Brandon Weichert: "The US needs to rely on its economic attractiveness and stop relying on military power first and covert operations. "In the book I talk about a continental system based on trade, identifying where Canada, the United States, even Mexico can cooperate on things like rare minerals, critical minerals, oil, where we can cooperate and come together in a continental system. That doesn't mean we should invade Canada or kill Mexican leaders, I didn't say that. What this means is that there is so much abundance and wealth in the Americas. Every country in this hemisphere has the ability to cooperate together and utilize and trade these resources together with each other before seeking to sell them to China or Russia, we have the ability here to attract. America still has strong economic attractiveness. We need to be able to rest on that and stop using the military and covert means first. ' —. Brandon Weichert, author of "Fortress America: A New Monroe Doctrine" Watch the full interview.

Brandon Weichert: "The US needs to rely on its economic attractiveness and stop relying on military power first and covert operations. "In the book I talk about a continental system based on trade, identifying where Canada, the United States, even Mexico can cooperate on things like rare minerals, critical minerals, oil, where we can cooperate and come together in a continental system. That doesn't mean we should invade Canada or kill Mexican leaders, I didn't say that. What this means is that there is so much abundance and wealth in the Americas. Every country in this hemisphere has the ability to cooperate together and utilize and trade these resources together with each other before seeking to sell them to China or Russia, we have the ability here to attract. America still has strong economic attractiveness. We need to be able to rest on that and stop using the military and covert means first. ' —. Brandon Weichert, author of "Fortress America: A New Monroe Doctrine" Watch the full interview.