Donald Bolduc

Trump brands himself anti-globalist, yet his tariffs, combative rhetoric, and forward-leaning deployments bind America more tightly to great-power competition, raising risks to our security and national cohesion.

Treating Venezuela as a target board for drug war theatrics swaps strategy for spectacle and ignores the hard truth that cartel profits, legal ports of entry, and U.S. demand thrive despite bombs, while the real fix lives in reform, cooperation, and treatment.

The U.S. buildup in the Caribbean, paired with covert moves and a push to label cartels as terrorists, reads less like a plan and more like a high-stakes gamble where strategy, law, and morality collide.

After ten tours with SOF, I saw women prove on the battlefield what history already shows: when we hold everyone to the same mission-driven standards, merit wins and the force gets stronger.

Slicing off pieces of Ukraine to placate Putin is not a peace plan; it is a surrender that rewards aggression, betrays our allies, and invites a wider war.

Trump’s cease-fire, built on wishful thinking that Hamas would police itself, stripped away Israel’s deterrent, let a hostile force regroup, and proved that without regional ownership of security and accountability, “peace” is a photo op and a pause before the next round.

Peace through strength works only when strength shakes hands with diplomacy, because ruling by unilateral muscle is a bandage on a battlefield wound that bleeds away the trust needed to win tomorrow.

Lincoln led through crisis by aligning decisive action with a long horizon, turning the fight to save the Union into a moral campaign that advanced freedom and set the nation on a path toward equality.

In Gaza’s shadow war, anti-Hamas clans aligned with the Palestinian Authority quietly gather intelligence, trade fire when necessary, and risk being branded traitors as they gamble that limited cooperation with Israel might carve out a sliver of stability for their families.

Celebrate the hard-won hostage releases, but keep your eyes on the harder fight ahead, where seasoned diplomats tackle root grievances, sideline spoilers like Hamas, and stitch a real path to security, dignity, and peace.

Basing foreign troops on American soil surrenders a piece of our sovereignty, puts partner politics ahead of America First, and invites risks that communities did not ask for.

The gravest threat to American national security is not abroad but in the slow collapse of truth, faith, and confidence in the institutions meant to serve us.