Trump and Putin’s diesel deal and Sunday’s energy ceasefire exposed London’s game: Ukraine’s refinery strikes kept fuel prices high before the midterms. Barbara Boyd asks whether a new economic order, built outside London’s markets, is at hand.
Can France chart a new course? Mike Steger examines Le Pen’s economic plan, Macron’s political crisis, and how the spirit of the American Revolution could inspire Europe’s renewal.
America went from candles and the horse and buggy to telephones, cars and airplanes, in one lifetime. Bob Ingraham shows how tariffs and Hamiltonian credit did it, and why the same tools, back in play today, can do it again.
The Saturday Wrap-Up - đź”´ "UNDER DESTRUCTION": The Munich Conference Admits It's Over - February 14, 2026
While Democrats trash the President abroad, Rubio challenges Europe on sovereignty, industrialization, and Western civilization's future—offering partnership or separation.
In a live Saturday wrap-up, Barbara Boyd discuss the ongoing Munich Security Conference and argue it functions as a gathering for “deep state” and globalization-aligned figures. Barbara and Adam note the conference theme “Under Destruction” and highlight that multiple prominent Democrats attended and criticized President Trump while in Europe, citing remarks attributed to senators including Tom Tillis, Roger Wicker, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Blumenthal, and Chris Coons.
The episode plays clips of Gavin Newsom speaking about climate policy and AOC discussing working-class politics, which Boyd interprets as signaling a Democratic strategy to portray Trump as controlled by billionaires. The hosts then focus on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the conference, quoting extensive portions where he criticizes post–Cold War assumptions about a borderless, rules-based global order, deindustrialization, mass migration, and climate policies.
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Trump and Putin’s diesel deal and Sunday’s energy ceasefire exposed London’s game: Ukraine’s refinery strikes kept fuel prices high before the midterms. Barbara Boyd asks whether a new economic order, built outside London’s markets, is at hand.
Can France chart a new course? Mike Steger examines Le Pen’s economic plan, Macron’s political crisis, and how the spirit of the American Revolution could inspire Europe’s renewal.
Russia’s 300,000 tons of diesel and Rubio’s sanctions on the International Criminal Court hit the same target: the globalist apparatus George Soros built. Susan Kokinda follows the fight from Navi Pillay’s Nobel to Rubio in Athens and a Columbus Day proclamation quoting Pope Leo XIII.
From steel mills to shipyards to spaceports, Mike Steger explores Trump’s “Freedom’s Forge 2.0”—a vision to rebuild American industry, revive the West, and relight the torch of progress.