The Brew: Trump Warns Europe It’s in a Death Spiral, and the U.S. Won’t Jump in to Save it

You might not have heard about it, but the Trump administration recently issued an historic policy paper on U.S. strategy toward the world, but especially a European Union where most of the countries are technically our allies, allegedly pledged to the same values. On paper, that is. But with Britain arresting dozens of citizens each day for social media posts, when they complain about the mass importation of Third World “refugees” at public expense, and France and Germany trying to outlaw opposition parties, while Muslim mobs shut down Christmas markets and the EU threatens massive fines if Elon Musk won’t censor X … you really have to wonder. Are we on the same page as Europe?

Should we ask our young people to fight to defend this collection of increasingly autocratic, anti-Christian regimes, in case they provoke a Russian attack by meddling even more aggressively in Ukraine? Or should the U.S. step back, unchain itself from those dying regimes until they wake up to their people’s needs? Those are questions posed by a brilliant new strategy statement issued by the White House, “National Security Strategy of the United States of America.” Go read it here — it’s worth your time, if only to see one of the rare occasions in recent years when American policy was based in concrete reality and our core values, rather than ideology and fantasy.

In case you can’t make up your mind, check out Gateway Pundit’s account of a recent interview President Donald Trump conducted with Politico about the contents, background, and intent of this new strategy document:

Europe’s embattled, deeply unpopular globalist leaders are feeling rattled this week after President Donald Trump delivered one of his sharpest assessments yet of the continent’s political decline.

During a wide-ranging interview with the regime-aligned outlet Politico, he argued that Europe is increasingly less a pillar of Western civilization and more a continent drifting into weakness and irrelevance through its own choices.

Trump said Europe’s leaders have become paralyzed by political correctness, unable to defend their borders or take responsibility for the catastrophic crises their policies have created.

According to the president, the ceaseless waves of illegal, unvetted migrants—most of whom are military-aged men from cultures alien to the West—arriving on the continent are the direct result of so-called ‘leaders’ who “won’t send anyone back” and who fear being called bigoted….

Trump warned that the collapse is not theoretical but measurable in real time: rising crime, societies deeply socially fractured, and economies and welfare systems under immense pressure by uncontrolled mass migration. He blamed European globalist elites for caring more about virtue-signaling than national survival.

On Ukraine, Trump noted that the same out-of-touch, globalist political class that lectures him about democracy cannot even persuade Kyiv to hold elections. He openly questioned how a country like Ukraine, led by a despotic leader like Zelensky, can claim democratic legitimacy while indefinitely postponing a presidential vote.

Given that we’ve suffered through presidents such as George W. Bush (“Islam is a religion of peace”), Barack Obama (“we must fundamentally transform America”), and Joe Biden (““We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women are created, by the, you know, you know the thing”), Trump’s sober, realist rhetoric is a welcome respite indeed.

Dept. of Justice Trashes Policy that Finds “Racism” Under Every Desk

One of the worst, most divisive legal doctrines in recent decades is “disparate impact.” That’s the theory that a neutral, race-blind policy that accidentally produces disparate results is legally “racist” and must be made illegal. For decades, race-hustlers and attorneys have made a mint out of claiming that every profession where minorities aren’t equally represented is “racist,” even if nobody can demonstrate any discriminatory intent. By this standard (if it were applied equally, which it isn’t) the NBA has for decades been discriminating illegally against short, white, slow-moving people — like me.

Newsmax reports:

The Justice Department on Tuesday issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, eliminating “disparate-impact” liability from its Title VI framework and saying federal civil rights enforcement should focus on intentional discrimination rather than statistical outcomes.

“For decades, the Justice Department has used disparate-impact liability to undermine the constitutional principle that all Americans must be treated equally under the law,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement.

“No longer. This Department of Justice is eliminating its regulations that for far too long required recipients of federal funding to make decisions based on race,” she added.

Perversely, “disparate impact” forced companies to obsess about race, bean-counting to make sure that every group is “represented,” whether the employees chosen are qualified or not. For instance, Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson — whom Joe Biden picked explicitly for her race and sex, excluding dozens of smarter, more learned judges who didn’t meet the quota.

Remember Israel’s “Genocide” and “Starvation” Policy? We Found Where Hamas Was Stashing Food

It won’t make any difference to anti-Western and antisemitic activists who want to “globalize the Intifada,” but there’s more evidence that the so-called “famine” which leftists claimed occurred in Gaza during Israel’s seige of Hamas was fake news. Check out this footage of massive stores that the terrorist organization was hoarding, withholding it from much of Gaza’s population:

BREAKING: Gazans have discovered that Hamas hid literal tons of infant formula and children’s nutritional shakes in secret warehouses.

Once again, Israel is vindicated — and the media’s Islamist propaganda machine has manipulated you for two years.

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— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) December 9, 2025

Will Trump Use Troops to Oust Venezuelan Narco Regime?

For weeks, I’ve been reporting on the U.S. effort to oust the socialist, narcotic-exporting regime in Venezuela, which not only helped Russia and China to honeycomb key U.S. military facilities with spies, but also provided the software used to steal elections in the U.S. for the past 20 years (via Caracas-founded Smartmatic). Now it seems that Trump’s effort to depose this regime and expose its murky secrets might be going into overdrive. The New York Post reports:

President Trump warned in a new interview that Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s “days are numbered” and refused to rule out sending US ground troops to depose the left-wing leader.

The president stressed in the sitdown with Politico released Tuesday that Maduro could not be allowed to stay in power as the administration cracks down on South American drug trafficking, but declined to tip his hand about what the US could or would do to cause regime change.

When reporter and “The Conversation” podcast host Dasha Burns asked how far Trump was willing to go to oust Maduro, the president merely responded, “I don’t want to say that.” …

The US has already begun building up an amphibious force in the area around Venezuela, with Maduro responding by mobilizing his army and preparing for a guerrilla-style counterattack if land incursions or airstrikes occur.

I’m generally against regime-change wars — except when the regime in question is poisoning our people and manipulating our elections.

Tina Peters Is Still in Prison. Justice Department to Investigate Conditions

Speaking of election fraud, former election worker Tina Peters is still in prison in Colorado for doing her job and trying to document such fraud. (Read her heartbreaking story here.) The Trump administration has been flummoxed in its efforts to get Peters out of a Colorado state prison, where she was railroaded for preserving evidence of election tampering in the 2020 presidential race. MAGA activists are deeply frustrated by Trump’s failure so far to set this innocent woman free. Now the administration is applying a new kind o pressure to Colorado:

JUST IN: Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon launches INVESTIGATION into Colorado state prisons as Tina Peters is held in captivity

There are reports of “unconstitutional and legally insufficient carceral conditions”

DHILLON: “Prisoners have civil rights.”

GOOD! FREE TINA PETERS. pic.twitter.com/RLOzcUKlPe

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 9, 2025

Peters is in frail health, and in prison for doing her job. President Trump needs to do whatever it takes to set her free.

Texas to Open Turning Point USA Chapters in Every High School

The Texas Tribune reports some encouraging news:

Texas has launched a partnership with Turning Point USA to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every high school campus in the state.

Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Turning Point USA Senior Director Josh Thifault revealed the initiative during a news conference at the Governor’s Mansion on Monday. They did not outline any plans that would require schools to initiate the clubs, but Abbott said that he expects “meaningful disciplinary action” to take place against “any stoppage of TPUSA in the great state of Texas.”

“Let me be clear: Any school that stands in the way of a Club America program in their school should be reported immediately to the Texas Education Agency,” the governor said….

Along The Stream

Brew a big cup of coffee, and read this fascinating chapter from a new book on Charles Darwin that exposes a deep-seated problem in his claim that “natural selection” was able to craft every form of life known on earth: Darwin was treating Nature as a kind of all-seeing goddess, instead of the random machine he claimed to believe in.

Don’t miss this fascinating report from Project Veritas which claims that Trump’s attorney general in 2020, William Barr, was actually part of the conspiracy to take down his presidency.

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.