’s going to watch as the Democrats hollow out his administration. Bye-bye, Pete Hegseth. And he’s also worried about his future in terms of legal ramifications.’ Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇 @WeTheBrandon

Brandon Weichert: ‘CENTCOM Chief Brad Cooper is basically an IDF OFFICER in an American uniform. He may REPLACE Pete Hegseth.’ ‘I have talked to people who knew him…I’ve been told that he wanted to be the guy that the war happened under with Iran, the great Iranian threat, according to him, has to be dealt with. So he was the guy that was chosen because he’s so, just such a hard charger about the war with Iran. He’s such a supporter of it, but he’s also very political. He’s extremely political, and he has ambitions beyond being CENTCOM commander. So I could foresee, given his very good relationship with the President and some of the top people in the administration. If Hegseth goes, he will be replaced, I think, either by Brad Cooper or General Caine, the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is very much not in favour of the war. Although, like J.D., you wouldn’t know it. General Caine might be on his way out, and they might promote Cooper to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But I think that Cooper, especially in the next two years, I think Cooper will probably receive an elevation either to War Secretary or to the JCS.’​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇 @WeTheBrandon

Brandon Weichart: ‘China is decisively WINNING the silent race against US🇺🇸. The Iran War has SUPERCHARGED China🇨🇳.’ ‘The Iran war did not hurt China the way that Mar-a-Lago thought it would. The Iran war has supercharged China, and they now have the ability to be self-sufficient in key areas. They now appear to be more attractive, which as trade partners, which is one of the reasons why Latin America has been pivoting for years to China. That’s now, even though there’s this right-wing push in Latin America, you have people like Milei in Argentina, they’re still doing gobs of business with China and they’re not going to stop anytime soon. So China appears as the more stable, rational actor which makes them more appealing for trade. So all of this works in their favour in terms of the sort of the silent race between China and the United States. China is decisively winning.’ Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇 @WeTheBrandon

Brandon Weichert: ‘Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was CO-PRESIDENT of the US for much of the last 25 YEARS.’ ‘If you met Netanyahu, you would think he was a guy from New York, and he talks the way Trump does in a way. They understand each other. They do business with each other, really. Eisenkot sounds foreign. He comes from the military. He’s very stiff. He doesn’t have that same personality, that same verve, that Netanyahu does. He doesn’t have the understanding of the American political system. Netanyahu was basically co-President for the last 25 years, on and off, here in the United States. Eisenkot doesn’t have any of that experience. Could you imagine Eisenkot going before Congress to give a state of the union for the US-Israeli relationship? I’m happy to see Netanyahu go, but we have to also remember Eisenkot created the Dahiya doctrine. So it’s not like this guy is going to be some wallflower when it comes to the Palestinian Arabs. He might not be pro-Iran war because he thinks the Israelis don’t have the military capacity to do the things they want to do against Iran. However, he’s not going to treat the Palestinian Arabs any better than Netanyahu did.’ Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇 @WeTheBrandon