XI ROLLS OUT THE RED CARPET FOR TRUMP
Trump and his team doesn’t realize it, but history will look back at summits like this one and realize just how high the stakes really were, and how slight the possibility of real success there is for America, in the long term. I’m reminded of other high stakes summits in history. Like the disastrous meeting between FDR and Stalin in Yalta, during WWII. Roosevelt bent over backward to please “uncle Joe,” and turned over all of Eastern Europe to the future control of Soviet Communism. FDR and now Trump fail to realize that Communism is a deadly existential enemy, and their leaders are feigning moderation and will tell you everything you want to hear, as long as they get their way. Trump traveled to Beijing with an entourage of the rich and famous in order to lavish China with future trade deals and hopes to gain China’s help in bringing Iran to heel. Advanced trade with China will be easy, but Xi has his own much bigger ambitions and hopes to mimic Putin’s success in winning Trump over to his side. He also wants to stop Trump from giving advanced weapons to the country they will invade—in this case, Taiwan. But Xi also wants to restore his Iranian oil supply. China’s current president-for-life was the first global tyrant to discover how susceptible Trump was to flattery in Xi’s visit to Mar-a-Lago during Trump’s first term. He promptly tutored Kim Jong Un on how to fool Trump and Kim played as if Trump won him over as a “friend.” By the time Trump visited North Korea, Kim knew he could keep his nuclear program, and has grown it rapidly since. In this latest iteration of Communists fooling a US president, Xi is pulling out all the stops and giving Trump a red carpet welcome no other head of state has seen before. It’s working; Trump came away believing, like Neville Chamberlain before, that he has secured “Peace in our Time” with Red China. To receive a free, one-time sample of this brief, along with options on how to subscribe, click on Request a sample on the left.
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The Russians are building tremendous new nuclear/biological and chemical weapons systems--all with the assistance of US technology transfers. They are deploying on average, 3 new Topol-M 6th generation ballistic missiles per month. We built our last MX over 10 years ago, and are disarming unilaterally. Further, the Russian are building huge underground nuclear bunkers and weapons production facilities in the Ural Mountains, clearly intended to function during a nuclear war. The US intelligence community (under both Republican and Democratic administrations) knows this and are actively covering for the Russians, so the American people won't become alarmed.
Both Republican and Democratic administrations have been supplying the Chinese with high technology weapons systems for years, knowing that they, in turn, are supplying other enemies (Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, North Korea) as well. Both Russia and China continue to protest against any US anti-ballistic missile system, even though such systems are purely defensive. It doesn't take a genius to understand that ABM systems only threaten someone who intends to launch ballistic missiles someday.
President Clinton directed our military to absorb a nuclear first strike rather than launch on warning (our only true deterrent to a first strike) and to prepare to retaliate afterward. That first strike will take down all command and control, all bombers (since none are on alert), most missiles, and all satellite and submarine communications.
According to the House Armed Services Committee, the following reductions have taken place during the Clinton Administration: Strategic and General Purpose Forces from 1990 to 1997: B-52 Bombers have gone from 220 to 56. B-1 Bombers from 90 to 60; Strategic Defense Interceptor Aircraft from 36 to 0; and Army Divisions (1990 to 1997) have gone from 18 Active down to 10. Reserve divisions have gone from 10 to 8. Army Brigades (1990 to 1997) have declined from 8 Active to 3 and Reserve brigades have gone down from 27 to 18.
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