Trump’s Pragmatic Approach To Europe Cuts Through Decades of Emotional Reactions

American Thinker 

Donald Trump’s interest in Greenland, controlled by Denmark, has been routinely dismissed by critics as eccentric or unserious. That reaction says far more about modern political reflexes than it does regarding sober strategy.

Strip away the passions and the theatrics, and the logic behind Trump’s thinking becomes not only rational but also difficult to refute. Greenland is not a novelty. It is a strategic linchpin. The refusal to acknowledge that fact exposes a deeper problem in how Americans, particularly those of European ancestry, are conditioned to think about Europe, loyalty, and national interest.

Trump has been direct about his reasoning.

Greenland matters because of national security, not sentiment, symbolism, or diplomatic jargon. He has explicitly stated that the island is vital to American defense interests and warned that if the United States does not secure its position there, Russia or China will fill the vacuum.

That is not bluster. It is a recognition of geography and power.

Greenland sits astride the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom Gap, a historic maritime chokepoint. It is critical for monitoring Russian submarine activity and missile trajectories. As Arctic ice recedes, the region is becoming more militarily and economically relevant by the year. Russia has already expandedits Arctic military infrastructure. China has declared itself a “near-Arctic state” and pursued investment footholds across the region.

Geography does not care about intentions. It rewards presence. 

The United States already operates Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, formerly Thule Air Base. It is the northernmost American military installation in the world and a core node in early warning radar, missile defense, and space surveillance systems. These are designed to protect the American homeland from threats traveling over the polar route.

That alone should end any debate about Greenland’s relevance.

Full American sovereignty or control would allow for expanded air, naval, and space operations without dependence on Danish political constraints. Trump has been blunt that Denmark’s stewardship is inadequate for an era of great power competition.

That assessment may be uncomfortable, but discomfort does not make it wrong.

Greenland also possesses vast deposits of rare-earth minerals and other critical materials essential to defense technologies and advanced manufacturing. Reducing dependence on Chinese supply chains is a stated bipartisan goal, yet resistance emerges the moment a concrete solution presents itself. Trump has emphasized security over minerals, but the economic dimension reinforces the strategic case.

The hostility to this logic is not rooted in facts. It is rooted in emotion. Specifically, it reflects a lingering emotional deference to Europe that distorts American judgment.

Most Americans still descend, to one degree or another, from continental European ancestors. Danish, German, Polish, French, Italian, and other nationalities passed down stories, traditions, and a sense of inherited connection. That history is real. What no longer exists is any reciprocal obligation.

Continental Europe does not view America as the home of its extended family. It does not even view the United Kingdom, which is technically European yet separated from France by a channel, in this way. It views Americans as a separate people whose usefulness peaks in moments of crisis.

European political culture has always been transactional. When danger rises, appeals to shared values and history intensify. When stability returns, distance and condescension resume. This is not a moral indictment. It is a pattern.

Europe’s modern peace is not self-generated. It was enforced. After 1945, American power froze centuries-old rivalries beneath the surface. NATO’s Article 5 commits the United States to treat an attack on any member as an attack on itself, creating automatic pathways to American involvement in European wars.

For decades, many European states underinvested in their own defense, relying on American guarantees. Defense spending targets set in 2014 were routinely missed until Trump’s pressure years later. This dependency was not accidental. It was encouraged by the knowledge that emotional and historical appeals would ultimately override American self-interest.

History provides a brutal warning. World War I began as a European blood feud driven by royal entanglements, nationalism, border disputes, and pride. The United States correctly stayed out for nearly three years. Only when European powers faced exhaustion did calls for American intervention intensify.

The United States entered in 1917. Over 116,000 Americans died, and more than 200,000 were wounded. Many fought under European command doctrines that accepted mass casualties as routine. After the war, European leaders rejected durable peace frameworks and imposed punitive terms that all but guaranteed another conflict. Within a generation, the continent burned again.

The lesson is not isolationism. It is realism.

That realism is urgently relevant today. An influential Russian advisor to Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin openly discussed limited nuclear use as a deliberate policy tool, not as idle rhetoric. He framed such use as a “necessary sin” aimed at forcing European de-escalation. Germany and Britain have been explicitly named as primary targets due to their central roles in supporting Ukraine through logistics, funding, intelligence, weapons, and sanctions.

This is not random.

Britain provided early and sustained military and intelligence support to Ukraine. Germany abruptly severed decades of energy dependence, repositioning itself as a NATO logistics hub and major financial backer.

From Moscow’s perspective, these states form the backbone of Western pressure. Targeting them rhetorically serves to intimidate Europe without triggering immediate confrontation with the United States. It is a classic coercive strategy rooted in Cold War precedent.

This pattern was visible days after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, when Vladimir Putin ordered nuclear deterrence forces placed on high alert to deter deeper Western involvement. Far more recently, Russia has conducted strikesnear NATO borders using nuclear-capable systems as deliberate signaling.

Continental Europe understands this language because it has lived in geopolitical turmoil for centuries.

Appeals, whether overt or implicit, to America about shared European identity encourage Americans to confuse historical origin with present-day loyalty. Continental Europeans do not finance America when she resolves her security dilemmas. They do, however, expect America to subsidize, and even bleed for, the Old Continent’s defense.

That asymmetry has been consistent. Cultural attitudes in continental Europe routinely portray Americans as crude, loud, or disposable in war and embarrassing in peace. Utility is assumed. Reciprocity is not.

Recognizing this reality is not anti-European. It is pro-American.

Trump’s handling of Greenland represents a pivot away from emotional foreign policy toward geographic logic. Securing the Arctic strengthens homeland defense. It counters Russian and Chinese expansion near American approaches. It reinforces Western Hemisphere and near-perimeter security rather than entangling the country further in European historical cycles.

This is not isolationism. It is prioritization.

Europe is wealthy, educated, and technologically advanced. It can defend itself if it chooses to. Recent spending pledges emerged only after Trump demanded fairness, confirming that dependency was a choice, not an inevitability.

Americans of continental European ancestry deserve honesty. Heritage is not destiny. Sentiment is not strategy. Loyalty should flow toward citizens living now, not toward continents that perfected the art of exporting their wars.

Trump’s stance on Greenland forces a reckoning beyond left and right. It asks whether American policy will ultimately be guided by emotional inheritance or by clear-eyed assessment of national survival.

That question matters more than even the most passionate of rhetoric. It always has.

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The Only Way Through Is Through

Townhall 

Clichés, like this column’s title, become clichés because time and experience have demonstrated that they are largely true. Look at the present situation. Donald Trump, in 2016, saved America from what the regime media, the Democrats, and far too many Republicans assured us was certain defeat at the hands of that ED-inducing monster Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit. There was the four-year interregnum of President Eggplant, where his puppeteers attempted to Maduro-ize America, but in 2024, we beat them and their morally and otherwise flexible candidate. We were facing the loss of our country – permanent oppression of us patriotic normal, perpetual economic malaise, gender deviance enshrined in law, mass crime, rampant fraud by NGOs and imported Third World hustlers, anti-white racism as government policy, and international disrespect by every commie/jihadist/just plain scuzzy potentate around the globe. They had decades to set up their defenses, and now Trump is one year into tearing them down with three to go.

And we have to fight every step of the way. We have to fight for every inch. They will not retreat. They will not give in. Their offers to negotiate are in bad faith – which Trump knows – he is not going to get rolled by Governor Flouncy Le Femme. The left must be crushed. That’s the only way – crushed by the power of our votes and through our use of what is left of the norms and the laws. It’s not easy – the only way through is through.

We have to keep fighting, and that’s why I absolutely cannot take the black-pilling, the dooming, the constant refrain that winning is impossible, that we are helpless and hopeless, and anyone saying different is part of the massive conspiracy.

But that’s dumb, and it’s weak, and those who do it are either too soft for the fight or think they can carve out a little niche of influence by pushing the dankest predictions for the future. The fainting femboys who counseled submission last weekend when some new commie malcontent got his ticked punched are part of the problem.

Here’s what’s true. This is real talk. We can absolutely lose this fight. Trump can choose humiliating and defeat. We can falter and watch the United States of America become a dreadful country bereft of manhood and honor, offering up its culture and country as a sacrifice as some sort of wine woman penance for the sins of civilization. But enough about Canada and most of Western Europe.

It does not have to be that way. We can win. We can take back our country – that was the whole point of the Trump movement. We would make America Great Again. Understand that our enemies hate that notion with a visceral fury – the idea that America can be anything but used Charmin in the hands of a chest-less, failed ruling class offends them to the core of what passes for their being. They are fighting precisely because they do not want America to be great. Oh, they want to rule a stunted and misshapen USA; what they want to avoid is people like you and me being prosperous, secure, and proud. They want a feudal America like we have a feudal California – all those sunshine and palm tree shots you see are real; I live in that world by the beach. There’s no real crime, just sunshine and great restaurants among the other lawyers, executives, HR officers, and others in the landed gentry. But you drive three miles west of my house, outside of the walls of the castle that some call I-405, and none of the kids can read. They want two Americas – theirs where they live in a materially-rich bubble; yours where you live in squalor, serving them, obeying them, recognizing their moral, intellectual, and metaphysical superiority.

They won’t give an inch as we push back, and we are pushing back. This is a multi-front campaign, from remaking the military to resetting the broken international trade system to uprooting the DEI cancer that has metastasized through society to tossing out the millions of Third World invaders whom they were counting on to fix America’s demographic problem. America’s problem was, of course, Americans not wanting to become serfs in their own country.

I get the frustration. I share it. And making known our demands for action is a good thing, a necessary thing, especially when you are making it known to the kind of cellblock submissive Republicans who begged Trump to surrender in Minneapolis and  proudly declared defeat in Indiana, they willingly hopped in Ned Beatty’s canoe as Virginia set them to squealing like pigs down the river. We need to keep up the pressure, but pressure is very different from whining like a teenage girl that everything is terrible and we’re doomed.

We’re doomed if we stop fighting, and we’re doomed if we stop winning elections, and the kind of histrionic caterwauling we see far too often about how Donald Trump – the guy who had reset the table in countless ways – is totally completely letting us down and why ever vote again and look at me and see how mad I am. Please like n’ subscribe.  

Morale matters, which is why these whiners matter. They give the false impression that we are losing because we have not achieved unequivocal victory in every engagement and have not permanently consigned leftists to the dustbin of history. That’s a fool’s metric, because we will never “win.” We will always be fighting, always. Freedom, faith, and The Flag naturally draw enemies. Leftism will always be there as long as some humans are weak, stupid, jealous, and sexually inadequate. And some always will be.

We are not aiming at total victory. We are aiming at turning the tide, knowing, as adults do, that the tide will eventually turn and our temporary breather will end, and our kids – or, hopefully, their kids will have to join the battle again.

Again, I get the frustration. Leftists judges throw up obstacles. Commies seem to act with impunity. Congress does not pass the laws that common sense and patriotism demand. But let me ask you something – did you teach your kids that life was fair? It’s not. It’s hard, and there are injustices and obstacles.

Let’s look at some of the key bones of contention.

Leftist judges are out of control, but did you realize the DOJ is winning about 90% of the cases eventually? That’s an insane ratio – no one wins 90% of the time outside of Perry Mason or Matlock, and those are TV shows. The Trump strategy is to go through the judicial process, not only to win but to win on precedent, and to keep the “Nah, judge, not going to obey” card in his back pocket. It’s a smart strategy, winning one case at a time. It just takes patience – our patience. We have to be adults and delay gratification. But that gratification is coming nine times out of ten.

Mad because people are not being arrested as fast as you like? Criminal justice takes time. Sometimes you lose because the left ignores the norms and nullifies the verdict. Okay, fine – the enemy gets a vote, as we soldiers say. Angry that no one had been arrested over all the disgusting, treacherous scandals of the past? Here’s another of those cliches, the “Hard to Swallow Pill.” A lot of the bad deeds in the past are not prosecutable. They are either past the statute of limitations, have evidence issues, or are not crimes. Every bad thing – like a judge making legally bankrupt rulings – is not a crime. Most of our fights have to be won politically, meaning through voting.

“But we vote for Republicans, and they do nothing!” First, that’s nonsense – the Big Beautiful Bill prevented the largest tax increase ever and funded ICE for years. That’s a real win, as are the confirmations of a bunch of appointees. Second, there’s this thing called the filibuster. The Democrats can prevent most anything with it, except reconciliation (which is how we got the BBB passed). Voting on stuff just to lose is a waste of time. The filibuster exists, and it’s going to continue to exist as long as the GOP controls the Senate (and maybe thereafter). That’s not an excuse; that’s a realistic assessment of the situation.

What we need are realistic assessments of the situation, not emotional outbursts born of frustration. That’s self-indulgent; it may be temporarily satisfying to cry, but hurts morale and damages our prospects by turning off our voters.

Choose optimism. Don’t let up on the pressure to perform, but recognize our achievements – a real military, Iran emasculated, kids not being emasculated, illegal aliens being punted through the goal posts of America. We are going to be fighting forever, but we can win. We just have to be tough enough to keep fighting and to never quit. Remember, the only way through is through.

Is Minnesota the First Shots in America’s Next Civil War?

Townhall 

There are two major factions in America today, Left and Right, liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican—whatever we wish to call them—that are vying for the minds and hearts of the American people. We have allowed the federal government to have way too much power, far, far more power than our Founding Fathers intended it to have, and thus, with so much power now being in the hands of the feds, those with megalomaniacal inclinations want to control that government, and that exists on both sides of the aisle.

The major dividing issue is the kind of America that the two sides want. Therein lies the main problem. Right and Left desire two different Americas. Conservatives seek a virtuous, limited government, based upon traditional Judeo-Christian values, as intended by our Founders and as embodied in the Declaration of Independence and 1789 Constitution. The Left has rejected that vision of the country and does not want it at all. Frankly, they hate that kind of America—and those who argue for it. Leftists—all over the world, and that means America, too—crave a totalitarian, Marxist government with them, of course, in control of it. The two visions are polar opposites. How long they can exist together in a democracy is anybody's guess.

I sincerely doubt most "common people" in the Democratic Party understand the difference noted above, but the Left's leaders certainly know what they are doing and fighting for. But they can't tell that to the masses. Communism never tells the people, in advance, what it has in store for them. It always lies; it has to. Nobody would want it otherwise.

The main issue, currently, in Minnesota is the illegal alien problem. You and I, Mr. Trump, ICE, view this, not necessarily as a "limited government" issue, but one of law and order. The people who are illegally in the country are breaking the law. ICE's main job is to find them and deport them. That's what ICE does. They should be deported because they are in America illegally. It's a law and order issue.

But law and order are not as important right now to the Left as accomplishing their vision of America. This is not a law and order matter for them. To Democrats, to the Left, this is totally a political concern; indeed, it is 100 percent political.

They want the illegals in the country because they want political power; they want to give these people amnesty, citizenship, and the right to vote, hoping and believing they will vote for the Democratic Party. It is 100 percent—100 percent—a political issue to the Democrats.

To the Left, it is a question of political power over law and order. They don't mind breaking the law if it helps them gain, then hold, political power.

America, of course, is a democratic republic, which means that our representatives are in power through elections. Right now, the radical Left is trying to gain a majority by importing illegals and giving them the vote because they know they haven't been able to persuade a majority of people that their far-left agenda is best for the nation. Thus, they must import people and hope they can come to power democratically. If they can't do it that way, they might resort to civil war. That option isn't palatable to most Americans, so the Left, currently, will try to come to power through the political process, and that means giving the illegal aliens the right to vote.

Once they come to power, the Left won't care if they've got a majority or not as long as they control the government. And mainly as long as they control the military. Let me make a comparison with communist China. If there were free and fair elections today in China, there is a very, very good chance that the Communist Party would lose because most of the people in that country don't like communism any more than they do anyplace else. Thus, the CCP doesn't allow other political parties to exist, and won't permit elections because they know they'd probably lose.

The Communist Party is probably a minority in China (it certainly was in the USSR), but they control the government, and most importantly, they control the military, so that if the people revolt (Tiananmen Square, 1989), the CCP (totalitarian government) will be able to crush it. That is exactly what the Democrats want in America—enough political and military power to crush all resistance (Joe Biden's F-16s). If they control the military, they will have the power they want. In America, they're probably, initially, going to have to come to power through the current political process, but other communist countries have used civil wars, and it's not impossible that Minnesota is seeing the first shots in such a war. The Left wants power, and they'll try to obtain it any way they can.

We know what Tiananmen Square was in China—an uprising to try to overthrow the Communist Party and establish democracy in China. We know that, and we know what happened to it. The Chinese people know it, too, which is why they are currently totally cowed. The CCP controls the military.

Right now, in the protests in Minnesota, Democrats are hoping that they can convince enough people that ICE is a monster, Trump is a dictator, and that the people will vote the Democratic Party into power. In power, they will have control of the legislature and pass laws that will give illegal immigrants citizenship and the right to vote. I have no doubt that is what they will do to solidify their power. If it doesn't work, then well, most Marxist governments used civil war to gain power.

Don't be surprised if the Left in America eventually does the same thing.

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Illegal Aliens Kill Scores Of Americans For Every Leftist Who Dies Protecting Them

Leftist radicals don’t care about the innocent Americans whose lives were ripped away by criminal illegal aliens.

The Federalist

The left proclaimed outrage at the death of Renee Good, the anti-ICE agitator who was shot after she appeared to have struck a federal agent with the vehicle she was driving. The left did so again after the death of Alex Pretti.

The corporate press has followed the assigned narrative, painting Pretti, Good, and others trying to impede federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis as victims of a tyrannical Trump administration. They’ve been desperately looking for a martyr to prop up as a latter-day George Floyd and inspire even more radical action against federal agents. It remains to be seen whether Pretti’s death will provide the spark that the leftists are fervently hoping for to kick off a “Summer of Love” 2.0.

Radicals have launched unprecedented attacks on ICE agents over the past year. Their rhetoric has fueled ambushes, firebombings, and attempted murders against federal immigration authorities. Overall, violence against ICE personnel surged 1,150 percent from January to November 2025, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

And why do they assault ICE agents, destroy property, make a mockery of our rule of law, and ultimately put themselves in harm’s way? To protect criminal illegal aliens, many of whom have been convicted or accused of some of the most heinous crimes imaginable.

While regrettable, Good and Pretti’s deaths should be viewed in context. The left used them as tools to gin up outrage and protect its power, and they died while trying to disrupt federal law enforcement during the execution of their lawful duties.

But there’s one thing above all that average Americans need to remember when one of these incidents takes place: For every leftist radical who dies trying to keep criminal illegals in our country, there are scores of innocent people who died because those leftists protected criminal illegals hiding out in our country.

Fathers, sons, husbands, mothers, daughters, wives, friends, children — all killed because the left allowed millions of aliens to infiltrate our borders and then refused to root them out. Leftists treated the sovereignty and security of this country like a corrupt game where they and their supporters benefit both politically and financially at the expense of innocent American lives.

The nation was shocked by the murder of 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, brutally killed by Jose Ibarra, an illegal alien from Venezuela. Ibarra had links to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, had several run-ins with the law, and had taken a free flight down to Georgia from New York courtesy of the Biden administration.

Meanwhile, the propaganda press actively tried to bury the fact that Ibarra was an illegal alien during its initial coverage of Riley’s murder. And while the American Nurses Association issued a lengthy statement on the death of Pretti, calling it “horrifying,” the organization said nothing about the truly horrific murder of nursing student Laken Riley at the hands of an illegal alien.

Two illegal aliens are accused of kidnapping 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray before assaulting her for hours, murdering her, and then dumping her body in a bayou in June 2024. Both had been stopped at the border earlier that year but were released into the U.S.

The mother of Alex Wise Jr., a 10-year-old who was fatally run over by an alleged illegal alien as he walked home from school, perhaps summed it up best: “His life was taken way too early by someone who wasn’t even supposed to be in the country.” Her son’s alleged killer had been deported five times.

The horror stories go on and on and on. The Federalist has maintained a non-exhaustive list of some of the more brutal crimes committed by illegals just under former President Joe Biden’s watch, but the true scope of damage done to Americans at the hands of illegal alien criminals because of Democrats’ lust for power is unfathomable.

And never once did the slavish, Democrat-controlled media ever concern themselves over the constitutionality or tone or excessive force of any of those murders. If the media didn’t ignore them entirely, they downplayed the murderer’s illegal status, as in the Laken Riley murder.

The protesters who are causing chaos in the streets of Minneapolis, as well as the Democrat politicians and media pundits who egg them on, claim to carry out their dangerous and disruptive work in the name of “justice” and “empathy.” Yet in their efforts to disrupt ICE and impede them from arresting illegal alien criminals, they show that they have no empathy for the Americans killed by illegals or their families. Their sense of “empathy” and “justice” only extends to those from whom they can politically profit.

While the media and leftists want the American people to mourn the activists who have died trying to hinder ICE, Americans should instead mourn those who were killed by the illegal alien criminals those agitators are trying to protect. Those holding up these radicals as martyrs deserve nothing but scorn, and the American people should remember exactly why ICE is in Minneapolis and other cities around the country.

They’re not there to pull people off the streets Gestapo-style — Democrats’ favorite comparison — or to harass peaceful people just trying to make their way in America. ICE is there to arrest violent criminals and prevent another Laken Riley, another Jocelyn Nungaray, another Alex Wise Jr., and the scores of other Americans whose lives were cruelly ripped away from them because of Democrats’ malevolent immigration policies.

When leftist radicals play their game of revolution against the supposed fascist regime of the Trump administration, the innocents suffer the most.

Beyond Alarming – Virginia Commonwealth University Healthcare Provider Brainstorms on Ways to Poison Federal Immigration Officials

If you thought the psychotic dancing COVID nurses and mentally unstable women in the teaching profession couldn’t get any more dangerous, take a close look at their latest tactic.

According to healthcare workers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) medical systems, there is currently an ongoing effort to brainstorm ways to poison ICE and federal immigration officials.  This is seriously disturbing stuff going on inside the healthcare system.

This is one example of the protocols being promoted in various social media. “Malinda Rose Cook, a healthcare worker at VCU Health, posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and/or develop spray poisons to use on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.”

Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.

Any… pic.twitter.com/CMJN12GhOc

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 27, 2026

I do not like to be argumentative, but a reasonable person would think something like this might tend to be illegal; perhaps not.  Regardless, I think everyone should be very careful about reviewing the ideology of their doctors, nurses and healthcare workers just to be safe.

The woman in the video above is reportedly a “certified registered nurse” and “anesthesiologist” in the VCU and Duke University healthcare system. I’m not sure anyone would want this type of unbalanced and mentally disturbed person delivering their healthcare. Yikes.

Malinda Rose Cook – VCU Health

Fanning the Flames of Violence: Soros-Backed DA Says He Will 'Hunt Down' 'Wannabe Nazi' ICE Agents

RedState 

Man oh man, have we heard plenty of inflammatory anti-ICE rhetoric coming from the likes of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, California Gov. Gavin Newsom — and even former presidents Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, if anyone is still interested in what they have to say.

But George Soros-backed Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner — who is as woke and pro-criminal as they come — took it to a new level Tuesday as he raged outside City Hall during an event for proposed legislation known as “ICE OUT,” which doubles down on the city’s sanctuary policies and resistance to any and all federal immigration efforts.

It’s getting hard to be shocked at anything progressive zealots scream these days, but Krasner seemed to want to make it to the top of the list of Democrats who can simply shout “Nazi” the most times.

Really? This is helpful in calming down the country and minimizing political violence, Larry?

Speaking during a morning event outside City Hall tied to newly unveiled "ICE OUT" legislation, District Attorney Larry Krasner sharply criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

"This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis. That’s what they are," Krasner said. "In a country of 350 million, we outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice."

Whoa! Sure as heck sounds like an outright threat to me. I’m guessing Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and others in the administration are taking notes.

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Krasner has threatened to arrest ICE agents before, but this seems particularly unhinged, even for him. The Democrats have compared their opponents to members of the Third Reich and belittled the Holocaust and its victims for so long now that, for many observers, it’s simply lost any meaning. They just look like angry, demented progressives, seeing which one can top the news cycle on MS NOW.

The proposed legislation Krasner and others were touting would further protect illegal aliens — including criminal ones — and continue to make a mockery of our immigration laws. Laws, mind you, that were passed by a Congress voted in by the people.

The proposed legislation would bar ICE agents from using city-owned property, restrict cooperation between city agencies and federal immigration authorities, prohibit data sharing, and limit agents’ access to public facilities — including libraries, shelters and health centers — without a judicial warrant.

Krasner framed his comments as a defense of constitutional rights and accused federal authorities of overreach, while praising individuals who film ICE agents during enforcement actions. Critics, however, said the language escalated tensions and raised concerns about rhetoric directed at federal law enforcement officers.

This kind of rhetoric will not lead us anywhere good. It sounds like he’s fantasizing about a direct, potentially violent conflict with federal law enforcement officers that could lead to some very dark places. In fact, it sounds very “insurrectiony” to me.

Hard-core radicals like Larry Krasner don't possess the kind of leadership that America needs right now.

‘Bring this country to a halt’: Sarsour, Singham network, students vow nationwide anti-ICE shutdown

 "No work, no school, no shopping." Anti-ICE efforts continue to ramp up in Minnesota, and a Chinese Communist Party-linked activist network is seeking to take the shutdown efforts nationwide.

By Jerry Dunleavy

A collection of far-left groups — led by a Communist activist network tied to CCP-linked millionaire Marxist Neville Roy Singham — is attempting to organize a nationwide anti-ICE school and business shutdown, with anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour declaring that “we will bring this country to a halt.”

The general strike effort, scheduled for this Friday, is an attempt to replicate a Minnesota-wide anti-ICE shutdown which occurred last Friday and which was organized by many of the same far-left groups — but now with designs to do so on a national scale. The planned “National Shutdown” announced early this week includes plans for large-scale marches and a day of "no work, no school, no shopping” around the country.

The Manhattan-based Marxist revolutionary People’s Forum, the left-wing BreakThrough News media outlet, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), the far-left Code Pink anti-war group, and the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition are all involved in either promoting or organizing the nationwide shutdown effort.

Just the News recently reported on how the forum, its propaganda machine, and the PSL were key players in pushing last week’s Minnesota-focused shutdown effort. Just the News also previously reported on how these and other radical activist groups have leadership links or financial ties to the funding network backed by Singham, whom others in his network call "Comrade." 

Social media used as organizing platform

The plans for Friday allegedly started with calls by a number of student groups at the University of Minnesota — the Somali Student Association, the Liberian Student Association, the Ethiopian Student Association, and the Black Student Union — who called for “Justice for Alex Pretti & Renee Nicole Good — NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN” on Instagram on Sunday.

An investigation by Just the News shows that the forum was likely involved in creating the “National Shutdown” website which is now serving as an organizational hub for the coming Friday strike.

The shutdown planned for this Friday comes in the wake of an ICE agent shooting and killing anti-ICE protester Renee Good after she allegedly drove her car at him earlier this month. It also follows the shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis this weekend.

“We witnessed a historic general strike on Friday in Minneapolis. Just yesterday, ICE killed yet another community member, Alex Pretti. This ICE terror on our communities in Minneapolis must end. We will not back down,” the Minnesota student groups said Sunday. “To stop the terror and get ICE OUT, we are calling for an expanded strike this Friday, January 30 at 2 PM in Downtown Minneapolis. We call on everyone across the country to stand with us and shut it down!”

The student groups also shared a graphic — “ICE Out Now! Nationwide Shutdown! No Work. No School. No Shopping.” — which would soon be shared by numerous other groups participating in the protest.

The forum, ANSWER, PSL, Code Pink, and dozens of other groups are all listed as “Endorsers” of the Friday anti-ICE shutdown effort. The GOP-led House Oversight Committee voted this month to subpoena Singham for information about his sprawling activist network.

The forum did not respond to a request for comment. Singham did not respond to a request for comment sent to him through his wife, Jodie Evans, the co-founder of Code Pink.

People’s Forum plays key role in organizing the upcoming Friday shutdown

The People’s Forum on Saturday shared a clip from Sarsour — a close ally of New York City’s socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani — at an anti-ICE protest, previewing the group’s intentions to organize a nationwide shutdown this coming Friday. 

The clip was shared by the forum on social media, and Sarsour herself posted the clip, with the forum and Sarsour also tagging other leftwing activist groups such as the 50501 Movement and its New York chapter, the New York Immigration Coalition, and Hands Off NYC.

“What we say today to the leaders — the political leaders — in this country, that we are not afraid, and more of us will come outside, and we will organize general strikes, and we will bring this country to a halt,” Sarsour declared on Saturday. The tweet shared by the forum accompanying the clip of Sarsour argued that “people across New York are mobilizing after the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota this morning” and that “this is the moment to protect our neighbors, dismantle ICE, and bring the system to a halt with a general strike.”

The forum on Saturday tweeted that “NYC has taken the streets after federal agents murdered ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minnesota this morning” and said the protest signs read that “Minnesota started it: it’s time for a national shutdown!” The video of the protest featured PSL signs.

The forum again tweeted that day that “NYC has erupted in protest” following the shooting  and again argued that “Minnesota started it—it’s time for a national shutdown! ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE!” PSL signs were again visible at the protest featured in the forum’s video.

The forum then tweeted once more the same day that “New Yorkers have taken to the streets following the murder of Alex Pretti this morning in Minnesota” and that “now is the time to defend our communities, shut down ICE, and shut it all down with a nationwide general strike.” The People’s Forum also retweeted announcements by BreakThrough News about the Friday shutdown effort.

The forum’s co-founder Manolo De Los Santos, also retweeted relevant posts by rapper Vic Mensa, the ANSWER Coalition, numerous tweets by BreakThrough News and hosts at the outlet, PSL members, socialist and communist influencer accounts, and others about the Friday national strike effort.

The “National Shutdown” website for the Friday nationwide strike effort also appears to have been created by a member of the People’s Forum.

A search of the website’s domain registration through GoDaddy.com revealed that the site was created by Hannah Craig, with the full name of Hannah Priscilla Craig. The email address provided by Craig indicated that she is the same Hannah Craig who claims to do “art, culture, communications” for the People’s Forum, and the mailing address provided by Craig was for the People’s Forum’s Manhattan office.

"National Shutdown" website encourages businesses to close and students to walk out

The “National Shutdown” website seemingly created by a member of the People’s Forum, includes a “Downloads” page with proposed social media graphics as well as a “Student Walkout Guide.”

“Somali and Black student organizations in Minneapolis are calling for a shutdown on Friday, January 30th, after the execution-style murder of Alex Pretti by immigration officers. They're asking people across the country to support the call,” the walkout guide contends. It says that last week “Thousands of students across the country walked out to protest ICE terror in our communities, and to demand justice for Renee Nicole Good. Three days later, the people of Minnesota organized a powerful shutdown — no work, no school, no shopping.”

The walkout guide adds: “This week, after Alex’s murder and while Congress is debating giving ICE even more money, it’s time to take our movement to the next level. ICE has kidnapped our neighbors and classmates; they do not make our communities more safe. We demand ICE out for good! Students are always at the heart of movements for justice across the world. On January 30th, we will organize walkouts across the country and stand in solidarity with immigrant communities in Minnesota and everywhere else!”

The guide for students says that “in many cities, on the same day as the student walkouts, people all across the country will be holding protests against ICE’s reign of terror” and that “students are encouraged to participate in those protests after walking out.”

This guide includes a host of proposed “Chants” including: “Walk Out! ICE OUT!”; “What do we want? ICE OUT! When do we want it? NOW!”; “Donald Trump! Let’s be clear! Immigrants are welcome here!”; “When immigrant rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!”; and “Up, up, with liberation – down, down with deportation!”

The walkout guide also provides an email address and blares that “AFTER YOUR WALKOUT, SEND ANY PHOTOS AND VIDEOS YOU TAKE.”

The broader shutdown website encourages people to “join a nationwide day of no school, no work, and no shopping” because “the people of the Twin Cities have shown the way for the whole country – to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN.”

BreakThrough News seeks to promote the anti-ICE strike across the U.S.

Amanda Yee, the host of “The China Report” on BreakThrough News, late Sunday night tweeted that a “NEW CALL FOR GENERAL STRIKE JUST DROPPED” as she shared a graphic which had been shared by University of Minnesota student groups. Yee’s “China Report” promotes a largely pro-CCP viewpoint, and Yee is also listed as the managing editor of Liberation News, the official newspaper of PSL.

BreakThrough News said Monday that “the student organizations that mobilized heavily for [last] Friday’s massive ‘shutdown’ in Minneapolis are calling for a repeat this Friday, ‘expanded’ nationwide.”

The media outlet shared a graphic titled, “Minnesota Somali and Black Student Groups Call for Nationwide General Strike on January 30.” The outlet repeated verbatim a statement released by three student groups at the University of Minnesota — the Somali Student Association, the Black Student Union, and the Ethiopian Student Association — who said that “to stop the terror and get ICE OUT, we are calling for an expanded strike this Friday” and that “we call on everyone across the country to stand with us and shut it down! NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO SHOPPING.”

The outlet also shared a graphic that day which declared, “ICE Out! Justice for Alex Pretti! Justice for Renee Good! Nationwide Shutdown! … No Work. No School. No Shopping.” The media outlet tweeted that day that hundreds of students at California State University Long Beach had walked out of class in opposition to ICE, and claimed that “students say they are joining the call for a nationwide shutdown on Friday.”

The outlet said Monday that it “has confirmed anti-ICE high school walkouts in eight states” and claimed that “since Minnesota-based Somali and Black students issued the call for a general strike last night, they say it has been joined” by groups such as the 50501 Movement, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a number of higher education unions, and others.

Adding Somalians into the mix

This post tagged the Somali Student Association at the University of Minnesota, CAIR National, the MIT Graduate Student Union, and the Ohio chapter for 50501, among others. The outlet on Monday also interviewed Somali business owner Abdul Kadir who told them that Pretti had showed up at the Karmel Mall in Minneapolis “every day” to protect Somali businesses, and that Kadir was in favor of a shutdown.

“I’m gonna close my store, and I have to be on the streets with solidarity [sic] Alex and Renee. … On Friday, we have to unite and show up. We have to close again our stores,” Kadir said in the outlet’s video.

The outlet also shared an interview that day with a University of Minnesota Law School student spoke about “why he supports an expanded general strike against ICE.”

“This is the only thing that matters right now. Normal life has to stop [...] ICE needs to go,” the student told them. “The majority of us are workers, and we make society run [...] What unites us is our class.”

Eugene Puryear, a host for BreakThrough News, also tweeted on Monday: “ICYMI there is a growing call from a wide variety of organizations, emerging from Minneapolis, for a nationwide ‘shutdown’ on January 30th, in response to multiple killings by Federal immigration agents.”

Puryear’s X biography describes himself as a “Revolutionary” while The People’s Dispatch — also linked to the Singham network — says Puryear is also part of the ANSWER Coalition.

The outlet on Tuesday also interviewed Jaylani Hussein, the executive Director of CAIR’s Minnesota chapter, “about why he supports expanding the general strike this Friday.” “It is not getting smaller. I think we have found a reason, and Minnesotans are gonna do what is necessary to hold ICE accountable,” Hussein said. “And I think this is the end for ICE.”

Party for Socialism and Liberation yet again central to anti-ICE efforts

Adrian Antonioli, who lists himself as a member of PSL, said on X on Monday that “following the call from Minneapolis Somali student groups, a website for a nationwide general strike for this Friday is live” and that “to make this happen we all have to come together and get organized!” The PSL member shared the aforementioned graphic in his tweet, and he shared a link to the forum-linked website for the “National Shutdown.”

PSL added: “What happened in Minnesota can happen across the entire country. Now is the decisive moment. The Minnesota General Strike has given us a historic opening. If we all take a stand now, we can stop the killings and the kidnappings, and end Trump’s war on our most basic rights! Make a plan. Organize your people. Stay tuned for actions this January 30 around the country.” “Stand With Minnesota! ICE Out! National Day of Action. No Business As Usual,” PSL’s tweet graphic added.

Claudia De La Cruz tweeted on Tuesday that “the only way we stop this madness is shutting it down! ICE Out of Everywhere! Abolish ICE!” She was sharing the Tuesday post by PSL.

De La Cruz said in a 2024 interview about her campaign as the PSL nominee to be U.S. president that “I co-founded and co-directed […] the People’s Forum.” The forum says that De la Cruz “is a central committee member of The Party for Socialism and Liberation” and that “in 2018, she co-founded The People’s Forum.”

"We are willing to shut everything down," union member says

De La Cruz and Karina Garcia, the vice presidential running mate in the 2024 race against Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, both tweeted on Tuesday that their followers should “join the National day of action this Friday, January 30, to say ICE OUT!” PSL also released a video on Tuesday which featured a member of the Teamster’s Local 120 Political Action Committee and also included PSL signs touting the shutdown.

“As you’ve seen across Minnesota, and across the United States, we are fighting. We are willing to shut everything down,” the Teamster in the video said.

PSL had tweeted: “Momentum is building in Minnesota and across the country for the January 30 nationwide shutdown to say ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE! The people are fed up with the terror being unleashed on our communities. It’s time to take action! Answer the call of Minnesota-based Somali and Black student organizations — join us in the streets of Downtown Minneapolis at 2PM on January 30 to show Trump, ICE, and CBP that the people have the power!”

Alec Johnson, a self-described PSL member with a Communist hammer and sickle in his X profile, also on Tuesday shared a graphic promoting Friday’s shutdown.

Andre Easton, a self-described “socialist” running for Congress in New York City who has been endorsed by PSL, also shared the Tuesday PSL post and said, “As a teacher, I know who makes history: it’s the people, not those in power sending death squads to our cities, and not the Democrats standing idle and letting it happen. I’ll be in the streets again on Friday with other union members, parents, and immigrant workers.”

Code Pink on Monday also tweeted: “FRIDAY: NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN! The people of Minnesota have led the way – to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN. We join their call to expand Friday's general strike. On Friday, January 30, join a nationwide day of no school, no work, and no shopping.”

Friday shutdown also promoted by celebrities, leftists, foreign Marxists, and more

Rapper Vic Mensa — a critic of Israel  and pro-Palestine activist — tweeted on Monday, “Are you participating in the strike against ice friday? nationwide. no work. no school. no shopping. shut it down.”

Actor Pedro Pascal on Instagram on Tuesday shared the aforementioned anti-ICE graphic along with the link to the forum-linked website promoting the shutdown. Other wealthy celebrities joined in the scrum, including singer Billie Eilish and actress Natalie Portman, according to CNN.

The New York chapter of the far-left Indivisible group said Monday that it would be part of Friday’s “Nationwide Shutdown” against ICE and said that there should be “No Work, No School, No Fucking Shopping.” The group also shared the same aforementioned graphic.

The leftwing North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign tweeted on Tuesday that it was also “joining the ‘ICE Out!’ National Shutdown on Friday, January 30, in solidarity with our siblings and immigrant neighbors in Minnesota.” The group also shared the link to the forum-linked shutdown website.

The far-left Mint Press News on Tuesday put out a tweet with a blaring red siren emoji and said that there was a “national strike against ICE” scheduled Friday.

A Marxist influencer account named “Sofie” with a hammer and sickle in her X bio and “I [heart] Kim Il Sung” (the former North Korean Communist dictator) in her Instagram bio, tweeted Tuesday that “we don't need a ‘better trained’ gestapo. We need to abolish ICE. Get these murderers the fuck out of our communities. NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN JAN 30. It's time to strike. Everywhere.” She also shared the aforementioned graphic and the forum-linked shutdown website, saying, “national shutdown dot US. no work no school no shopping january 30. ABOLISH ICE!!!”

A far left “Proud Socialist” influencer account with Karl Marx as its profile picture also shared the same aforementioned graphic on Tuesday and tweeted, “Minnesota understands the assignment and is not letting up at all. There is another shutdown planned for January 30th, and they are asking the country to join them.”

The Marxist-oriented Sindicato de Estudiantes (the School Students Union in English), a Spanish students' union, said on X on Tuesday that “following the murder of Alex Pretti, student and community organizations in Minnesota are once again calling for a GENERAL STRIKE this Friday, January 30, and are calling on the rest of the US to join. NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO SHOPPING. Defeat ICE terror! #AbolishICE”

Izquierda Revolucionaria — known as the Revolutionary Left in English — is a Marxist group which tweeted on Tuesday that it was also endorsing the “GENERAL STRIKE this Friday” in an effort to “Defeat ICE terror!”

Francesca Hong, a socialist running for Wisconsin governor, said Tuesday on X that “last Friday, Minnesota launched a general strike that shut down Minneapolis. On January 30, the movement goes nationwide. No work. No school. No shopping. When we withhold our labor, divest our dollars, and stand together in solidarity, the people have real power.”

It remains to be seen how successful the nationwide effort opposing the Trump Administration’s anti-illegal immigration policies will be, but the rallying cries for a shutdown highlights the organizational abilities and long reach of the Singham network and allied anti-American voices.