Under President Donald Trump's leadership, America is poised for a new era of power and prosperity — a nouveau Pax Americana, according to 1819 News contributor Troy Carico.
Carico joined "1819 News: The Podcast" with host and 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson recently to explain how Trump's adherence to the Machiavellian principle of realpolitik and practical wielding of power will help correct trade imbalances, foreign policy and other political and economic woes at home and abroad.
"Donald J. Trump, he gets it. He knows what we have in the armory. He knows where our power base is at, and he's not afraid to use it," Carico said. "[A]nd he's using it very well, from the Abraham Accords to the Qatari jet. Why do you think the Qataris gave him a jet? They want to be in his good graces."
He continued, "I believe we are right now in the midst of a nouveau Pax Americana, like Pax Britannica, Pax Romana. We are on the precipice, the doorstep of this. And if executed properly and appreciated by the citizenry of this great republic, greater things and triumphs await."
Carico, a 22-year Army veteran, referenced Trump's response to the situation with the Houthis attacking ships in the Red Sea as an example of how he's reshaping the global stage.
"Fear is an incredible motivator so long as you have a credible use of force in your threats… Look at what happened with the Houthis," he said. "The Houthis have been basically gelded right now, and they've been a defiant proxy of Iran… That is a perfect example of a microcosm of what Machiavelli is talking about. Under Biden, under Obama, we let two-bit dictators dictate how we're going to operate in international trade."
Carico said Trump's practical approach to governing — seeing the world as it is and not as some people want it to be — is key to reversing the damage done to an American society leaning toward socialism.
"On the note of governing on how things are, not how we wish they were, we don't understand, because of this post-World War II malaise," Dawson responded. "… We think that all people are the same. We've been catechized in the idea that all people in all cultures are the same and that they're all equal. So, what's happened is we've torn down any semblance of hierarchy between men and women, between societies, between cultures, between everything. We've been basically indoctrinated and marinated in this egalitarianism, OK, that everything is the same and we're all equal. And we actually have bought into it to the point where we have exported America to the third world. We export America and American exceptionalism to the third world, and the moment we leave, it's completely gone and it's toast, right? It's destroyed. And then we import the third world to America."
Carico added, "There are solutions, and it might be a little bit painful, but I'm telling you that if we don't check this unmitigated disaster of socialism with Islamic infiltration into our society, we're going to find ourselves in a very, very compromised position."
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