August 18, 2026 -

The Ambassador Who Went Native — For the Wrong Country.

More than 171,000 Canadians have signed a parliamentary petition demanding the removal of U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, citing a documented pattern of interference in Canadian politics, ties to a separatist voter-surveillance operation, and repeated normalization of Donald Trump’s threats to annex America’s oldest ally. The petition names a violation of the Vienna Convention. It also names the deeper problem: a presidency that no longer distinguishes diplomacy from destabilization.

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The Kim Concession: Trump Trades a Democratic Ally for a Dictator’s Applause

On the eve of the largest U.S.–South Korea drills of the year, the president gutted them from his phone — punishing Seoul for refusing to enlist in his failing war with Iran, and gifting Pyongyang a strategic win it could not have won on the battlefield. The reckless act is not an outlier. It is the pattern.