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Get Ready for the Guillotine
By Cliff Kincaid I know you've heard the "conservative” critics of President Trump. They don’t like the Iran war. Prices are still too high. He’s planning a surveillance state built on AI and data centers. He’s making money in office through crypto and is therefore corrupt. Blah. Blah. Blah. Hence, Trump voters will not turn out and thereby allow the “socialists” and “progressives” to take control of Congress. Let’s start with the surveillance state canard. Nothing that they're planning through surveillance will ever compare to the COVID lockdowns, mandates, and censorship that we experienced under Biden. I will support Trump as long as he continues to dismantle the remnants of the Biden regime. He has done our country an enormous favor by trying to restore many of our constitutional principles. To understand the full extent of what the Biden regime did, consult the reports issued by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Weaponization Working Group. Let’s address the corruption charge against Trump. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were rich and profited off slavery. Would you have voted for them? Trump is making money to protect himself from future impeachments and the debanking efforts that were undertaken against him before. I happen to favor crypto as an alternative to gold and silver, a way to bypass fiat money and big deficits. Meanwhile, the Trump accounts benefit all of our young people and are a great step forward for America as a whole. These accounts promise long-term financial security for millions of kids. One last note about surveillance. Trump’s election gave me back my YouTube account, which was censored under Biden. Many other conservatives benefitted as well. One critic wrote to me about the Iran war, saying that what he has done in “starting a useless war with Iran infuriates me” and that the comparison to Thomas Jefferson’s war on the Muslim Barbary pirates “is a stretch.” This critic added, “This war is for Israel and only Israel. Have you forgotten North Korea has nukes?” A useless war with Iran? It’s an anti-American regime that has killed thousands of Americans. It is a war of self-defense. The idea that the war “is for Israel and only Israel” is tinged with anti-Semitism. Iran was a threat to Israel but its regime had killed thousands of Americans. It was producing nuclear weapons. The mention of North Korea having nukes is not Trump’s fault. That’s because of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Their 1994 Agreed Framework was supposed to halt North Korea’s nuclear weapons program but it ultimately collapsed, and the program restarted, leading to North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006. In a previous column, “Carter Vs. Trump on Gas Prices and Gas Lines,” I noted that, under Democrat president Jimmy Carter, we lost Iran to the Shiite Mullahs and had gas lines in America. Under President Trump, there are no gas lines and the remaining Mullahs fear for their lives and are stalling until the final victory by America over their brand of revolutionary Islam is achieved. The president’s deal with Russia for more diesel oil production is controversial, but he is responding to public demands for lower prices. We are in this predicament because the last major, full-scale oil refinery constructed in the United States was the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Garyville, Louisiana, which went online in 1976. Many young people today have no memory or even understanding of what the Iranian revolution did to America and the world. Almost 50 years later, Trump is doing something about it. Sacrifices are required but they are nowhere near what was required during World War II. The midterms give us a choice: stick with Trump and diminish the power of the Mullahs or side with Marxist Democrats who want them to get stronger, in order to accelerate their plans to destroy Israel and, ultimately, America itself. In addition to giving away the Panama Canal, Carter “normalized” diplomatic relations between the United States and Communist China in 1979, throwing the Republic of China on Taiwan, a democracy, under the bus. No one knows when Red China will invade the peaceful country, another potential disaster that Trump must now deal with. On top of these betrayals, he facilitated the communist takeover of Nicaragua in Central America in 1979, giving his successor Ronald Reagan another foreign policy mess to deal with. Meanwhile, if the “socialists” win the midterms, communist and anarchists are planning more street “protests,” like those in France. The “student unrest” is now spreading to Belgium and Italy, and those backing the riots have written an article, “Will 1793 Take Place?” The article references the French Constitution of 1793, specifically Article 35 regarding the "duty of insurrection," a document drafted and pushed through by the Jacobins shortly after they successfully purged their moderate rivals, the Girondins, from the National Convention in June 1793. It Laid the groundwork for an emergency "revolutionary government" and the Reign of Terror, resulting in 30,000 and 50,000 people being killed at the hands of the Jacobins. Around 16,000 to 17,000 people were officially condemned and executed by the guillotine after trial by the Revolutionary Tribunal. A New York City-based organization calling itself Jacobin is appearing at a “Jewish Currents Live” daylong event on Sunday, October 11 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City, trying to draw liberal Jews into their campaign. Jacobin, which is also the name of a publication, strongly backs Mayor Zohran Mamdani. In addition to the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America, we can expect to see the following groups on the streets: the Party for Socialism & Liberation, Workers World Party, Communist Party USA, African People’s Socialist Party, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Socialist Unity Party, Spartacist League, Revolutionary Communist Party, and the Party of Communists USA. The FBI doesn’t monitor these groups anymore because so many are tied directly to the Democratic Party. This is the kind of “revolutionary energy” the “socialists” and “progressives” hope to unleash after the midterms if their allies take Congress away from the Republicans. Get ready for this outcome if Trump’s voters sit on their hands in November.
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Weaponization Working Group has released several official reports:
It’s Time to Arrest Zohran Mamdani
By Cliff Kincaid Where are the Washingtons and Jeffersons of today? As the joke goes, they are playing in the NFL. They are certainly not leading the Republican Party, and it’s not a joke. Our heritage is being whittled away in the name of tolerating those who want to destroy our political system through nice-sounding phrases like “democratic socialism.” By constantly calling AOC, Zohran Mamdani, and others “democratic socialists,” the fake news media are setting our people up for a rude awakening if they manage to seize power. There is nothing “democratic” about these people. But some Republicans and their “conservative” allies don’t want to admit the obvious. Unless socialism is declared to be a foreign ideology, a clear and present danger to the American Revolution of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, America will continue to slide into a system that resembles France, under assault by leftists and French Muslims who are setting fire to the schools in the name of saving them. More than 35 years ago a very important book was published, entitled, Communists in the Democratic Party. Over the years my group America’s Survival, Inc. held several conferences devoted to the topic. We were not taken seriously. We had warned that the socialists and progressives were communists doing the bidding of Moscow. In our new report, “Prepare for World War III,” we list on page 10 several laws that can be invoked and enforced to save America. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s subversive background includes membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a group involved in communist espionage against the United States. DSA member Kurt Alan Stand, then 42, a regional labor union representative along with his wife, Theresa Squillacote, a former senior staff lawyer in the office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, with a security clearance, and friend James Clark, a private investigator, were arrested on October 4, 1997 on charges of spying for East Germany and Russia. They were prosecuted and convicted and sent to prison. Theresa Squillacote, who served 20 years in prison, received a “Reinventing Government” award from Vice President Al Gore. Stand was released from prison in 2012. Stand then became a member of DSA Members Organizing Against Trump. Stand and Squillacote were former members of the Young Workers Liberation League, the former name of the youth arm of the Communist Party USA. Kurt Stand’s father Maximillian Stand was a long-standing member of the Communist Party USA. Hence, the term “democratic” does not apply to the DSA and Mamdani, even though he claims to participate in America’s democracy. The DSA is the same group that backed Barack Obama’s run for the presidency and was once the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. Obama's ties to the DSA go way back. In 1996 he won the endorsement of the Chicago DSA in his run for an Illinois state senate seat. Obama eulogized Saul Mendelson, "a longtime socialist activist," as a DSA newsletter put it, and appeared on at least one DSA panel. These modern-day “socialists” must be outlawed and banned from the political process. Yet, our leaders, even those of the MAGA brand, refuse to point out the obvious and take the necessary action against them. Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel have to get educated, and fast. Rep. Rich McCormick (GA-07) has introduced the Communist Control Act of 2026 (H.R. 10501) to amend the Communist Control Act of 1954 and apply its provisions to the Democratic Socialists of America. There is no need for an update. The Communist Control Act of 1954 outlaws communist organizations and criminalizes membership in or support for “Communist-action” organizations, of which DSA is one. Until we understand the communist revolution in our midst and get serious about addressing it, America cannot be saved. President Trump must continue to enforce the laws on the books, including the Communist Control Act, but he must go one step further and challenge the “authority” of the federal judges and even the Supreme Court when they usurp or undermine his authority to put down the insurrection.
The Coming Storm Against Trump
By Cliff Kincaid During a recent speaking tour through Ohio to conservative audiences, I encountered a few people indicating they may not turn out in the midterms for Trump and the Republicans. One John Bircher objected to the war on Iran and another voiced concern about my prediction that the U.S. might have to return to the military draft to generate enough soldiers for the Third World War with China and Russia and their proxies. When I answered both of them, they walked out in disbelief. They seemed prepared to let the Left take over Congress. The outcome indicated the difference between Republicans and Democrats, the latter now under the sway of the Red-Green alliance. The Left practices the art of “praxis,” or acting even when they are unsure about the outcome. Witness what is happening in the streets of France, with “students” and communists and Muslims marching under the red Hammer-and-Sickle as they set schools on fire. They believe that action alone is the right course on the road to revolution. They will never stop until they take power in all of the Western and once-Christian countries. Some Republicans, on the other hand, are ready to dump Trump because they are unsure about the future and are adopting the John Bircher or Rand Paul view that stopping Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons constitutes a “forever war” and is not worthy of their support. They are afraid of the future and are ready to turn it over to the Red-Green Alliance, the subject of a report that I completed on my visit to the Muslim-controlled city of Dearborn, Michigan, and the local mosque. I warned the Ohio audience that while the military branches are meeting or exceeding their goals ahead of schedule, there is a problem. In total, 14.9 million men between the ages of 18 and 26 were registered with the Selective Service at the close of 2025, representing a national registration rate of 78.7 percent. A 78.7% registration rate is generally considered low relative to historical benchmarks for the Selective Service System, which historically targeted compliance rates closer to 90% or higher. To address this problem, under the National Defense Authorization Act, the government will begin automatically registering eligible men using federal agency data. I suggested this won’t be enough, and that the return of the military draft will be necessary. Whether this happens or not depends on whether the American people have the will to win. The American people in World War II suffered through gas and food rationing but during the Iran war the big gripe is higher gas prices. Americans learned to ration foods like sugar, coffee, cheese, and meats to defeat the Nazis. In World War II they built victory gardens and gathered up scrap metal for the war effort. A “victory speed limit” of 35 miles an hour was established to conserve gasoline and rubber tires. Toy companies were converted to making war material. Today, Americans complain that a fill-up at the gas station costs $75.00 and that beef is too expensive. The United States suffered approximately 1,078,594 total military casualties during World War II while the Iran War, (Operation Epic Fury), which began on February 28, 2026, has resulted in 20-24 deaths and 860 U.S. service members officially reported wounded. I have concluded that many Americans today are spoiled brats under the influence of people, like the Birchers and Rand Paul libertarians, who have lost awareness of what our founders accomplished. Consider Thomas Jefferson, for example. He fought the Muslim Barbary pirates without a declaration of war from Congress because he realized the new nation had to defend itself. This is a point I made to the John Bircher in the audience when she objected to the “forever war,” about eight months, in Iran. If you don’t believe me, consider what “Super Intelligence” says. I asked Gemini and here was the answer: “Thomas Jefferson did not get a formal declaration of war from Congress before deploying the military against the Barbary states.” The source, the Bill of Rights Institute, said, “As soon as it became an independent nation, the US faced an ‘unconventional enemy’ in the Barbary Pirates who had controlled the Mediterranean Sea for hundreds of years. Presidents George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison all exercised their power as Commander in Chief in various ways to deal with the threat posed by the pirates before Madison was eventually able to declare victory against them.” Here was the rest of the story, “By 1794, the pirates were holding dozens of US citizens for ransom. Thomas Jefferson, who was then President George Washington’s Secretary of State, advised Congress to declare war on the pirates. Congress did not heed his advice. Washington sent diplomats to negotiate for the prisoners’ release, but with no success. When John Adams became President in 1797, he continued paying the pirates. Congress continued to authorize payments. By the turn of the century, Congress was paying twenty percent of the US’s annual revenue to the pirates.” In his First Annual Message to Congress, Jefferson announced that he had sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean but without seeking a declaration of war from Congress. Eventually, Jefferson received statutory authorization for the war, but not a declaration. Jefferson’s war against the Muslims was conducted in much the same way that President Trump has waged war on Iran. The difference is that Muslims today constitute a major political force in the United States and they are running candidates for office such as Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, backed by such people as Senator Bernie Sanders, Vice President Kamala Harris, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib. If the Left wins in November, what is happening in France will come to the United States. It may already be starting with the Cornel rape case, now in the hands of anti-Trump New York Attorney General Letita James. The case “smells” like lawfare, notes Jack Cashill. Protests calling for action are already happening. In France, the riots are being orchestrated by the so-called Unified Left Coalition, which includes the Communist Party and the Socialist Party, as well as French Muslims in Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise (LFI) or "France Unbowed." He wrote, Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century. Watch what is happening in France. It could happen here. It may already be set in motion.
(According to Gemini AI):
During Donald Trump's presidential terms, his administration announced actions to revoke or rescind security clearances for numerous prominent political figures, former cabinet officials, and national security experts. The actions generally targeted political adversaries, former intelligence officials, and individuals involved in investigations or public statements critical of the administration. Actions Taken in 2025March 2025 Memorandum In March 2025, President Trump issued a executive memorandum revoking security clearances and access to classified briefings for prominent political figures and opponents:
August 2025 Action (Director of National Intelligence) In August 2025, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced that the administration was revoking security clearances for 37 current and former U.S. national security officials. The administration stated these revocations were aimed at individuals accused of politicizing intelligence or involved in prior public statements related to political topics (including signers of past public letters). Actions Taken During First Term (2017–2021)Formal Revocations
In July and August 2018, the Trump administration announced it was evaluating or actively reviewing the security clearances of several high-profile critics:
Marine Corps Achieves FY26 Recruiting Mission, Secures Strong Start for FY27
Source Oct. 2, 2026 | By Jim Edwards, Marine Corps Recruiting Command Marine Corps Recruiting Command exceeded its fiscal year 2026 recruiting mission across every component and category, leading a historic, departmentwide rebound in military enlistments. Defying national trends and proving that the appeal of elite service remains unmatched, the Marine Corps' relentless recruiting force accessed 31,250 enlisted Marines, 1,672 officers, and 3,503 prior service reserve Marines in FY26. Notably, Marine recruiters maintained the Corps' legendary high-quality standards, exceeding War Department accession baselines in all categories. This achievement directly aligns with the department's emphasis on the value of service. "Our success this year is a testament to the disciplined execution of our elite recruiting force on the streets of America," said Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Walker M. Field, Marine Corps Recruiting Command commanding general. "Likewise, it is emblematic of the legion of young Americans who are choosing, of their own volition, to serve this great nation of ours. The few young Americans who earn the title of Marine espouse the rare trifecta of physical, intellectual and moral fortitude to become elite warriors." While recruiting duty remains challenging, the landscape in FY26, to include honoring the nation's 250th birthday, was the most favorable in the past five years. Driven by a high volume of interested applicants and paired with historically strong retention rates across the Corps, Marine recruiters not only met their goals; they aggressively positioned the service for the future. Remarkably, the Marine Corps Recruiting Command has already contracted more than half of its entire FY27 mission, establishing a resilient, ready recruiting pool. "Our Marines have performed superbly, and they represent our Corps with pride and honor," said Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Jesse J. Dorsey, Marine Corps Recruiting Command sergeant major. This sustained success aligns with and is accelerated by what the secretary of the Navy calls the department's "fight for the narrative," a unified public messaging strategy that ensures the American people understand the unmatched career, educational and professional value of military service. Hegseth Delivers 'State of the Force' Address, Outlines Series of New Initiatives
Sept. 30, 2026 | By Matthew Olay, Pentagon News | Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a speech on the status of the military today, during which he announced six new initiatives for the War Department. Source Speaking to both a broadcast audience and 600 O-3 officers and E-6 enlisted service members at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Hegseth began by recounting the successful progress he has seen across the department over the past year. "For almost two years, you've heard me talk — over and over — about three core priorities: reviving the warrior ethos, rebuilding our military and reestablishing deterrence. And I'm proud to stand on this stage and report that the warrior ethos has been revived, our military is being rebuilt and American deterrence is back," he said early in his remarks. The secretary went on to emphasize the high recruitment and retention numbers over the past year, mention that military standards that existed in 1990 are back in 2026 and discuss the "E-6/O-3 Rule" — the concept that asks whether a policy, procedure or decision helps or hinders the operational effectiveness and daily reality of an E-6 and/or O-3. "We fight to win. Clear missions, full hearts, hands untied. It's all I ever wanted as a platoon leader, and it's all my E-6 squad leaders ever wanted. … We let our leaders fight their formations, and then we have their back. It's simple, yet you know in your business it's incredibly powerful and liberating," Hegseth said. After recapping the past year and reemphasizing the War Department's priorities of strengthening the warrior ethos, rebuilding the military and maintaining peace through strength via deterrence, Hegseth outlined his six new initiatives:
Additionally, the secretary announced that he has directed the direct reporting portfolio manager for unmanned systems to lead "Project Agincourt," an organization that will establish the pathway for Autowarcom, as well as to execute the existing unmanned systems mission while prototyping a new acquisition model. Hegseth also said new military occupational specialties will be created in each military department to support the shift to autonomy. "Today, with … Autowarcom, we institutionalize — and we supercharge — the era of [super intelligence], robotics and autonomous systems, all in order to win," he said. Turning next to Project Meridian, Hegseth said the Pentagon's chief technology officer would partner with members of the private sector to study the future of warfare, and that the project is not about developing new strategies or policies. "Rather, its purpose is to creatively look into the future and identify the domains we must conquer, and capabilities we must master … to achieve technological and military dominance on the battlefield for decades to come; it is futuristic, on purpose," Hegseth said. Regarding the Fortress America program, Hegseth said it calls for every American military installation to eventually run under its own power, hardening every installation on American soil against intrusion and bringing critical supply chains home. "No matter the circumstance, this department will have the power, the equipment and the supplies you need to take the fight to the enemy. … The Department of War will be the insurance policy for the entire nation," he said. Hegseth's talk of Fortress America then segued into discussing the concept behind The Next Great American Base project, which he said will be a dynamic, self-sustaining power projection platform, and that leaders of every state in the union would be able to provide a "sales pitch" as to why the new installation should be in their state. "If your state wants the honor of hosting 15,000 to 25,000 of America's great troops, show us why and how you're going to do it — cutting through the red tape, offering up the land and rolling out the red carpet for our military families," Hegseth said. Regarding America's Corps of Cadets, the secretary said the Pentagon is partnering with six universities to increase the number of leaders who can commission into the military. "By embedding continuous military discipline and leadership development into new institutions — by growing our Corps of Cadets — the War Department will ensure our republic is defended by even more officers of unwavering character and patriotism," Hegseth said. Turning to his final of the six initiatives, that of the Office of Religious Affairs, Hegseth said religious services in the military have been neglected and bureaucratized for too long. "Ninety-five percent of our force recognizes an Almighty God. Accordingly, our department has a sacred duty: first-class religious support, wherever we send our warriors," Hegseth said. He also noted that the new office will report directly to the secretary of war's office to cut through red tape. "This is not going to be a paper-pushing shop; it's going to have real teeth. It'll protect budgets, demand infrastructure and strengthen religious support," Hegseth said. My Visit Inside the "Red-Green Alliance"
By Cliff Kincaid I made an investigative trip to Michigan, where I went on-site to inspect the heart of the growing political and ideological movement known as the "Red-Green Alliance." You can read my report, complete with photos, here. During this trip, I visited the campaign headquarters of Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit, Michigan, as well as the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan. What I uncovered on the ground underscores the urgency of our mission at America’s Survival, Inc. Since our founding, we have been opposed to global Islam and international communism. That is why we were targeted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Southern Poverty Law Center, and then deplatformed by Google’s YouTube under the Biden regime. I was literally “escorted” out of a Workers World Party conference in New York City. If elected in November 2026, Abdul El-Sayed would become the first Muslim member ever to serve in the U.S. Senate. His political campaign, centered at his Detroit HQ, is heavily backed by radical far-left politicians and national organizations:
This alliance between radical leftist politics and Islamic political agendas is not accidental—it represents a deliberate convergence of interests aimed at reshaping American governance. The connection between communist networks and radical Islam goes back over a century.
Today, we see this coalition playing out locally in places like Dearborn, Michigan—where local authorities have faced lawsuits over First Amendment violations, spending municipal funds to promote religious displays while targeting Christian citizens and ministers exercising their constitutional rights. At America’s Survival, Inc. (ASI), we perform the investigative work and public education that the mainstream media refuses to touch. From exposing foreign influence operations to documenting the ideological subversion of American institutions, ASI stands on the frontlines of truth. Consider that back in 2012, we held a conference, “The Vetting: Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection.” During my visit I encountered many friendly Muslims. I purchased a copy of the Quran at a local gift shop and the female clerk outfitted in a hijab was happy to share information about the “Twelvers.” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani identifies as a Shia Muslim associated with the “Twelver” movement of apocalyptic Muslims that constitute the state religion of Iran. Inside the mosque, I was alarmed to see a picture on a wall of Ayatollah Khomeini on a 1982 Time cover story about “Iran on the March.” It is noteworthy that, shortly after his successor, the Ayatollah Khamenei’s death during the U.S.-Iran conflict, candidate Abdul El-Sayed said there were “a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad.” The first Ayatollah, Khomeini, had said in 1979 after taking power in Iran, "We are in a war situation, an economic war which is in itself a struggle between Islam and blasphemy." Those comments were featured in a Washington Post story headlined, “Khomeini Sees Possibility of War with U.S.” It has come to pass. In Iran, Trump has acted to save Western civilization from a Nazi-style regime in religious garb pursuing nuclear weapons that could kill millions of Americans. The war on the Islamic Republic of Iran constitutes justice on behalf of the victims of Iran, including the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon which killed 241 American military personnel, at least 600 American soldiers murdered in the Middle East and nearly 900 wounded. But many have turned on Trump, mostly because of high gas prices. By contrast, as demonstrated in numerous exhibits at the World War II American Experience Museum in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the American people in that World War rallied as they encountered gas and food rationing, built victory gardens, and gathered up scrap metal for the war effort. Americans learned to ration foods like sugar, coffee, cheese, and meats. A “victory speed limit” of 35 miles an hour was established to conserve gasoline and rubber tires. Toy companies were converted to making war material. The United States suffered approximately 1,078,594 total military casualties during World War II, which lasted six years: 407,316 total U.S military deaths and wounded in action estimated at 671,278. By contrast, the Iran War, (Operation Epic Fury), which began on February 28, 2026, by September 20 had resulted in 18 deaths and 820 to 830 + U.S. service members officially reported wounded. President Trump inherited a Russian war on Ukraine, a Taliban terrorist takeover of Afghanistan, Iranian progress toward nuclear weapons, and Red Chinese threats against the Republic of China on Taiwan, while security experts warned there were “sleeper cells” of foreign fighters inside the U.S., and that the number could be in the tens of thousands, or more. Headlines over the last few days, regarding an attempted Jihadist suicide mission using an airplane, and an Iranian-sponsored plot targeting a U.S. military base in Britain, demonstrate that the Iranian war against America and Israel has escalated. But they are desperate for a victory at the ballot box in November. The Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has gone so far as to issue a letter to the American people, specifically scholars, students, and journalists, demanding a vote against President Trump and the Republicans. Whose side are you on?
By Travis A. Karnes
If Destruction Be Our Lot Why President Trump and the Congress Must Act Decisively Against the Premeditated Threats to Our Republican Form of Government ——————————————————————————————————-- The American Republic stands at a strategic inflection point. What confronts us is not a series of disconnected crises, but a coherent, multi-theater campaign of pressure, deception, and attrition directed against the constitutional order itself. Foreign adversaries—chief among them the Chinese Communist Party, the Russian Federation, and the Iranian regime—are advancing their positions with methodical deliberation. Simultaneously, domestic forces openly hostile to the republican form of government continue to operate with insufficient restraint. The Constitution’s guarantee in Article IV, Section 4 is not ornamental. It is a command. President Trump and the Congress must treat these developments with the gravity they demand. The Chinese Communist Party’s South China Sea Fortress Strategy Commercial satellite imagery has confirmed what strategic observers long anticipated: the Chinese Communist Party is constructing a major new military complex on Antelope Reef in the Paracel Islands. Approximately 1,490 acres of reclaimed land now host a deep-water harbor, warship-capable piers, dual runways, barracks, and a helipad. An early-warning radar installation is advancing on nearby Yagong Reef. This is the first large-scale reef expansion since 2017 and will rank among the largest artificial military features in the entire South China Sea. The operational purpose is transparent. Antelope Reef, once fully militarized, will serve as a forward operating base capable of hosting fighters, surface-to-air and anti-ship missiles, electronic warfare systems, and logistics support within striking distance of Vietnam’s coast and the northern approaches to the vital sea lanes. Combined with existing facilities on Woody Island and the Spratly bases at Mischief, Subi, and Fiery Cross, Beijing is systematically converting the South China Sea into a denial zone. An estimated five trillion dollars in annual trade transit these waters. Control of that artery is control of leverage over the global economy. This expansion is not defensive. It is the physical manifestation of a long-term anti-access/area-denial strategy designed to raise the cost of American intervention in any Taiwan contingency to prohibitive levels. Concurrent Chinese research into artificial-intelligence-enhanced hypersonic glide vehicles further signals the intent to defeat emerging U.S. missile defenses, including components of the Golden Dome architecture. The People’s Liberation Army understands that time favors the side that consolidates geographic advantage while the adversary debates. Russian Escalation: Logistics Warfare, Extended-Range Missiles, Nuclear Signaling, and Direct Threats to Great Britain and the Eastern Flank Russia has moved beyond attritional grinding in Ukraine into systematic destruction of dual-use civilian logistics. A Russian drone strike on an ammunition depot in the village of Myla, west of Kyiv, triggered prolonged secondary detonations that killed at least thirty-seven civilians, damaged dozens of residential structures, and forced mass evacuations. Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotskyi has stated that approximately ninety percent of the food-logistics infrastructure serving major retail chains has been destroyed. Empty shelves in the capital are no longer theoretical. At the same time, Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence has confirmed the first combat employment of an upgraded ballistic missile, the 9M723-2, provisionally designated Iskander-1000 or associated with the Bora-M system. The principal modification is a larger solid-fuel motor requiring an enlarged launch tube, extending effective range to roughly 550 kilometers—approximately forty percent beyond the earlier variant. While Russian sources have floated the possibility of a full 1,000-kilometer capability for future iterations, the fielded system already expands the threat arc and complicates Ukrainian and NATO air-defense planning. Deployment of such systems from the heavily militarized enclave of Kaliningrad would place substantial portions of Central and Western Europe, including critical NATO infrastructure, within range. This is not theoretical posturing. The Eastern Flank—Poland, the Baltic states, Romania, and the broader Black Sea region—faces continuous pressure through hybrid operations, airspace violations, cyber attacks, and the forward positioning of dual-capable systems. Russia’s demonstrated willingness to target logistics and dual-use infrastructure in Ukraine provides a clear template for what similar campaigns against NATO’s eastern members could entail. The threat extends directly to Great Britain. When asked about the possibility of strikes on the United Kingdom, President Vladimir Putin replied that the matter was “a secret, a military secret.” Such language is not accidental. It constitutes calibrated strategic ambiguity designed to raise the political and psychological cost of British support for Ukraine and broader NATO solidarity. Combined with reports of Russian technical assistance to Iran on ramjet-powered supersonic cruise missiles (the C430L program), the pattern indicates a deliberate effort to proliferate advanced strike capabilities that can hold high-value Western assets at risk across multiple theaters. Most alarming is the reported detection of an unidentified submarine—assessed by some sources as Russian—approximately seventy-five miles off the New Jersey–New York coastline. The subsequent scramble of five U.S. Navy E-6B Mercury aircraft, the airborne nuclear command-and-control platforms known colloquially as “doomsday planes,” constitutes an unmistakable elevation of strategic readiness. These aircraft exist to ensure continuity of nuclear command, control, and communications with ballistic-missile submarines and land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles if terrestrial infrastructure is degraded or destroyed. Their simultaneous airborne presence is not routine training. It is a response posture that reflects the seriousness with which American command authorities view the current correlation of forces. Taken together, the logistics campaign in Ukraine, the fielding of extended-range ballistic missiles, the Kaliningrad-based threat to the Eastern Flank, the deliberate ambiguity regarding strikes on the United Kingdom, and the nuclear-signaling activity near the American homeland form a coherent strategy of coercive escalation. Russia seeks to fracture NATO cohesion by demonstrating that support for Ukraine carries escalating costs and that the Alliance’s eastern and western extremities are not beyond reach. The Iranian Vector and the Bond Market Warning Renewed U.S.–Iran kinetic exchanges around the Strait of Hormuz have driven energy prices higher and reignited global inflation concerns. Ten-year Treasury yields briefly reached 4.8 percent; Japanese ten-year yields crossed 3 percent for the first time since 1996; British gilts hit levels last seen in the Global Financial Crisis. These movements reflect more than ordinary market adjustment. They register investor recognition that persistent deficits, expanding sovereign debt, and geopolitical supply shocks are compounding. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has downplayed the significance; markets have not. An agreement with the Iranian regime, as President Trump correctly observed, is not worth the paper on which it is written. Tehran’s role as a force-multiplier for both Russian and Chinese strategic objectives—through proxy warfare, energy disruption, and now potential advanced cruise-missile technology—renders any temporary diplomatic arrangement inherently unstable. Domestic Subversion and the Unenforced Law The external campaign is facilitated by internal vulnerability. Open advocacy of systems antithetical to the constitutional republic continues. Favorable views of communism among tens of millions of Americans, the activity of organized revolutionary groups, and the long historical pattern of ideological infiltration into intelligence and security institutions cannot be dismissed as fringe phenomena. Federal statutes—including 5 U.S.C. § 7311 and the Communist Control Act—remain on the books precisely because earlier generations recognized the danger of organized efforts to overthrow the constitutional form of government. Selective non-enforcement has consequences. The pending visit of Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping and the absence of vigorous public discussion of the scale of Chinese election-interference efforts further illustrate a deficit of strategic seriousness. Economic resilience, industrial reconstitution, and ideological clarity are not optional luxuries; they are prerequisites of national survival. The Constitutional and Strategic Imperative The republican form of government is not self-sustaining under conditions of sustained external pressure and internal demoralization. Congress holds the power of the purse, the authority to raise and support armies and navies, and the duty to provide for the common defense. The President, as Commander in Chief, bears primary responsibility for the coherent application of national power. Half-measures, delayed industrial mobilization, and rhetorical reassurance without corresponding force structure will not alter the correlation of forces. Required actions include:
“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” — Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address, January 27, 1838 ——————————————————————————————————-- About the Author Travis A. Karnes is a strategic analyst who was the former lead editor of the Peace Through Strength Institute. Iran’s Appomattox
Taking Out Their Nuclear Facilities—Not Regime Change—Is the Key to Victory By Travis A Karnes The Strategic Center of Gravity Appomattox was never about changing Southern hearts. It was about destroying the Confederate army’s capacity to continue the fight. Grant forced Lee to ground arms by eliminating the means of resistance. The same principle applies to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The decisive center of gravity is not the clerical regime’s political longevity in Tehran. It is the nuclear weapons enterprise that would allow that regime—or any successor—to hold the region and American interests under permanent threat. Regime change is a political aspiration. Nuclear denial is a military requirement. Confusing the two has produced decades of drift. The program has advanced through enrichment cascades, hardened underground facilities, advanced centrifuges, and a ballistic-missile force optimized for nuclear delivery. Once Iran fields a reliable warhead on a reliable missile, the strategic environment changes permanently. Deterrence becomes more expensive, crisis stability collapses, and every subsequent calculation is made under a nuclear shadow. Victory is measured by one metric: the permanent degradation of Iran’s ability to produce and deliver nuclear weapons. Everything else is secondary. Tactical Realities of the Nuclear Enterprise Iran’s nuclear infrastructure is neither fragile nor concentrated in a single vulnerable node. Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan, Pickaxe Mountain, and associated weaponization and missile facilities form a distributed, hardened, and partially buried complex. Fordow sits under a mountain. Natanz has deep underground halls. Pickaxe Mountain represents another layer of buried, purpose-built infrastructure designed to survive conventional attack and continue work in secrecy. Centrifuge production and conversion facilities remain dispersed. The scientific knowledge base is already widespread. A single raid—however spectacular—will not suffice. Temporary damage can be repaired. What is required is a campaign of sustained, precise, and escalating destruction that collapses the entire production chain: enrichment capacity, conversion infrastructure, weaponization research, and the missile systems designed to deliver the finished product. The objective is not temporary delay. It is to push the program beyond economic and technical recovery for a generation. This demands more than cruise missiles and bunker-busters. It requires a layered air and missile campaign that combines penetrating strike aircraft, standoff weapons, cyber disruption of command-and-control, and continuous battle-damage assessment so that follow-on strikes can finish what the first wave begins. Strategic bombing succeeds only when it is relentless. Partial destruction invites reconstitution. Total pressure forces collapse. Why Regime Change Is a Strategic Sideshow History is unambiguous. Removing a government does not automatically eliminate a nuclear program once the knowledge, materials, and facilities exist. The Shah’s fall did not end the program; it accelerated it under new management. Saddam’s removal did not erase regional nuclear ambitions. Regime change in Iran would produce chaos, competing power centers, and almost certainly a more radical or fragmented set of actors still in possession of the nuclear knowledge base. Worse, an explicit regime-change objective invites mission creep, occupation debates, and political exhaustion. It also hands Tehran a propaganda gift: the claim that the United States seeks to destroy the Iranian nation rather than neutralize a discrete military threat. Focus on the nuclear target set keeps the objective limited, measurable, and defensible. If the regime falls as a secondary consequence of economic isolation and military humiliation, that is a strategic bonus—not the mission. The Air-Missile Campaign Imperative A serious campaign would open with a massive, coordinated wave of advanced air and missile strikes. Stealth and low-observable platforms would penetrate air defenses to deliver precision munitions against hardened targets. Standoff weapons—cruise missiles and air-launched ballistic systems—would saturate the outer layers. Follow-on waves would exploit the openings created by the first strikes, hitting reconstitution efforts, power supplies to the facilities, and transportation nodes that move centrifuges and materials. Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan, and Pickaxe Mountain must all be struck hard and repeatedly. No facility is to be left with residual capacity. Simultaneous pressure on Iran’s air-defense network is essential. Without it, the campaign becomes a series of expensive one-off raids rather than a sustained offensive. The goal is air superiority over the nuclear complex long enough to ensure repeated, accurate hits. Battle-damage assessment must be continuous and honest. Anything less allows the enemy to repair, disperse, and claim survival. This is not theoretical. Israel’s strikes on Osirak and the Syrian reactor demonstrated the value of decisive action against nuclear sites. Those operations bought time. A larger, sustained campaign against a more advanced program would aim to buy a generation—or end the threat outright. Blackout Warfare and Subversion as Force Multipliers Pure kinetic strikes are necessary but insufficient. Blackout warfare—cyber operations against the power grid, industrial control systems, and communications supporting the nuclear enterprise—multiplies every bomb. Facilities without reliable electricity cannot enrich uranium at scale. Command networks under constant electronic attack lose coordination. A campaign that pairs physical destruction with systemic blackout forces the adversary to fight in the dark. Subversion completes the triad. Intelligence-driven operations against the scientific and technical elite, sabotage of specialized equipment supply chains, and the quiet degradation of morale inside the program create internal friction that no amount of concrete can protect against. These efforts do not require large-scale occupation. They require precision, patience, and the willingness to accept that some effects will remain deniable. Together, the three elements—kinetic air-missile strikes, blackout warfare, and subversion—form a coherent offensive designed to collapse the nuclear enterprise rather than merely punish it. Four-Point Initiative Outline (Maximum Pressure – No Half-Measures) 1. Overwhelming Advanced Air and Missile Offensive Launch an immediate, multi-wave, high-intensity campaign employing the full spectrum of penetrating strike aircraft, massive salvos of standoff precision munitions, and bunker-busting ordnance against Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan, Pickaxe Mountain, and every associated weaponization and missile production site. Air superiority over the entire nuclear complex is to be seized and held. Re-strike authority is continuous and automatic. Residual capacity is unacceptable. The standard is destruction, not damage. 2. Total Blackout Warfare Execute simultaneous, large-scale cyber and electronic attacks against the national power grid, industrial control systems, and all communications supporting the nuclear enterprise, fully integrated with Space Force optics for persistent, high-resolution targeting, real-time battle-damage assessment, and continuous monitoring of reconstitution efforts. The objective is prolonged, systemic blackout that renders surviving facilities inoperable and prevents any meaningful reconstitution. Power restoration efforts are to be struck as they appear. Darkness is a weapon; use it without restraint. 3. Aggressive Subversion and Technical Decapitation Intensify intelligence and special operations against the scientific cadre, specialized supply chains, and internal command structure of the nuclear program. Sabotage, targeted removal of key expertise, and the deliberate fracturing of morale are to be pursued at scale. No sanctuary is to be granted inside the program. The human and technical infrastructure must be dismantled from within while kinetic and cyber pressure continues from without. 4. Unrelenting Follow-Through and Strategic Isolation Maintain continuous battle-damage assessment, immediate re-strike on any sign of recovery, and parallel maximum economic and diplomatic isolation. No pause for negotiations that allow breathing room. No off-ramps until the nuclear production chain is demonstrably and permanently broken. The campaign ends only when Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon is closed for a generation—or longer. Conclusion Appomattox arrived when the Confederacy could no longer field effective forces. Iran’s nuclear Appomattox will arrive when its enrichment cascade is rubble, its weaponization capacity is shattered, Pickaxe Mountain is neutralized, and its leaders understand that further pursuit invites the same result. Regime change may or may not follow. That is not the measure of success. The alternative is a nuclear-armed Iran—and a far more dangerous confrontation under conditions we will have chosen through weakness. Decades of diplomatic self-delusion, temporary freezes, and carefully worded joint statements have only bought Tehran time to advance. That era must end. American power, applied decisively against the nuclear infrastructure itself, remains the only language this regime has ever respected. Half-measures and endless talks are not strategy; they are surrender on the installment plan. The United States still possesses the means to deny Iran the bomb. What remains is the clarity and the will to use them—before the choice is taken from us. AUTHOR BIO Travis is a strategic analyst who was the FMR lead editor of the peace through strength institute. |
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