Natalie Winters
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Regime Change Is Always Dangerous. After Four Years Of Open Borders, It’s Reckless.

“Reverse-engineer the conditions required for foreign sleeper cells to take root in America, and you get Biden’s border policies.”

My latest column out now ⬇️

Under Biden, CBP recorded:

- hundreds of encounters with individuals on the FBI’s Terrorist watchlist
- at least 99 watchlist members were released into the country
- Iranian nationals at the southern border rose sharply from 48 in 2021 to nearly 800 by 2024
- 1,504 Iranian nationals were apprehended and 729 were released.
- much of this data is still hidden

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Read my full piece on @ substack here ⬇️

https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/regime-change-is-always-dangerous

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The messaging is all over the place. I’m as MAGA as it gets. We love Trump, but it’s fair to ask for clarity... If this turns into another dragged out kinetic conflict, that’s not what we voted for.

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Just 89 days ago, the National Security Strategy declared “the days in which the Middle East dominated foreign policy in long-term planning and day-to-day execution are over.”

So there’s a real strategic question surrounding Iran:

Why now?

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The NSS also suggested Iran was a declining threat:

“Conflict remains the Middle East’s most troublesome dynamic, but there is today less to this problem than headlines might lead one to believe. Iran—the region’s chief destabilizing force—has been greatly weakened by Israeli actions since October 7, 2023, and President Trump’s June 2025 Operation Midnight Hammer, which significantly degraded Iran’s nuclear program.”

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The Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy shared the same view:

“Now, Iran’s regime is weaker and more vulnerable than it has been in decades.”

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The NSS emphasized “dropping America’s misguided experiment with hectoring these nations—especially the Gulf monarchies—into abandoning their traditions and historic forms of government.”

The aversion to regime change couldn’t be clearer.

“We should encourage and applaud reform when and where it emerges organically, without trying to impose it from without. The key to successful relations with the Middle East is accepting the region, its leaders, and its nations as they are while working together on areas of common interest.”

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Focusing on unleashing American energy was also pitched as enabling us to untether from the region:

“As this administration rescinds or eases restrictive energy policies and American energy production ramps up, America’s historic reason for focusing on the Middle East will recede. Instead, the region will increasingly become a source and destination of international investment, and in industries well beyond oil and gas— including nuclear energy, AI, and defense technologies.”

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The National Defense Strategy made clear that regional security would trend towards partners in the region:

“This creates even more opportunities for us to enable individual partners to do more for their defense. It will also enable us to foster integration between regional partners, so that they can do even more together.”

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I don’t pretend to be an armchair general. But I am confused by those who applauded the strategy document and are now unquestioningly supporting kinetic engagement in Iran.

No, this isn’t a “forever war” — yet. But from the publicly available comments, I’ve seen little reassurance that avoiding one is a hard red line. The guardrails don’t seem clearly defined.

The same movement that dismantled USAID to stop regime change through NGOs didn’t do that just to substitute regime change by missile. And even if this operation lasts only a few weeks, the second- and third-order effects are not hypothetical — retaliatory terrorist attacks, destabilizing migrant flows, regional spillover, and the possibility that we unintentionally consolidate a more radical and nuclear-obsessed regime in Tehran.

Strategic consequences don’t disappear just because the timeline is short.

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The math on a potential Iran refugee crisis is staggering.

Just 10% of Iran’s population fleeing = ~9 million people.

Compare that to:
• Iraq: ~4.7M displaced
• Afghanistan: ~6M displaced
• Libya crisis: ~1M fled

And here’s the overlooked part: Iran already hosts ~3–4 million refugees, mostly Afghans.

A conflict there could create the largest displacement crisis in modern history.

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It is not the moral responsibility of Americans to die for other countries.

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While the rest of America is fed propaganda - foreign and domestic - about why this war started and we don’t know what “defeat” entails…

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The Media Is Already Guilt-Tripping Americans to Accept Iran War Refugees

They’ve Moved to Phase Two: Selling Americans on Iran War Refugees

https://substack.com/home/post/p-191264063

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EXC: Left-wing foundations are backing a campaign to bring the Qur’an into American churches.

A Chicago group is urging pastors to read it from the pulpit — telling Christians:

“Be as generous a reader of the Quran as you are of the Bible.”

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This isn’t random activism.

CITC is tied to Interfaith Alliance — a national network pulling in millions.

In 2023 alone:
➡️ ~$2.87M revenue
➡️ ~$1.4M in grants

Donors include the Rockefeller Family Fund and Communities Foundation of Texas.

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EXC: Left-wing foundations are backing a campaign to bring the Qur’an into American churches. A Chicago group is urging pastors to read it from the pulpit — telling Christians: “Be as generous a reader of the Quran as you are of the Bible.” . . . This…
CITC’s leaders just published a book: Confronting Islamophobia in the Church: Liturgical Tools for Justice.

It explicitly calls on churches to “weave Islamic scripture into the lectionary calendar” and to stop seeing Islam as “a security threat” and instead as something they “ought to know about.”

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This goes deeper than a thread can show.

Full breakdown of the funding, the network, and the church campaign is live now.

👉 Read + subscribe on Substack:

https://open.substack.com/pub/nataliegwinters/p/exclusive-left-wing-foundations-bankroll

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Inside the UN’s Plan to “Eradicate” Islamophobia Through Laws, Schools, and Speech Controls

They will stop at nothing.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-191368371

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EXC: Fauci Headlining Pharma Summit Packed With COVID Vaccine & Test Companies

From Johnson & Johnson to Roche, it’s a clear conflict of interest.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-189013322

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UN, WEF Float Using Iran War to ‘Shape Economies,’ Want Shortages To Drive ‘Progress’

The “Great Reset” playbook—never let a crisis go to waste.

https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/un-wef-float-using-iran-war-to-shape

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