I don’t support a U.S. member of the military committing war crimes, and if there needs to be an investigation, so be it. But I support the United States defending itself vigorously.
Nicole Russell (USA Today)
Democrats should watch Russell Crowe’s Nuremberg en masse (in DC theaters now) before criminating make-believe “Nazis” and “war criminals” again. Because ICE rounding up illegal aliens for deportation is not a crime against humanity (that would be exterminating 6 million Jews and 300,000 mentally disabled people), and the U.S. Navy blowing up narco-terrorists in international waters is not a war crime (that would be the German Wehrmacht deliberately starving and mass-murdering over 3.3 million Soviet POWs).
What Democrats actually oppose is simply a new iteration of The Monroe Doctrine, one that has three tenets: (1) there are grave threats to we the people in our own hemisphere, (2) our European allies are able to fund and fight for their own defense, and (3) world peace can be secured by making business deals. In just ten months, all the Trump administration’s done is:
- Broker nine peace deals and an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire, expand the Abraham Accords, and neuter Iran’s nuclear weapons’ program (source: BBC).
- Persuade NATO members to spend 5% of their GDP on defense, and negotiate $7 trillion in Foreign Direct Investment in the US (source: Bloomberg).
- Seize 583,000 pounds of illegal drugs, find 70,000 missing migrant children, and create jobs for 2.7 million native-born Americans (source: Fox News).
If Democrats think deportations are crimes against humanity, J.D. Vance suggests they take it up with the U.S. electorate: “You cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement — and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for” (source: New York Times podcast).
As for the “war crimes” the Washington Post accused Pete Hegseth of committing, Admiral Frank Bradley, who leads the Joint Special Operations Command, refuted (under oath) that the Secretary of War had given an order to “kill everybody” aboard a drug-smuggling vessel. This satisfied the BBC (“none of the congressional lawmakers heard evidence that Hegseth did, in fact, issue a ‘kill everybody’ order”) and the Senate Intelligence Committee chair (“Adm. Bradley was given no order to kill them all”).
Sadly, sworn testimony won’t satisfy the mad-liberals at The Guardian: “The entire US ‘drug boat’ war is legally shaky.” What a bunch of malarkey, especially in light of the national-security decisions of the last five Democrat Presidents, starting with Biden’s legally shaky regime that allowed 320,000 migrant children to go missing and 70,000 unvetted Afghans into the US.
Actually, the Democrat catastrophes began with Johnson, whose execution of the Vietnam War left 52,800 US military dead, 300,000 wounded, and 766 imprisoned. This was followed by Carter’s rescue mission in Iran that left 8 servicemen dead and 52 American hostages un-rescued, Clinton’s regime-change mission in Mogadishu that left 18 US military dead and 73 wounded, and Obama’s action that ruined Libya (and his inaction that ruined Crimea and Syria).
The point here is obvious: what Democrats have done leaves them in no position to second-guess a Republican president for arresting 139,368 criminal illegal aliens and destroying 24 “suspected” narco-terrorist boats. Because it’s increasingly evident that Democrats are criticizing what they don’t understand.
Trump’s “Gulf of America” seemed an absurdity last winter. Now I realize it was realpolitik; re-branding the Americas to send a message to despotic Latin American leaders, and every drug-smuggler and human trafficker, that the Western Hemisphere is going to dance to Uncle Sam’s tune. Which spells trouble for the real “fascists” in Cuba and Venezuela, and the criminal cartels prospering from real “crimes against humanity.”
Real question: why didn’t President Biden deliver an ultimatum to Venezuelan president Maduro when he had the chance? It might have prevented 486,000 Venezuelans from fleeing their country and entering the US illegally. Instead, Biden gave 607,000 Venezuelans temporary protected status, and another 117,000 humanitarian parole. Now, Trump is trying to clean up the “sh*thole country” so that 9 million, who fled Maduro (and the Cartel de los Soles), can return to their homeland.
That’s the view expressed in a New York Post guest editorial by Venezuelan Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who’s trying to restore democracy in her country. She believes Nicolás Maduro does the bidding of a “criminal cartel that runs Venezuela” and is, thus, pleased that Trump called Madura to demand that he leave Venezuela in return for a U.S. guarantee of safe passage for the Maduro family to a place of exile. She is also, thus, not surprised that Maduro refused and made counter-demands. In a perfect world, Democrats would heed her words:
“A criminal cartel has taken over my country, armed and bankrolled by America’s enemies. Across the hemisphere, narco-terrorist groups weaken democracies, poison our societies and target the United States directly. They govern the way mobsters control territory: through fear, torture and the systematic destruction of the nation’s democratic pillars. They [sell out] to foreign partners: Castro’s Cuba, Colombian guerrillas, Iran, Russia — and [take] billions in financing from China.”
“From the beginning, they viewed the US as their primary target, attacking it asymmetrically because they cannot confront America militarily: smuggling narcotics, spreading disinformation, paying lobbyists, backing hostile regimes and unleashing criminal groups like Tren de Aragua. They have also ceded [sovereign] territory to terrorist organizations, giving US adversaries a safe haven just hours from American shores. President Donald Trump understands this threat for what it is.”
But this is an imperfect world, where a Venezuelan liberal can see what Trump’s doing, while American liberals can only see a way back into power. There are real threats to our national safety that require a sense of immediacy, and all Democrats have done is use district courts to thwart the mandate of over 77 million voters. Time and again, they have blocked or belittled realistic solutions. And that…
…is why today’s Democrats are very real threats to America’s domestic tranquility and national security.