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The battle for New York has officially begun! Fresh off his historic NYC mayoral victory, Zohran Mamdani is on a direct collision course with the 47th President. In this critical analysis, we break down President Donald Trump's repeated threats to cut federal funds for New York City. With Mamdani now mayor-elect, he has fired back with a defiant victory speech, vowing to fight the White House for every dollar. We examine this "declaration of war" and the political narrative developing around his demand for federal money. Is this a bold challenge to the president, or a political miscalculation? Who will win this showdown? Will Trump make good on his threat to cut funding? Let us know your prediction in the comments below!
Poland has now begun a government program to begin mass training of civilians for armed service in the outbreak of war. This program is voluntary currently, but is aimed at helping increase the number of available armed citizenry in the outbreak of war with Russia. In the meantime Russian drones have entered Swedish and Belgian airspace again today, casuing airspace closures and flying over a nuclear site in Belgium. Russia has threatened war with NATO once more, as the Deputy speaker of the Russian Duma has threatened to level major cities across europe since the west will not bow to Russia's demands. in the meantime US B-52s conducted another flight near Venezuela today, as the US seeks a legal pathway to war with the country. Iran warns they will have to begin to evacuate Tehran, due to the unfixable water shortage. the US will be opening a base in Damascus. Ukrainian forces are fighting a pitched battle for the city of Pokrovsk, with the Russians gaining small amounts of ground at extremely high losses.
Russian drones have invaded Belgian airspace over to whole country, which has invoked article 4 over the incidents; a makor act to be taken once more by another NATO member. Drones were also spotted over the Hannover airport in central Germany today as well. Russia is now threatening open nuclear warfare on Ukraine after announcing the resumption of full nuclear missile tests which will resume for the first time in 25 years. The US has promptly responded by also announcing the start of it's own nuclear tests, and launching an ICBM test from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Ukraine has largely held the line today, and inflicted heavy losses on Russian forces. Russian forces are making slow progress through the streets of Pokrovsk, and Ukrainian armed forces are considering a retreat from Myrnohrad. Venezuela finds itself still under a larger threat, with the US striking and sinking another boat today.
Victor Davis Hanson examines the Jeffrey Epstein saga’s divisive impact on American politics and the MAGA movement, while commending the Trump administration’s military, technological, and immigration policy successes. He urges Australia to strengthen its defence, fortifying the ANZUS alliance against autocratic threats like China.Critiquing distorted historical narratives that skew policy, Hanson advocates for a cohesive Western response to address authoritarian challenges, trade imbalances, and demographic declines. Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, columnist, and farmer. He has been a commentator on contemporary politics for the National Review and The Washington Times and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.In addition to writing hundreds of articles, book reviews and newspaper editorials, Hanson is also the author of twenty-four books and hosts a regular podcast series, 'The Victor Davis Hanson Show'. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and was a presidential appointee in 2007-08 on the American Battle Monuments Commission. His latest book, The Dying Citizen, was published in October 2021. And his next book, soon to be released on May the 7th this year, The End of Everything, How Wars Descend Into Annihilation.
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Elizabeth Farah interviews Robert Spencer about The Palestinian Delusion, a manufactured myth of a Palestinian people used as a weapon to destroy Israel. Don’t miss how the KGB, Yasser Arafat, and the Muslim Brotherhood engineered this propaganda, and why Jerusalem was a Jewish majority city long before modern political claims.
As the Israel-Iran war enters its sixth day, tensions are rising not only in the Middle East but here at home. President Trump has declared the U.S. has "complete and total control of the skies over Iran" and is demanding Iran’s Supreme Leader surrender—claiming the U.S. knows exactly where he’s hiding. While most agree Iran must never obtain a nuclear weapon, voices like Senator Lindsey Graham are pushing for full-scale regime change, urging Trump to go “all in” for Israel. But a bipartisan resolution from Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna seeks to block any U.S. military involvement, arguing Congress—not just the President—should decide if America enters another war. With the risk of U.S. troops, military families, and taxpayer dollars being drawn into yet another Middle East conflict, questions remain: where is the line between supporting Israel and direct entanglement—and how close are we to crossing it? Retired air force special ops and national security expert Glenn Ignazio, who's lived in the gray zone of military strategy, joins Alicia summers to discuss.
Regardless of whether Israel has the capability to decimate Iran’s entire nuclear program, or whether the United States needs to become further involved in the war and provide Israel with “bunker-buster” bombs, one thing is clear: “If this war should end with the Iranian regime intact and the elements of its nuclear program recoverable, then in some ways it will have been all for naught,” argues Victor Davis Hanson in today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “It is surreal. If we had this conversation five years ago and I said to you, ‘The Iranian nation—that is huge compared to Israel, 10 times the population—the Iranian nation has lost all control of the Houthi terrorists and they are themselves neutered. Their surrogates in the West Bank and Gaza are neutered. They're gone, Hamas as a fighting force. The formidable, terrifying Hezbollah cadres, they're inert. ‘“‘There is no Russian presence. I'm not a patron. It is not a protector. It's not a power in the Middle East. It's tied down in Ukraine. And Iran itself, the formidable powerhouse of the Middle East that evoked terror all over, has no defenses....' “And we're down to a single critical issue… if this war should end with the Iranian regime intact and the elements of its nuclear program recoverable, then, in some ways, it will have been all for naught.”
OAN Staff Blake Wolf
10:40 AM – Monday, June 16, 2025
Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene recently slammed “fake” supporters of the “America First” movement, whom she says have been “slobbering” over the United States engaging in another regime change war in the Middle East.
Greene’s (R-Ga.) social media post highlights a current split in the “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement, as the very essence of the political movement is said to be the rejection of foreign interventionism previously adopted by the neo-conservative perspective, which analysts say heavily influenced former President George W. Bush’s foreign policy.
“Everyone is finding out who the real America First/MAGA and who were fake and just said it [because] it was popular. Unfortunately, the list of fakes is quickly becoming quite long and quickly exposed,” she began.
“Anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/MAGA. Wishing for the murder of innocent people is disgusting. We are sick and tired of foreign wars. All of them,” Greene continued. “And this one will quickly engulf the Middle East, BRICS, and NATO as countries are required to take a side.”
“Real America First/MAGA wants world peace for all people and doesn’t want our military killed or forever injured physically and mentally. We love our U.S. military and love them helping to secure our borders and our cities for the defense of OUR PEOPLE AND OUR COUNTRY.”
Greene went on to point out the disastrous reverberations the previous wars in the Middle East had on American soldiers returning to the United States, while also pointing out the massive debt crisis currently crippling the nation.
“We have spent TRILLIONS in the Middle East and we are dealing with the aftermath of death, blown apart bodies, never ending suicides, and disabling PTSD. All because they told us propaganda as to why we must sacrifice our own to defend some other country’s borders.”
According to a 2021 study by Brown University’s Cost of War Project, 30,177 active-duty U.S. service members and veterans of the post-9/11 wars have committed suicide as of June 2021, which is significantly more than the 7,057 service members who died in the post-9/11 wars.
“I don’t want to see Israel bombed or Iran bombed or Gaza bombed. I don’t want to see Ukraine bombed or Russia bombed. We do NOT want to be involved or required to pay for ANY OF IT!!! We are $36+ TRILLION in debt and have mountains of our own problems. We have giant planks sticking out of our own eyes while we complain about splinters in other’s eyes.”
“Taking this position is NOT antisemitic. They’re rational, sane, and loving toward all people. Taking this position of peace and prosperity for all is not isolationism, it leads to GREAT trade deals and GREAT economies that help ALL PEOPLE,” Greene added.
Everyone is finding out who the real America First/MAGA and who were fake and just said it bc it was popular.
Unfortunately, the list of fakes is becoming quite long and exposed themselves quickly.
Anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war…
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
(@RepMTG) June 15, 2025
Greene’s post follows after Israel issued “preemptive” strikes on Thursday, targeting Iranian military leaders and their nuclear facilities. They justified the attack by arguing that the regime was too dangerously close to developing a nuclear weapon, representing an existential threat to Israel.
“Netanyahu [utilized his] statement overnight, invoking the darkest chapter in Jewish history, to insist that Israel would never allow itself to be vulnerable to a 'nuclear holocaust,'” The Guardian reported.
Iran has also been accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump. The Justice Department announced in November 2024 that it had filed charges related to an Iranian plot to kill Trump before the presidential election that year, according to NPR.
Nonetheless, Iran has since responded in retaliation, launching a barrage of ballistic missiles, ultimately overwhelming Israel’s missile defense systems and pounding into multiple areas across Israel. The two nations continue to lob airstrikes at one another, while Israeli leaders have reportedly urged the United States to join the fight against Iran.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has repeatedly called on the two sides to “make a deal.”
“We will have PEACE soon between Israel and Iran! Many calls and meetings now taking place,” Trump wrote in a Sunday Truth Social post. “MAKE THE MIDDLE EAST GREAT AGAIN!”
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With two major, ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, historian Victor Davis Hanson takes a step back to examine the historical nature of war—and why modern conflicts so often defy resolution on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” Are today’s endless wars a departure from the classical model of victory through total defeat and political transformation? Or have we simply lost the will to wage decisive wars? “ Traditionally, the way that political differences were settled—the aggressor versus the invaded—was by defeating the enemy through superior force. “ These conflicts are what we call a “bellum interruptus,” they just keep going on. They simmer down, they flare up like a forest fire. But the old classical idea that you defeat the enemy, you solve the political problem may not be as ossified as we think.
Context is key when trying to understand President Trump’s negotiations to end the Ukraine/Russia war. How did this war even begin in the first place? Will Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio be able to end it? What do Presidents Zelenskyy and Putin really want? Glenn heads to the chalkboard to lay out the entire timeline and explain how America – mostly the Deep State – played a major role in causing this mess.
OAN Staff James Meyers
12:10 PM – Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused President Donald Trump of declaring a “dumb” trade war on Canada — maintaining that his country “will not back down.”
Trudeau spoke publicly hours after Trump enacted new tariffs against Mexico, Canada, and China.
He announced a 25% levy on “C$30 billion worth of U.S. imports, effective immediately.” Tariffs on another C$125 billion in U.S. goods will take effect in 21 days, he added, CNBC reported.
The prime minister went on to warn Trump and the U.S.
“A fight with Canada will have no winners,” Trudeau asserted as he addressed reporters in Ottawa while discussing the country’s response to the tariffs. “They point out that even though you’re a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do,” he continued, addressing the president by his first name, Donald.
Trudeau pleaded for Canadians to “pull together,” and he vowed that Americans will feel the impact of these tariffs. Additionally, the outgoing Canadian leader accused Trump of purposely imposing the tariffs in an effort to collapse the Canadian economy — in order to make it easier to annex the country.
“We will never be the 51st state, but he can do damage to the Canadian economy, and he’s started this morning, but he is rapidly going to find out, as American families are going to find out, that that’s going to hurt people on both sides of the border.”
Canada has the world’s ninth largest economy and sits at around $2.3 trillion, which is only nearly the same size as the U.S. state of New York.
Nevertheless, Canada is still known for providing the U.S. a number of agricultural products, including grains such as wheat, barley, and oats, along with meat products like beef, pork, and poultry.
The U.S. also imports vehicles and auto parts from Canada, including cars, trucks, engines, transmissions, tires, and other components.
Trudeau later mentioned that he still has not spoken with Trump since the tariffs were put into effect.
“Today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada, their closest partner and ally — their closest friend. Canadians are reasonable, but we will not back down from a fight,” he wrote on X.
This comes after Trudeau already announced “retaliatory tariffs” on $30 billion Canadian dollars ($20.7 billion) worth of American goods.
In response, Trump confidently threatened to increase Canada’s tariffs even more on Tuesday.
“Please explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he puts a Retaliatory Tariff on the U.S., our Reciprocal Tariff will immediately increase by a like amount!” he wrote on his Truth Social account.
Trudeau has insisted that Canadians don’t “hate” Americans, but he described the tariffs as a response to a “policy decision by the American government designed to go after the Canadian economy.”
“I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don’t want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don’t want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, the markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically,” Trudeau told reporters.
During his announcement, Trudeau also urged Canadians to use their own country’s products, boycott American products, and stop vacationing in Florida.
Canada’s provincial premiers are expected to give their own addresses regarding the retaliatory tariffs on Tuesday.
In one of the first retaliatory measures announced, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said that his state was officially canceling its contract with Elon Musk-owned Starlink — which helps people in times of disaster when their electricity goes out.
This comes after Trump’s tariffs went into full effect just after midnight on Tuesday, in what the president cited were failures of Mexico, Canada, and China to stop the flow of deadly fentanyl coming into the U.S.
Mexico is expected to respond with retaliatory measures on U.S. goods on Sunday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Tuesday.
“There is no motive or reason, nor justification that supports this decision that will affect our people and our nation,” she said.
Trudeau’s likely successor, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, similarly announced that Canada will fight this.
“At 12:01 a.m., President Trump stabbed America’s best friend in the back. My message to the president is this — Canada will fight back,” he announced in a statement.
The new tariffs, which went into effect on Tuesday, impose a 25% levy on the U.S.’s North American neighbors and 20% on China.
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In his nearly decade-long spat with President Donald Trump over illegal immigration, Pope Francis recently crossed a political Rubicon.
On Feb. 10, the pope issued a letter to American bishops that, while seemingly innocuous, basically constitutes a declaration of war. It effectively places the privileges of the immigrant, as defined by Rome, over the safety of the American people and over the American government’s moral responsibility to protect them.
“I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations,” Francis wrote. “The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.
“Christians know very well that it is only by affirming the infinite dignity of all that our own identity as persons and as communities reaches its maturity. But worrying about personal, community or national identity, apart from these considerations, easily introduces an ideological criterion that distorts social life and imposes the will of the strongest as the criterion of truth.”
The pope even committed blasphemy by using Jesus Christ’s name in vain as a testimonial for a political agenda.
“I exhort all the faithful of the Catholic Church, and all men and women of good will, not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters,” Francis wrote. “With charity and clarity, we are all called to live in solidarity and fraternity, to build bridges that bring us ever closer together, to avoid the walls of ignominy, and to learn to give our lives as Jesus Christ gave his for the salvation of all.”
The letter is the latest salvo in a conflict not just between the two men but between the Vatican’s embrace of globalist utopianism — as FrontPage Magazine readers know all too well — and a president’s responsibility to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, even foreign ones.
On Dec. 20, Trump appointed Brian Burch as ambassador to the Holy See. Burch leads CatholicVote, a civic advocacy group that supported Trump’s presidential campaign last year. In 2022, the group joined Judicial Watch in suing the Biden Administration for communications records between the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, and Catholic agencies helping immigrants at the Texas border. Two previous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests were ignored.
“American Catholics deserve to know the full extent of the U.S. government’s role in funding and coordinating with Catholic church-affiliated agencies at the border,” Burch said in a statement, “and what role these agencies played in the record surge of illegal immigrants over the past year.”
Francis responded on Jan. 6 by appointing San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy to be the next archbishop of Washington, D.C. McElroy — a vigorous opponent of Trump — fully supports Francis on open borders.
Following Trump’s inauguration came mass deportations of immigrants with criminal records and Elon Musk’s audit of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which revealed that Catholic Relief Services accepted $4.6 billion between 2013 and 2022 — the largest single amount for any recipient.
The website Complicit Clergy reported Jan. 25 that since 2009, Catholic agencies have received $5.2 billion from the federal government for immigration projects. The Biden administration distributed more than half of that total: $2.9 billion. Catholic Charities obtained $2.61 billion, with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops getting $1.58 billion. Of that last figure, $1.55 billion went to the archdiocese of Washington, D.C. — where the USCCB has its headquarters.
One of the Catholic agencies receiving USAID funds was Caritas Internationalis, an international charity based in and governed by the Vatican. In July, the agency embezzled $67 million from its Luxembourg branch.
It gets worse.
Catholic non-governmental organizations (NGOs) received money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to resettle immigrants through FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program. During Fiscal Year 2024, Catholic Charities of San Diego collected about $41.2 million in two separate installments; Catholic Charities of San Antonio obtained more than $27.8 million, also in two installments.
In all, FEMA distributed $641 million in grants to various NGOs during the last fiscal year. How much of that money could have helped the victims of Hurricane Helen in the Southeast, or the wildfires in Southern California?
It gets even worse.
Corpus Christi for Unity and Peace, a Catholic organization, reported Feb. 4 that during the Biden Administration, about 500,000 unaccompanied migrant children entered the United States. But the whereabouts of more than 323,000 remain unknown.
The NGOs responsible for caring for them included the USCCB, Catholic Charities, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network and Catholic Relief Services. The first two agencies alone received $449 million during Biden’s tenure.
“This issue strikes at the heart of our faith,” wrote Vicki Yamasaki, the group’s founder and chair. “Rather than supporting the children, these Catholic NGOs worsened their trauma by perpetuating separation. Catholic Charities, in particular, has received intense scrutiny for the sheer volume of children they have trafficked and their role in fracturing the family unit as well as placing children with unvetted sponsors.”
As FrontPage magazine reported, the USCCB exploits the plight of desperate immigrants to get federal taxpayer dollars.
In his letter, Francis acknowledged “the right of a nation to defend itself and keep its communities safe from those who have committed violent or serious crimes while in the country or prior to arrival” and that a humane approach “does not impede the development of a policy that regulates orderly and legal migration.” But as FrontPage reported, concerning abortion and homosexuality, Francis uses rhetorical duplicity to disguise his actions and appointments.
Six years before writing that nations have the right to devise immigration laws to protect their citizens, Francis argued that those same nations no longer hold sovereign authority.
“The nation-state cannot be considered as an absolute, as an island with respect to the surrounding circumstances,” he said. “In the current situation of globalization, not just of the economy but also of technological and cultural exchanges, the nation-state is no longer able to procure on its own the common good of its population. The common good has become global and nations must affiliate themselves for their own benefit.”
As with homosexuality and abortion, personnel equates to policy on immigration. McElroy embraced the “woke” critique of society in 2020 in an address at the University of San Diego:
“The culture of exclusion has unleashed a poison of animosity against immigrants that paralyzes our politics so deeply that we cannot even find a pathway to protect young men and women who came to this nation as children and now thirst to be citizens of the only land they have ever known,” he said, blaming “racial and ethnic disparities … rooted in our nation’s historic culture of exclusion.”
Three years earlier, in another speech, McElroy used the irresponsible rhetoric of anti-Trump “resistance” in encouraging his audience to defend immigrants regardless of their legal status or criminal record.
“We must disrupt those who would seek to send troops into our streets, to deport the undocumented, to rip mothers and fathers from their families,” he said. “We must disrupt those who portray refugees as enemies, rather than our brothers and sisters in terrible need.”
McElroy’s histrionics effectively equated legitimate immigration authorities with Gestapo agents seeking Jews.
Archbishop Edward Weisenburger, whom Francis appointed Feb. 11 as Detroit’s new episcopal leader, offered a theological equivalent. When the USCCB met in 2018, Weisenberger suggested that the bishops make what he called a “prophetic statement” by issuing “canonical penalties” against Catholics who support Trump’s immigration policies or work for the Border Patrol.
“Canonical penalties” include excommunication.
“I think it’s important to point out that the canonical penalties are there in place to heal. First and foremost, to heal,” said Weisenberger, a canon lawyer who was archbishop of Tucson at the time. “Therefore, for the salvation of these people’s souls, maybe it’s time for us to look at canonical penalties.”
Graham Hudson, the editor of the Catholic magazine Crisis at the time, begged to differ.
“Imagine being a Border Patrol officer reading the paper at breakfast and learning you are targeted for ‘canonical penalties’ just for doing your job,” Hudson said. “He asks himself, ‘Do I have to confess my occupation to my priest in confession?’
“The intention of using excommunication to force Catholics into line about immigration policy is demeaning. It won’t be viewed as an opportunity for spiritual healing but as punishment for being part of the Trump administration.”
Making the bishops’ position even more infuriating — besides their profiting from human trafficking — is their absolute indifference toward the victims of their stance, as FrontPage reported.
The bishops are silent about the Laken Rileys of the world and their grieving families. They are silent about the young victims of sex trafficking. They are silent about the addicted victims of drug trafficking. They are silent about the corruption that allows access to traffickers. They are silent about gangs such as Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua terrorizing the innocent. They are silent about terrorists exploiting open borders. They are silent about children being sexually molested by illegal aliens.
So, too, is Francis.
“Why is Francis in such a frantic state about these grants being dismissed and defunded?” asked Elizabeth Yore, a conservative Catholic and former general counsel for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. Yore then raised a more disturbing question:
“I’m going to ask this question of OMB (the Office of Management and Budget) and DOGE (the Department of Government Efficiency): Is 10 percent going to the big guys? I want to know, and so do a lot of Catholics.”
But who could be “the big guy”? Joe Biden? Maybe the pope himself?
By issuing his de facto declaration of war against the American people, Pope Francis inadvertently might have sparked the destruction of the Catholic Church in the United States.
"Democrats are the party of war," Rob Finnerty illustrated, proven throughout both modern American history and in the political outrage taking place over President Trump seeking to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Democrats' hypocritical position ahead of DOGE's Social Security audit. Leavitt defended President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's objectives on "Hannity" Monday, pointing out that former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton championed rooting out waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars. A federal judge on Tuesday declined to block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data and firing federal employees. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan declined to grant the plaintiffs' request to issue a temporary restraining order, citing what she said was their failure to demonstrate evidence of "irreparable harm" caused by DOGE's access. "Plaintiffs legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight," Chutkan, an Obama appointee, said Tuesday. "In these circumstances, it must be indisputable that this court acts within the bounds of its authority. Accordingly, the Court cannot issue a TRO, especially one as wide-ranging as Plaintiffs request, without clear evidence of imminent, irreparable harm to these Plaintiffs. The current record does not meet that standard." Russia and the U.S. agreed Tuesday to start working toward ending the war in Ukraine and improving their diplomatic and economic ties, the two countries’ top diplomats said after talks that reflected an extraordinary about-face in U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump. In an interview with The Associated Press after the meeting, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the two sides agreed broadly to pursue three goals: to restore staffing at their respective embassies in Washington and Moscow, to create a high-level team to support Ukraine peace talks and to explore closer relations and economic cooperation. He stressed, however, that the talks — which were attended by his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, and other senior Russian and U.S. officials — marked the beginning of a conversation, and more work needs to be done.
Top diplomats from Russia and the U.S. met Tuesday in Saudi Arabia to discuss improving ties and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine — talks that reflected a major and rapid change in American foreign policy under President Donald Trump. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says ending Russia’s war in Ukraine will require concessions from all sides and that Europe will be part of the talks.
This is a condensed version of Jan Jekielek's interview with Gordon Chang. The full version was released on Epoch TV on September 28, 2024. Jan Jekielek interviews Gordon Chang, the author of the new book, “Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America,” to understand the Chinese regime’s strategy to destabilize America, from fentanyl warfare to election disinformation to suspicious activity at the border. “We see momentum toward war, and we Americans have got to ask ourselves, what is going to stop this momentum toward war?” Chang says. “The Communist Party People's Daily, China's most authoritative publication in China, in a landmark editorial declared in May 2019 "a people's war against us, and we're Americans, so we don't think we can ignore what our enemies say." But for Communist China, People's War is a phrase that has great resonance going back to the beginning of the People's Republic. Just about a year ago, ‘PLA Daily’ actually defined people's war for us. It said people's war is total war, and we have seen China wage a campaign of unrestricted warfare against the United States.” Gordon Chang: “You have an insecure regime in China. Beijing is worried about the inspirational impact of America's values and form of governance on the Chinese people. I believe the Communist Party does not think it will ever be safe as long as the United States exists.” Chang about Chinese students in America: “We know that Chinese consular officials and Ministry of State Security agents surveil those students and get them to commit espionage, get them to engage in political activities which is inappropriate on our soil, and this is our country. We allow that. Under the communist party's top down system every Chinese national must obey the instructions and demands of the Communist Party, and China's 2017 National Intelligence Law codifies this in one area where Chinese nationals are required to commit espionage if they receive a demand.” “There must be hundreds, if not 1000s, of Ministry of State Security agents running around our country trying to compromise American politicians.” Chang recommends: “We need to sever all of our contacts with the Chinese regime. I know that that is very strong. I’m not saying it's politically acceptable, but I am saying it is necessary, and the reason is we're being overwhelmed. We are being overwhelmed by a Chinese regime. Our law enforcement is being overwhelmed. Our universities are being overwhelmed, our businesses, Hollywood, just, you name it. We don't have a hold on this. And until we are able to manage this, we need to take those contacts and sever them. It's going to be tough. It will be painful, as we talked about, but nonetheless, it's necessary, and that's why I'm so concerned, because we are not willing to do what is necessary to save our society.”