- President Donald Trump is reportedly considering Joe Kent, a right-wing former congressional candidate, for the position of director at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), marking a shift in U.S. foreign policy.
- Kent’s nomination would reflect Trump’s campaign promises to reduce the U.S. military footprint in the Middle East and prioritize threats from China and Russia over those in the Middle East.
- Kent’s views on foreign policy, particularly regarding the Middle East, are influenced by his experience as a former CIA officer and retired Green Beret, and are in line with other Trump administration picks.
- Kent’s potential appointment raises concerns due to his alleged connections to white nationalist groups, including the Proud Boys, during his 2022 congressional campaign.
- Trump’s nomination of Kent highlights the ongoing debate within the Republican Party over the role of the United States in global affairs and signals a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy under his administration.
Editor’s Note: The article positions Kent’s involvement with the Proud Boys as a potential negative. We don’t see it that way. His patriotism shines through in all of his actions, including the ones that legacy media paints as negative.
(Natural News)—President Donald Trump is reportedly considering Joe Kent, a right-wing former congressional candidate, for the position of director at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
This nomination, if confirmed, would mark yet another departure from traditional hawkish foreign policy and further Trump’s campaign promises to reduce the U.S. military footprint in the Middle East.
According to sources cited by Politico, Kent’s nomination would build upon Trump’s previous picks, including Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and Elbridge Colby for a top policy post in the Pentagon. These selections reflect a growing trend within Trump’s administration of favoring officials who advocate for a reduced military presence in the Middle East and a more focused strategic approach to other global threats.
Kent, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer and retired Green Beret, has been vocal about his views on foreign policy, particularly regarding the Middle East. In a podcast interview last year, Kent criticized former President Joe Biden’s administration’s decision to leave U.S. troops in the region, stating, “We’ve gotta get serious, and we’ve gotta just get our troops out of there.” Kent’s perspective is not unique within Trump’s inner circle; both he and Elbridge Colby, another potential nominee, have emphasized the need to prioritize threats from China and Russia over those in the Middle East. (Related: Kucinich: Trump must END WARS the U.S. has been involved in under Biden.)
A shift in strategy and priorities
Trump’s nomination of Kent for the NCTC director position is part of a broader strategy to reshape U.S. foreign policy. Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States has been deeply engaged in counterterrorism efforts in the Middle East, focusing on the Islamic State (IS) group and other militant organizations. However, Kent and other like-minded officials argue that this approach has become outdated and costly.
In a 2020 policy paper, Kent argued, “The post 9/11 wars are no longer effective because they deviated from locating and crushing terrorists who pose a threat to the U.S. homeland, into ill-defined costly efforts to build nations.” This sentiment echoes a growing concern among some policymakers that the U.S. should focus its efforts on more strategic threats, such as those posed by Russia and China, rather than maintaining a prolonged presence in the Middle East.
While Kent’s nomination aligns with Trump’s campaign promises to end Middle East wars, it also raises concerns. Kent’s campaign for a Washington state congressional seat in 2022 was marred by allegations of connections to the Proud Boys. This history has led some to question the implications of his potential appointment, particularly given his influence over U.S. counterterrorism policy.
Furthermore, Kent’s nomination stands in contrast to other high-profile picks within Trump’s administration, such as Marco Rubio for secretary of state, who advocate for a more interventionist foreign policy. This diversity of views within Trump’s cabinet highlights the ongoing debate within the Republican Party over the role of the United States in global affairs.
Kent’s potential nomination as the next director of the NCTC underscores a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy under Trump. By favoring officials who advocate for reduced involvement in the Middle East, Trump is signaling a new direction for the country’s national security strategy.
However, this move also highlights the complex and often conflicting perspectives within his administration, reflecting a broader debate about America’s role in the world. As the nomination process unfolds, the implications for U.S. foreign policy and national security will likely be closely watched by both allies and adversaries alike.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
