Secure Freedom Minute

One of the most time-tested principles in international affairs is the prescription “If you want peace, prepare for war.” 

Since he became Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth has been clear about the most serious threat against which we must prepare – namely, that posed by the Chinese Communist Party. 

The long-awaited National Defense Strategy reportedly will emphasize that reality. Secretary Hegseth told senior military leaders recently there would be “no rear areas” in the next war –presumably, because of the large numbers of Chinese soldiers here. 

And on Saturday, Secretary Hegseth warned Asian nations of the imperative of improving “threat awareness” and maritime capabilities in the face of China's increasingly “destabilizing” and “coercive” actions in the South China Sea.  

If you want “everlasting peace” with China, prepare for war – and help bring down the greatest threat we’ve ever faced: the Chinese Communist Party.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Today, a tiny fraction of New York City voters will enable a “Trojan horse” to be wheeled into their mayor’s office in the person of the Democratic candidate, Zohran Mamdani. 

Worse yet, he may prove to be a horseman of the apocalypse. 

A recent, chilling VictoryCo.org webinar documented Mamdani’s ominous personification of the “Red-Green axis” forged by a shared goal of destroying our constitutional Republic. 

His candidacy has drawn heavily on the national manpower of the Marxist Democratic Socialists of America. Mamdani also converted to Islam, resulting in substantial financing from jihadist groups, including the Council on American Islamic Relations.   

And his strain of Islam is a Shiite death-cult whose adherents – notably, the “12er” leaders of Iran – believe they must cause apocalyptic destruction now to prompt their messiah violently to achieve Muslim rule worldwide. 

God help New York City, and America.

This is Frank Gaffney.

In what may be the finest hour to date of his two presidencies, Donald Trump has pledged to counter the dire threat to civilization inherent in history’s greatest crime against humanity: the persecution of over 380 million Christians worldwide. 

The overwhelming majority of the acts of heavy persecution to which those followers of Jesus are subjected occur at the hands of adherents to Islam’s totalitarian sharia code.

In two recent Truth Social posts, Mr. Trump focused on one of the most egregious and ongoing examples of a place where such barbarity is allowed to occur with impunity: Africa’s Nigeria.  

To his credit, President Trump has committed to hold accountable and punish the Nigerian government – which has long tolerated, and even aided and abetted, such persecution – including by U.S. military attacks on the perpetrators.

Praise God!

This is Frank Gaffney!

For thirty-three years, the United States has unilaterally refrained from conducting even very-low-yield underground tests of our aging arsenal of nuclear weapons. 

By relying on computer simulations and educated guesses – instead of actual, realistic experimentation, we have precluded the sort of modernization in which both Russia and China have engaged relentlessly, surely with the benefit of covert nuclear tests.

Worse yet, we have seen serious and growing concerns about the reliability and effectiveness of our deterrent forces. 

Dr. Mark Schneider, one of America’s most competent experts on nuclear weapons policy and arms control, recently published an extraordinarily important paper laying out the case for a resumption of nuclear testing. 

Fortunately, President Trump has just ordered the Department of War to start testing immediately our nuclear weapons on an equal basis with other nations. 

Praise the Lord, and test the ammunition.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The meeting between President Trump and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in South Korea is now in the past. Still in the future, and very much in doubt, is what will come of it. 

The President has characterized the meeting as “a 12” on a one-to-ten scale. He announced numerous initiatives designed to help: American manufacturers dependent on Chinese exports of rare earth minerals; U.S. farmers’ agricultural sales, and the vast numbers of predominantly young people in this country not yet killed by Chinese chemical warfare in the form of fentanyl. 

If past experience is any guide, however, the Chinese Communist Party will not live up to its commitments and will persist in its decades-long “unrestricted warfare” against us. 

President Trump and every American should take aboard yesterday’s PresentDangerChina.org webinar on why we must not ignore that reality – and respond appropriately. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

A chilling VictoryCo.org briefing yesterday raised an alarm about a mortal threat posed to America’s preeminent metropolis. 

According to four eminent experts, the predicted election of Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani would put a man who adheres to several ideologies that call for the destruction of this country in charge of the security of its most populous city.

While New York City voters have been on notice about Mamdani’s ominous ties to the Communist Democratic Socialists of America front group and his Muslim Sharia-supremacism, until yesterday, his attachment to the apocalyptic death cult that animates Iran’s regime has gone basically unremarked. 

The federal government calls for us to “See something, Say something.” We need it urgently to do the same by warning New Yorkers that Zohran Mamdani is a “12er” whose his election could imperil their city and the country.     

This is Frank Gaffney.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

The question of whether America risks succumbing to what are, in fact, mortal enemies arises as we consider deals in the works with Communist China and with Qatar and Turkey.

All three adhere to ideologies and agendas requiring our destruction. None seeks to coexist with us in the long run, or honor commitments predicated on that goal. 

Americans must know these enemies – and know that our nation is actually at war with them, and proceed accordingly.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The China Matrix is a brilliant, and very timely, new book by Lee Smith. It chronicles how successive presidents of both parties and countless leaders of America’s business, political and other elites have subordinated national security and economic strength to the benefit of the Chinese Communist Party, and often their personal enrichment.  

Mr. Smith documents how Donald Trump started warning about this sell-out pioneered by Henry Kissinger decades ago, and how as a presidential candidate and in office he has worked to put America First, instead. 

President Trump will be tempted this week to ignore the “unrestricted warfare” the CCP has long waged against us by approving yet another “trade deal” that props up that mortal enemy. A generation ago, Ronald Reagan faced a similar choice at Reykjavik – and declined. 

Will Mr. Trump do the same, or join the China Class? 

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump told Time Magazine that he will soon decide whether to press Israel to release Marwan Barghouti from prison. Doing so is being portrayed as a step towards an alternative to Hamas and consistent with our interests and efforts to promote peace in Gaza and regionally.

In fact, unleashing Barghouti – a jihadist serving multiple life sentences for his involvement in the murder of five Israelis – would add immeasurably to the narrative that those who are, like him, committed to the destruction of Israel have won. 

A truth-telling briefing by American and Israeli experts yesterday warned of the already-great dangers for both our countries of reinforcing that perception. 

Sharia-supremacists, notably the leaders of so-called “allies” Qatar and Turkey, will simply intensify their double-game of using the President’s “20 Points” deal to pursue what is, in fact, a truly “endless war” against Western civilization. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Last week, President Trump struck a blow for freedom against “global governance.” He rallied fifty-seven members of the International Maritime Organization to prevent for at least a year the imposition of “international taxation” on this and other sovereign nations.

That’s the very good news. 

The bad news is that, to date, the United States has not acted to oppose the creation of another, ominous instrument of globalist domination – namely, the institution of surveillance, data aggregation and AI algorithms to monitor and control populations worldwide. 

We must not tolerate the imposition here of digital platforms, like “Real IDs,” that can serve as the information infrastructure for Chinese-style “social credit systems.” Ditto a central bank digital currency, like the so-called “Stable Coin,” that would enable the state to punish its perceived enemies by cutting off their access to funds.

This is Frank Gaffney.