Did you know that “white Christian supremacy” is about to conquer America?

The very idea is absurd, you say? Why, you only think that because you haven’t read the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Year in Hate and Extremism,” out Thursday.

You see, while most of America understands that Donald Trump won a second term because the forces manipulating the Biden White House abused the government to force woke ideology on the American people—especially by opening the border and pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion—the SPLC is laser-focused on demonizing everyone who disagrees with that unpopular woke agenda.

The propaganda it churns out in service of this narrative is unintentionally hilarious.

For instance, SPLC admits that there were fewer “hate groups” and “anti-government extremist groups” in 2024 than there were in 2023, but it assures readers still to worry—the hateful movement of “white Christian supremacy” is even more dangerous now, because it has entered the halls of power.

“After years of courting politicians and chasing power, hard-right groups are now fully infiltrating our politics and enacting their dangerous ideology into law,” SPLC President and CEO Margaret Huang said while releasing the report.

“Extremists at all levels of government are using cruelty, chaos and constant attacks on communities and our democracy to make us feel powerless,” she added. “We cannot surrender to fear. It is up to all of us to organize against the forces of hate and tyranny.”

What’s the biggest threat to democracy? Why, the majority of voters who selected Donald Trump, of course! The SPLC doesn’t say that exactly, but it does suggest that the backlash to the 10 million illegal aliens who entered the country under President Joe Biden is rooted only in “hate.”

‘White Christian Supremacy’

As I wrote in my book, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” the SPLC made a name for itself by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy. Now, it trades on that history by publishing a “hate map” plotting “hate groups” and “anti-government extremist groups” across the country.

This map includes mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits, along with KKK chapters. The implication couldn’t be clearer: the SPLC’s ideological opponents are driven by the same hate that inspired the Klan. In fact, the SPLC’s reports say the map reveals the “infrastructure upholding white supremacy.”

The most recent report melds “white supremacy” with the specter of Christians taking power. It attacks Turning Point USA for “exploiting fear that white Christian supremacy is under attack.”

The most revealing section comes near the beginning of the full report, when the SPLC strains to connect opposition to illegal immigration to racism, fascism, and theocracy.

The SPLC claims that “a growing wave of white nationalism … motivated by theocratic beliefs and false claims of ‘Christian persecution’ and ‘white genocide’ … seeks to dominate social, cultural and political life in the United States and craft a Christian, fascist state in its own image.”

Of course, the idea that “white Christian supremacy” somehow existed in the same 2024 that saw the Biden White House celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter Sunday is laughable, but the SPLC still enjoys too much clout on the Left and in the legacy media. As I exposed in my book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” the SPLC had tremendous access to the Biden White House and the Justice Department.

The Associated Press article on the SPLC’s report does note that conservatives criticize the SPLC as biased, but it does not mention the SPLC’s many scandals. Among others, the SPLC has faced a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal that led it to fire its co-founder in 2019; claims from a former employee that the “hate” accusations are a “highly profitable scam”; accusations of union-busting following a round of layoffs; defamation lawsuits; and a terrorist attack inspired by the “hate map.”

The Terror Attack

It seems rather ironic for the SPLC to claim Christian persecution isn’t happening, when the SPLC is itself one of the major drivers of the movement trying to exile conservative Christians from the public square.

The SPLC report on “white genocide” aims its fire at the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian think tank in Washington, D.C. The SPLC has long falsely claimed that the council demonizes LGBTQ people by connecting homosexuality with pedophilia.

A terrorist in 2012 used the SPLC’s “hate map”—which includes the council as an “anti-LGBTQ hate group”—to target the Christian group for a mass shooting. A brave employee foiled the attack, but the terrorist said he planned to slaughter everyone in the building. The SPLC condemned the attack, but has kept the council on the “hate map” ever since.

The SPLC’s Insane Claims on Immigration

Many of the SPLC’s complaints about the Family Research Council’s rhetoric on immigration also apply to most conservative nonprofits and news outlets throughout 2024.

Among other things, the SPLC condemns the council for covering Laken Riley’s tragic death at the hands of an illegal alien criminal—whom the SPLC merely described as “an undocumented immigrant.” The SPLC faulted the council for having “leapt on Riley’s tragic death … much like how hate and extremist groups mischaracterize crime statistics and co-opt tragedies to claim Black and Brown people disproportionately commit violent crimes.”

This framing is impressively obtuse. The outrage isn’t just that Jose Antonio Ibarra lacked documentation. Federal authorities under Biden released him on parole, and then he went on to face charges of child endangerment in New York City—where he again got released—and got arrested for shoplifting in Georgia—and again released—before committing the murder. This case is so obviously a failure of federal law enforcement that Democrats joined Republicans in voting for a reform bearing Laken Riley’s name.

The case galvanized support for Trump, and arguably played a large role in the election. Are we really supposed to believe that all of this has more to do with “white supremacy” than just outrage over illegal immigration?

It can’t be that Americans were actually concerned about Venezuelan gangs going door to door with AK-47s in Aurora, Colorado. It can’t be that Americans don’t like to see thousands of young people killed by Fentanyl overdoses, which crossed the effectively open border. It can’t be that Americans support legal immigration but take a dislike to aliens brazenly violating our laws.

No, the only reason to oppose the SPLC’s preferred border policies is hate, no matter how bad the border crisis becomes.

After all the fearmongering, the SPLC proceeds to add a little disclaimer. You see, the Family Research Council may not be calling the shots in the Trump administration, in part because the council’s president criticized the Republican National Committee platform. So even the SPLC’s own report may suggest that the attacks on the Family Research Council are a bit gratuitous.

The SPLC’s Role

The SPLC acts as an enforcer of the Left’s stifling orthodoxy, branding as “hateful” any nonprofit that opposes its agenda. Its targets include the conservative Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, the parental rights group Moms for Liberty, or the medical watchdog group Do No Harm. Even Gays Against Groomers is on the map as an “anti-LGBTQ hate group,” even though its members identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual.

If the Left returns to power after Trump, expect the SPLC to again have a seat at the table. That’s why it’s important to repeatedly expose its insane propaganda and its history of scandals.

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Republicans this week made major progress when they passed the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation package out of the House, but there’s still a long road ahead to President Donald Trump’s desk. 

The package—dubbed the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act—now heads to the Senate. The GOP currently has a 53-47 majority in the upper chamber, and several prominent members of the GOP conference have already voiced concerns about the House-passed version of the bill.

If passed, the bill would fulfill a number of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises, such as extending his first-term 2017 tax cuts and funding border security.

As the bill moves to the Senate, here’s which GOP senators are worth keeping an eye on:

Senate Majority Leader John Thune

Sen. John Thune is Senate Republicans’ successor to Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as conference leader.

 Since taking the post, Thune, R-S.D., has proven himself remarkably capable of settling disagreements in his conference, quickly confirming every one of Trump’s Cabinet-level appointees.

Thune has supported House leadership’s reconciliation efforts and has indicated he wants to get the bill passed through the Senate by Independence Day, July 4.

Of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s concessions to blue state Republicans on increasing the cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions, Thune has told the press, “It’s not an issue that gains or loses votes here in the Senate. This is purely a House play designed to deal with the political challenge they have to get 218.” That number represents a majority in the 435-seat House.

Thune told reporters that he’s hoping to keep the basic structure of the House’s bill intact.

“When it comes over here, I think [Speaker Johnson] would like to see as little change to the product as possible, because they cobbled together a very delicate balance over there,” he said.

Sen. Mike Crapo

Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, has expressed hope about the compatibility of the Senate version of the budget reconciliation bill with the House’s.

The Idaho senator, who chairs the powerful Senate Finance Committee, has publicly expressed that he thinks the bill “will probably be the most significant thing that we do in our service in Congress.”

Crapo wields a significant amount of power from his post in the Finance Committee, as he will navigate discussions over tax policy and Medicaid financing.

State and local tax deductions, as well as Medicaid reforms, were the two most contentious issues in the House, and as such, Crapo will have his hands full.

“We’ve been working very closely together to get our work product as close together as we can,” Crapo has said. “I think you’ll see a significant amount of overlap, but there will be differences.”

Sen. Josh Hawley

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., cautioned against aggressively seeking savings in Medicaid in an op-ed for The New York Times.

He noted that more than 70 million Americans, including 1 million of his constituents in Missouri are on Medicaid. Hawley said Republicans should “ignore calls to cut Medicaid.”

The Missouri senator has also proposed expanding the child tax credit to $5,000, up from the $2,000 figure that was in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The tentative number for the new child tax from the House Ways and Means Committee was $2,500 per child, which would eventually revert to $2,000 after 2028.

Sen. Ron Johnson, Other Fiscal Hawks

In the Senate, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., is perhaps the closest equivalent to the conservative House Freedom Caucus members that Trump and House leadership were able to bring into line on Thursday.

Johnson wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed in May, “The Ugly Truth About the ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’” in which he called the bill’s $1.5 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years “little more than a rounding error.” 

It likely will be harder to pressure Johnson than it was to pressure Freedom Caucus members. 

“I couldn’t care less if he’s upset,” Johnson said of potential pressure from Trump.

“I’m concerned about my children, my grandchildren, and the fact that we are stealing from them … $37 trillion in debt and we’re going to add to it as Republicans? That is unacceptable, and that’s why there’s no way I’m going to vote for this bill in its current form.”

Johnson has a couple of ideological soulmates in the Senate. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has opposed GOP efforts on similar grounds, rejecting the Senate budget resolution that formed the basis for the current bill.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is less of a rebel than Johnson or Paul, but has previously expressed sympathies for Freedom Caucus members’ efforts to implement more aggressive Medicaid reforms in the House. 

These three are the most fiscally conservative members of the Senate, but there are a handful of other senators who might also push for more aggressive cuts.

Sen. Susan Collins, Other Centrist Republicans

Collins, a moderate Republican from Maine, was one of two senators in her party to vote against the Senate’s budget plan in April—which laid the groundwork for the bill coming to the Senate.

Collins joined Hawley and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, as the only Republicans to vote in April for an amendment that would have struck instructions for the House Energy and Commerce Committee to make massive spending cuts. 

Energy and Commerce handles Medicaid spending and has found hundreds of billions of dollars in projected savings by increasing “community engagement” requirements for Medicaid and requiring regular eligibility checks for the program.

Given that the House leadership has appeased fiscal hawks in the House by including earlier implementation of Medicaid work requirements, Collins could take issue with the compromise provisions that made the bill’s passage in the House possible. 

Murkowski is another senator to watch closely. The Alaska lawmaker voted against confirming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, showing her willingness to directly defy Trump’s wishes.

She has also expressed opposition to the GOP’s plans to find savings in Medicaid. Murkowski also has positioned herself as taking a “more cautious and conscientious approach” on ending green energy tax credits that were put into the Inflation Reduction Act signed by then-President Joe Biden.

Those green energy tax credits were just given a quicker expiration date in the House’s bill in order to appease fiscal hawks.

Less than three weeks ago, Murkowski and Collins declined to weigh in on whether they would back the bill. 

Then there are those who have the least to lose in breaking party ranks. Most prominent among those is McConnell, who has been cast out of the mainstream of the party after a series of spats with Trump and who voted against a number of Trump’s Cabinet nominees. He is set to retire at the end of his current term.

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THE CENTER SQUARE—Los Angeles’ deputy mayor for public safety has pleaded guilty to calling in a fake, anti-Israel bomb threat to himself in October.

Brian Williams, who was charged by federal prosecutors Thursday, faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

Mayor Karen Bass announced in December that Williams had been put on administrative leave, meaning he likely has been collecting his $245,143 combined salary and benefits without any official duties. As deputy mayor for public safety, Williams would have overseen the city’s fire and police response during the devastating January wildfires.

The Department of Justice reports that during an online government meeting, Williams used his personal cellphone’s Google Voice app to call his city cellphone, then left the meeting and placed a call to the Los Angeles Public Department, saying he received a call from an unknown man with a threat to bomb Los Angeles City Hall. 

“Williams received no such call and had made the bomb threat himself,” wrote the DOJ. “At no time did Williams intend to carry out the threat.”

Williams then texted Bass and other high-ranking officials to share the news. 

“Bomb threat: I received phone call on my city cell at 10:48 am this morning. The male caller stated that ‘he was tired of the city support of Israel, and he has decided to place a bomb in City Hall. It might be in the rotunda.’ I immediately contacted the chief of staff of LAPD, they are going to send a number of officers over to do a search of the building and to determine if anyone else received a threat,” texted Williams. 

LAPD then searched city hall for explosives or suspicious packages, finding none.

Williams then texted the mayor and high-ranking officials again, saying, “At this time, there is no need for us to evacuate the building, I’m meeting with the threat management officers within the next 10 minutes. In light of the Jewish holidays, we are taking this thread, a little more seriously.”

It’s unclear what government meeting Williams placed the bomb call during, or what Williams’ motive was for the false bomb threat. 

“In an era of heated political rhetoric that has sometimes escalated into violence, we cannot allow public officials to make bomb threats,” said U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, whose office is overseeing federal prosecution of the case. “My office will continue its efforts to keep the public safe, including from those who violate their duty to uphold the law.”

Originally published by The Center Square.

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On Memorial Day, we honor the Americans who have died protecting and serving this country in the Armed Forces of the United States of America. It is a time when all of us should—no matter who we are, where we come from, or where we fall along the political spectrum—forget about politics and our differences and remember those who gave the last full measure of devotion to our great republic and remember what unites us as a people. 

Memorial Day became an official holiday in 1971, but it started in 1868 as Decoration Day. It began as an effort to remember those who died in the Civil War, the bloody brother-against-brother conflict that killed and wounded more Americans than any other war in our history. In fact, it was because of the Recent Unpleasantness Between the States, as it was sometimes referred to by gentile Southern ladies, that we established the first national military cemeteries like Arlington Cemetery in Virginia.   

The idea of decorating those sacred grave sites with flowers and reciting prayers for the fallen is attributed to General John A. “Blackjack” Logan. Logan was a Union Army general from Illinois who fought at Bull Run and numerous other battles. He became the head of a Union Army veterans’ group after the end of the war. 

All of us celebrate Memorial Day in different ways. But as an aficionado of classic Hollywood movies, I have put together a list of war movies that may be fitting to watch this Memorial Day Weekend. I limited my choice to six movies that you can cover in a binge watch in one day. They were hard to choose because Hollywood has made so many. The one factor common to all these films is that they are all based — although sometimes very loosely—on real incidents. 

Since Decoration—now Memorial — Day was started to commemorate those who died in the Civil War, I am starting with two movies about that conflict. 

The Civil War 

“The Horse Soldiers”—This 1959 movie by the great director John Ford stars John Wayne and William Holden. Wayne plays the colonel in charge of a Union cavalry brigade sent on a raid deep behind Confederate lines to destroy a railroad supply depot that is helping Vicksburg resist General Ulysses S. Grant’s siege. Holden plays the surgeon assigned to accompany the brigade who is in constant conflict with Wayne. Along the way, they pick up the mistress of a Southern plantation who is forced to accompany them after she overhears their plans, as they are pursued by Southern forces.   

The movie is based on the daring 1863 cavalry raid led by Colonel Benjamin Grierson that destroyed Confederate supply lines from Tennessee to Louisiana during the Vicksburg campaign. A terrific movie with an ending you’ll always remember. 

“Gettysburg”—This 1993 movie is probably the most realistic portrayal of what happened in the pivotal battle of the Civil War. It not only has an all-star cast, including Tom Berenger, Sam Elliott, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, and many others, but parts were actually staged on the Gettysburg Battlefield, the first time a movie about the battle was ever filmed there.   

That included filming in the Devil’s Den and on Little Round Top, locations I have visited that sent shivers down my spine as I thought about those who fought and died there. One of the reasons the movie is so good is because it is based on the outstanding book written by Michael Shaara, “The Killer Angels.” 

World War I 

“Sergeant York”—The 1941 movie about the real Sergeant Alvin York was directed by Howard Hawks, one of the top directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age. It stars Gary Cooper as the poor Tennessee farmer, a crack shot, who became one of the most decorated soldiers of World War I, including receiving the Medal of Honor, despite starting out as a conscientious objector due to his religious beliefs.  

The movie about how York went from the back hills of Tennessee to the bloody battlefields of France is actually based on his diary. The modesty of York that Gary Cooper portrays in the film was also a reality. York was so resistant to a film being made about him that he was only persuaded after Hawks agreed to help fund a small Bible school in his hometown in East Tennessee. 

World War II 

“They Were Expendable”—Director John Ford made a movie in 1945 about the little-known exploits of a PT boat squadron in the Battle of the Philippines in 1941-1942 that fought against overwhelming Japanese naval forces. It stars John Wayne and Robert Montgomery portraying two real PT boat commanders, one of whom won the Medal of Honor. Montgomery himself actually commanded a PT boat during the war. 

The movie, shot with a semi-documentary feel, includes the evacuation of General Douglas MacArthur and his family from the Philippines by PT boat before the U.S. Army’s surrender to the Japanese. 

“Twelve O’Clock High”—With this 1949 movie directed by Henry King, we move from the naval war in the Pacific to the air war in Europe. The film tells the story of B-17 bomber crews flying out of England over Nazi-occupied Europe. It stars Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, and Dean Jagger. The story and the characters are based on the real exploits and officers of the 306th Bomber Group of the 8th Army Air Force, which suffered very high causalities and whose young crews experienced severe mental, emotional, and physical stress and trauma. The movie spawned a TV show that ran from 1964-1967. This tense movie gives you a taste of what these brave young Americans went through to help win the war in Europe. 

Korea 

“The Bridges at Toko-Ri”—This movie about the air war in Korea and a mission to destroy heavily defended bridges in North Korea was made in 1954, only a year after the war ended. It stars William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, and Mickey Rooney as a helicopter pilot charged with rescuing downed pilots. Holden plays a reserve Navy officer called back to duty as an aviator.  

Veteran actor Fredric March, as the admiral in charge of the Navy Carrier Task Force, has a memorable line for Holden, who resents being forced to leave his civilian job, a line that every veteran can appreciate: “All through history, men have had to fight the wrong war in the wrong places, but that’s the one they’re stuck with.”   

The movie is based on a book by James Michener, who based his book on attacks carried out during the winter of 1951-1952 on railroad bridges at Majon-ni and Samdong-ni in North Korea by Navy pilots flying off the USS Essex and USS Oriskany.  

Vietnam 

“We Were Soldiers”—Forget the movies everyone refers to when talking about Vietnam like “The Deer Hunter” or “Apocalypse Now.” The best and most realistic movie about Vietnam according to veterans I have spoken with is this 2002 movie starring Mel Gibson and Sam Elliot, directed by Randall Wallace. It is a true story based on a riveting book, “We Were Soldiers Once … and Young,” written by Lt. General Hal Moore and former UPI reporter Joseph Galloway. Moore was the commander of one of the first Army Air Cavalry Units and the movie follows him and his men from their initial training in the states to the Battle of la Drang on Nov. 14, 1965.   

Moore and his 400 men were dropped into the la Drang Valley, unaware that there were over 4,000 veteran North Vietnamese army troops there. Galloway actually went in with Moore and was awarded a Bronze Star for his gallantry—as a reporter—for helping wounded soldiers. The movie depicts the ferocious battle that ensued, with the American troops coming close to being overwhelmed by enemy forces, and captures both the horror, and the gallantry faced and displayed by both sides. 

None of these movies glorify war. What they do is show the courage, bravery, and sacrifice of American soldiers, often against great odds and under horrific conditions, in many different eras through many different generations. They illustrate the moral dilemmas faced by men who didn’t like violence, didn’t want to kill, but were forced to do so in order that the greater good would triumph over the evils of their time. 

My salute goes out today to the many Americans all over the world in our military who are the guardians at the gates, standing at their posts, protecting our homeland while we peacefully enjoy our homes and families and commemorate their brothers and sisters who protected us in the past. 

May God Bless America. 

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Although last year provided evidence of great improvement, Romania and Bulgaria still need to continue increasing their defense spending to strengthen NATO’s southeastern flank.

Both nations spent over 2% of their gross domestic product—the measure of the total value of goods and services their countries’ produced—on their defense in 2024. Two percent is currently the required amount for NATO members.

This is a positive step in the direction of stronger European security. However, the two countries will need to increase their spending even more to meet new NATO requirements and ensure stability in the region, especially in the wake of the likely call for a new, higher minimum spending number at the NATO summit in The Hague next month.

Regional Importance

Romania and Bulgaria are two of three NATO members on the Black Sea, where Russia keeps its Black Sea Fleet. Significant infrastructure, such as oil and gas pipelines and undersea cables, are located in the Black Sea, making the area important to NATO security. If Russia or another adversary were to take advantage of weak defenses in the region, infrastructure critical to many NATO countries would be disrupted.

Turkey recently discovered a new oil reserve in the Black Sea. The reserve is believed to be 2.6 trillion cubic feet and is located near the maritime border with Bulgaria. This discovery further emphasizes the importance a strong defense in the Black Sea has on NATO’s energy security.

Romania and Bulgaria also have greater land masses, populations, and annual GDPs than almost all their southeastern neighbors and will need to take on more of a leadership role in the region.

Defense Spending in Recent Years

Bulgaria spent 2.18% of GDP and Romania spent 2.25% of GDP on their respective defenses in 2024. For each of them, this is only the second time in the last decade that defense spending reached over 2% of GDP.

Through 2019 to 2023, Bulgaria’s military spending consistently decreased, falling to $7.1 billion during that time.

New defense purchases demonstrate Bulgaria’s resolve to make a significant increase in its defense budget. For instance, the country has invested in F-16s, 8×8 wheeled Infantry Fighting Vehicles, naval vessels, and anti-ship capabilities. The first of 16 F-16s was delivered from Lockheed Martin in January.

Romania missed its defense spending target in 2023 by only spending 1.6% of GDP. It appropriately reacted to this shortcoming by producing its largest defense budget in the last three decades for 2024.

The Mihail Kog?lniceanu Air Base in Romania is currently undergoing a multibillion-dollar project for expansion and renovation that started in 2024. The project was initiated to deter Russian aggression on the eastern side of NATO. Upon completion, the base will be the largest NATO installation in Europe.

Romania is working on plans to allocate additional funds toward defense spending, including expanding its national defense budget, applying for a designated defense loan from the EU, and passing new legislation. Romania has also revised its national military mobility plan by adding a north-south corridor linking Romania to the Balkans and a new Danube bridge.

The Romanian defense modernization strategy focuses on replacing old equipment with newer systems such as the K9 Thunder artillery gun for the army and the F-35A fighter jet for the air force. The Romanian navy has directed its focus to innovation as well. The modernization strategy is predicted to spur defense industry growth and increased defense spending for the next five years.

Increasing the NATO Minimum

Fortunately for the strength of NATO, most alliance members have raised their defense spending in response to American criticism of their shortfalls and to the deteriorating security environment in Europe.

In 2024, a total of eight members were still under the 2% spending goal. While ideally, all members are above the minimum, this statistic is still an improvement from the 21 members under 2% in 2023. The positive momentum must be maintained.

The most important agenda item for the June 2025 NATO summit in The Hague is increasing the annual defense spending target. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called for the spending goal to be raised to 5% of GDP, and others have called for an increase to 3.5%.

Call for Continued Increase

Not only is increased Bulgarian and Romanian spending necessary for burden-sharing within NATO, but it is essential to strengthening the southeastern flank. Black Sea security is relevant for all NATO members, including the U.S., and requires greater defense spending from all member states in the region.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to years of sharp criticism from the legendary music icon, President Donald Trump demanded to see Bruce Springsteen's birth certificate to prove he was born in the U.S.A.