Author: securingamerica

President Trump has long insisted that our European allies need to pay more for their own defense, most recently by allocating fully five percent of Gross Domestic Product. Therefore, the Europeans have spent with impunity on “butter” while letting us largely pay for the “guns.” Most balked at honoring even their NATO commitment to spend…

U.S. government and business leaders have long promoted the glories of “globalization.” With its reliance on low-cost foreign producers, notably in Communist China, to supply critical materials, components, and equipment, the integration of markets and national interests seemed not only desirable economically but strategically sound. In fact, this model resulted in the wholesale destruction of…

The deadline President Trump created for the release of all hostages seized by the terrorist organization Hamas is less than twenty-four hours away. He suspects they may have been starved, tortured and raped to death. Mr. Trump left up to Israel the decision to let “all hell break loose” if Hamas doesn’t comply. Its government…

President Trump hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today. They will seek to rekindle their personal, very special relationship, overcome bilateral disputes about trade, tariffs, and immigration, and forge a strategic bulwark against the two countries’ mutual enemy: the Chinese Communist Party. Topical as all those agenda items are, one may be of surpassing importance:…

The adage that “elections have consequences” certainly applies to the Middle East and America’s vital interests there following ours in 2020. Donald Trump bequeathed to Joe Biden a region as tranquil as it had ever been, with Israel prosperous, powerful, and secure, a growing number of Muslim nations making peace with the Jewish State and…

President Donald Trump’s meeting today with King Abdullah of Jordan has the potential to transform the Middle East. The host has rightly concluded that thanks to the war Hamas terrorists started fifteen months ago, Gaza is simply uninhabitable. If the visitor – who, like rulers across the region, professes a commitment to the Palestinian people…

The Chinese Communist Party remains in power today significantly thanks to the lies it tells its people and the rest of us. These include, for example, providing patently false information about its country’s economic growth, losses due to COVID-19, and military expenditures. Cooking the books was also a feature of Joe Biden’s presidency, a man…

History’s worst crime against humanity is taking place on our watch. Considerably more Christians than the entire population of the United States are being heavily persecuted worldwide simply because they follow Jesus. Even here, the Biden administration exhibited anti-Christian bias, a precursor to possible discrimination and, ultimately, persecution. Candidate Donald Trump pledged to protect Christians,…

The U.S. Agency for International Development has been closed down by the Trump team. Those who believe such aid can be an important tool for countering the immense influence operations of China, Qatar, and others working against our interests have always faced widespread public sentiment that our money would be better spent at home. Now,…

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu’s meeting yesterday may rank in historical, strategic importance alongside those of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in the early years of World War II and the collaborations of Ronald Reagan with Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II at the Cold War’s zenith. In each case, “special relationships”…

One of the most important reasons Donald Trump is president today is the appeal of his commitment in the course of the 2024 campaign to work with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to make America healthy again. This was a voting issue for millions of us deeply troubled about the pharmaceutical, medical, food, and regulatory factors…

It’s hard to overstate the importance of this week’s meeting between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. If they stand together, as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill did in World War II’s darkest days when Britain was otherwise alone, Israel will – with our material support – defeat our mutual enemies. If a…

For decades, we have been told Communist China is just an economic competitor. We were blithely assured that, if we engaged with and enriched the PRC by transferring there much of our manufacturing capability, supply chains and investment dollars, it would become more like us. Arguably, in the history of the world, there has never…