Oh no, gas is a little more expensive per gallon, and a bunch of Democrats haven’t been thrown into jail yet. I guess the only thing to do is vote for a bunch of communists.

There are many great things that Donald Trump has done, from closing the border to squelching DEI, to turning the Civil Rights Division at DOJ from a race-obsessed jihad against straight penis-people of power into something that protects liberty instead of taking it. There’s a whole litany of wins, wins no one thought possible, wins no one even imagined 10 years ago, and yet some people are dooming. There are people mad at Trump because he hasn’t done enough, yet I haven’t even mentioned what may be his most important achievement.

He’s reset the entire international chessboard. OK, if you don’t like chess, remember Risk? Think of the world as a giant Risk board. He has reset that. And some people overlook this achievement, accomplished in under two years through savvy strategy and the uncompromising use of American power, because it prevented a disaster instead of cleaning up one already unfolding.

Look at the world today. The National Defense Strategy refocused America’s posture from the old postwar paradigm of Europe and the Middle East to something relevant to 2026 instead of 1986. It did several things. First, it put America’s effort back on our own hemisphere. Call it the Donroe Doctrine. We’re protecting the homeland, and it’s about time. The world has gotten a lot smaller in the last few decades. Those oceans aren’t the barrier they once were, not with hypersonics, cyber, and asymmetrical warfare. The Chinese were all over Central and South America, grabbing power and digging themselves in all around us. Oh, and there’s Canada, too. The leftists up there were eager to cavort with the CCP. They’re a lot less eager now that Donald Trump showed in Venezuela what happens to America’s enemies. Carney is fantasizing about America invading, but if he let Beijing get boots on the ground up there, his fears would be realized. And he knows it.

The Chinese were going to take over the Panama Canal. That’s not happening. Remember Venezuela and all the trouble it was causing? Maduro is gone. The interim authorities cut a deal, and we’ve got governance rights, a stake, and guaranteed offtake on fields holding about 65 billion barrels, on top of our own roughly 46 billion. That is a huge chunk of the world’s known supply. It is preferential access to a huge heavy-crude reserve China wanted, in our hemisphere, at production cost. And look at the rest of Central and South........

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