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“You Need a Dictator”: Pentagon Told to Drop China Focus, Threaten Canada

Trump appears identical to Panamanian authoritarian Manuel Noriega in many ways, including physical appearance.

Trump lashed out at Canada, sounding like a syphilitic lunatic, ranting about healthy trade deals with China.

…China, who will “eat them up” within the first year!

Two days earlier at Davos, Trump explained: “Sometimes you need a dictator!”

His warning about China is especially notable, because Trump just ordered the Pentagon to lower preparedness for China.

The Defense Department said in an influential strategy document published Friday that the U.S. military’s top focus is no longer on China but instead the homeland and Western Hemisphere. […] “…concrete interests first. Previous administrations squandered our military advantages and the lives, goodwill, and resources of our people in grandiose nation-building projects and self-congratulatory pledges to uphold cloud-castle abstractions like the rules-based international order,” the report says.

Trump warning Canada that China will “eat them up”, while simultaneously downgrading China as a military priority, creates an incoherent threat narrative unless the actual target is invasion of Canada itself.

It’s explicitly a rejection of rules and order, replacing it with permanent improvisation.

The German dictatorship did not mean ‘law and order.’ The Third Reich lived in a state of permanent improvisation: the ‘movement’ once in power was robbed of its targets and instead extended its dynamic into the chaos of rival governmental authorities.

Note that it’s not America First, because it’s “concrete interests first”, which is another layer of disinformation. This elevates racism, greed, corruption, and graft as “concrete” for coin-operated use of Trump’s military force against rivals regardless of any laws. The Pentagon is being told to prepare to go to war with America… first.

All the breathless Monroe Doctrine references also fit into the disinformation. The Doctrine is a “cloud-castle” abstraction, a discredited imperial sphere-of-influence theory from 1823, and therefore can’t be used as his precedent.

Canada’s UN Ambassador Bob Rae called Trump policy what it really is, a “protection racket.”

In other words, Trump is threatened not by China, but by Canada escaping his protection racket through China. He’s angry at Canada because China proves he is weak, while telling everyone China doesn’t matter. It’s a “grab’em by the pussy” doctrine of punching down to feel tall, where might makes wrong and tries to get away with it.

Monroe wouldn’t allow it.

Trump fraudulently appropriates Monroe language to justify invasion of neighbors while explicitly doing the opposite of Monroe, by avoiding confrontation with the outside power. He’s laying the groundwork for invasion of Canada on the pretense of avoiding war with China, while claiming China is the reason for invading Canada.

That’s not Monroe, because that’s… Hitler’s method of disinformation and improvisation.

Canada now logically calls China “more predictable” than the US, a better leader and partner. That is because Trump’s anti-Monroe “concrete interests” formulation is a doctrine of no doctrines. It means decisions are case-by-case based on dictator whimsy, with no predictable rules, by Trump design. Everything is always defined only by one man, who takes everything only for himself and his closest sycophants.

Carl Schmitt’s “decisionism” (being promoted now by Peter Thiel) provides the Nazi theoretical framework that Trump is actually using: the sovereign is whoever decides the exception, and all law flows from that decision rather than constraining it. The basis of Nazism was racial ideology, like Trump’s MAGA as described by Fuentes, and Thiel’s decisionism is the operational method.

Trump’s territorial expansion therefore predictably follows Hitler, exactly: manufacture threat narratives about one actor (Bolshevism, encirclement) while the actual targets were neighbors (Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland). The threat is faked to prevent the target from defending itself. “Protecting ethnic Germans” became the universal pretext for invasion and resource extraction that could be applied anywhere regardless of facts.

Rapid deflation of American power is as obvious as the fall of Nazism, since nobody likes Hitler doctrine but Nazis. Trump obsesses about invading countries to corrupt and pillage them, such as Canada along with Greenland, Panama and Venezuela, and offers absolutely nothing in return if you disagree. His new Pentagon document will soon classify those who disobey him as his primary threat.

The Pentagon is already operationalizing the improvisation. The Joint Chiefs just convened an unprecedented meeting of all 34 Western Hemisphere military leaders for February 11. Meanwhile, U.S. forces continue war crimes, murdering more than 120 civilians in 35 attacks since September, framed as a “drug war”. The false pretense is just for expansion of a military dictatorship over the entire hemisphere.

This “technocracy technate” map from the 1930s illustrates the organizational ambition behind the Pentagon meeting—hemispheric consolidation under authoritarian control. Elon Musk’s Canadian grandfather promoted this vision until he was arrested as an enemy of the state for basically being a Nazi.

Elon Musk’s antisemitic “Technocrat” politician grandfather was arrested in Canada. He fled after WWII to help create Apartheid South Africa, where Elon’s father called them Nazis.

This inevitably will bring global alignment with the EU and China for protection from the lunatic dictator Trump. Already, people around the world describe America as operating on the level of Iran or North Korea. Reporters Without Borders just released a report warning Trump’s “increasingly authoritarian tactics could eventually descend to” the levels of “ruthless dictators” like Daniel Ortega and Vladimir Putin.

Eventually?

As I wrote two weeks ago in “Trump is America’s Pineapple Face“, he’s already there—and RSF is catching up.

Noriega was recruited by the CIA in the 1950s, killed American political opponents 1970-1980s and became de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. Then the former head of the CIA ordered him assassinated. After Delta Force failed over a dozen times to kill him, he was convinced to surrender for a show trial, and died in jail.

Trump literally said at Davos on January 21:

Usually they say, ‘He’s a horrible dictator-type person,’ I’m a dictator. But sometimes you need a dictator!

This came two days before his rant against Canada and the Pentagon priority shifting to focus on Canada. He’s not being accused of something, he has announced it.

Historian protip: late-stage syphilis is associated with erratic behavior of dictators like Hitler, Mussolini and Latin American “strongmen”.

Trump’s “Low IQ” Racist Rant: the Somalia His Advisors Destroyed

Trump has been on a racist lunatic rant at Davos calling Africans “low-IQ” and mocking Somalia as a “failed state” while his own key advisor’s firm actively supported the dictator who destroyed it.

The people who took money to whitewash Somalia’s destruction now blame Somalis for their “failed culture.” Trump’s inner circle profited from enabling Somalia’s destruction, hid the evidence, and now mocks Somalis for the wreckage.

Some of us remember.

Barre was overthrown in 1991. His regime violently imploded. The obvious dictator pattern can be seen, destruction followed by collapse. The question today, just like 1989, isn’t whether authoritarian consolidation by Team Trump fails—it’s how much damage it inflicts before it does.

Flashback to a Trump advisor’s own words, when he was expressing the rules don’t apply to them:

We all know [the dictator of Somalia] Barre is a bad guy, Riva. We just have to make sure he is our bad guy.

This was from Paul Manafort, on assignment in 1989:

…to clean up Siad Barre’s international reputation, which needed plenty of soap.

Manafort was referring to Somalia’s dictator killing an estimated 200,000 Isaaq tribe members. The destruction of Hargeisa was so total that it earned the nickname “the Dresden of Africa.” The UN concluded it was genocide. The future Trump team advisor concluded he could make it disappear in a PR campaign.

Some of us remember.

Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly were known as the “torturers’ lobby” for representing so many corrupt dictators involved in human rights abuses. Trump is merely the latest addition to their list. Stone, who continues to orbit Trump, was a founding partner. Even if you didn’t know about the Barre connections, surely you knew that Manafort also worked on the Suharto genocide in Indonesia?

The mainstream coverage of Trump at Davos completely misses how damning the historical record is for him. He wasn’t just calling Africans dumb, he mocked those who pay his team to help them.

Meanwhile, Israel just landed the first diplomatic recognition of Somaliland. The region Trump dismisses as worthless has become strategically essential to replace American military presence after Hegseth’s humiliating failures in the Red Sea.

Trump’s team broke Somalia, buried the evidence, mocks the victims, and now depends on the region they destroyed to compensate for their own military incompetence.

Somalia’s dictator paid Manafort a million dollars to bury genocide. Decades later, Trump invokes that as proof Somalis are the ones with “low IQ.”

Siad Barre, the Trump of Somalia, who literally hired Team Trump for his dictator image management

Trump Worries ICE Execution of Renee Good Could Prevent Her Father From Loving Him

Remember when Trump said this?

I have the most loyal people — did you ever see that? I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?

The news is getting truly bizarre.

“…I learned that her parents, and her father in particular… I hope he still is, but I don’t know, [he] was a tremendous Trump fan,” he said. “He was all for Trump. Loved Trump, and it’s terrible.”

[…]

“I was told that by a lot of people,” said Trump, referring to his comments about Good’s father. “They said, ‘Oh, he loves you’ … I hope he still feels that way.”

The grieving and heartbroken father is being pressured, implicitly and publicly, to affirm his loyalty to the administration whose agents killed his daughter. False claims by the White House about a “domestic terrorist” suddenly evaporated and become a “tragedy” the moment the victim’s family turned out to be politically aligned.

The Romans called it hostis versus civis – the enemy who exists outside law’s protection versus people within. Trump is overtly calling for a split within American families based on political loyalty, making citizenship rights revocable based on response to state violence against their own.

In Stalinist show trials, families were required to publicly denounce executed relatives to avoid classification as enemies. The Chinese Cultural Revolution demanded similar performances. The mechanism is the same: force the family to choose between mourning their dead and maintaining their own protected status. The public nature isn’t incidental – it’s the point. Other families are meant to see the choice being imposed.

One infamous American example, as dramatized in “to strike at a king” and “Good Night, and Good Luck“, was Milo Radulovich. The Air Force Reserve lieutenant was dismissed, not for anything he did, but because his father subscribed to a foreign-language newspaper and his sister allegedly went to political meetings. The military demanded he denounce his family to keep his commission. He refused. Public exposure in 1953 of the loyalty-test mechanism generated enough pressure to reverse it.

Trump’s claim he “was told that by a lot of people” about political affiliations reveals they are reported as operationally relevant information to him. That’s further evidence of how the system splits the country now, intentionally aiming for separate and unequal treatment of Americans.

The loyalty test of the family members establishes that compliance is rewarded. And then normalization of the state violence establishes that any resistance carries risk.

The current “it just happens” framing of Trump converts an act of deadly force by a federal agent into something akin to lightning – unfortunate, unavoidable, without accountability. Combined with the DOJ shutting down the civil rights investigation while simultaneously subpoenaing Governor Walz, the political storm is clear: Trump will investigate those who document or resist an execution, but not the executioner.

Six federal prosecutors resigned over that decision. That’s something important to families under pressure to prove loyalty while their children are executed by the state.

DOJ Announces Registry to Take Guns Away from Liberals

The gun rights movement’s foundational argument for forty years: registration leads to confiscation. The NRA has fought every attempt at a federal gun registry on exactly this basis. Know who has guns, and you can take them.

The DOJ just mandated registration in the loudest way possible. Americans are specifically forced to register guns based on birth sex, on federal purchase forms, under penalty of felony charges.

The Trump propagandists know how to twist the knife of oppression.

Whenever law-abiding gun owners’ constitutional rights are violated, the Trump Administration will fight back in defense of freedom and the Constitution.

Same announcement, same document.

Lose rights by claiming them.

The right formally exists. Exercising it is suicide, and therefore not a shared right; rather a self-incrimination test for a targeted population.

The twist is that actual threats to society were being pushed as grounds for disclosure or denial. Domestic violence, for example. Trump uses this logic to make gender a class of threat, only a short hop away from registering political view.

This principle has a history. The history is one of selective application for purposes of oppression.

In 1967, Black Panther Party members carried firearms to the California State Capitol—a straightforward exercise of Second Amendment rights identical to what white gun owners did routinely. The response was immediate: Governor Reagan signed the Mulford Act restricting open carry, with bipartisan legislative support and NRA endorsement. The constitutional principle didn’t change. Who counted as a rights-bearing citizen did.

Ronald Reagan lied in order to inflame tension that would remove gun rights for Blacks. Source: Sacramento Bee

Prohibition operated through the same logic. The Eighteenth Amendment nominally banned alcohol production for everyone. Enforcement told a different story. Black distillers were primary targets—the same people forced to learn the craft under slavery who might now build prosperity from that coerced expertise. German brewers, Italian winemakers, Irish and Mexican producers faced similar targeting. Connected saloons continued operating for the right clientele. The law existed not to eliminate alcohol but to determine who could legally build wealth from it.

Japanese internment followed the same pattern. California interned its Japanese-American population; Hawaii, actually attacked and with a far larger Japanese population, did not. The difference: California’s Japanese-American farmers had built successful agricultural operations. They returned from the camps to find their land seized, their businesses transferred to local white competitors who had called for their registration and incarceration. National security was an obviously bogus rationale, as white businessman knew they could smash and grab and blame the federal government for it. Economic elimination was the function.

Black distillers were criminalized to prevent post-slavery prosperity. Japanese farmers were interned to transfer their land. Black gun owners were legislated into felony, by the NRA politicians, the moment they carried openly. Now Americans are being forced to choose between disarmament and federal registration intended to disarm them.

The constitutional language never changes. Who counts as a rights-bearing citizen does.

Take the DOJ’s stated principle seriously: constitutional violations justify armed defense. Apply it universally—to First Amendment violations, Fourth Amendment violations, due process violations currently occurring through federal enforcement actions. The principle cannot survive that application, which reveals its actual function: not legal doctrine but white nationalist signaling.

The quiet divisive hate of a 1910s Wilson or a 1980s Reagan is far more loud and proud under Trump. The DOJ has put in a public press release the unjust and unequal effects that always operated in practice. It’s the “again” part of MAGA, without the sheets.

The Economist/The New Yorker weren’t wrong

The question is what happens when people marked for exclusion take the stated principle at face value.