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Letter to the Editor: 180 days of Project 2025

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Dear Editor,

The recently installed Republican GOP U.S. "president" has long been fascinated with American control of Greenland and taking control of the Panama Canal, spanning from his interest in buying the country in 2019, to his recent refusal to rule out taking both targets of acquisition by military force. Now that America is no longer a trusted partner with our historical allies, the 574 "federally recognized" native tribes should take notice.

If military force is a side option, economic force is applied first. The yearly monetary scraps that are doled out to Treaty tribes gets smaller and the conditions get stricter. The Rule of Strength is now the Institution and any opposition is eliminated. While millions of immigrants are being deported, Native Americans should begin strategic thinking with long-term planning to protect their land base and resources.

Raw materials and rare elements are on the bucket list of the greedy billionaire oligarchs, apparent on the stated intentions of this new White House administration. Project 2025 has no plans for the sovereign indigenous nations in their manifesto, although many of the Heritage Foundation authors are Christian Nationalists who carry the "America First" agenda as well.

Consider the vast resources of the Great Navajo Nation. Is the tribe capable of meeting the expected ROI on the congressional funding doled out each fiscal year to operate our government? The "National Security" interests regarding domestic energy targets other foreign sovereign nations and this administration's "Dream Team" is packed with oil billionaires and oligarchs who paid their way into the seats of U.S. government.

The Water Wars will intensify with the final offer from the artist of the deal: Sell it or we seize it. The massive reservation land base with strategic value and shipping routes for the wealth of harvested raw materials and rare earth elements that power our nation and military will be the target. Seven hundred and fifty bases world-wide have enormous needs.

Donald Trump's campaign siphoned off $277 million from Elon Musk, the Minister of DOGE (pronounced: "Doggie"), the non-existent Department of which both he and DonOLD have extensive experience in bankruptcy. Musk has already siphoned off billions from U.S. taxpayers for his Space x initiative that will eventually forever pollute the Low Earth Orbit with 45,000 satellites.

Starlink for the executive order reservations of education. The MAGA (Moscow Agents Gutting America) Republican GOP (Gang Of Putin) expansionism will gut the U.S. Department of Education, Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, and seize the land base tribes hold sacred. Tariffs won't be needed as military force is an option.

Presently, American allies question the imperialistic declarations of Donald Trump and America's invasion of nations with strong international agreements, historical institutions of cooperation, and military commitments that give a force multiplier for the U.S., who is now in Civil War 2025.

The Navajo Nation must prepare during the given 180 Day Project 2025 timeline for another "Long Walk" through this new period of lawlessness that started again on Jan. 20. We have flourished since Hweeldii and our brother Leonard Peltier has been granted his overdue freedom. This time it is a spiritual fight to maintain our Diné language, culture, and history. The Navajo Nation must prepare now as other tribes will follow....

Sincerely,

Mervyn Tilden

Church Rock, N.M.