Hemispheric Defense Has Long Been Needed: Bring peace to the human race from Earth to Mars

The announcement by President Donald Trump in early March 2026 of a new hemispheric defense initiative marked a pivotal shift in U.S. foreign policy, emphasizing the protection of the Western Hemisphere from external threats and internal destabilization. This “Shield of the Americas” coalition, unveiled at a summit in Miami, Florida, on March 7, involved commitments from 17 nations to combat drug cartels and terrorist networks through coordinated military action. Trump described it as a necessary response to the “sinister cartels” poisoning America, invoking the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine to assert U.S. dominance in the region. The initiative was built on the 2026 National Defense Strategy, which prioritized securing U.S. borders, countering narco-terrorists, and ensuring access to key terrain like the Panama Canal and the Gulf of Mexico. This move came amid ongoing operations, such as strikes on Venezuelan vessels, which by March had resulted in the destruction of over 46 ships and the deaths of at least 157 individuals, framed by the administration as a war on narco-terrorism.

Trump’s 2024 reelection, following his claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election that saw Joe Biden declared the winner, underscored a resilient populist movement. Despite legal challenges and investigations finding no evidence of systemic fraud (because the bad guys didn’t want to look), Trump’s narrative of a “rigged” 2020 contest resonated with millions, leading to his overwhelming 2024 victory, which supporters hailed as “too big to rig.” Born in 1946 in Queens, New York, Trump rose from real estate magnate to reality TV star before entering politics in 2015. His first term (2017-2021) focused on economic nationalism, tax cuts, and border security, but ended amid controversy over the January 6 Capitol riot (caused by election fraud by the government itself trying to keep him from returning to the White House). His return to power in 2025 emphasized dismantling “globalist” influences, including reducing U.S. funding to international organizations perceived as burdensome.

Central to Trump’s hemispheric defense vision is a critique of the United Nations, seen as a flawed attempt at global governance funded disproportionately by American capitalism. Founded in 1945 after World War II to promote peace and cooperation, the UN has faced longstanding U.S. criticism for inefficiency, anti-American bias, and overreliance on American contributions—historically accounting for 22% of its regular budget. Figures like Senator Jesse Helms in the 1990s pushed for reforms by withholding funds, echoing broader conservative arguments that the UN undermines national sovereignty. Trump’s administration has continued this trend, withdrawing from bodies like UNESCO and the Human Rights Council, arguing they promote “woke” agendas and allow influence from adversaries like China and Russia. Conservative critics often view the UN as a vehicle for globalism that erodes U.S. sovereignty, promoting one-world government ideals and supporting policies like Agenda 21, which they see as threats to property rights and individual freedoms.

This skepticism reflects a deeper philosophical divide: American exceptionalism, rooted in capitalism, versus the global spread of socialism, Marxism, and communism. The U.S., as a “melting pot” attracting immigrants from diverse backgrounds, embodies values of individual liberty, upward mobility, and self-governance, as articulated by Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835 work Democracy in America. Capitalism here fosters innovation and prosperity, as evidenced by symbols like the suburban home with a white picket fence. In contrast, socialism—where the state controls production—has dominated regions such as Europe (with social-democratic welfare states in Sweden and Denmark), Canada (universal healthcare), Mexico (state-owned oil under PEMEX), and much of South and Central America. China remains a communist powerhouse under the Chinese Communist Party, North Korea an isolated dictatorship, and Russia grapples with its Soviet legacy while trying to open markets, ineffectively.

Latin America’s history illustrates this tension, deeply intertwined with U.S. interventions during the Cold War era. The Monroe Doctrine, articulated by President James Monroe in 1823, warned European powers against further colonization or intervention in the Western Hemisphere, establishing the U.S. as the region’s protector. Initially symbolic due to limited U.S. power, it evolved with President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1904 Corollary, which asserted U.S. rights to intervene in Latin American affairs to maintain stability, inverting the doctrine’s original anti-colonial intent. This paved the way for “Big Stick” diplomacy and numerous interventions, from the Banana Wars (1898-1934) to Cold War operations.

During the Cold War, U.S. policy focused on containing communism, leading to interventions like the 1954 CIA-backed coup in Guatemala against President Jacobo Árbenz, whose land reforms threatened U.S. interests like the United Fruit Company. In Cuba, Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution overthrew Fulgencio Batista, leading to a communist regime after the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion—a CIA-backed attempt by Cuban exiles to oust Castro, which solidified his alliance with the Soviet Union and prompted the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Castro, born in 1926 to a wealthy landowner, studied law and led guerrilla warfare from the Sierra Maestra mountains, nationalizing U.S. assets and imposing central planning. His rule suppressed dissent, but he became an icon for anti-imperialists. In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, elected in 1998 after a failed 1992 coup, implemented “21st-century socialism,” nationalizing industries like oil and launching social programs funded by petroleum revenues. Chávez, born in 1954 in a poor rural family, served in the military and drew inspiration from Simón Bolívar, but his policies led to economic collapse under successor Nicolás Maduro, fueling drug trafficking via the “Cartel of the Suns.” Mexican drug cartels, like Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation, exacerbate U.S. fentanyl crises, with over 72,000 fentanyl-related deaths in 2023 alone, though provisional data for 2025 show a 21% decline in overall overdose deaths amid enforcement efforts.

The War on Drugs, declared by President Richard Nixon in 1971 as “public enemy number one,” escalated U.S. involvement in Latin America, framing narcotics as a national security threat. Rooted in earlier prohibitions such as the 1914 Harrison Narcotics Act, it intensified under President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s through policies like mandatory minimum sentences and increased funding for interdiction. Operations targeted Latin American sources, including support for anti-communist forces like the Contras in Nicaragua, blending drug enforcement with Cold War geopolitics.

Marxism’s influence extends beyond Latin America. Karl Marx, born in 1818 in Trier, Germany, developed his theories amid the Industrial Revolution, collaborating with Friedrich Engels on the 1848 Communist Manifesto, which proclaimed class struggle as the engine of history. Marxism spread globally through revolutions: the 1917 Russian Revolution established the Soviet Union, inspiring communist parties worldwide; Mao Zedong’s 1949 victory in China adapted Marxism to agrarian societies; and anti-colonial movements in Africa and Asia drew on Marxist anti-imperialism. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela, born in 1918 and a leader in the anti-apartheid struggle, was affiliated with the South African Communist Party (SACP), serving on its Central Committee in the early 1960s despite later denials for political reasons. Mandela’s pragmatism aligned him with communists against apartheid, though he transitioned to democratic governance after his 1990 release from prison and 1994 presidency.

In the U.S., critics argue that Marxist strategies underpin urban entitlement programs, contributing to “blue zones” in cities where socialism obviously infiltrates capitalist systems. The hemispheric defense push addresses these threats by targeting regimes like Venezuela and Cuba, seen as conduits for drugs and instability. Open borders, critics claim, allow influxes from socialist nations, weakening U.S. society—a strategy linked to figures like George Soros and Hillary Clinton. The 1980 Mariel Boatlift exemplified this: Castro released over 125,000 Cubans, including prisoners and mental health patients, flooding Florida and straining resources, though many integrated successfully. Despite this, Florida has shifted to a solid Republican state.

Trump’s agenda includes merit-based reforms, like eliminating property taxes—a proposal echoed in states like Florida, North Dakota, and Georgia, where lawmakers aim to phase out or cut them using state funds or oil revenues. This aligns with reducing the burdens on centralized government, favoring capitalism over socialism. Other states, such as Texas, Indiana, Kansas, and Wyoming, are exploring similar measures, often replacing property taxes with sales taxes or state surpluses, though critics warn of potential impacts on local services like education.

Looking ahead, hemispheric stability could end communist influences from China, fostering capitalist societies in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Cuba’s potential fall would open markets and reveal archaeological treasures, like the underwater formations off its coast—sonar-detected structures resembling ancient pyramids, possibly 6,000 years old, hinting at lost civilizations. Discovered in 2001 at depths of 600-750 meters, these geometric formations off the Guanahacabibes Peninsula have sparked debates on whether they are natural or remnants of an advanced pre-Columbian society, potentially predating known Mesoamerican civilizations. Expanding U.S. principles, perhaps adding states like Cuba or Greenland under constitutional governance, could promote global peace through competition, benefiting humanity from Earth to Mars. And its about time.

[1] For further reading on Trump’s foreign policy: The Trump Doctrine and the Emerging International System by Stanley A. Renshon.

[2] On UN history: The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction by Jussi M. Hanhimäki.

[3] On Marxism: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

[4] Mandela biography: Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.

[5] Castro biography: Fidel Castro: My Life by Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet.

[6] Chávez and Venezuela: Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S. by Nikolas Kozloff.

[7] Mariel Boatlift: The Mariel Boatlift: A Cuban-American Journey by Victor Andres Triay.

[8] Underwater archaeology: Atlantis Beneath the Ice by Rand Flem-Ath and Rose Flem-Ath.

[9] Property tax reforms: Tax Revolt: The Rebellion Against an Overbearing, Arrogant, and Abusive Government by David O. Sears and Jack Citrin.

[10] Monroe Doctrine: The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America by Jay Sexton.

[11] Cold War Interventions: The Cold War in the Third World by Robert J. McMahon.

[12] War on Drugs: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.

[13] Socialism in Latin America: Latin American Revolutions: Old and New World Origins by Greg Grandin.

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Rich Hoffman is an independent writer, philosopher, political advisor, and strategist based in the Cincinnati/Middletown, Ohio area. Born in Hamilton, Ohio, he has worked professionally since age 12 in various roles, from manual labor to high-level executive positions in aerospace and related industries. Known as “The Tax-killer” for his activism against tax increases, Hoffman has authored books including The Symposium of Justice, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and Tail of the Dragon, often exploring themes of freedom, individual will, and societal structures through a lens influenced by philosophy (e.g., Nietzschean overman concepts) and current events.

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The Real America First Movement: Protecting investment around the world from the destruction of socialism and its tyrannical criminals

I’m very happy with the attack on Venezuela and the takeover of its industry by the United States. Rather than sit around waiting for everyone to come into our country to corrupt it, I would propose that we inspire in the world an America First agenda. That truly, America First isn’t about putting up walls and trying to keep everyone out, but to help make the rest of the world into what everyone wants in America, to free them from their oppressors. And this raid into Venezuela is a great “America First” means to help the world in very positive ways, the destruction of socialism as it has looted American investment in countries around the world. The United States’ strike-and-extraction operation in Venezuela is more than an arrest; it is strategic signaling in a world where cartels profit from governance vacuums and exploit international law to shield mass criminality. Robust action against drug networks—whether on the high seas or in hostile capitals—disrupts the illicit economies that otherwise corrode nations, capture bureaucracies, and fund terror. It synthesizes recent data from UNODC, CDC, DEA, Treasury/OFAC, and investigative reporting to show (1) the scale and dynamics of the modern drug trade (synthetics, cocaine, logistics), (2) how Mexico’s cartels embed inside state and local institutions, (3) Venezuela’s “Cartel de los Soles” and allied criminal architecture, and (4) how China, Russia, and Iran/Hezbollah link into the supply chain via precursors, routes, and laundering.

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I. The Moral and Strategic Case for Taking the Fight Forward

The global drug market has morphed into a polycentric criminal ecosystem—synthetic opioids (fentanyl, nitazenes), record-high cocaine production, and multi-vector logistics. UNODC’s World Drug Report 2024 estimates 292 million users worldwide in 2022 (up 20% in a decade), with 64 million suffering drug‑use disorders and only 1 in 11 receiving treatment; synthetics are rising, and cocaine supply/markets are expanding across three continents. 1 2 3 4

That scale translates directly into social devastation and leverage for violent groups. In North America, fentanyl and analogues became the deadliest driver of overdoses. The CDC’s provisional dashboard and 2025 statements show a ~27% decline in U.S. overdose deaths from 2023 to 2024—but still tens of thousands of deaths, with overdoses remaining the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18–44. This hard-won progress must not be surrendered to transnational supply chains. 5 6 7 8

Strategic necessity: Cartels and their state enablers exploit international law vacuums and UN bureaucracy to create zones of impunity. When the U.S. demonstrates capability—surgical strikes, maritime interdictions, special operations extractions—that is more than law enforcement; it rebalances deterrence across other negotiations (Ukraine/Russia, the Middle East, and Chinese hostilities toward Taiwan). The Venezuela operation (strikes followed by capture and transfer of Nicolás Maduro for narcoterrorism/cocaine importation conspiracy charges) exemplifies signalling power—warning states and non-state actors that use drug economies to fund aggression and terror. 9 10

Critics object on sovereignty grounds, yet Maduro and senior officials have faced U.S. indictments and sanctions for years (Cartel de los Soles allegations, coordination with FARC/ELN and major cartels, Treasury’s Kingpin actions against figures like Tareck El Aissami). The recent U.S. designation of Cartel de los Soles as an FTO unlocked authorities to crack down on illicit maritime flows before land operations. 11 12 13 14 15

Bottom line: Stopping mass poisoning is a moral obligation. Decisive action abroad reduces capacity, raises costs, and deters collusion—and it complements domestic overdose reductions already underway.

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II. What the Data Say: Scope, Trends, and the “Synthetics + Cocaine” Equation

Global scope. UNODC confirms record cocaine production and the spread of synthetic opioids (including nitazenes, even more potent than fentanyl). Drug production/trafficking now overlaps with wildlife crime, illegal mining, and fraud, reinforcing criminal governance. 2 1 3

U.S. public‑health trend. Provisional CDC data: ~80–87k overdose deaths in 2024, down from ~110k in 2023, with fentanyl deaths dropping from ~76k to ~48k. The decline correlates with naloxone scaling, medication-assisted treatment, and supply disruptions. 7 16

Supply chain pressure. DOJ/DEA reporting for 2024–25 lists millions of pills seized, ton‑scale fentanyl powder, dozens of cartel extraditions, and indictments of China-based precursor suppliers, reflecting link-by-link targeting (China → Mexico → U.S.). 17 18

Ports, not footpaths. Data analyses show most fentanyl seizures occur at ports of entry; the majority of smugglers in those cases are U.S. citizens or lawful entrants, underscoring that smarter port security—not conflation with irregular migration—is the key choke point. 19

Mexico’s violence footprint. Over 300,000 homicides in a decade, organized crime as the primary driver, with extortion and firearms crimes surging; public‑security spending is ~0.7% of GDP, far below regional peers—evidence of institutional strain and criminal entrenchment. 20 21

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III. How Cartels Hide Behind the State: Mexico’s Embedded Criminality

Mexico is the central case of cartels entwined with governance. Over the years, major organizations (Sinaloa, CJNG, Zetas successors) have fragmented, diversified (extortion, kidnapping, huachicol fuel theft, migrant smuggling), and embedded in local institutions. Interviews and analyses (FIU’s Evan Ellis; Atlantic Council charts) highlight pervasive extortion (millions of attempts; under-reporting ~97%), kidnapping/extortion spikes, and armed lethality amplified by smuggled weapons, drones, and tactical vehicles. 22 23

Human Rights Watch’s 2025 report flags high homicide rates, militarized policing, and judicial reforms that may weaken independence—conditions cartels exploit to preserve impunity. 24

Strategic reading: this is criminal state capture in slices—not monolithic control, but localized erosion of sovereignty. When the U.S. disrupts revenue streams (cocaine legs, precursor flows), cartels lose the cash that bankrolls political influence and violence.

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IV. Venezuela’s Criminal Architecture: The Cartel de los Soles and Allied Networks

For decades, Venezuela provided transit corridors and protection for multi-ton cocaine shipments—leveraging ports, air bases, and military/intelligence cover. U.S. indictments and sanctions detail state-linked facilitation, diplomatic documents for traffickers, and coordination with FARC/ELN, Sinaloa, Zetas, and Tren de Aragua, the latter now itself on U.S. terror lists alongside the Cartel de los Soles. 11 25 12

OFAC’s Kingpin action against Tareck El Aissami (2017) spelled out how airfields and ports were used to move shipments of>1,000 kg, part of a larger network of front companies and laundering. Subsequent State/Justice actions offered rewards, sanctions enforcement, and criminal charges for evasion—precisely the legal scaffolding needed to take down high-level facilitators. 13 14 26

The 2025–26 escalation—maritime strikes on drug boats, FTO designations, and ultimately land strikes/extraction—signals that the U.S. will deny sanctuary to regimes that operationalize narcotrafficking as state policy. 10

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V. The Iran/Hezbollah Axis in the Americas: Logistics, Laundering, and Venezuelan Haven

Analysts and U.S. testimony document Hezbollah’s Latin American footprint—not only ideological support, but practical money laundering and logistics, with nodes in free trade zones and networks focusing on cocaine proceeds. Venezuela has served as a hub, amplified by Iran–Venezuela ties (payback in gold/fuel tech, joint factories, propaganda). Budget shortfalls in Tehran push Hezbollah deeper into criminal finance. 27 28

Recent reporting and official statements suggest a heightened Hezbollah presence in Venezuela and policy intent to uproot it after Maduro’s capture—key for degrading hybrid narco‑terror finance in the hemisphere. 29 30

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VI. China’s Role: Precursors, Equipment, and the Post-2019 Shift

The fentanyl supply chain changed after China’s 2019 class-wide controls on fentanyl analogues; direct flows to the U.S. largely ceased, but precursor chemicals and pill‑press equipment continued to feed Mexican production. Congressional research notes dozens of analogues and ongoing international scheduling of key precursors (ANPP, NPP, 4‑AP, boc‑4‑AP, norfentanyl; later four‑piperidone). U.S. policy targets PRC-sourced precursors and financial flows. 31 32

Chinese white papers emphasize expanded domestic controls and multilateral cooperation—significant if rigorously enforced —but U.S. indictments in 2024 show China-based firms still advertising/shipping precursors to cartels. Bridging this gap—from paper to practice—is critical. 33 34 18

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VII. Russia’s New Cocaine Routes: The Banana Corridor and Post‑Odesa Diversions

With Odesa’s port constrained by war, traffickers re-routed Ecuadorian cocaine to Russia—where seizures jumped tenfold in 2023–24, often concealed in banana containers through St. Petersburg. Investigations by OCCRP, CBS/AFP, and others show multi-ton busts and Russia’s emergence as a transit hub for European markets. This matters because it reshapes cartel logistics, diversifies laundering, and complicates enforcement across Eurasia. 35 36 37 38

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VIII. The U.S. Play: Link‑by‑Link Pressure and Strategic Signaling

Law‑enforcement pressure: DOJ/DEA have extradited dozens of cartel figures, seized massive quantities of fentanyl, and indicted China-based precursor suppliers—evidence of an end-to-end strategy to break the chain. 17

Financial war: FinCEN’s June 2024 advisory tells banks how to spot precursor procurement (SAR key terms, pill presses), aligning finance surveillance with interdiction. Treasury/OFAC actions (Kingpin designations) freeze assets and deter facilitators. 39

Ports focus: Reorientation toward ports of entry (non-pedestrian smuggling modalities) is empirically justified and should continue with AI inspection, trusted shipper audits, and precursor controls. 19

Military signal: The Venezuela operation—and the prior maritime campaign against drug boats—alters risk calculus for regimes and gangs, conveying that sanctuary is not guaranteed when criminal economies intertwine with governance. 10 9

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IX. Statistics of importance (2024–2026 window)

• Global drug users: 292 million in 2022 (+20% over 10 years); 64 million with disorders; treatment gap 1 in 11 globally. 1 3

• Cocaine production & markets: Record highs; expansion to Europe/Africa/Asia. 2

• U.S. overdoses: Estimated ~80–87k (2024 provisional), down ~25–27% from 2023; synthetic opioid deaths ~48k (2024) vs ~76k (2023). 7 16

• DEA 2024 actions: 30M+ fentanyl pills and >4,100 lbs powder seized; 2,100 arrests; multiple Chinese company indictments (Oct. 2024). 17 18

• Ports of entry reality: Roughly 4 in 5 fentanyl smugglers at the southern border (2018–2024) were U.S. citizens or lawful entrants; focus should be on ports, not migrants on foot. 19

• Mexico violence: >300,000 homicides (2015–2024); organized crime remains primary driver; public security + justice spend ~0.7% GDP; extortion and firearm crimes rising. 20 21

• Russia route: 5.2 tons seized (2023–24), tenfold increase; repeated multi-ton seizures in banana cargo from Ecuador. 37 35 36

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X. Policy Framework: Deny, Smash, Seize, Deter

1. Deny Sanctuary

• Maintain maritime interdictions and special operations options against declared FTO networks and state facilitators. Use FTO designation to justify kinetic disruption when law enforcement alone cannot access targets. 10 12

2. Smash Logistics (Precursors & Ports)

• Push PRC enforcement from paper to practice: bilateral precursor scheduling completion (4‑piperidone set), export‑verification, and industry audits; follow with U.S. indictments when necessary. Pair with U.S. port tech (AI/analytics) to detect small‑volume, high‑potency flows. 33 31 18

3. Seize Money & Equipment

• Use FinCEN red‑flags (pill presses, die molds, unusual chemical purchases) and civil/criminal forfeiture; scale kingpin sanctions for Venezuelan facilitators and Hezbollah financiers (FTZ networks). 39

4. Deter State Collusion

• Maintain visible consequences for regimes weaponizing narcotics. The Maduro capture sets a precedent: narco‑terror as grounds for cross-border arrest and trial. Pair with diplomatic off‑ramps for post-regime transitions to restore lawful oil output and deny illicit funding to foreign adversaries. 9

5. Sustain Domestic Demand‑Side Gains

• Keep overdose momentum: naloxone saturation, medication-assisted treatment, Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) funding—because supply shocks work best when demand falls. 5 6

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XI. Answering Common Critiques

• “Isn’t this about oil?”

Oil matters—but the central predicate is narco‑terror, cocaine importation conspiracy, and state-backed criminality. Sanctioned regimes have used oil rents + criminal economies to entrench power; restoring lawful production under a non-criminal government reduces cartel financing, improves regional stability, and removes a strategic lever for Iran/Russia proxies. 11 30

• “International law says no.”

The counterargument is self-defense against non-state actors designated as foreign terrorists, aided and abetted by officials under prior indictments and sanctions; the U.S. campaign explicitly framed strikes as part of an armed conflict with cartels after FTO designation, then executed a law‑enforcement handoff in U.S. courts. 10

• “Focus at home first.”

We are—and we must do both. CDC data prove that domestic interventions are working, but global supply chains will re-route unless external pressure remains. This is two‑fronts: treatment/prevention at home, interdiction/pressure abroad. 5 6

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XII. Justice as Deterrence, Deterrence as Peace

When criminal economies become state practice, freedom erodes—first in the barrios and border towns, then in courts and media, and finally in the geopolitics that decide whether terror proxies project power in our hemisphere. The Venezuela operation—preceded by months of boat strikes and backed by years of indictments and sanctions—was smart policy because it reanchors deterrence: America can reach you; your sanctuary is temporary; your money will be seized; your routes will be broken.

In parallel, the U.S. must keep overdose deaths falling—the quiet revolution that saves lives every day—while systematically stripping cartels of their cross-border logistics, their state patrons, and their money men. That is how we protect culture, restore the rule of law, and signal to Russia, Iran, and China that the narco‑strategy is a dead strategy when the cost of doing business keeps rising. The best “America First” policy is to make American ideas the values of the world, and to stop messing around with all this global hand holding. If we are going to pay for everything, then lets insist that they do things our way. And where drug manufacture is most abundant, and supported by hostile countries who intend to see our people poisoned, and killed, we must take that fight to their doorstep. Which I more than fully support!

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Footnotes

1. UNODC, World Drug Report 2024—press and key findings: users (292M), treatment gap, synthetics & cocaine trends. 1 2 3 4

2. CDC, Provisional Drug Overdose Data (dashboard) and 2025 media statements on 2024 declines and OD2A. 5 6

3. U.S. DOJ/DEA, 2024–25 actions: seizures, arrests, extraditions; China-based precursor indictments (Oct. 24, 2024). 17 18

4. American Immigration Council, Fentanyl Smuggling at Ports—modalities and citizenship data (2018–2024). 19

5. Mexico violence + institutional capacity: IEP Mexico Peace Index (2025), Latin Times synthesis, HRW World Report 2025. 21 20 24

6. Venezuela narco‑architecture: DOJ indictments (2020, updated 2026) and U.S. FTO designation explainer (Al Jazeera); NDTV summary of newly unsealed charges; OFAC Kingpin actions vs. Tareck El Aissami. 11 12 25 13

7. U.S. escalation timeline and strike rationale: PBS/AP timeline; CBS coverage of capture & court proceedings. 10 9

8. Hezbollah/Iran in Venezuela: Washington Institute testimony, Senate drug caucus testimony, Fox/Jewish Insider coverage of policy intent post-Maduro. 27 28 29 30

9. China’s precursor role: CRS China Primer (2024), PRC white paper (2025) on domestic controls; U.S. indictments show residual illicit supply. 31 33 18

10. Russia’s cocaine corridor: OCCRP investigations; CBS/AFP report; Moscow Times/Newsweek coverage of seizure surges. 35 36 37 38

11. Financial system alerts: FinCEN Supplemental Advisory (June 20, 2024), focusing on precursors, equipment, and SAR flags. 39

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Annotated Bibliography (Selected)

• UNODC (2024): World Drug Report. Definitive global analysis of drug markets, users, and harms; details on synthetics and cocaine expansion. PDF press release, Key findings.

• CDC (2024–2025): Provisional Drug Overdose Data & Statements. Interactive counts by drug class and jurisdiction; context on overdose decline. Dashboard, Statement.

• DOJ/DEA (2024–25): Supply‑chain enforcement. Indictments of China-based chemical companies; cartel extraditions; seizure metrics. DEA press release, DOJ fact sheet.

• American Immigration Council (2025): Fentanyl Smuggling at Ports of Entry. Empirical breakdown correcting common misconceptions. Fact sheet.

• IEP / Mexico Peace Index (2025): Long-run violence metrics, institutional spending, and organized crime as the primary drivers. Press release; see Latin Times synthesis. Article.

• HRW World Report 2025—Mexico: Human rights context for security/militarization and justice reforms. Chapter.

• OFAC/Treasury (2017): Kingpin designation of Tareck El Aissami. Press release.

• DOJ/NPR/NDTV (2026): Updated indictments and unsealed charges against Maduro & associates; operational details. NPR, NDTV.

• PBS/AP Timeline (2026): Escalation sequence, FTO policy, maritime strikes before land operation. Timeline.

• Washington Institute / Senate CINC (2025): Hezbollah’s Latin American networks, laundering, and Venezuelan nodes. Policy analysis, Testimony.

• CRS China Primer (2024): Post-2019 shift from analogues to precursors and equipment; bilateral efforts. CRS.

• PRC White Paper (2025): Official depiction of China’s control regime for fentanyl precursors. White paper.

• OCCRP/CBS/Moscow Times/Newsweek (2025): Russia’s banana‑concealed cocaine corridor and seizure spikes. OCCRP, CBS, Moscow Times, Newsweek.

• FinCEN Advisory (2024): Financial‑system red flags for precursor procurement and equipment. Advisory.

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Carrying the Weight of the World: Trump’s UN Speech and earning the right to be blunt about escalators

Who wouldn’t love the UN speech of 2025 that President Trump gave, as the escalator broke as soon as he and Melania put their feet on it? That’s the world we are living in, and obviously, the escalator incident was no accident. Employees joked about the escalators’ malfunctioning leading up to that speech as a radical means of protest, hoping to garner more funding for the United Nations, as if additional resources would solve all the problems. Instead, Trump and his wife walked up the escalator without a whole lot of drama and gave a speech that essentially wiped the smile off the face of a very radical world that has failed dramatically since the creation of the UN after World War II. It wasn’t the usual speech of placation that often accompanies these kinds of things, with calls for unity, peace, and all that kind of rhetoric. No, Trump had earned the right to call out everyone, right in front of their faces, and tell them what a bunch of low-life characters they all were. And that is what earning the right by carrying the weight of the world earns you. And why Trump changing positions on Russia is so important, because only by earning that trust, by enduring the weight of the world, can a person like Trump say the things he does in public. The UN speech was a remarkable statement by a world that the United States was clearly leading. All nations were not there equally. Running the world by committee has turned out to be a disaster, and it took someone like Trump to point it out. Not through the media with some passive-aggressive protest, but live, to their faces. And while everyone was on their heels from what he was saying, they complained that the UN doesn’t work, and neither do its escalators or its teleprompters. Technical sabotage was meant to throw Trump off his game, but it ultimately played to his advantage.

But to earn that right to be as blunt as Trump has been, carrying the weight of the world comes first, and when people wonder why people like Melania Trump and her husband would want to trade in their life of the rich and famous for this demanding job of being President of the United States, the answer comes from speeches like the one Trump gave. Watching their faces on the 9/11 ceremony this year, the day after Charlie Kirk, a former friend of theirs, was assassinated in cold blood, was obviously hard for them. And on the day of the speech, the would-be progressive assassin Ryan Wesley Routh was convicted on all counts in trying to plot the murder of Trump at his golf course, just a few months after the attempted assassination of the President at Butler, Pennsylvania, that drew blood, but had only clipped his ear. Charlie Kirk wasn’t so lucky, and that was obviously weighing on Trump as he and his wife went through the rituals of 9/11 ceremonies to pay tribute to the most significant act of terrorism that ever occurred on American soil. More terrorism on a larger scale than the escalator sabotage at the UN, but the same in principle. And the knowledge that after someone of good character had just been killed on a college campus, many on the Democrat side of politics cheered about it, and to discover that so many of our public school teachers were happy that Kirk was dead, and were gloating about it. The weight of all that evil when you are in a job like the one in the White House can really make you not want to get up out of bed in the morning.

Then, to add to that, the deceit of Vladimir Putin of Russia, who has been saying one thing about peace all along, while turning around and killing many thousands of people on both sides, ruthlessly can really shake your faith in any kind of relationship. Even Benjamin Netanyahu has been deceitful in his platitudes of peace, while turning around and acting contrary, being very aggressive, knowing that the United States would always bail him out of any trouble he got into. So he was picking fights anyway, putting Trump in a terrible position. The evil that people showed, and being in a position to see it so bluntly, was really wearing on the President, as it does most people who find themselves in that perspective. Leadership is hard when you know so much truth that most people get to dance through without too much thought. And that leads to the question of why anyone would want to be a leader of anything, whether it’s the President of the United States or the CEO of a company. Why would anybody want to put themselves through the ordeal of all the trouble? Especially when they are wealthy and could choose otherwise? Knowing the worst in people, because your perspective reveals it to you, why would anybody want to do it? To know too much and to carry around so much weight, knowing the level of hatred in the world around you. Most people never encounter this kind of situation because their relationships maintain an illusion of civility. But Trump is seeing the raw evil that can come from people, and he never gets a break from it. It’s tough to use the Power of Positive Thinking to overcome such menacing negative thinking, and the Democrats are the party of negativity and below-the-line victimization.

Well, you do it so that you get a chance to go to the United Nations and tell them all what you think of them. You endure the pain of life so that you can throw it in their faces. And in doing so, you make the world a bit less crappy because of the people in it. The United Nations was a failure from the start, but it was able to hide its poor performance behind the evils of humanity. And as long as people kept the speeches nice, nobody talked about the tough stuff. And everyone could party on the town, buying prostitutes while away from home, and go to fancy restaurants without any real cares in the world. But to pull that off, everyone needs to be equally trashy and guilty of the crimes that the world enjoyed. But by carrying the weight of the world the way that Trump does, from a leadership perspective, he can break protocol and tell people what he thinks of them, because everyone he’s talking to knows they can’t do the same. Their guilt weighs heavily on their minds, burdening them with the truth of it all. And that is why it’s worth being in a leadership position. And without all the pain and the desire to carry it from the White House, nobody earns the right to talk about the real problems. And this United Nations meeting would be just one more eventless charade. But because Trump has suffered through some terrible weeks where the worst that people can do to each other was made evident, and he smiles his way through it like nothing in the world can bother him, he earns the right to be critical of escalators that don’t work, or global organizations that fail just as spectacularly. And that he can broker peace with the biggest nations of the world, who are up to no good, because he has been willing to carry the burdens of knowledge that comes from really knowing the deceit that people are capable of. And we are all better off for it.

Rich Hoffman

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The United Nations is Going Bankrupt: They never should have been created

I’m thrilled to hear it. I used to go to meetings with my congressional representative, John Boehner, where he would do meet-and-greets, before he was Speaker of the House in 2010, and ask him to get the United States out of the United Nations. Most of the time, he wasn’t there, but had assistants who would take notes for him, but they’d giggle about the crazy right-wing lunatic who they were embarrassed to have as a neighbor. But I was serious. I didn’t see anything good coming out of the United Nations. Americans never wanted to be in the United Nations, even though President Woodrow Wilson wanted America to lead the League of Nations. Americans finally caved after World War II because nobody wanted to see another Hitler in the world, so we ended up with the ridiculous United Nations, and things have gone downhill for America since then. Americans want to be left alone and free from world problems. But we have all these nosey politicians who like to drink tea with their pinky out, and sip wine of specific vintages, and they want to be respected by Europeans, so they have been trying to drag America into a marriage with the rest of the world for generations. I would even argue that if not for sinister forces working in the background, we would never have had any World Wars, so it can be argued that the wars themselves were constructs meant to create a global government. Not to prevent hostile characters that might plunge the world into war. Hitler was a creation of a lot of bad people. And the United Nations was never the solution. Instead, the solution to many of the world’s evils was more Bible reading and independence from the world’s villains.

But finally, we have a President who gets it, and a political class that can at least understand what that President is up to and why. People aren’t laughing when they say they want to be separated from the United Nations like it used to be. Living in Liberty Township, Ohio, specifically Butler County, I think about the United Nations whenever I see a roundabout. Most people don’t know it, but many of the sustainable living implements introduced socially have come from the United Nations Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 flowdown plans, and our colleges accepted these communist traps hook, line, and sinker for years. When our township politicians hired people out of these colleges as community developers they brought Agenda 21 sustainable living priorities with them and we ended up with a bunch of sidewalks and roundabouts to adopt more European ideas of community building and environmental impact with the ultimate goal of keeping people in their homes more and driving cars less. And the whole thing has made me sick every time I go through a roundabout, which are almost as common in Butler County, Ohio, these days as they are in socialist run Europe. People argue about their worth; they say they are better at keeping cars moving, and they prevent accidents, which make insurance companies happy, who lobby politicians for ways to make society safer so that people will buy insurance but not have accidents to force payouts. So for all the tyrannical micromanagers out there, Agenda 21 would make them a lot of money, but the goal was to limit freedoms so that stuffy bureaucrats could have an easy time at managing society with a growing centralized government and encourage through policy fewer people to leave their homes, but rather to take a sidewalk everywhere, and to ride bicycles instead of cars. The roundabouts keep you moving, but also slow you down to go around those stupid circles. I like long straightaways that we used to have in America, where you could go fast, and even quicker if you could beat the yellow light at an intersection. Sure, there were more accidents, but life in general was better.

And never forget that COVID was the ultimate creation of the United Nations to implement their Agenda 21 projects and to set the world on the same page with 2030 priorities. And yes, COVID was a created virus meant to kill people to force acceptance of these ridiculous stay-at-home policies and conformity to centralized government rules. If people didn’t die, nobody would listen to an overstuffed government, so through the World Health Organization, a division of the United Nations, a virus was created that would set the world on a Great Reset, much of which still hasn’t recovered. COVID was planned and implemented using the Chinese system. The virus was leaked out of a lab in China under very nefarious circumstances. And immediately, the United Nations had the world on lockdown, micromanaging the economy globally, including America, and they thought that people would fall in line better than they did. Instead, we had significant pushback and a world angry at the policies of the United Nations, and now we have a President willing to push back against them. And to cut the money confiscated from Americans and redistribute it to the United Nations, to work against the nature of Americans themselves. Finally, we have politicians willing to stand up to that global tyranny and not play the game, which is great.

What’s better is the recent report that the United Nations is running out of money because, without the United States, that motley band of socialists, communists, and Marxists has no money. They can only loot cash from the only capitalist country in the world, America, to sustain themselves. And now, because we elected Trump, they have essentially been cut off. And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of people. So I’m pretty happy about their trajectory toward financial ruin. I have never liked the United Nations. I have never liked politicians who support them and wanted to join them. And I would say that without their desire to be created in the first place, we never would have had a World War. Those wars were created as a reaction to the globalist push that followed the Jekyll Island meetings that started the Federal Reserve, and if you trace all the money and influence to their sources, you will find that it all goes to centralized monetary policy, especially the banks of Europe. So, there was never anything good about any of this, and what upset them the most was that even after all this time, they never found a way to get Americans to comply with the United Nations willingly. Sure, we built some roundabouts and sidewalks. However, people have never embraced the United Nations’ globalist priorities. Instead, we elected people like President Trump to say no to the United Nations. And now they struggle to survive because they have nothing without American money. Because they are rotten, stinking, Marxist countries with bad leadership and horrible economic policies. And micromanagers without a clue. But they can name a wine from France in a dinner conversation. And they will drink it with their pinky out. I would say that the United Nations types and their supporters are worthless people in life, and I am glad to see them finally rejected for the losers they have always been. And the more miserable they are, the happier I am.

Rich Hoffman

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The 400 Dumb Economists Against Trump: Destroying globalism and their wealth redistribution of looted American value is the top priority

I am happy to argue with any economist, especially the 400 or so who have come out against President Trump’s proposed tariffs on imported goods once he is in for another term of office, that they have no idea what they are discussing. Or that their hatred of Trump’s tariffs is purely because it goes against their strategy of globalism, where the United Nations would control our managed economy. Not the United States. Just because 400 people say something, or even a thousand, it doesn’t change what something is. And when they say that Trump’s tariff policy will destroy the American economy the first time around and in the future, some context is required to understand what they are saying. Economics was one of my majors in college. So was philosophy, and while in college, I thought both were disastrously stupid wastes of time. I went to college knowing way too much for my good. I had a very unconventional education up to that point, so it was easy to see what was happening. Mostly because different kinds of people study economics and philosophy, it was easy for this globalist ruse to be concealed because nobody knew one from the other in their social circles. But it was obvious to me that Marxism was written into the economic books even as far back as the late eighties when I was in college. And I knew that because that’s all they taught in philosophy class. For me, it started with a study of Eastern philosophy, which was meant to open the door to the Chinese way of thinking about the world, and of course, they were outright communists. So once everyone was taught in college how smart the Chinese were, then students who didn’t know any better would adopt communism as their mode of managing people and, of course, economic activity.

Western philosophy, starting with the Greeks, was rationalized into failure by discussing empire building, starting with Alexander the Great, and then studying the Decline of the West as Spengler proposed. So I frustrated the professors of these classes infinitely because I had already read all these books before I ever stepped into their classrooms and had figured out what was going on even then. And I recognized what was happening with the transition of the Reagan economy and the one George Bush was proposing when he talked about a “New World Order.” There was money to be made in globalism, and by essentially robbing the capitalist economy of America and redistributing that wealth to other countries that were choking on their following of Marxism, which was detrimental to their economies. Many people would make a lot of money off stealing American wealth and redistributing it to countries that didn’t have much of an economy, and that is how the communist government of China became such an economic powerhouse. But it’s also why a country with over a billion people still struggles economically with the United States, which has only a fraction of that number producing goods and services. The reason that America had so much money was capitalism. The political left then, as they are now, was very committed to destroying the concept of capitalism so that globalism could occur and wealth would then be managed by a Marxist-oriented government in the United Nations. Now, let’s fast forward to our present time and note that the head of the United Nations today is Antonio Guterres, who is an outright socialist. So, things have been moving in that trajectory of thought for many years. Rob the wealth of America and give it to the rest of the world through wealth redistribution run by Marxist, socialist, and communist governments orchestrated by the United Nations, with the World Economic Forum setting policy in the background.

When Mitch McConnell says that he is critical of Trump’s tariffs and supports “free trade” policies, he is essentially saying that he defines free trade as the looting of American wealth without any defense. He’s speaking for his father-in-law’s shipping company, which is set up in China and is the source of much of his family’s wealth. When you have Republicans like him, who needs Democrats? But don’t forget, just because authorities don’t want to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 virus in Wuhan, China, doesn’t mean that they have a valid reason for it. Don’t ask the investigators to investigate themselves. They know as everyone does now, that Covid was a bioweapon constructed to destroy cultures with health regulations, and they were looking to bring down Western civilization with it. During an election year in the United States, right after Trump clamped down on the trade tariffs against China, COVID-19 was released from China and spread aggressively into the United States. China never locked down the way the rest of the world did, and they were pretty arrogant about it. They convinced us to shut down our entire economy while they did very little because they knew the nature of the virus and why it existed in the first place. And likely the most apparent straw that broke their back was Trump’s tariffs. They needed to get him out of office so the trade imbalance between China and America would stay in the favorable category toward them, the looting of American wealth and redistributing it into the communist country of China. It was Globalism 101, taught in the college classes I attended in the late 80s and early 90s. And it was always an overt attack against America for the ultimately planned destruction of capitalism in general.

So when Kamala Harris says that 400 economists are against Trump’s tariffs against other countries to set things right in the United States, I would happily argue with all of them about how wrong they are. Just because there are many of them doesn’t mean they are right. The most valuable thing I learned in college was that most people are wrong. Just because many people think something, it only means that they were taught all the wrong stuff. And it only takes one person to set things straight. But because of my background, there isn’t a single person in the world who can argue with me about the economy. And Trump gets it; his tariffs are meant to reverse the destructive effect of trade imbalances with America and will restore sovereign wealth to everyone within the borders of the United States of America. Globalism will fail dramatically because the Marxist minds running the idea must steal American wealth and destroy capitalism as a concept so they can rebuild America under the United Nations with a centralized digital currency they control from Davos or Geneva. So those against Trump’s tariffs are those working against capitalism, which is essentially free trade driven by market conditions, not centralized socialist governments. Those in America speaking out against Trump’s tariffs are looking to profit off the planned demise of America by skimming away wealth as a broker to redistribute it in the process. When pressed, most people will say that they read Spengler’s book and were planning accordingly. But Spengler’s Decline of the West was wishful thinking, not capitalist reality. And they now fear what Trump is saying, and they will cry and scream about the tariffs against other countries. However, it would be great for America if Trump put his tariffs in place quickly and aggressively; it’s not the American economy that would be destroyed. Trump’s tariffs will destroy globalism and Marxism and put the value of American capitalism on the world’s stage in ways they have always feared. And it will be great for the world.

Rich Hoffman

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The Establishment Failed: And they can only blame themselves for what happens next

Eventually, you become the establishment, so I wouldn’t say that what is happening in the world is an anti-establishment movement. I would say it’s a rejection of the current establishment. Beyond speculation, we see what globalism has presented to us, and that was the establishment offering for most of our lives. It has proved itself to be a massive failure, down to how we educate children, how we maintain border security, and how central banks manage money. People have watched what the establishment presented to them as an offering to manage life, and they don’t like it. That is essentially what is happening with even Democrats crossing over and supporting Trump. And you can bet beyond the polling that the media tells you about, which is not good for Kamala Harris, who hasn’t yet caught up to this new reality. Even the most dedicated Democrat political pundits admit that Harris is lucky to have one electoral path to victory at this stage, going into September of 2024, with the election only a few months out. With Democrats endorsing Trump, from RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and now significant celebrities who sat out in the last election, the trend toward an anti-establishment desire is clear. I would consider Elon Musk a Democrat, and if you haven’t been paying attention, he sounds like me lately, me over the years. He’s one of the wealthiest people in the world, running one of the most profitable car companies, and has been quoting the Second Amendment and The Constitution as if he were in the Tea Party from 2010. That’s the same guy who stood in line for many hours to meet Barack Obama. So, we are discussing a very different world going into the 2024 election. And the establishment’s panic is starting to show that they are being rejected everywhere. Not just in America.

Back to Elon Musk, you might have heard about the corrupt judge in Brazil, Alexandre de Moraes, who is behind the election fraud there putting jail inmate Lula as the China installed president over Bolsonaro; Moraes wants to jail Musk over the free speech platform “X,” just as they have been doing in France and wanting to do in England. The global tyrants are showing their cards because they have to, and it was too soon for their plans. The people of the world have now been stirred up, and the wheels are coming off all their establishment plans for global communism run by the World Economic Forum through the United Nations. And they thought that they could put an East Berlin style approach to the world, into submission. That was their entire plan. They have no plan B. People didn’t usually talk about these things; they wanted to think well of other political points of view. But the Establishment did it to themselves. They have nobody else to blame and shouldn’t be angry about it. They certainly shouldn’t feel like they have a right to be abusive and intimidating. We are not, and never were, going to be suckered into globalism and live under the thumb of the United Nations and their stupid laws. As we speak, there are massive hoards of motorcycle gangs headed to Aurora, Colorado, to deal with the thugs who are taking over apartment complexes by force and intimidating innocent people. If our Department of Justice isn’t going to do its job and want to be a part of this Establishment, then we’ll take matters into our own hands. The FBI, Homeland Security, the corrupt CIA, all of them, if they are going to let criminals molest our free society, then there will be punishment for the incursion. Don’t get mad; they all should have known better.

And ultimately, that’s what nobody took into account. Even though Brazil, the European Union, China, really most of the world have nothing in their culture like our Constitution, the plotters of this failed Establishment didn’t read it. That was clear during the created COVID crisis when even Bill Gates had not bothered to study the purpose of all American law articulated in the American Constitution. It puts limits on the powers of government. Not subservience to government. All the cases that went to court regarding the government versus the People of the United States fell in favor of the people. The Constitution limits the government from imposing itself on free people. And that is the end of the story. And if the government doesn’t do its job and protect people, then free people will do the job instead of them, which is why the Hell’s Angels are headed to Colorado. And I’m glad they are. The criminal thugs and scumbags of international border crossings intent to bring crime and injustice to our neighborhoods will not be permitted to impose on us unmolested. Even Elon Musk now sees things clearly, and more than anybody in the world, he has done more for free speech, which the world is responding to with this rejection of the Established order. Musk and his companies have brought open communication to every corner of the world with the Star Link internet network. “X” is Brazil’s number one news platform, which is why the establishment there is suddenly upset about Musk. Their imposed tyrannies are not working there, or anywhere for that matter.

I would suggest to the world, especially Americans, that nobody needs to panic. It’s all right there in the Constitution. The government has to prove to you that they have the authority to do anything, and most of the time, they don’t have it. You can challenge them, and they will lose. And that is, in America how the ball bounces. No World Courts or other countries can file a petition against America or its people. And if America wants to shut down their little armpit countries, it can be done in a fraction of a second, which is one of the policy positions of the incoming Trump White House. We are the only ones in the world with any real money and value. The central banks know it. The United Nations knows it. And the World Economic Forum needed a lot more suckers like Bill Gates to implement their plans, and not even Gates understood our own Constitution. Covid was a test, and the panic after that was that it failed to capture people’s minds toward the goals of the Establishment. Instead, it turned them against it and going into an election where the Establishment is counting on Kamala Harris to be inserted into the American presidency, just as Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was put into office in Brazil, Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, and Macron in France barely survived a challenge to his authority this year. Add that to the radical socialist in Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, who is now president, Justin Trudeau in Canada, and many other places, and the battleplan was obvious, but before they could pull it off in America, they forgot that we have a Constitution that protects people from its government and that we have all the real money in the world and can use it against these tyrannies much to their detriment. And don’t forget, Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, its leader, is a devout socialist. So these people are the Established order that has been pushing the world in the wrong direction for a long time, and finally, people are starting to see the picture, and just in time. It has all been exposed because of Trump running for president and all these characters trying to stop him; it has exposed their hiding places where ordinary people could see them. And now we are living in a completely different world. The establishment has given rise to an anti-establishment sentiment, and they can only blame themselves for what is coming their way.

Rich Hoffman

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Mental Health and Crime: Why what Jack Smith is doing is treason and sedition as viewed from Jolly’s Drive-In

I think the best thing that could have happened to me, given my unique role in life, is that I had an opportunity over the summer of 2024 to be the foreman for a grand jury in my community, and during that tenure of many weeks of service, I learned things from an essential perspective. Before that experience, I had a very high exposure rate to the legal profession, so the neutrality of a grand jury experience where you get to interview a lot of law enforcement and get to know them from a civilian oversight position and speak with prosecutors over many days and lots of hours every day, I feel I have an excellent grasp on several important issues regarding our law and order society. And I can speak on this federal case with Jack Smith and these new charges he has come up with from the perspective of a prosecutor for the United Nations, and now trying to impose some anti-free speech mess to President Trump with much more authority. Not that there was any doubt, but now I know for sure that what Smith is doing is treason and sedition, and openly using a grand jury in Washington D.C. to attempt case law from a legal perspective that is anti-Constitutional. That is why we have civilian oversight and grand juries: to keep people like Jack Smith from abusing the law the way he has been. But grand juries are made up of people who do not have much exposure to the law, and I’ve now seen firsthand how that process works very intimately; I can see how these prosecutors play the game, and that is undoubtedly what Jack Smith is doing, and the others who have attacked Trump through legal lawfare. What he has done, and what the general state of our legal society has experienced, is intolerable and worth the kind of civilian oversight that has been needed for far too long. No United Nations court will rule over an American court, which Jack Smith and other progressives assume will be the case. And I know how to fight this fight better than ever before, which, to say the least, what they have been doing will not be permitted.

In that experience, as a foreman on a grand jury, I referred to a clear pattern that has emerged in the background of the foundations of our entire society, indicating what we must do to conduct a proper civilization. Also, uniquely for a person like me, I travel a lot and speak to people from all over the world daily and weekly. As I said, some of my kids are returning from Europe, where they have been visiting and sending pictures daily; that is usual for my family. So, talking about cultures and how they do things in other places is not unusual. I do not live in some social bubble of Appalachia in Hamilton, Ohio, where I only understand regional concerns, such as how long in the year will Jolly’s Drive-In be open, the little root beer stand that sits at the entrance to the city of Hamilton on Rt. 4. Rather, I did go and get a footlong there the other day and had a friendly root beer while I listened to the news on the radio from around the world and let me tell you, that was sheer Heaven. I know Heaven exists because of experiences like that. But regarding perspective, I have plenty of it and can say with authority that the biggest problem in our criminal justice system is our level of sanity and how people from around the world are using social pressure to challenge people’s sanity into committing crimes that then benefit their social narrative with the specific strategy of toppling our nation from within.

As I was eating that Jolly’s footlong and thinking about all the cases from my personal grand jury experience just a mile or so down the road at the courthouse, where I have now become all too familiar, most of the cases I had for consideration involved some level of insanity that reminded me of the fantastic board game Arkham Horror that I have referred to in the past. Unlike a game like Monopoly or Life, Arkham Horror deals with sanity points. As you start the game, you are given five brain tokens representing your mental health. And as you experience tragedy throughout the game, you lose those brains. When you no longer have any brain tokens, you are then considered insane and have to be committed to a mental institution. I can say that this isn’t just a game in Arkham Horror; this is a deliberate strategy that the enemies of America have purposely imposed upon us as a country for the purposeful dismantling of it. And you can see it clearly, if you know what to look for, in the charges Jack Smith is attempting to hang on the neck of President Trump. Of course, it won’t work; there is nothing Constitutional about anything Jack Smith and the other prosecutors are doing to President Trump that is even remotely legal. But their strategy isn’t in case law but in pushing society toward a level of insanity that makes a United Nations overthrow of our entire American legal system a strategic enterprise rooted in blatant treason and sedition.

To fix many of the problems I heard from the perspective of a grand jury would be not just to commit ourselves to improved police coverage or jail space to put all the criminals but to deal with the social conditions that are causing so many people to lose their sanity. Not that any of that explains criminal conduct; everyone has an obligation to the maintenance of their own mental health. Most of the cases I heard on a grand jury trace back to sanity maintenance, and many people who find themselves in criminal conduct are dealing with sanity problems. Maybe they had lousy family experiences or are biologically disposed toward poor mental health. However, there are many ways that humans need conditions to maintain their sanity, ultimately creating a much better society with much less crime. But we have progressive social elements that are purposely trying to cause mental depletion to overload our criminal justice system and, in the end, topple the United States as a sovereign nation. Where before, I might have just speculated on such a thought. I am sure it is happening now, and I understand how it occurs. So, the solution to better mental health is what we need to think about as a society. The movies we watch, the food we eat, the way we raise our families, and what values we have. You can’t be a reckless person hell-bent on self-destruction and have many people who love you go through a busted-up life and expect everything to come out well. We must all maintain our sanity points with care and understand how we impact other people in that process if we want a good, legal society. But there are real bad guys, like Jack Smith, who are globalists and have embedded themselves in our highest levels of the legal profession, and they want to topple our legal system from a captured asset perspective. After weeks of serving on a grand jury, it’s pretty straightforward and made more apparent while eating a footlong at Jolly’s Drive-In in Hamilton, Ohio. Much of the social insanity we have been dealing with is a purposeful attack on our nation, and it is time we treat it that way and punish the real villains who think they have immunity as sovereigns of the United Nations and can’t be touched by domestic, American law. They have another thing coming.

Rich Hoffman

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Procedural Compliance is the Real Killer: How communists are trying to destroy America

There is something very sinister and purposeful about the attack on President Trump by communist infiltrators. Sure, without question, there is a level of actual malice at work with the assassination attempt itself by Thomas Matthew Crooks having over a half hour to perform the task, even taking out a range finder early in the process, which was seen by other snipers working the venue. Crooks was allowed to climb up on the roof and crawl along it to get set up for the shot while Trump supporters were trying to tell law enforcement. There were many bumblings that went on that were embarrassing, to say the least, for the Secret Service. But the disturbing attribute of the shooting is that this was a young kid, only 20 years old, with his whole life in front of him. Why would he want to even think of doing something like this? What could be that bad to a young person? The whole event has callbacks to the behavior patterns of the Las Vegas shooter and even Lee Harvey Oswald. What we find unbelievable, which is part of the camouflage, is that third parties can manipulate thoughts to perform tasks they want to see done. We don’t want to believe it because we want to think our thoughts are our own and that ideas of influence don’t jump into our minds and take over. But the evidence points to the fact that they do; our thoughts are not always our own, especially under the consumption of psychedelics. There are too many holes in the story of this shooter to believe that he acted alone. And given the behavior of our intelligence agencies toward Trump, if they had the means to kill him by setting up some kid to take the wrap, they certainly would. So, we have to consider that the story of this assassination attempt does not end with the shooter who was killed on the scene.

But there is a more profound assassination attempt that was exploited that day through the Secret Service itself, and it was one that came directly from the communists of the World Economic Forum, flowing down procedures into the United Nations that take away individual merit and taint everything with the collectivism of procedural compliance. The way that those who want to harm our country have been doing it is by implementing ways through collectivism that the ordinary people overtake the exceptional individuals through the equality of procedural fairness, and it is that which made the Trump assassination attempt so dangerous. Individual merit, Trump supporters, saw the killer crawling across a rooftop 130 yards or so away from where Trump was speaking. They saw something, said something, but nobody did anything. And even the snipers who were set up behind Trump on another rooftop saw the shooter but did not shoot. They say they asked to take the shot but were told no. There will be a lot of ambiguity about who said what to whom, but the real problem was in robbing the guarding snipers of choice in the matter and forcing them to rely on procedural approval before acting as the shooter was setting up his shot, for over a half an hour, and even minutes in the end with people trying to engage him, which he knew clearly that we was never coming down off that roof alive. So he calmly set up his shots and took them, almost hitting Trump in the head with only a fraction of an inch to spare. Many people who want to sound tough talk about a shot from that distance as being easy. Trump would have been a tiny target for a relatively untrained 20-year-old. That shot was remarkably close, and if Trump hadn’t moved his head, it would have been a headshot.

As malicious as all that sounds, it was time that was the natural killer. The shooter did not respect law enforcement enough to apprehend him, and he knew that because of procedural compliance, the authorities would not take him off the roof before he performed his task. The Secret Service was locked up with indecision, and that looks to be part of the overall strategy, which points to a much more sinister menace. Many of our procedures in every industry, including many of the woke policies we are currently dealing with in every sector, have come to us from people intent on destroying Western civilization. As Thomas Matthew Crooks planned and performed his horrendous act, understanding the procedural anomalies and the ability to exploit them was part of his plan. He knew that by the time everyone sorted out the unusual occurrence of him being on the roof with a gun shooting at the President, he would have done his deed. But did he act alone? Highly likely not. And indeed not when it comes to the procedures everyone was following that allowed the shooter to take his shots. The danger of this assassination attempt was baked into creating the venue by robbing the world of personal initiative and forcing people to behave with procedural compliance to rules and regulations that aren’t even set with domestic policy but United Nations assumptions. And was quickly exploited by those who functioned outside of those compliance parameters.

The best thing that could have happened was other Trump supporters carrying guns outside the security zone would have engaged the target and shot him dead before any shots were fired at Trump. Trump supporters were trying to get law enforcement to engage, but they were too restricted with compliance to step outside of normal behavior. After all, their procedures are primarily shaped by media stories like cop killings of dangerous people that have set off riots. Always working in the background of those criticisms from the Defund the Police Movement are the seeds for days like this assassination attempt of Trump in Pennsylvania. Nobody wants to make a mistake and kill the wrong person with overly aggressive police action, so when given a choice, their choice is to stand down. Not engage. When procedures take over initiative, you get the kind of mistakes in mass society that we see in these Secret Service failures. We see them in every industry, including how we get our French Fries at a local fast food restaurant. The personal initiative has been destroyed by procedural compliance. It was exploiting that which gave the killer the open window he was looking for as a young person acting very knowledgeable about such things for a person of his age. But because of procedural evidence, the real killers hide in the background. After all, we have a body; we have a gun, and we have perhaps some motive, although, for a young person, he had remarkably little social media. There are all kinds of things wrong with this person. But given the evidence, we are taught that we can’t look at anything but the evidence we have. So the killers made sure we had a shooter and a place of the attempt. And everything else falls under speculation and conspiracy. Which then lets the real menace reside hidden in the background. They are hiding behind procedural compliance and a public drowning in overstimulation to the point where they no longer know which way is up. This is part of the strategy of killing America through process flows intent to destroy the most excellent economy in the world and the people who make it that way. And it’s the real killer in this assassination attempt of President Trump.

Rich Hoffman

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The Illusion of Joe Biden: Who really runs the world

Sorry to break it to everyone. People continue to be surprised that Joe Biden is not in charge of our government, and he never was. I told you guys that he was a puppet president put in place. He was not elected. The Administrative State selected him to serve the Deep State of globalists hiding in the World Economic Forum in the mountains of Davos. And the Joe Biden presidency is them flexing the muscle of their power and control over the rest of us. Now that time has passed, and the election fraud of 2020 is so apparent, with objective evidence beyond a doubt, the realization is becoming more mainstream. People have assumed that when they elect a president, they bring in an executive to run the country. But that is not what the hostile agents of doom worldwide want. They want an idiot like Joe, who is so compromised as a person that he is easy to control. They are still so mad that we elected Trump back in 2016 that they no longer care if we see how they control our lives. The illusion of freedom has now been ripped away, and during that debate with Trump at the end of June 2024, people had that moment where they realized that all the comments about Biden were not some conspiracy theory created by some Alex Jones personality. This was real. To many people, that realization was terrifying and something that people were beginning to observe. If Joe Biden wasn’t running the country, then who was? The answer is the Administrative State. The Biden presidency is a creation of bureaucrats to preserve Washington D.C.’s culture of easy money and sinful mayhem. And they didn’t want a real executive like President Trump traditionally running things. Instead, they gave us President Biden to flex their muscle and preserve their globalist plans. And now they aren’t even trying to hide it with that mess of a debate they gave us with tongues deeply in their cheeks.

But how could they do such a thing? Well, it’s simple, and we see this audaciousness in almost every industry. Yes, it is raw communism, but it is disguised to us as procedural fulfillment. Those who write the rules and create the procedures are the absolute rulers of the world. And that is how they have been running Joe Biden. He is not concerned about deciding on the health of the nuclear football because these same administrator types control the whole world and know whether there will be a war or not between two parties. They have complete control over everything, including when wars happen and where, such as in the Russia/Ukraine war presently. Or the fight between the Palestinians and Israel. Or whether China will invade Taiwan. It’s all carefully scripted, with procedural mandates flowing down through the United Nations. How it works in this Biden White House and since the first George Bush was in office was that administrators following the handbook of global politics set the agenda and policy for the American president, and he is supposed to follow that without deviation. The president’s job, such as Obama’s job exclusively, was to sell the illusion to the public. Not to make executive decisions. We don’t have a system that allows for a president to act as a traditional executive. They aren’t making decisions decisively in the situation room anymore. They are given PR memos and told what to say and where to do it. It’s all written down for them, but who does all the writing? Well, it’s the same pinheaded young college kids who learn in school how to be friendly, little compliant members of the administrative state. They also learn to get their information from the United Nations, where all procedures and rules for global conduct are put in place.

It works that way in business, too. Many of the world’s best companies are not run by strong personalities as we expect them to be. Instead, most CEOs are focused on compliance with the standards created by the Administrative State. The values have shifted dramatically in recent years, not to a company’s performance but more to its compliance with rules and standardization, which is meant to bring sameness to the world’s industries and usher in global communism using China as the model. That is what the United Nations has been doing in the background. And for proof, look at your local zoning and township maintenance. Most of what they have to deal with comes straight out of the pages of Agenda 21 and 2030, including the smart meters on all our houses. I live in an area heavily targeted by Agenda 21’s “sustainable development” and warned everyone 20 years ago what it was and how it would be done. As a result, we have roundabouts and bicycle trails everywhere for these beta males who like to ride bicycles looking like girls in their tight spandex pants and gay little helmets. But the shell game works like this: Deep Staters flow down the rules and regulations through the Administrative State, who pick it up and flow it into every company in the world through standardization. And it ends up in local government school boards and with the trustees as enforceable mandates. And if the local leadership doesn’t follow the rules, they get sued. When people are upset over some new zoning change, all trustees can do is follow the zoning recommendations, which are entirely shaped by those same kids right out of college who were trained to be compliant members of the Administrative State bureaucracy. And if the trustees don’t follow the rules and prove themselves non-compliant, they are harassed legally.

This has been the phantom impact of global communism as advocated by the United Nations. This is how they plan to rule the world, as they have been doing. Essentially, all rules and regulations that we endure today, no matter what industry it is, go to the doorstep of the mindless bureaucrats banging wine glasses together in the mountains of Davos hiding behind the World Economic Forum on behalf of the United Nations. And Joe Biden, for them, was revenge against the rest of us because Trump threatened to dismantle that entire mess. So Joe Biden, the complete idiot, was to stick it in our eye that they are in control and have been for years. But we are fighting back, with Trump running for another term. The Supreme Court just ruled on the Chevron case, which dramatically takes away the power of the Administrative State to grab power for itself and then continue to change rules, solidifying that power to an even greater extent. As bad as it has been, people are catching on, and if that debate was meant to discourage people from challenging the power of the Administrative State, it turned people in the other direction. I would say that the power and arrogance of the Deep State and their frustrations at a public that insists on more than an illusion of freedom forced them into a rather large error. They should not have put Biden on that stage to show the world he was never in charge. Because it only confirmed the suspicions that the public had been having. They may have wanted a replacement on the Democrat ticket while there is still time to build up someone else. But this is the kind of mess you always get when dealing with the Administrative State. They make a lot of mistakes because competent rulers don’t rule them. But pinheaded bureaucrats who have been trying to replace real executive leadership for years. And it’s all been a trick that most people have fallen for, at least until now.

Rich Hoffman

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Bird Flu is the Next United Nations Bioweapon: We know what they did with Covid, and now the food supply is their next target

We are getting ready to see a level of insanity that has always been a part of the Democrat Party, the communist left, that we’ve never seen before. They always had the capacity for evil to do what they do, but we will see the worst of them in 2024 as it becomes more evident that they will lose power. And I say that in the future state because the only way they have gained and held power is through deception in the years leading up to now. And they can’t maintain that illusion without deception. So they are losing control and will lose their ability to have power over other people, and the wheels came off during COVID-19. They went all in with the Chinese bioweapon from Wuhan, sponsored by the United States and a whole list of whores from Bill Gates’ money supply, along with many others, and they killed a lot of people, harmed many others, and ruined all our lives which many are still digging out of. At this point, more people are willing to admit all that than at any previous point because it’s such an evil concept that most would have never thought it was even possible, even as it was happening. And that is what the communist left was counting on: people would be slow to recognize the threat, and by the time they did, the world would be functioning from a “New Normal” after the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset.” I’ll repeat it now, as I did then, well before the Trump administration figured out what was happening. Even Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, and all the other popular talk show hosts hadn’t caught on to it yet early in 2020 when we first heard about the bioweapon virus. On day one of the COVID-19 virus, I said it was an attack on a scale bigger than Pearl Harbor. And that was how we should have been looking at it. So I was always right about Covid, and with that track record, I offer that bit of history so that people won’t be suckered again.

Bird Flu is the next bioweapon that the communist left is planning to use to have a COVID-19 part II. And, of course, they have no other choice as they watch the world turn away from them by the masses. I think all this is good because these bad guys needed to be smoked out of society in ways they have always been concealed. And you can see the trends in the cross tabs of polling that have them in a panic. More people of color are supporting Trump, for instance, than anybody thought possible. And it’s not older people; it’s the under-50 crowd, which is a big problem for Democrats. Also, regarding deportation politics, over 50% of Hispanics support that nationalized measure, which was a surprise to many who thought that once illegal immigrants were here, they would support all their friends and families, too, coming in the same manner. However, most support enforcing border policy away from the current open border strategy. The communist left is finding themselves surprised at every turn; things are not turning out as they academically planned, and now their fingers have been caught in all kinds of cookie jars, poisoning the cookies. They will lose on the world stage, not just in American elections, and things will improve. But there will be a lot of violence and chaos in the meantime because most of these people are complicit in many crimes and the mass death of millions of people, and they have to be punished. I think it’s good because, at least finally, people have seen the evil behind the friendly masks, and all this horrible activity has inspired them to act toward justice.

And I would caution you, dear reader, I’ll say the same thing to you now that I told John Boehner when he was Speaker of the House, and he laughed like I was just another local conspiracy theorist, anything from the United Nations and its partners, like the World Economic Forum, and the World Health Organization need to be considered military endeavors. I was right then, and I’m right now. It was people like Boehner, my neighbor, who made us vulnerable to these attackers, to begin with. They represent global communism and are on a military effort to take over the world and destroy the United States with the most powerful weapons the world has ever known: propaganda. Another act of aggression that people have been slow to act on even when the evidence was abundant. Everything they propose should be considered hostile to the sovereignty of the United States because they do not intend anything good for our national sovereignty. And their biggest weapon to date was Covid. What they did with it was no different than dropping bombs on an enemy city in previous wars to force a country to submit to the new threats of power. It is what Genghis Khan did as a warlord, what Alexander the Great did to expand the Greek empire, what Nebuchadnezzar did to expand the Persian empire, what England and Hitler did, and what has been behind every attempt at global communism since Karl Marx wrote down his collectivist vision on pages of paper and international unions and secret societies sought to expand those management methods of central force community to community. COVID was their grand fortissimo of thousands of years of attempting to build an international empire controlled by a few elite dominators. Only this time, it was disguised by hiding the attackers behind white lab coats and academic institutions. But the greed and power were no different than what we have seen from the worst tyrants of the entire human race. And in 2024, it’s the Bird Flu that will be deadlier and more transmissible, and a way to hopefully get away from the punishment for their crimes that is coming their way by killing off those that might have the courage to prosecute them.

The giveaway to the effort is the gain-of-function research that made the Covid virus transmissible to humans when it would typically only be regulated to bats in the Wuhan region. This is why Dr. Fauci and his subordinates are in so much trouble and deserve to be; they made the virus that was natural–unnaturally transmissible to humans. And for them, it was an experiment because Covid 19 wasn’t very deadly. It was a practice run for them and a test to see how the world would react. They didn’t want to kill everyone, just the elderly and weak, which is precisely what they did. What they did was another form of mass murder disguised as science and economic tampering. And they had the governments of the world dancing at their fingertips with billionaire money given loosely to build a compliant team of murderers. The danger with the Bird Flu is that the attack vector looks to be the food supply of the world, so you can starve the human race and force them to pharmaceutical alternatives. And by creating such a crisis, they hope to avoid an organized world that will prosecute them for their many past sins. And you can bet they will try because they have no choice. They either turn to open mass murder, or they are going to be prosecuted by an angry society for what they have already done. And before they let go of power, they will do everything they can to use it to save themselves from a world made angry and look for much-justified revenge.

Rich Hoffman

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