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.
Mike Steger maps Iran tensions, Trump's Beijing trip and a "Core Five" sovereign-nation model against UK turmoil and California chaos — then turns to the philosophical foundations of the American system as the key to winning the midterms.
On Monday, May 11, host Mike Steger discusses rising tension with Iran, noting Trump's comments that Iran signaled deal-readiness but insisted the U.S. or China remove highly processed uranium, and that Trump won't be rushed while leveraging a blockade and possible coordination with Gulf states. Steger frames Trump's upcoming three-day Beijing trip—bringing executives like Tim Cook and Elon Musk—as central to reorganizing Middle East security and global trade, arguing for a “Core Five” concept (U.S., Russia, China, India, Japan) and a sovereign-nation economic model over globalization. He also describes political turmoil in the UK and Democratic panic over redistricting, California's budget troubles, and the governor's race. He then shifts to the philosophical foundations of the “American system,” emphasizing the soul, Christianity's influence, and rebuilding civilization as key to sustaining the MAGA movement and winning midterms, and announces a midterm bootcamp this Friday with plans to move bootcamps to Mondays.
00:00 Welcome and Setup
00:06 Iran Tensions and Blockade
01:23 China Trip and Core Five
04:32 Decoupling and Fair Trade
06:48 China History and American System
08:06 UK Political Collapse
10:02 Globalism Ending Worldwide
11:23 Democrats Panic and Redistricting
12:20 California Chaos and Viral Campaigns
15:20 American System Origins
19:53 Soul and Human Equality
24:30 Plato to Christianity
27:03 Soul as Political Foundation
32:24 Reviving Civilization and Midterms
34:01 Bootcamps and Closing
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.
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