Big Marco’s evolution. I think he became a National Conservative seeing the domestic implosion of America on multiple fronts.
So much of his hawkish instincts is now directed inwards against the threats from within, direct forces that harm America’s national security and safety.

https://twitter.com/secrubio/status/1958644528253948015

As we went venturing across the world, America’s abandoned their own nation and people. It’s become porous infiltrated everywhere on all fronts. We wasted trillions on the world stage only for our actual source of power to become fragile. We need nation building here at home

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1958559217389842803

Upon high demand, here is President Yoon’s letter released prior to his arrest translated. I love Grok. Great job X! I only had to edit like 10% of this.
Note: I don’t agree with everything on this letter. Translating solely for informative purposes.

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Letter to the People

Dear citizens, have you had many good dreams in the new year?

I sincerely hope that the Year of the Snake brings you much joy. Since my impeachment on December 14 last year, I have had a lot of time to reflect alone. Ironically, it was only after the impeachment that I truly realized I am the President.

During my 26 years of public service, the 8 months of the presidential campaign, being elected President, and the transition of power, I worked tirelessly from dawn till late at night after taking office. I didn't even realize I was the President as I was so busy with public appointments, fulfilling campaign promises, national agenda, crisis management, diplomacy, security, economics, and social issues.

I have always believed that skill comes from effort since my school days; hence, I worked hard and relentlessly. Many advised me to maintain the authority of a President, to take breaks, but the domestic and international situations were dire after my inauguration.

Global security and supply chain crises, high inflation, high interest rates, and high exchange rates brought external economic crises. The previous government's populist policies led to an explosive increase in national debt, the failure of housing policies caused excessive household loans, and the increase of the minimum wage due to the income-led growth policy exacerbated the collapse of self-employed individuals, small businesses, and SMEs, making economic recovery even more challenging.

However, thanks to the citizens' trust and support despite these difficult circumstances, we managed to tackle the issues and crises step by step. By abolishing punitive taxation policies and sticking to market principles in housing policies, we stabilized housing prices. By linking diplomacy and the economy of a global pivotal state [GPS], we expanded overseas markets and worked on exports, achieving the highest export performance last year and nearly catching up with Japan, which has 2.5 times our population. Last year, we surpassed Japan in GDP per capita.

Upgrading the nuclear basis of the US-South Korea alliance, strengthening comprehensive strategic alliances, and normalizing Korea-Japan relations have firmly supported our economic credibility. Looking back at the past two and a half years, where I've been running around for security, economy, and social reform, I often regret not being wiser and more attentive.

During the presidential election and the two and a half years after taking office, the faces of each citizen who believed in and supported me come to mind, along with those who start their day early despite exhaustion, students preparing for the future in the cold mornings, and those suffering in difficult conditions. I deeply regret not being able to visit and help them.

It's somewhat because of this regret that, now in a state of suspension from my duties, I finally think, "I am the President."

This is my fourth suspension from duty in my public career. Once as a prosecutor, twice as Attorney General, making it three times before this.

People around me say I'm foolish for not compromising and seeking an easier path. Even when I've been unfairly suspended, and when close ones turned away, the misunderstanding eventually cleared, and the support from many gave me strength.

My foolish decisions have always stemmed from my unwavering belief in liberal democracy and the rule of law. Democracy without liberal democracy is fake, a dictatorship, and totalitarianism under the guise of democracy. Democracy is meant to protect individual freedom through institutions, and liberal democracy is realized through the rule of law.

Moreover, the rule of law is how the freedom of all our…. community can coexist. The rule of law is realized through rational laws that respect freedom and a fair judiciary process. The rule of law is a core element of liberal democracy. Liberal democracy, combined with free market economic principles, brings prosperity through autonomy and creativity, providing resources for welfare and solidarity, creating a virtuous cycle of prosperity.

Our nation, lacking natural resources, has thrived thanks to its excellent human resources and open, active international trade. Today's world, with its complex interrelations in security, economy, and resource supply chains, requires alliances with countries sharing the values of freedom and the rule of law to sustain and pass on our prosperity to future generations. Of course, we must cooperate with non-hostile nations, regardless of their systems or values, based on mutual respect and pursuit of common interests.

However, if a nation has different systems and values and engages in hostile influence operations against us, we must always be on guard to protect our sovereignty. We must block such influences by being vigilant against external forces undermining our sovereignty. Only through such vigilance can we secure mutual respect and common benefits.

After World War II, the UN was established, prohibiting the resolution of disputes through military aggression or war for any reason; war is only allowed for defense. Therefore, even for great powers, military aggression and war initiation, banned under international law, have turned into a significant diplomatic burden, leading to the widespread use of grey-zone tactics without direct force.

Psychological warfare through misinformation, political interference like buying politicians or meddling in elections, cyber attacks on digital systems, and military shows of force have become common hybrid tactics. These include information warfare like stealing state secrets or industrial tech.

Thus, modern national security extends beyond military-political security to encompass economic security, health and environmental security, energy and food security, advanced tech security, cyber security, and disaster security.

Military-political security includes protecting information, maintaining security, and blocking various influence operations. Military provocations and wars are political acts infringing upon another nation's sovereignty, but since international law prohibits them, various grey-zone hybrid operations are used as means of sovereignty infringement without clear attackers or responsibility.

Totalitarian states especially aim to keep neighboring countries and others under their influence or as vassals for regime maintenance. Domestic political forces that collaborate with external sovereignty-violating forces can gain political power with their help.

However, nothing comes for free. We must surrender our core national interests, including state secrets, industrial tech, even energy security like nuclear power, and industrial competitiveness. This leads to the collapse of alliances with nations sharing values of freedom and self-isolation in diplomacy, clearly acting against national interest.

Even when such forces are not in power but hold a large number of parliamentary seats, they continue anti-Korean acts against national interests. They use their strong parliamentary power to a dictatorial degree to block legislation and budgets, paralyzing governance.

This goes beyond political differences and checks and balances, leading to demands for national interest abandonment, governance paralysis, and constitutional order collapse. This is not just about another country; this is the reality of South Korea.

No political force can continuously act recklessly if they fear voter backlash, but if they believe they can manipulate elections to control parliament or seize executive power, what wouldn't they do?

There's ample evidence of electoral fraud in our country. The flawed system of the…