From Volter Media.

In the echo chamber of modern political discourse, where nuance is a casualty and context is the first prisoner of war, CNN recently believed it had found its silver bullet. With the breathless excitement of a network that has made opposing Donald J. Trump its central programming principle, Kaitlan Collins presented “exclusive audio” from a forthcoming anti-Trump book. The revelation? That then-President Trump had spoken to wealthy donors in blunt, stark terms about how he deterred America’s greatest adversaries.
The media’s predictable outrage machine kicked into high gear. The chyrons screamed the uncensored quotes, designed for maximum shock value: “NEW BOOK: TRUMP SAYS HE THREATENED TO ‘BOMB THE SH*T OUT OF MOSCOW’ TO DETER PUTIN FROM INVADING UKRAINE.” The carefully selected panel of analysts, steeped in the traditional, and arguably failed, doctrines of Foggy Bottom diplomacy, wrung their hands. They spoke of recklessness, of bluster, of a man unfit for the world stage.
What they failed to grasp, in their rush to condemn, is that they were not revealing a scandal. They were, inadvertently, showcasing the very essence of the doctrine that kept America out of new wars for four years: Peace Through Strength, reimagined for the 21st century. This leaked audio is not a "gotcha" moment; it is a masterclass in deterrence, a glimpse behind the curtain at a strategy so effective precisely because it is so fundamentally misunderstood by the political and media establishment.