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Oct 21 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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🧵 It's important for President Trump to restore the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine, which the neocons abandoned & the Left renounced.

He should update & adapt the Monroe Doctrine, modernizing it with a Trump Corollary to guide strategic thinking and action in our hemisphere. Image
In his first term, President Trump pledged to "reject the interference of foreign nations in this hemisphere and in our own affairs" - nations like Russia, Iran, and China - but the State Department didn't get far.

Things just got worse.
centerforsecuritypolicy.org/how-president-…
The Monroe Doctrine was not a blueprint for American military interventionism.

It was a defensive doctrine of the last of the presidential founding fathers. It avoided entangling alliances and exercised strategic restraint. Image
The Monroe Doctrine built in part on Washington's Farewell Address to avoid entangling alliances overseas.

It was designed to keep foreign empires from reasserting themselves in our hemisphere & to help new republics stay sovereign and free of external control. Image
The Monroe Doctrine rejected the imperial trading system of mercantilism. Back then, the great mercantilist empires were European, but it applies to Communist China today, with its Belt and Road Neo-mercantilist structures. Image
Revisionist histories confuse the Monroe Doctrine with American military intervention of the 20th century. Marxist "historians" warped it into American imperialism. @ClaremontInst Image
The Monroe Doctrine was (and is) to keep foreign empires out of the Americas, while letting those empires squabble among themselves on their own turf.

It was all about protecting the sovereignty of the American republics as a means of defending the United States. Not "defending democracy."Image
@ClaremontInst The year the Obama administration declared that "the era of the Monroe Doctrine is over," the Chinese Communist Party invaded the hemisphere with its own mercantilist system.

America needs a Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine to address this. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/trump-corollar…Image

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Oct 10
🧵 It can be a joy to read J. Edgar Hoover's speeches, articles, and books.

Here's a selection from "The Twin Enemies of Freedom," a 1956 speech the FBI Director made about Crime and Communism.

Excerpts below. Image
J. Edgar Hoover:

"Communism, like crime, advances and takes hold because men ignore God."

"The real danger in Communism lies in the fact that it is atheistic and seeks to replace the Supreme Being."

"Either the Faith of our fathers will triumph or communism will engulf us."
leb.fbi.gov/file-repositor…Image
Fighting crime and defending against Communism start at home, with both parents, Hoover said.

"A child above all needs the firm moral backing of a conscientious mother and father and the love, understanding, and security that a good Christian home affords." Image
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Oct 9
🧵 "Angelo Codevilla was one of the finest strategic minds America has ever produced, and his lessons are more urgent than ever," writes @ToryAnarchist in the @nypost.

A new @ClaremontInst book recalls his "scrappy rise from penniless immigrant to MAGA guru." Image
@ToryAnarchist @nypost @ClaremontInst Character matters.

Angelo Codevilla was forged in a smithy for a purpose.

We can spend the rest of our lives learning from him and emulating him to get our country back. amazon.com/Fighting-Enemi…Image
Thomas Codevilla recounts how his dad grew up ready to fight the destroyers:

"You learn English from John Wayne movies and perfect your accent by repeating Winston cigarette ads. You deliver newspapers to mobsters; you learn to knife fight to protect yourself in school ..."
nypost.com/2025/10/06/opi…Image
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Oct 9
Terrorist groups and movements have their own family trees.

It isn't hard to track them.

Private experts are usually far ahead of national intelligence services.

To tear out these networks by the roots, follow the Red Thread.

h/t @realDianaWest. See comment below. Image
@realDianaWest We've dusted off an unpublished paper I wrote in 2002, marking the first anniversary of 9/11. The paper was a 25-year retrospective on Stefan Possony's "International Terrorism - The Communist Connection," published in 1977.
centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/upl…Image
@realDianaWest The point of publishing it now is to show, historically, that private analysts can be years ahead of the intelligence community in documenting the linkage of terrorist networks and movements.

It's going to take a lot of private expertise to face the terror threats of today.
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Oct 5
🧵 Core principles of Marxism include what Marx called imposition of "terror" and "dictatorship."

Anybody who even flirts with Marxist ideology implicitly accepts these notions, or will accept them as the price of staying in office. Image
Marx: "When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror."

(Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 19, 1849)

marxists.org/archive/marx/w…Image
For decades, Marx wrote about imposing a "dictatorship" to achieve his goals. He called it a "dictatorship of the proletariat."

For Marxists to achieve this in the US, it would require the violent overthrow of the Constitution.
marxists.org/archive/marx/w…
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Oct 2
🧵 The Trump administration really knows what it's doing to smash violent anarchist and Marxist radicals and to go after their intellectual and financial sponsors.

National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 shows a comprehensive, legally based vision and action plan. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…Image
"This political violence is not a series of isolated incidents and does not emerge organically. Instead, it is a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, and prevent the functioning of a democratic society."
"A new law enforcement strategy that investigates all participants in these criminal and terroristic conspiracies — including the organized structures, networks, entities, organizations, funding sources, and predicate actions behind them — is required."
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Sep 29
🧵 The most solid brief yet on the extremist networks in Utah. Law enforcement in other states can learn from this report. So can federal authorities. By my colleague @morganwirthlin at @securefreedom.

Armed Queers of Salt Lake City is a focal point. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/upl…Image
Direct action: "In accordance with the concept of “diversity of tactics,” individuals are expected to participate in activities that they are comfortable with and align with their values and priorities, while at the same time refusing to judge, criticize, or even notify authorities about the criminal or violent activities of others."
In horizontal networks, "All participants can act and react instantly without waiting for orders – yet with a clear idea of what to expect from one another,” according to CrimethInc, an anarchist and antifascist site."

The "antifascists" view everything they don't like as fascist.
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