As President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday, Human Events with Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec aired one of its most important broadcasts of the year. Their deep dive into America’s failed regime change wars, titled Tales of Regime Change: The Graveyard of Empires, landed on the same day Trump faced renewed pressure from pro-Israel factions demanding continued funding and military commitment.
The broadcast could not have been more timely. It framed the defining tension of Trump’s second term: whether America First means defending America’s borders and rebuilding its economy, or continuing the old order’s habit of fighting endless wars and bankrolling foreign governments.
Human Events Unpacks the Pattern of Failed Wars
In their program, Posobiec and Lisec revisited Afghanistan, the site of the longest war in United States history. Lisec read from their book Unhumans and explained how globalist revolutions always follow three acts: demonize the enemy, intervene militarily, then collapse under their own illusions.
They compared the Soviet failure in Afghanistan with Washington’s own hubris. “The Afghan state we built was a political illusion,” Lisec said. “It folded faster than Saigon because it was never real.” Posobiec added that every American administration since the Cold War has repeated the same mistake, believing that foreign societies can be remade in Washington’s image through force and money.
Netanyahu’s Visit and the Israel First Debate
At the same moment in DC Netanyahu sought defense assurances from President Trump, and a growing faction of conservatives was asking a different question: how much longer can America afford to fund other nations’ wars.
Inside the MAGA movement, a rift has opened between America First nationalists and Israel First neoconservatives. The latter argues for unwavering United States support, while the populist base demands scrutiny, transparency, and limits. For Trump, the challenge is clear: stay true to his 2016 promise of “no more endless wars,” or risk losing the working-class coalition that brought him back to power.
Bannon’s WarRoom and Human Events have become twin centers of this debate. Both programs have exposed how billions in taxpayer dollars disappear into unaccountable foreign aid pipelines. “If every war has made America weaker, who exactly is winning.” Posobiec asked.
The True Cost of America’s Commitments Abroad
The cost of those commitments has been staggering. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan claimed more than eight thousand American lives, wounded hundreds of thousands, and cost over eight trillion dollars. The return on that sacrifice has been hollow: abandoned allies, failed democracies, and a generation of veterans who feel forgotten.
Younger Americans are now openly rejecting the neoconservative doctrine. They see their country sinking under inflation, open borders, and collapsing infrastructure, while Washington debates how much more aid to send overseas. To them, the new American dream begins with defending their own country first.
Populism versus Globalism in Trump’s Second Term
Trump’s presidency now stands at a crossroads. Netanyahu’s visit put foreign policy back on the front page, but the grassroots base is focused elsewhere: trade, wages, manufacturing, and debt. The Human Events broadcast distilled the tension into a single question: who does America serve.
Lisec’s closing words echoed through the populist space. “Empires fall when they forget who they serve.” He and Posobiec warned that the same globalist ideology that ruined Afghanistan now threatens to bankrupt the United States morally and financially.
For Trump, the choice could define both his legacy and the 2026 midterms. Will his administration double down on global commitments, or finally deliver the long-promised America First foreign policy that voters demanded.
The day Netanyahu walked into the White House and Human Events aired its lesson from Afghanistan may mark the true test of whether Trump’s second term becomes an era of renewal or another chapter in the graveyard of empires.
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