Mike Ritland

People joined it because they cared about their own country or their own neighborhood, whether their streets were safe, whether their school curriculum reflected their own values, whether there was waste, fraud, and abuse at the White House or D.C. level. They didn't think about, in large part, international affairs, foreign relations.

They may care about a few wars that they hear about in the news, but The MAGA movement did not really have, and is only now beginning, I think, to incubate a sort of foreign policy intelligentsia that both the neoconservative wing of the Republican Party has had for over half a century, and that the Democratic Party has had.

They may care about a few wars that they hear about in the news, but The MAGA movement did not really have, and is only now beginning, I think, to incubate a sort of foreign policy intelligentsia that both the neoconservative wing of the Republican Party has had for over half a century, and that the Democratic Party has had.

They may care about a few wars that they hear about in the news, but The MAGA movement did not really have, and is only now beginning, I think, to incubate a sort of foreign policy intelligentsia that both the neoconservative wing of the Republican Party has had for over half a century, and that the Democratic Party has had.

And so that process, I think, is forming right now, and people are trying to trying to form that North Star. And I think many of the things that I've published help go into that thought leadership soup.

And so that process, I think, is forming right now, and people are trying to trying to form that North Star. And I think many of the things that I've published help go into that thought leadership soup.

And so that process, I think, is forming right now, and people are trying to trying to form that North Star. And I think many of the things that I've published help go into that thought leadership soup.

Well, it's all related. This is one of the reasons when I – do my lectures and I show the chart of the foreign policy establishment, State Department for U.S. National Interest, Defense Department for U.S. National Security, CIA as a sort of covert player to covertly help the State Department or covertly help DOD. These things are all connected. So the DOD picture is...

Well, it's all related. This is one of the reasons when I – do my lectures and I show the chart of the foreign policy establishment, State Department for U.S. National Interest, Defense Department for U.S. National Security, CIA as a sort of covert player to covertly help the State Department or covertly help DOD. These things are all connected. So the DOD picture is...

Well, it's all related. This is one of the reasons when I – do my lectures and I show the chart of the foreign policy establishment, State Department for U.S. National Interest, Defense Department for U.S. National Security, CIA as a sort of covert player to covertly help the State Department or covertly help DOD. These things are all connected. So the DOD picture is...

A perhaps darker one and much bigger one to tackle in terms of cleaning that up. By the sheer size of it, USAID is about a $44 billion budget. The Pentagon's $900 billion. Depending on how you measure it, the black hole in their budget is somewhere between hundreds of billions to $35 trillion. Wow.

A perhaps darker one and much bigger one to tackle in terms of cleaning that up. By the sheer size of it, USAID is about a $44 billion budget. The Pentagon's $900 billion. Depending on how you measure it, the black hole in their budget is somewhere between hundreds of billions to $35 trillion. Wow.

A perhaps darker one and much bigger one to tackle in terms of cleaning that up. By the sheer size of it, USAID is about a $44 billion budget. The Pentagon's $900 billion. Depending on how you measure it, the black hole in their budget is somewhere between hundreds of billions to $35 trillion. Wow.

But the reason that I'm so overjoyed that it's starting with the USAID side is because it connects to all those points. And this is another thing that defenders of the establishment are now uncomfortably trying to find the right way to defend themselves, which is that if USAID is supposed to be humanitarian assistance and build the American people as a kind of international charity,

But the reason that I'm so overjoyed that it's starting with the USAID side is because it connects to all those points. And this is another thing that defenders of the establishment are now uncomfortably trying to find the right way to defend themselves, which is that if USAID is supposed to be humanitarian assistance and build the American people as a kind of international charity,

But the reason that I'm so overjoyed that it's starting with the USAID side is because it connects to all those points. And this is another thing that defenders of the establishment are now uncomfortably trying to find the right way to defend themselves, which is that if USAID is supposed to be humanitarian assistance and build the American people as a kind of international charity,

Why are they working with the U.S. Defense Department? Why are they working with Special Forces? Why is there even a civil-military coordinating branch for USAID and DoD? They have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes there or how dark many of the operations they thought USAID was involved in. And I think that this is part of what the blockade being set up right now to stop Doge

Why are they working with the U.S. Defense Department? Why are they working with Special Forces? Why is there even a civil-military coordinating branch for USAID and DoD? They have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes there or how dark many of the operations they thought USAID was involved in. And I think that this is part of what the blockade being set up right now to stop Doge

Why are they working with the U.S. Defense Department? Why are they working with Special Forces? Why is there even a civil-military coordinating branch for USAID and DoD? They have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes there or how dark many of the operations they thought USAID was involved in. And I think that this is part of what the blockade being set up right now to stop Doge

from finding out is about. They don't want them to have USAID's books. They don't want them to have the internal records. They don't want them to have the emails and communications. They definitely don't want them to have the transfer of money flows.