Former President Donald Trump slammed neocons, the deep state, and President Joe Biden for spreading the "lie that Russia represents our greatest threat," amid a growing debate in some quarters about where the line is on supporting Ukraine.
"These globalists want to squander all of America's strength, blood, and treasure, chasing monsters and phantoms overseas — while keeping us distracted from the havoc they're creating right here at home," Trump said in one of his Rumble policy videos, this one posted Thursday. "These forces are doing more damage to America than Russia and China could ever have dreamed.
"Evicting the sick and corrupt establishment is the monumental task for the next president, and I am the only one who can do it. I'm the only one that can get the job done. I know exactly what has to be done."
Neocons, the deep state, and Biden are saying "Russia represents our greatest threat," while exacerbating it and ignoring troubles at home, according to Trump.
"But the greatest threat to western civilization is not Russia," Trump said in his video. "It's probably, more than anything else, ourselves and some of the horrible USA-hating people that represent us.
"It's the abolition of our nation borders, it's the failure to police our own cities. It's the destruction of the rule of law from within. It's the collapse of the nuclear family and fertility rates like nobody can believe is happening.
"It's the Marxists who would have us become a Godless nation worshiping at the altar of race, and gender, and environment.
"And it's the globalist class that's made us totally dependent on China and other foreign countries that basically hate us."
The Biden-directed engagement in "this proxy battle" puts the U.S. at risk of "global war" – one with the threat of nuclear weapons – Trump warned. He called for "peace without delay."
"We must be absolutely clear that our objective is to immediately have a total cessation of hostilities – all shooting has to stop," Trump said. "This is the central issue. We need peace without delay.
"In addition, there must also be a complete commitment to dismantling the entire globalist neocon establishment that is perpetually dragging us into endless wars, pretending to fight for freedom and democracy abroad, while they turn us into a third-world country and a third-world dictatorship right here at home.
"The State Department, the defense bureaucracy, the intelligence services, and all the rest need to be completely overhauled and reconstituted to fire the deep staters and put America first."
Eric Mack ✉
Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.
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