Secure Freedom Minute

Vladimir Putin really hit Joe Biden where he lives yesterday in the Russian dictator’s “State of the Nation” address. He suspended Russia’s adherence to the Obama-era New START Treaty that Biden extended early in his presidency to 2026.   

Throughout Joe’s five decades in Washington, there have been few politicians more obsessed with promoting Kremlin-backed arms control agreements that had the effect of unilaterally disarming the United States. 

Experts believe that Putin’s massive nuclear build-up may already have violated the New START Treaty. If not, he has prepared to break out at any time. In addition, his “no-limits” partners in China have amassed their own, formidable nuclear arsenal unconstrained by any arms control deal. 

What’s needed now is a renewed U.S. policy of Peace through Strength underpinning credible deterrence – not delusions encouraged by our enemies that security lies in defective treaties. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Joe Biden surprised everyone by flying to Ukraine last weekend where, among other things, he professed his undying commitment to that country’s national sovereignty.  

As it happens, this President and his subordinates are in the process of surrendering Ukraine’s sovereignty – which is a fancy term for freedom, both a country and its people’s.  

That’s right: The Biden administration is secretly negotiating to give a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party named Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus the authority to make decisions about public health in Ukraine.  

If the Biden administration, the Chinese Communists, Bill Gates and other “globalists” shortly succeed at getting approved either of two diplomatic gambits that would turn the supranational World Health Organization into a supernatural arbiter of pandemics and responses to them, the Ukrainians can kiss their sovereignty goodbye.  

So can we.  

Learn more and take action at StoptheWHO.com.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

This day when we honor two of America’s greatest presidents seems like a good moment to reflect on the incumbent who is shaping up to be the worst in our nation’s history. 

Joe Biden’s tenure to date is, after all, an unbroken litany of disastrous policies. To name a few: The destruction of our southern border and the dangerous invasion it has precipitated. The reckless spending that is bankrupting the country, fueling inflation and ruining the reserve status of the dollar. The humiliating and strategically fraught surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban. And Biden’s serial betrayal of our country to the Chinese Communist Party. 

In contrast with George Washington, who brilliantly founded and fostered our Union, and Abraham Lincoln, who relentlessly ensured its survival through an unimaginably horrific civil war, today’s president is tirelessly propelling our country’s destruction. Joe must go.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Biden finally spoke to the nation yesterday after two weeks of disorderly conduct by his administration regarding the Chinese spy balloon and other, as-yet unidentified aerial objects. It wasn’t very illuminating, other than to impress on us again that we’re in “competition” with the Chinese Communist Party – ignoring the fact that the CCP is, and has long been, at war with America.

That balloon’s protracted focus on our intercontinental missile bases prompted our Committee on the Present Danger: China to convene a dramatic webinar yesterday. It examined whether the Chinese Communists think they can fight and win a nuclear war with us. Unfortunately, they have been relentlessly preparing for decades to have such an option with a view, at a minimum, to coercing our surrender.

 

What’s needed is a crash effort to enhance deterrence, not more appeasing “dialogue” with our mortal enemy.

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

There is a tradition in public life that has for too long been honored in the breach. It comes down to this: If you hold high office and perform your duties incompetently, dishonorably or otherwise disastrously, it behooves you to take responsibility and resign.

Today, there are myriad examples of instances in which such a corrective is warranted. Consider just three: The engineered environmental catastrophe in East Palestine on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s watch. The orchestrated invasion of our southern border facilitated by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. And President Joe Biden’s serial betrayal of our country to the Chinese Communist Party.

While there are certainly grounds for impeaching these three, they owe it to the American people to exhibit the integrity and sense of duty to spare the country the further trauma and expense of formally removing them from office.

This is Frank Gaffney.

STEPHEN BRYEN, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy

An overview of the balloons flying over the U.S. in recent weeks

What data could China have obtained from this balloon?

How would U.S. financial aid to Ukraine impact the security of Taiwan?

The impact of supply chain issues on U.S. military readiness

CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, Nine-time international award-winning journalist and television producer, Former federally appointed Director, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Former Appointee, Office of Religious Freedom in Foreign Affairs, Author, “The Challenge of Modernizing Islam”

The recent object shot down over Canadian airspace

The Southern Poverty Law Center's attack on the Catholic Church

A building threat from ISIS

The legitimacy of the leadership of a constitutional Republic like ours isn’t just a question of the integrity of the election by which the president came to power. On that score alone, Joe Biden would be “challenged.” 

We now have many other grounds for a lack of confidence in the Commander-in-Chief: Biden’s senility, for one. His erratic leadership concerning on an increasingly fraught war in Ukraine. His dangerous jabs and domestic terrorism mandates.  His bankrupting of our country and consistent imposition of policies harmful to our people and their freedoms.  

Most especially, we can’t trust a man who has clearly sold out our nation to its most dangerous enemy ever. Team Biden’s bizarre approach to and utter lack of transparency about known and suspected Chinese Communist incursions into our sovereign airspace is but the latest grounds for saying Joe must go.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

BRADLEY THAYER, Director of China Policy, Center for Security Policy, Author, How China Sees the World 

News of more "objects" being shot down over the United States

Why did China send a balloon initially?

The importance of the U.S. submarine fleet for defending the Indo-Pacific

BILL WALTON, Host, The Bill Walton Show

Wall Street's emphasis on ESG investing

Why does the U.S. continue to invest in China?

How the U.S. bureaucracy inhibits its ability to stop investing in China

DANIEL GREENFIELD, Shillman Journalism Fellow, David Horowitz Freedom Center

Is an "invasion" taking place at the U.S. southern border?

Demographics of the individuals crossing the border

Cultural Marxism's intertwining with corporate America

Reports that our sovereign air space is being repeatedly penetrated, and that it has evidently been going on unnoticed for some time, are profoundly unsettling. Unfortunately, they highlight a serious national vulnerability heretofore unknown to most Americans.

That vulnerability arises from the fact that, after President Nixon signed the U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 1972, America basically gave up on most active and even passive defenses of our country. The theory was that having agreed to forswear effective anti-missile systems, it made little sense to maintain comprehensive air defenses, extensive protection for our leadership or any real civil defense for our population.

Instead, we embraced a notion called Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD. Our perfect vulnerability backed by a nuclear deterrent was said to be the formula for security.

MAD is, well, mad. Clearly, we need to defend America once again.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Lately, it seems every day brings a shoot-down of some unmanned flying object in our air space. The military has thus far given few details about what our fighter aircraft have intercepted. So, we can’t be sure that they are – like the balloon recently forced into U.S. territorial waters off South Carolina – Chinese in origin and whether their purpose is threatening. 

If that proves to be the case, the question is why the Chinese Communist Party is engaged in such aggressive behavior at this juncture. One explanation is as obvious as it is ominous: Deterrence is failing.

When combined with accumulating evidence that the CCP is preparing for a shooting war, we must immediately do everything we can to dissuade the Chinese Communists from going there.

For starters, we must have a Commander-in-Chief who has not betrayed this country to our enemy.

This is Frank Gaffney.