Susan reads Canada's rap sheet — transshipment smuggling, forced-labor failures, snow-washing — and contrasts Chris Wright's civilizational case for energy with Joly's "geo-industrialization," as a Green Party petition targets Ambassador Hoekstra.
Hillary Clinton backs Trump’s Gaza peace plan as Democrats fracture. Can Republicans turn Trump’s working-class agenda into a winning coalition before the midterms?
Broken sailors on the USS Lincoln is textbook cognitive warfare — and Barbara Boyd shows why attacking American troops' resilience is the psywar mistake that will haunt London and the Democrats through the midterms.
Strategic Overview - FROM CONGRESS TO IRAN: The Enemy You Can't See - May 4, 2026
Mike reports from a Washington, DC deployment as Iran escalation in the Strait of Hormuz collides with high-level U.S.-Russia-China diplomacy, Europe's growing isolation, and Trump's sovereignty-driven economic revival heading into the midterms.
Host Mike Steger recaps Promethean Action's May 4 strategic discussion after a Washington, DC deployment to engage Capitol Hill offices on economic questions and President Trump's revival of the “American system,” promoted in the new pamphlet “Bye-bye globalism. The American system is back.” He reports intensifying developments involving Iran, including U.S. naval passage through the Strait of Hormuz under “Project Freedom,” limited Iranian strikes on the UAE and Oman, claims and denials of attacks on U.S. vessels, and U.S. retaliation destroying six IRGC fast boats, alongside a 30-day war-ending proposal under review. Steger highlights ongoing high-level U.S.-Russia-China diplomacy, a planned Trump visit to Beijing, a May 9 ceasefire and Putin speech, and Europe's growing isolation. He argues globalists seek to bog the U.S. down, while Trump's sovereignty-driven, non-zero-sum approach and industrial revival are boosting wages and reshaping geopolitics ahead of the midterms.
00:00 Welcome and Week Recap 00:38 New Pamphlet on Economy 01:36 Iran Strait Escalation 03:17 Great Power Diplomacy 04:25 Europe on the Back Foot 06:39 Midterms and Economic Gains 08:21 Defining the Globalists 11:04 Empire Control Methods 13:14 Trump Sovereignty Strategy 18:09 Propaganda and National Identity 19:43 Summits and Movement Resolve 21:28 Closing Thoughts
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Susan reads Canada's rap sheet — transshipment smuggling, forced-labor failures, snow-washing — and contrasts Chris Wright's civilizational case for energy with Joly's "geo-industrialization," as a Green Party petition targets Ambassador Hoekstra.
Hillary Clinton backs Trump’s Gaza peace plan as Democrats fracture. Can Republicans turn Trump’s working-class agenda into a winning coalition before the midterms?
Broken sailors on the USS Lincoln is textbook cognitive warfare — and Barbara Boyd shows why attacking American troops' resilience is the psywar mistake that will haunt London and the Democrats through the midterms.
Bessent forecasts the Strait of Hormuz will be “irrelevant” within two years — and at Chatham House, Lebanon’s adviser named Kissinger as the author of 50 years of war. Susan connects the sanctions, the pipelines, and the Board of Peace replacing the old imperial game.