# Strategy Must Be Driven by Future Reality, Not Present Political Pragmatism by Susan Kokinda > “Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth know that their actions are driven not by today’s political pragmatism but by a bigger, future strategic reality.” > **— Susan Kokinda**, *The Saturday Wrap-Up, November 7, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Source dossier:** [[research/Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders|Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders]]. - **Direct publication or recording:** [recording, 04:28–04:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQkxXlYlF9U&t=268s). - **Editorial form:** The Reminder preserves the prepared contiguous quotation; punctuation and spoken disfluency treatment are recorded in the candidate map when applicable. - **Context and treatment:** Kokinda names the two officials, contrasts present political calculation with future strategic conditions, and identifies the latter as the asserted basis of their actions; [recording, 04:28–04:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQkxXlYlF9U&t=268s). Direct contiguous sentence. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American Infrastructure|American Infrastructure]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American|American Culture Collection]] - **Collection:** [[collections/The Politics of AI Infrastructure|The Politics of AI Infrastructure]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Susan Kokinda|Susan Kokinda]] - [[wiki/Leadership|Leadership]] - [[wiki/Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders|Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth know that their actions are driven not by today’s political pragmatism but by a bigger, future strategic reality.” — Susan Kokinda, The Saturday Wrap-Up, November 7, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-susan-kokinda-strategy-must-be-driven-by-future-reality-not-present-political-pragmatism ```