SITREP 20: Missiles, Minerals, & American Dominance
Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw
Dan Crenshaw
4.6 • 16K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The Situation Report for July 17, 2025. President Trump brings the hammer down on Putin. Major developments in the race to make America the world’s AI capitol AND self-sufficient on the critical minerals front. A radical protest movement brewing in Mexico to expel American nationals. And the Texas special session is about to have huge implications for national politics. All this and much more in less than 14 minutes.
Deadlines and missile systems: President Trump escalates pressure on Russia
The U.S. ramps up its critical mineral infrastructure
How the Rust Belt is transforming into a high-tech AI hub
Radical protestors tell Americans to get out of Mexico
A quick note on the origins of “gringo”
The Texas special session is coming, and it has national implications
ICE cleans up Texas
New developments in the Biden autopen scandal
John Brennan could be in big trouble
Media Bias Alert: the left mocks victims of the July 4th floods
Read of the week: Dan Crenshaw’s “Heartbreak and Heroism in Hill Country, Texas”
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| 0:00.0 | We hold these truths to be self-evident. |
| 0:02.1 | That all men are creed. |
| 0:03.4 | As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office. |
| 0:07.3 | Experts on what they're talking about. |
| 0:09.0 | This is the podcast for insights into the issues. |
| 0:11.6 | China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions. |
| 0:16.0 | Breaking it down into simple terms. |
| 0:18.0 | We hold. |
| 0:18.7 | We hold these truths. |
| 0:20.1 | We hold these truths. With Dan Crenshaw. |
| 0:22.2 | The angle has landed. Sit rep number 20. Thanks for joining us as we cover the most interesting |
| 0:27.6 | news from last week, arming you with the facts. So let's start with President Trump. He's pledging |
| 0:34.3 | arms sales for Ukraine. He's escalating pressure on Russia, increasing shipments of critical defensive weapons through NATO allies to Ukraine, including Patriot missile systems. |
| 0:44.4 | The president has also given Putin a firm 50-day deadline, either negotiate peace in Ukraine or face crippling secondary tariffs of 100% on countries importing Russian oil and gas. |
| 0:56.9 | Now, this strategy does mark a decisive reversal from the recent Pentagon's brief suspension |
| 1:02.8 | of military aid earlier this month. It seems President Trump is indeed very committed to ending |
| 1:08.9 | Russia's aggression on America's terms. I think to appreciate |
| 1:13.2 | how much Trump's posture has shifted, remember the closing days of the Biden presidency. Biden |
| 1:18.4 | played the bad cop by approving the transfer of Patriot missiles to Ukraine, some of the most |
| 1:23.6 | advanced air missile defense systems in the world. At that time, that deployment was seen as a major escalation in the U.S. |
| 1:30.9 | But this gave Trump a huge opportunity. |
| 1:33.2 | It gave him the space early in his term to play the good cop with Putin |
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