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Trump looked at the post-World War II arrangement, decided America had been played for a sucker for eighty years, and set out to burn the whole thing down and build something different in its place. But instead of engaging in endless wars, he’s employing strategies so interconnected that you can't see the shape of it unless you step back far enough.
Start with energy. Trump made the U.S. a net exporter in his first term. In the second, he went further with record production and deregulation. When Iran's exports got crippled and Venezuela's reserves came under American control after Operation Absolute Resolve removed Maduro, the world didn't scramble toward the Middle East. It came to Washington. Europe is now signing hundreds of billions in deals for American oil and gas. Argentina's fields sit under the American umbrella.
Energy is leverage. Russia and China are losing pricing power as America becomes the dominant supplier of the century without getting dragged into another desert war.
Finally, the U.S. can stop playing global babysitter.
For eighty years, America carried NATO and the Middle East on its back. Trump demanded allies pay up. They did. NATO members pushed toward five percent of GDP in defense spending. Trump sent the message: “We defend our hemisphere; you defend yours.” In the Middle East, the Abraham Accords were just the opening move. What followed was the Council of Peace, a body Trump leads that turned former adversaries into partners. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE are now more aligned with Israel than Britain has ever been. When the U.S. and Israel struck Iran's nuclear program, it was Bahrain that went to the UN Security Council to request authorization of force. Not America or Israel.
The hemisphere moves may have looked random, but they weren't.
In Greenland, the U.S. secured rare earth minerals and locked in Arctic trade routes, breaking China's grip on the critical minerals that the next century's technology runs on. The Panama Canal got cleaned up, with Chinese influence pushed out. Cuba got squeezed after Venezuela fell, severing Russian and Chinese supply lines that had run ninety miles from the American coast for decades.
Venezuela is the most dramatic piece. Maduro is gone, terror networks are dismantled, and oil now flows under the American umbrella — a serious blow to the BRICS petrodollar project, which had counted on Venezuelan supply to give the scheme any credibility.
Now there are no rival powers building bases in the Western Hemisphere. The backyard is cleaner than it's been in a generation.
Now look at the military.
The Afghanistan withdrawal was a humiliation. Trump rebuilt from that and our adversaries fear us again. And higher up: Kennedy Space Center is now the world's premier spaceport, with record launches and serious plans for lunar presence. The space economy is coming whether anyone is ready or not, and America is moving to be first.
Read more of my thoughts here:
https://glennbeck.com/.../is-trump-playing-the-long-game