...a Manchurian Candidate, of sorts...

Classic Trump phrasing that can mean a dozen different things and gets your head spinning.

If we do a little timestamp match we get drop 929 and maybe a hint to dig on Merkel/Kasner/Scholz in the context of world wars?

u/#q929

https://web.archive.org/web/20211125194911/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/world/europe/germany-new-chancellor-olaf-scholz.html

Why did Biden refer to Merkel as Kohl earlier?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/caileygleeson/2024/02/08/biden-mixes-up-angela-merkel-with-dead-german-leader-in-second-slip-up-this-week/?sh=3741c86d234c

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Also if we look at capitalizing "Failing Nation" twice, maybe a call out to FN Herstal in the context of supplying SCAR weapons used in assaults on Russian towns?

https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-to-investigate-use-of-belgian-made-rifles-by-russian-volunteers-in-ukraine-war-pm-alexander-de-croo/

https://www.politico.eu/article/pro-ukraine-russian-soldiers-storm-border-region-claim-liberation-of-villages/

Nation in Serious Decline = NSD

NSD = National Security Division

https://www.justice.gov/nsd

NSD = A top level domain name server (DNS) product by NLNET Labs:

https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/about/

NSD = National Security Directive, under Trump they were called NSPM (National Security Presidential Memoranda), under Biden they are NPM (National Security Memoranda)

https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/nspm/index.html

https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/nsm/index.html

If you look at Biden's last NSM, it does seem to relate to arms transfers. So not too wild an interperetation.

https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/nsm/nsm-20.pdf

As outlined in National Security Memorandum 18 of February 23, 2023 (United States Conventional Arms Transfer Policy) (NSM-18), supporting foreign partners of the United States through appropriate transfers of defense articles by the Department of State and the Department of Defense is a critical tool for advancing United States foreign policy and national security objectives...

The memo goes on to say that basically funds should be halted if they are not used defensively. Pretty interesting stuff in the context of FN and Ukraine...

Could Trump be issuing orders through a public cryptogram?