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1 month ago | 
theamericanconservative.com | Joseph Addington |Jude Russo
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Argentina’s President Javier Milei, who was riding high earlier this year after having defeated hyperinflation in 2024, faces an increasingly tough political landscape after blundering into a major cryptocurrency scandal in February. The self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist president has a long association with the world of cryptocurrency, which is popular among the libertarians who are his strongest supporters in the country.
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1 month ago | 
theamericanconservative.com | Sumantra Maitra |Joseph Addington
Foreign Affairs
On to Greenland!
In the President’s tempered and futuristic speech, one key sentence stood out.
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Foreign policy usually isn’t front and center of American politics, although it should be. Professional bias aside, everything, from mass migration to foreign aid wastage to wars and inflation can be causally attributed to foreign policy.
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2 months ago | 
theamericanconservative.com | Joseph Addington |Ted Snider
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In his inaugural address, U.S. President Donald Trump said, “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end—and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.”But in the dawning moments of his second term, Trump claimed the Panama Canal and Greenland and coveted Canada as the 51st state.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
theamericanconservative.com | James Pinkerton |Joseph Addington
Politics
Greenland: The Semi-Final Frontier
The (currently) Danish possession can be a proving ground for the next stage of human civilization.
This article is the second of two parts. Read Part One here. In Part One, we considered the geopolitics of Greenland: how it might peacefully, and profitably, come into American hands; finding the green—as in money wealth—in Greenland.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
theamericanconservative.com | James Pinkerton |Rand Paul |Joseph Addington
Politics
The Art of the Deal Comes to Greenland
Trump has an epochal opportunity with the Danes’ icy wastes.
It’s a distinct possibility that the U.S. will gain possession of Greenland. Donald Trump wants it, and even before he is sworn in as the 47th president, his allies in Congress are acting. As to the ways and means of acquisition, J.D. Vance sketched them on January 12: “We don't have to use military force,” he began.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Rand Paul |Joseph Addington
Over the last four years, we have witnessed an unprecedented erosion of security at our borders. This deterioration was marked by a complete disregard for the laws that were put in place to protect U.S. citizens. Since the start of the Biden-Harris administration, nearly 11 million individuals have been encountered attempting to illegally enter the United States.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Joseph Addington |Mason Letteau Stallings
Politics
DeSantis Picks Ashley Moody for Florida Senate Seat
Governor Ron DeSantis has selected Florida attorney general Ashley Moody to fill the vacancy in the Florida senate delegation that will be left by Marco Rubio if he is confirmed by the Senate to serve as the secretary of state for the incoming Trump Administration. Moody has been a strong ally of both President-elect Trump and DeSantis during her time in politics.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Joseph Addington |Mason Letteau Stallings
Politics
Rubio Confirmation Hearing Centers on China
Senate confirmation hearings for Marco Rubio, President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, began Wednesday. The hearings were initially marred by protestors objecting to Rubio’s support for sanctions on Latin American governments hostile to American interests including Cuba and Venezuela. The interests and position of the United States with regard to China was one of the major topics of the hearing.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Joseph Addington
As President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees begin their confirmation hearings, the Dispatch’s John McCormack floated an interesting scenario: What would have happened if George W. Bush had tapped Christine Todd Whitman, a relatively moderate Northeastern Republican, to be secretary of health and human services rather than head of the Environment Protection Agency? Whitman was pro-choice.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Hunter DeRensis |Joseph Addington
Politics
Trump Should Revive Jacksonian Military Attitudes
The worship of military technocrats underwrites American failures abroad.
During his first term in office, Donald Trump adorned the Oval Office with a portrait of our seventh president, Andrew Jackson. And for four years, Trump praised the precedent Jackson set as a populist and as a spirited fighter.
