WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 2, 2025 - The bits are falling into a distinct pattern - a pre-prepared pattern. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at the Munich Security Conference gave us four “noes”: No to Ukraine in NATO; No to a return to pre-2014 borders; No to ‘Article 5’ peacekeeper backstops, and ‘No’ to Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) troops in Ukraine. In a final flourish, he added that FPSA troops in Europe are not “forever” - and even placed a question mark over the continuity of NATO.
The FPSA clearly is cutting away from Ukraine; and they intend to normalize relations with Russia.
Then, Vice-President JD Vance threw his firecracker amongst the gathered Euro-élites. He said that the élites had retreated from “shared” democratic values; they were overly reliant on repressing and censoring their peoples (prone to locking them up); and, above all, he excoriated the European Cordon Sanitaire (“firewall”) by which European parties outside the Center-Left are deemed non-grata politically. It is a fake “threat”, he suggested. Of what are you really so frightened? Have you so little confidence in your “democracy”?
The FPSA, he implied, will no longer support Europe if it continues to suppress political constituencies, arrest citizens for speech offenses, and particularly cancel elections as was done recently in Romania. “If you are running in fear of your own voters,” Vance said, “there is nothing (Amerika) can do for you.”
It is difficult to say what specifically most triggered the catatonic European breakdown. Was it the fear of the FPSA and Russia joining together as a major power nexus - thus stripping Europe from ever again being able glide along on the back of Amerikan power, through the specious notion that any European state must have exceptional access to the Washington ear?
Or was it the ending of the Ukraine/Volodymyr Zelensky cult that was so prized amongst the Euro-élite as the “glue” around which a faux European unity and identity could be enforced? Both probably contributed to the fury. That the FPSA would in essence leave Europe to its own delusions would be a calamitous event for the Brussels technocracy.
Many may lazily assume that the FPSA double act at Munich was just another example of the well-known Trumpian fondness for dropping “wacky” initiatives intended to both shock and kick over frozen paradigms. The Munich speeches did exactly that. Yet that does not make them accidental; but rather parts that fit into a bigger picture.
It is clear now that the President Trump blitzkrieg across the Amerikan Administrative State could not have been mounted unless carefully pre-planned and prepared over the last four years.
President Trump’s flurry of Presidential Executive Orders at the outset of his presidency was not whimsical. Leading FPSA constitutional lawyer Johnathan Turley and other lawyers say that the Orders were well drafted legally and with the clear understanding that legal challenges would ensue. What is more, the Trump Team welcomes those challenges.
What is happening? The newly confirmed head of the Office of Budget Management (OBM), Russ Vought, says his Office will become the “on/off switch” for all Executive expenditure under the new Executive Orders. Vought calls the resulting whirlpool, the application of constitutional radicalism, and President Trump has now issued the Executive Order that reinstates the primacy of the Executive Branch as the controlling mechanism of government.
Vought, who was in OBM in Trump 01, is carefully selecting the ground for all-out financial war on the Deep State. It will be fought out firstly at the Supreme Court - which the Trump Team expect confidently to win (Trump has the 6-3 conservative majority). The new régime will then be applied across all agencies and departments of state. Expect shrieks of pain.
The point here is that the Administrative State - aloof from executive control - has taken to itself prerogatives such as immunity to dismissal and the self-awarded authority to shape policy - creating a dual state system, run by unelected technocrats, which, when implanted in departments such as the Department of InJustice and The Pentagon, have evolved into the Amerikan Deep State.
How did the Democrats not see this coming? Lawyer Robert Barnes essentially says that the “blitzkrieg” was “exceptionally well-planned” and had been discussed in Trump circles since late 2020. The latter team had emerged from within a generational and cultural shift in the FPSA. This had given rise to a Libertarian/Populist wing with working class roots who often had served in the military yet had come to despise the Neo-con lies (especially those of 9/11) that brought endless wars. They were animated more by the old John Adams adage that “(Amerika) should not go abroad in search of monsters to slay.”
In short, they were not part of the “Anglo” world; they came from a different culture that harked back to the theme of Amerika as a Republic, not as an Empire. This is what you see with Vance and Hegseth - a reversion to the Republican precept that the FPSA should not become involved in European wars. Ukraine is not Amerika’s war.
The Deep State, it seems, were not paying attention to what a posse of “populist” outliers, tucked away from the rarefied Beltway talking shop, were doing. They (the outliers) were planning a concerted attack on the federal expenditure spigot - identified as the weak spot about which a constitutional challenge could be mounted that would derail - in its entirety - the expenditures of the Deep State.
One surprise aspect has been the Trump Team’s discipline: no leaks. Secondly, that those involved in the planning are not drawn from the preeminent Anglosphere, but rather from a strand of society that was offended by the Iraq war, and which blames the “Anglosphere” for “ruining” Amerika.
It transpired that Europe could not gather a “sharp end” military force greater than 20,000-30,000 men. Scholtz objected in principle to their involvement; Poland demurred as a close neighbor of Ukraine; and Italy stayed silent. Starmer, however, after Munich, immediately rang Zelensky to say that Britain saw Ukraine to be on an irrevocable path to NATO membership - thus directly contradicting FPSA policy and with no support from other states. President Trump will not forget this, nor will he forget Britain’s former role in supporting the Russiagate slur during his first term in office.
Yet, far more consequential than most of the happenings of the past few days was when President Trump, speaking with Fox News after attending Daytona, dismissed dictator Zelensky’s canard of Russia wanting to invade NATO countries. “I don’t agree with that; not even a little bit,” President Trump retorted.
President Trump does not buy into the primary lie intended as the glue that holds this entire EU geopolitical structure together. For without the “Russia threat”; without the FPSA believing in the globalist linchpin lie, there can be no pretense of Europe needing to prepare for war with Russia. Europe ultimately will have to come to reconcile its future as a periphery in Eurasia.