A Greater Threat than 9/11

As Americans pause today in remembrance of the 9/11/01 attacks, a far greater threat is rapidly maturing.

Russia and China have extensively ramped up their military development in recent years. Moscow now has, for the first time, a lead in strategic nuclear weaponry. Beijing’s navy can now challenge Washington’s. Both have closed the gap in technology. The two superpowers have united in their opposition to America, sharing weapons, strategies and training exercises.

As this article goes to print, Russia is conducting its largest training exercise, entitled “Vostok,” since the 1980’s. It even exceeds that event in size and scope. As notable as the size of the endeavor is the deep cooperation between Moscow and Beijing. (Mongolia is also participating, and disturbingly, NATO member Turkey considered participating as well.) According to Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu, the vast maneuvers will include 300,000 soldiers, 36,000 tanks, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, 80 warships and 1,000 planes. Included will be Iskander nuclear missiles, which have been deployed in a manner that violates prior arms treaties, the latest and most advanced tanks and fighter jets.

In addition, Russian military sources note that 0ver 80 fuel and ammo dumps, and 100 meal stations. General of the Army Dmitry Bulgakov said that the Vostok 2018 will also involve units of federal executive authorities, industry enterprises, Rosrezerv factories, and transport and other agencies.

Russian military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer termed the games a “preparation for a future world war. The army’s General Staff believes this will take place after 2020 in the form of either a global war or a series of conflicts with magnitude…The enemy is the United States and its allies.”

A National Interest look points out that “…while many commentators have focused on the massive scale of Vostok 2018…arguably a more notable aspect is the invitation of a contingent of 3,200 Chinese troops. If Vostok isn’t meant to defend against China, Moscow and Beijing alike will have everyone know it is because of the ‘very aggressive and unfriendly’ international environment they blame upon the United States.
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According to South China Morning Post “A contingent from China’s People’s Liberation Army is expected to take part in the main display at the Tsugou training ground in the Eastern Military District, showing some of the results of Beijing’s unprecedented military overhaul of the past few years. China’s Ministry of National Defence announced it was sending nearly 3,200 troops, 900 weapons, and 30 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters to the exercise – amplifying the West’s concerns over the two countries’ closer military cooperation.”

A Global Security analysis queries whether there is an internal reason for the maneuvers, in addition to threatening the West.

The Wall Street Journal reported that “The fate of more than 1,000 people who were detained during nationwide antigovernment protests was still unclear on Monday, a day after Russians went to the polls in regional elections. According to OVD-Info, a group that monitors police detentions, some 1,018 were detained across 19 cities on Sunday, with the majority being held in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city. A total of 452 people were detained there, while in Moscow, 43 people were held after authorities had denied an application to hold a rally, the group said. Its website crashed for a time on Monday. Reports in the local press and social media described police using clubs against the demonstrators, which included senior citizens and children.”

Russia’s civilian cost-cutting activities are significant in light of the extensive additional resources Putin has devoted to the military. They raise the question of why, not facing any actual threat on its borders from former enemy-turned-ally China, a Europe that has underfunded its military for decades, and a United States that underwent significant weakening of its armed forces under the Obama presidency, Putin feels it necessary to devote scarce resources to his armed forces, unless he intends to use them either on a battlefield or as a threat.

Photo: Deputy Defense Minister General of the Army Dmitry Bulgakov (Russian Ministry of Defence photo.}

Quick Analysis

America’s Terrorists in Training

When students, trained and equipped by Hamas and its financial backers, occupy campuses and threaten Jews and anyone who disagrees with them, it is neither a peaceful protest nor an exercise of free speech. It is a terrorist attack. Those students are not peaceful protestors. They are terrorists in training. It has been reported that many of those arrested are not even students, but individuals with ties to terrorists or anti-American activities. Their mission is not to protest, not to persuade, but to force institutions to bend to their will. Their targets are two-fold: First, in adherence to Hamas’ anti-Semitism, an attack on not just Israelis but Jews everywhere. Second, to weaken America’s influence in the crucial Middle Eastern region. But students do make up the majority of those involved. The blatant ignorance of so many protestors did not occur spontaneously or recently. Years of preparation went into it. Radical extremists infiltrated the educational system, from kindergarten through graduate school, for decades with the purpose of destroying pride in America and imposing a leftist agenda. On-air interviews of involved students have been revealing. Beyond chanted slogans, the students appear to have little knowledge of the actual dynamics of the Middle Eastern conflict that they appear to be so passionate about. What did come clearly though was a hair trigger response to condemn America and American institutions. That is the intentional result of many years of academic indoctrination. History has been taught through the prism of anti-Americanism. The extraordinary accomplishments in human freedom, the enormous good done by the nation have been obscured, while faults, even though they were corrected, are magnified. The Federalist notes that “America’s academic leaders seem powerless only because they’ve spent decades promoting the ideologies now on such brutal and ugly display… many administrators claim to be stunned. Yet those of us who’ve been following the disastrous decline of American higher education have been warning for years about the inevitable. America’s academic leaders seem powerless only because they’ve spent decades promoting the ideologies now on such brutal and ugly display. Years ago, America’s most prestigious academics made a conscious choice to elevate indoctrination over education. Training activists became their highest goal. Radical ideologies that began in Ethnic and Gender Studies swallowed once-proud social science and humanities disciplines. Their influence surged into administration, as new DEI offices redefined diversity, equity, and inclusion to mean their opposites, then spread their toxin throughout university operations. Wildly generous foreign money — with Qatar and China in the lead — anchored this noxious brew in place. The American Enterprise Institute found that “The 1619 Project and its companion resources have spread to thousands of schools (and counting) in all 50 states, priming students to reject America’s founding principles and even literally black out the Declaration of Independence. Meanwhile, tales of politically radical K–12 instruction seem to break into the news almost daily.” The Discovery Institute notes that “ teacher unions, rather than modeling positive social behavior, instead promote indoctrination of students on partisan political viewpoints…. Today, leaders holding high government offices at the federal and state levels are quickly exploiting an underlying principle: The less educated our citizens are regarding civics, the more pliable they are to the acceptance of radical philosophies and agenda, and the more government power can grow. The end result will be a loss of the American Dream — life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Don’t believe this? Take a look at the citizens of today’s socialist and communist countries around the world. According to Ben Shapiro, “while advocates of Marxism today disown the Stalinists and the Maoists and the Castro regime and Venezuela and North Korea, all of those nations thought they were fulfilling Marx’s dream, too.” A Manhattan Institute review reports that “Results of a representative survey of more than 1,500 Americans aged 18 to 20 suggest that Critical Race Theory (CRT) and radical gender ideology, together known as Critical Social Justice (CSJ), is widespread in American schools. Ninety-three percent of American 18- to 20-year-olds said that they had heard about at least one of eight CSJ concepts from a teacher or other adult at school, including “white privilege,” “systemic racism,” “patriarchy,” or the idea that gender is a choice unrelated to biological sex. Additionally, 90% of respondents had heard about at least one CRT concept and 74% about at least one radical gender concept. The campus protests are a window of what’s in store for the nation if the influence of anti-American educators continue.