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By Ken Abramowitz and Jon Sutz
Ken Abramowitz is the President and Founder of SaveTheWest. Jon Sutz is SaveTheWest’s consulting editor and videographer.
Americans and people in all other democracies love peace, because we can do our jobs, grow our families, and enjoy our leisure time.
Unfortunately, we are forced to fight wars 2% of the time, when attacked, but at least we have peacetime to look forward to the other 98% of the time. That, however, that is not how our adversaries look at life.
We have two primary categories of adversaries:
Socialists/communist dictatorships (“Reds”): China, Russia, Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba and others
Islamists (Muslim supremacists; “Greens”): Iran, Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, and others
While their core ideologies are different, they share three key attributes:
- They hate freedom, democracy and capitalism
- They are engaged in total ideological (if not militant) wars against democracies, 100% of the time
- They indoctrinate each successive generation of children to fervently believe in the moral justification for their war against democracies
Why this difference in world outlook? Democracies are bottom-up organizations, and the public seeks “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” which does not entail war.
Dictatorships and authoritarian societies — be they the Reds or the Greens — are top-down organizations, with the dictator or tiny ruling clique fighting both (a) the domestic population, as well as (b) foreign enemies, so as to gain wealth for the nation (and the dictator) through victory.
Let’s examine how the Reds and the Greens are working to achieve their aims:
The Reds
China is working relentlessly to take over the world economically, as well as through:
(a) Cyber-warfare: Stealing our intellectual property, and hacking US government computers to obtain the identities of tens of millions of US government employees – including the background investigations of our most elite technologists and military personnel
(b) Cultural subversion: Sowing chaos among our civil fabric, largely by penetrating our universities, and pitting Americans against Americans, based on lies — and violent suppression of dissidents (including attacks on Christians, and the imprisonment of one million Uighur Muslims, now festering in “re-education” camps)
(c) Space warfare
(d) Military firepower: Largely through technology stolen from the U.S., China is now rapidly approaching qualitative parity with America’s military, and has even provided weapons to Palestinian terrorists
(e) Progressive territorial expansion, such as constructing man-made islands (which are turned into massive military bases) in the South China Sea
Russia, in addition to meddling in our elections and working to sow civil chaos (which it has been doing for more than 60 years), is trying to keep its stagnant economy afloat by creating conditions that will cause the low price of oil and natural gas to rise.
The Greens
Iran is trying to take over the world through violent terrorism, narco-terrorism, and cultural infiltration. Although it is not often discussed in our national news media, Hezbollah, the largest Islamist terror organization in the world, sponsored and armed by Iran, has been smuggling tons of illicit drugs (and who knows what else) into America and W. Europe for decades, the profits of which it has used to fund its global terrorism. In fact, as Politico reported in 2018, in order to keep his Iran nuclear “deal” on track, President Obama stymied an inter-agency federal task force, “Project Cassandra,” that was created to take down Hezbollah’s US dug smuggling operations.
The Muslim Brotherhood, primarily financed by Turkey and Qatar, is trying to take over the world through cultural infiltration and subversion of democratic nations’ major governmental, educational and media institutions. In its own words, the Muslim Brotherhood’s mission is:
“a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
Saudi Arabia is trying to take over the world culturally, though on a more subtle basis than the Muslim Brotherhood, including by infiltrating Western universities.
ISIS and al Qaeda are working to take over the world through savage violence and intimidation — but also, through savvy online propaganda.
Regional Islamist terrorist organizations like the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Palestinian Authority are trying to take over their regions by combining physical terror with “negotiations” for peace, which they neither honor or accept.
So how do democracies fight or negotiate with our adversaries, particularly when their thinking is long-term, while most democratic nations tend to think in the short-term?
This disparity is a huge challenge for democracies, particularly when elections are on the horizon.
Fortunately, democracies have two key advantages
(1) Our economies grow as free people innovate and create new businesses.
(2) The forces of evil, be they (a) socialists/communists, or (b) Islamists, often cannot control themselves, and overstep the bounds of decency, thereby forcing democracies to unite, and act decisively.
The Trump Administration is juggling numerous foreign policy challenges right now, attempting to navigate through very treacherous waters, due to our broad array of enemies, adversaries, and “fr-enemies.”
Let us pray that its senior leaders assemble the right mix of offensive and defensive strategies, to protect us — culturally, economically and physically.
Additional reading
CHINA
China Infiltrating U.S. Education System in Propaganda Coup – Washington Free Beacon
The Chinese Trojan Horse in American universities – American Military News
Chinese warship range could be ‘decisive’ in battle against US Navy – Business Insider
How Xi Jinping is attacking religion in China – Business Insider
China church demolition sparks fears of campaign against Christians – The Guardian
China’s Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor – The New York Times
Weapons and ideology: Files reveal how China armed and trained the Palestinians – Haaretz.com
1 in 5 companies say China stole their IP within the last year – CNBC
What’s Intellectual Property and Does China Steal It? – Bloomberg
America Must Counter China’s Great Power Threat with Military Strength | The National Interest
South China Sea: Chinese admiral wants to ‘sink two US aircraft carriers’
RUSSIA
Yuri Bezmenov: Deception Was My Job (Complete) – YouTube
The Russian Economy Is Stagnating – The Moscow Times
IRAN – HEZBOLLAH
Pompeo: Iran, Hezbollah Presence in Venezuela Poses Serious Threat to U.S. – The Tower
The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook – Politico
Iran has been the #1 largest state sponsor of global terrorism – SaveTheWest
Why is Iran conspiring with Mexican drug dealers? – Foreign Policy
Hezbollah said to bypass US sanctions by entering drug trade into Europe – The Times of Israel
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
The Muslim Brotherhood – The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Muslim Brotherhood – Counter Extremism Project
What Is the Muslim Brotherhood? – Middle East Forum
Congress hearing on Muslim Brotherhood exposes Qatar, Turkey – Egypt Today
History of the Muslim Brotherhood Penetration of the U.S. Government – Gatestone Institute
Al Jazeera’s Egypt closure deals blow to Muslim Brotherhood
AHMED: Philadelphia’s ‘Children For Jihad’ Warrant Investigation – The Daily Caller
SAUDIS – WAHABISM
Analyses – Wahhabism | PBS – Saudi Time Bomb? – PBS
Saudi Billionaire Buys Yale A New Sharia Law Center | The Daily Caller
Saudi Prince Gives Millions to Harvard and Georgetown – The New York Times
ISIS / AL QAEDA
How To Fight The Islamic State Online | Foreign Affairs
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