Russia Attacks Poland—And Trump’s Too Busy Eating Seafood

This is what happens when America elects an unqualified narcissist.

Details are still coming in overnight, but Russia just violated Poland’s airspace with unmanned drones—an act that should be treated as an act of war against a NATO ally. And while the world waited for American leadership, where were Donald Trump and J.D. Vance? At Joe’s Seafood, mugging for cameras and stuffing their faces like a couple of jackasses.

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This is exactly what I’ve been warning about for months on conservative media.

Trump struts around demanding a Nobel Peace Prize, bragging about all the wars he supposedly stopped. But every conflict we’ve seen this year is the direct result of cowardly, incompetent American leadership. We’ve got a president who can’t tell friend from enemy, who sucks up to dictators, rolls out the red carpet for murderers, and lets our military kneel before foreign strongmen. He’s gutted the Department of Defense (and no, I ain’t calling it by its new name) and handed the keys to hacks like Pete Hegseth—rubber-stamped by Senate Republicans who’ve enabled this disaster every step of the way.

And now? Poland may be forced to invoke Article 5 of NATO. That’s not a drill. Article 5 means the potential for war. A real one. And here’s the truth: under strong American leadership, this doesn’t happen . Not under Joe Biden. Not under Reagan. Not under Clinton. Not even under Bush. But it is happening under Trump—because our enemies don’t fear us. They see a reality show president who talks tough but folds under pressure. They don’t believe we’ll defend our allies. And why would they?

Trump brags about how he “kept the peace” between Pakistan and India or Israel and Iran—but real leadership prevents those conflicts from getting close in the first place. Under Trump, Israel bombs Qatar’s capital without even informing us. That they didn’t loop him in on their strike against Iran either says it all: the U.S. has become irrelevant on the global stage.

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Meanwhile, Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are drawing closer. They’re building a new axis of power while we isolate ourselves. Europe sees it clearly—that’s why they’re unified around Ukraine. They know the future of their continent hinges on that fight. But instead of standing with them, Trump pushes idiotic tariffs, alienates allies like Canada, Mexico, Europe—even Vietnam, a crucial partner in Asia. We’ve handed global leadership to a man who doesn’t understand the job and doesn’t care to learn it. For God’s sake, it’s well known Trump doesn’t even read his briefings. The guy is clueless, and now everyone’s paying for it.

Poland scrambling jets to intercept Russian drones isn’t just their crisis—it’s the price of Trump’s weakness. And that price is rising. If another world war breaks out in Europe, it’ll be on Trump and J.D. Vance. Their failures aren’t theoretical—they’re real, and they’re dangerous.

This is a turning point. Americans of every political stripe need to stand up and say: enough. We stand with Ukraine. We stand with Poland. We stand with democracy. There are still millions of us—conservative, liberal, independent—who don’t bend to dictators and sure as hell won’t host them like honored guests to score cheap political points.

Let’s be very clear: none of this happens if Donald Trump isn’t in the White House. Any remotely serious leader—Democrat or Republican—would’ve prevented it. But Trump is uniquely unfit. He’s weak. He’s desperate to be liked by men like Putin. Since their meeting in Alaska, Putin has escalated bombings in Ukraine, killed civilians, and hit an American-owned factory—with barely a shrug from Washington.

Meanwhile, China is flexing its economic muscle, expanding its reach, and stepping into the void left by Trump, Vance, Rubio, and every coward who helped dismantle America’s global role—starting with USAID. Do you feel safer with Russia emboldened and China ascendant? I sure as hell don’t.

That’s the legacy of Trumpism: a smaller, weaker America. A world unraveling while our president cosplays as a dictator at home. And every day Trump is in power, that unraveling accelerates—undoing a century of work by leaders from both parties who, however flawed, believed in keeping the peace and holding the line.

We are on dangerous ground. And unless we act, America’s future will be decided by others. That’s what happens when you put an unqualified narcissist in charge of a leading the free world.

So stand up. Speak out. Fight back. Because if we don’t, we’re not just losing our place in the world—we’re handing it over to those who want to burn it down.