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China is not merely America’s geopolitical opponent. It is America’s geopolitical enemy — and has been since the establishment of the Chinese communist regime in 1949. For decades, American leaders and elites indulged the fantasy that this reality could be softened or reversed. Richard Nixon opened relations with China in part to split Beijing from the Soviet Union. Later, economic globalists insisted that bringing China into global markets would moderate its politics. The theory was that free trade would lead to freer people. It didn’t. China never stopped being what it has always been: a communist surveillance state with an appetite for repression at home and influence abroad. It is a historically mass-murdering regime and a government whose ambition is nothing less than the destruction of America’s global dominance. And China plays the long game. Unlike democratic nations that operate on election cycles, the Chinese Communist Party operates on decades. It can wait. It can plan. It can exploit. It has taken advantage of America’s openness — our markets, our universities, even our political institutions — to undermine us from within. Whether it’s the theft of tens of billions of dollars in intellectual property, the infiltration of American universities, or influence campaigns aimed at shaping public discourse, China has treated the United States like an enemy — because it is. That reality became impossible to ignore in 2020. China unleashed the Wuhan virus on the world while lying about the outbreak and downplaying evidence of human-to-human transmission. It misled the World Health Organization, which by that point had become so deferential to Beijing that it functioned more like a diplomatic arm of Chinese interests than an independent watchdog. The pandemic was a wake-up call, but it should not have been the first. For years, Americans have warned that the United States built supply chains through hostile territory. We outsourced manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and strategic industries to a nation openly committed to replacing us. Now the question is unavoidable: What should we do? First, America must use its economic leverage to isolate China. That means cutting strong trade deals with reliable allies and strategic partners — Canada, Mexico, Europe and developing countries that may be tempted to drift into China’s orbit. The goal should be simple: Force nations to choose. Countries should understand they can either have access to American markets and investment, or dependence on Chinese manufacturing and influence. They should not be allowed to have both. Second, America must cut off China’s sources of revenue and influence. Much of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been aimed at this. Pressure against Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela was about oil revenue that strengthens China. The same is true with Iran, a major supplier of oil to Beijing. Even the war in Ukraine has implications, as Russia increasingly functions as a resource pipeline for China. Third, America must strengthen itself. One of the most dangerous vulnerabilities we face is financial dependency. China owns trillions of dollars in American debt. The implicit threat is always present: Beijing could dump U.S. bonds onto the market to destabilize our economy. China could absorb the pain. It does not fear public backlash the way democratic governments do. This is what happens when a nation becomes bloated, complacent and addicted to spending. If the United States wishes to remain a world power, it cannot behave like a decadent welfare state. Debt is not just an economic problem — it is a national security threat. Finally, America must close the doors China uses to steal, spy and infiltrate. One obvious step is also the most controversial: no more Chinese foreign exchange students. Zero. Our universities have strong financial incentives to bring them in, but national security cannot be treated like a revenue stream. We should not be importing students from hostile regimes to access American research and institutions, only for them to return home and strengthen systems that seek our destruction. Pretending geopolitical enemies will not exploit American openness is naive. They already have. The United States is still the most powerful country on Earth, but power is not permanent. It must be defended and strategically deployed. China is not a competitor playing by the rules of commerce and diplomacy. It is an adversary playing for dominance. The steps needed to confront that reality are available — and necessary. Ben Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author.

A recent clip from finance guru Dave Ramsey’s podcast is blowing up all over social media, racking up millions of views in just days.In the video, Ramsey advises a 26-year-old nurse to break up with her boyfriend for making her debt a contingency for marriage. According to the girl, her boyfriend of six years makes $250K+ per year and pays most of their bills. However, he refuses to help with her large sum of school debt and refuses to propose before she pays it off herself.“Dump him,” was Dave’s blunt advice.“You’re having to buy your way into this relationship. Nope. You’re a princess, and you deserve more than this,” he added.Calling the couple’s issue a “money fight,” he went on to warn that financial disputes are the top cause of divorce in the country and suggested that their living together meant that they were “already married,” giving the boyfriend “no real incentive to propose.”Ramsey’s advice has ignited intense debate online, with many viewing it as contradictory of his “debt-free” messaging and unfair to a fiscally responsible man, and others defending Dave for calling out a transactional, controlling relationship dynamic.On this episode of “The John Doyle Show,” Doyle weighs in on the controversy. Doyle agrees with the critics calling Ramsey’s advice hypocritical considering his decades-long anti-debt crusade.“To see this man fold immediately when a 26-year-old woman in $90,000 of debt just bats her eyelashes a little bit was a little disheartening and frankly a little pathetic,” he says.Doyle speculates that this 26-year-old woman is “not as much of a princess as maybe Mr. Ramsey would like to believe.”“There was data, I think, from Ashley Madison, which is the affair website, literally like cheatonmyspouse.com. ... They surveyed something like 1,000 people. The number one job field for cheating women, like 23% of all those surveyed, was in health care,” he says.“And even beyond that, the type of women she’s around are not exactly going to be women who are stellar influences on her. You know, they’re not going to really cultivate or encourage princess-like behavior,” he adds.Doyle does, however, call Ramsey’s claim that the couple is essentially already married because they live together a “truth nuke.”“They are effectively married, but Dave is still going to advocate that, what, she breaks up with this guy?” he says. “Which is more or less like advocating that she gets a divorce. Because look, she’s already 26, starting to get past her sell-by date, right? ... At a minimum, you know, she should be treated as a clearance sale perhaps.”A breakup after six years, he argues, wouldn’t be as simple as Ramsey seems to insinuate.“You can’t rip off a six-year band-aid cleanly. She’s going to have rebounds. She’s going to be doing whatever. She’s not exactly going to land on her feet right away,” he comments. “But girl-dad Dave is so lost in the words of this hapless little princess, he can’t even imagine why a guy might not want to marry a girl with $90,000 in debt.”“His entire show is about how you should be debt-free, but only if you’re a guy. If you’re a girl, you’re just a princess, and it’s not your fault. If you’re a guy, ‘Yeah, bucko, pull yourself up by your bootstraps.’”To hear more, watch the video above.Want more from John Doyle?To enjoy more of the truth about America and join the fight to restore a country that has been betrayed by its own leaders, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

It was 1990, and I was in my final year of middle school. The Ultimate Warrior had just defeated Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania VI, Bon Jovi was poisoning the airwaves, and bubblegum still held its flavor.The law of the jungle was merciless. The concrete schoolyard was just a warm-up for the clique wars to come — if you weren’t smoking Marlboro Reds or rocking Nike Air Max 90s, you didn’t stand a chance. If your parents picked you up in the "wrong" car, it was reputational suicide.Back then, footballers looked like real blokes — sweaty, scruffy, and rough. Take Peter Beardsley: magic on the pitch, but no one was swapping stickers for his smile.Summer break was just a few weeks away. While everyone else seemed ready to spend six weeks climbing trees, aimlessly riding their bikes from dawn till dusk, staring awkwardly at girls they liked, or searching for dead bodies in the woods, I had other plans.Fever pitchThat summer, my true obsession was the Italia 90 World Cup sticker album — a glossy shrine to footballing glory, celebrating a tournament set in Italy and far more engrossing than my favorite comics. To top it off, England had an all-star lineup and, for once, stood a good chance of reliving the glory days of ’66, when we routed the Germans. I set myself a a mission worthy of Pelé himself: to fill every page with those adhesive, elusive footballers. Forget superheroes and cliff-hangers — completing that album was the only epic saga that mattered to this 11-year-old boy. Mark Leech/Offside/Getty ImagesEveryone wanted Maradona or one of the coveted shiny stickers. We devised what I can only describe as a unique system of exchange. Forget Wall Street; this was playground economics at its rawest. We would huddle around while each of us cycled through our spares, chanting “got, got, got,” until someone finally shouted, “NEED!”The true value of a sticker seemed to rise in direct proportion to the volume of that shout — sometimes it seemed like it could be heard in the next city. The whole system was rooted in supply and demand, but deals were sweetened with chocolate, soda, or the promise of a date with someone’s older sister.Mullet overThe Soviet Union was in its death throes. This was the era before German reunification. Although the Berlin Wall had technically fallen — famously serenaded by "Knight Rider’s" very own power balladeer, David Hasselhoff — Germany still played as West Germany in the World Cup.For all the horror associated with the communist regime, the most haunting images in my young mind were those notorious mullets — that and the East German female athletes, so heavily doped on steroids that they looked more like men than women. March Leech/Offside/Getty ImagesFlicking through my album, the West German squad looked less like a football team and more like a group of metalheads heading to a Mötley Crüe concert. Still, some of our own lads were sporting that same achy-breaky hair — most famously Chris Waddle, who blasted the ball over the bar in England’s semifinal defeat against West Germany. Proof, if ever it was needed, that mullets make you miss penalties.RELATED: The best pub in England might be this Norwich backstreet boozer The Fat Cat pubBlokes at workThis tournament’s sticker book hit the shelves at the end of April, ahead of the World Cup kicking off in North America — a whopping 980 stickers for obsessives to collect. The game has changed since those halcyon days — both financially and, perhaps most bizarrely, aesthetically.Today, pampered millionaire footballers seem to look perma-tanned and Botoxed, more suited to the red carpet than the muddy touchline. Back then, footballers looked like real blokes — sweaty, scruffy, and rough. Take Peter Beardsley: magic on the pitch, but no one was swapping stickers for his smile. For Americans, imagine pulling a Don Mossi Topps card — bags of talent, but not much glamor. L-R: Peter Beardsley, Don Mossi. Shaun Botterill/Betmann/Getty ImagesPatience and hopeOf course, my mission failed spectacularly. I didn’t complete the album in a month. In fact, I never completed it. But maybe that was the point. I belonged to the last generation to grow up without the internet, when patience and hope were virtues and instant gratification had yet to rear its head. Now we’re kept constantly distracted, our attention fought over by algorithms, notifications, and endless scrolling.Our sticker quests were slow-burn adventures, each new pack a lesson in anticipation, disappointment, and the long game. Trading and collecting weren't just a playground pastime; they were a rite of passage, a physical reminder of a slower world where you couldn’t always have it all, all at once.I am giving some serious thought to picking up the 2026 album. But this time round, the sticking point isn’t patience; it’s money. With 48 teams and nearly 1,000 stickers to collect, completing the book is now estimated to cost at least £1,000, ($1,400) to complete. As tempting as it is to rekindle my childhood love affair, I may have to sit this one out. Still, I did get the Maradona sticker — maybe not a complete album, but a complete memory.

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