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How China, Iran and the radical left are undermining America from within
[Washington Times] Every day, we hear in the news that we must prepare to fight China in a kinetic war. It is a foregone conclusion, as our national security officials forgo the use of cognitive skills to seek other options. This is exactly what China, Iran, Russia and our domestic adversaries seek.It is worse than you think. Our adversaries have four armies inside the United States: the terrorist drug cartels, the radical left fascists such as Black Lives Matter, antifa and far-left Democrats, a Chinese national army nearly 500,000 strong — 300,000 students, 40,000 to more than 60,000 people on work visas, and 100,000 illegals/military-age men — and 30 million other illegal aliens. The enemy is within our borders, and the war has already begun as our adversaries seek to destroy, subvert and sabotage America without firing one shot. We are losing badly and must wake up. After World War II, we kept the same structure and policies for defense, foreign policy, etc. The Korean War, a stalemate, altered little. Since then, America has lost every war it has fought — Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan — except one: the Cold War. In every other engagement, we may have had kinetic successes but lost the war because we never won in the cognitive domain, altering thought, will or intent. We won the Cold War because we understood the primary battleground was, is and will remain predominantly a battle in the cognitive domain, that of the human mind and spirit. During the Cold War, we leveraged a whole-of-government approach to strategically communicate. We had a military to deter our enemies and the economy to financially outmaneuver them. Unfortunately, the day we declared victory and started dismantling those capabilities and capacities with the so-called peace dividend, we also lost the Cold War. The oligarchs, despots and dictators assumed power and advanced multiple threats and dilemmas against us, including nuclear capabilities, terrorism, drugs, globalism and bioweapons. Today, our leaders remain unaware, unprepared and unarmed in fighting this cognitive war, and we are losing badly. Our go-to solution? Apply the kinetic hammer, the only tool in our toolbox. President Trump is trying the economic hammer, but we need more alternatives. We bankrupted the Soviet Union financially and cognitively into submission. Our adversaries are doing the same to us as we fund a trillion-dollar defense budget for a World War II force structure and a weak industrial base and forgo any capabilities, capacity and expertise to fight in the cognitive domain. The existential threat to America is the ongoing cognitive war, which I detail in my book "The Cognitive War: Why We Are Losing and How We Can Win." For the naysayers who do not think we are already at war, let me provide a few short reminders. Millions of Americans have been killed by the China flu (COVID-19) and fentanyl. Posted by: Besoeker 2025-06-12 |
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