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LAKE ONTARIO :The Sharpie was the spectacle. Section 2(a) of the executive order is the territorial claim. While most people stared at Donald Trump’s big, fat signature — scribbled with his favourite instrument of international policy, the Sharpie — the fine print of the executive order went unnoticed. As always, the devil is in the details. The name change was the tip of the iceberg. And maps are more than names. Read the executive order. “With the deepest parts of the Lake’s waters lying within United States territory, the United States claims most of the Lake’s volume.” section 2 (a) The verb is the weapon. Claims. This is not a caption on a souvenir. It is an assertion of right. Then , further reading of the order describes the machinery. Within 30 days, the Secretary of the Interior is to rename the lake “Lake America,” update the Geographic Names Information System, and “remove all references to Lake Ontario from the GNIS.” Not add a name. Erase all mention of the old name from the official American geographic record. After that, every federal map, contract, and government communication must repeat the new one. Watch the sequence, one that China has been executing for decades in the South China Sea. First, isolate a physical fact: the deepest point, the Rochester Basin, sits off the New York shore. -Convert that fact into a title: the United States “claims most of the Lake’s volume.” - Write the new name into the database. -Delete the former name. - Order the entire federal apparatus to speak as if the deletion had always been true. Once that paper trail exists, it can be cited in legal arguments to claim sovereignty. "Our maps already call it Lake America. ", says Washington! From Sharpie to proof. 🇨🇳China perfected the method in the South China Sea. Rename the reef. Inscribe the name on the official chart. Send the ships. Treat the chart as verdict. The name goes first. The patrol follows the name. 🇺🇸The White House has written the first half of that script onto a shared inland sea. The second half is already foreseeable. When Coast Guard charts, Army Corps filings, and American navigation systems all say “Lake America,” patrols, icebreakers, and inspections acquire a new language. They are no longer on a binational lake. They are on a body of water the United States has already renamed and claimed by volume. Presence follows paperwork. Below is a detailed analysis of how China uses maps as a weapon to subjugate its neighbours.⏬ #cdnpoli #polqc

ISW: Russia could try to repeat its 2022 scenario — but this time against NATO According to the Institute for the Study of War, Moscow may be preparing not for a full-scale invasion of the Baltic states, but for a limited operation — such as a brief military strike or a small-scale incursion designed to test NATO’s willingness to defend its members. The unexpected visit of CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Moscow has raised concerns. According to US media reports, he may have delivered a warning to Russia about the consequences of attacking NATO countries. At the same time, US intelligence has found no signs of preparations for a large-scale invasion comparable to Russia’s military buildup before its attack on Ukraine in 2022. ISW argues that the lack of such a massive troop buildup does not rule out a more limited scenario. Russia could try to test how ready NATO is to respond to a small-scale attack — and how quickly the alliance would invoke Article 5.

If Congress will not secure elections, balance the budget, or respect the limits of the Constitution, then the states must step in and use Article V as it was designed to be used. But state legislators will not act unless citizens like you demand it. The SAVE America Act failure showed us, once again, that Washington will not fix Washington. The Founders did not leave us stuck there. They handed us a constitutional tool to correct a runaway federal government. Now it is our turn to pick it up and use it. Congress has failed at its job. Let’s prove we will not fail at ours.