Opinion
Ken Timmerman’s Threat Watch, www.kentimmerman.com 8-9-24
| Donald Trump has warned several times over the past few weeks that we are closer to World War III today than at any time since the end of the Second World War. It’s a theme he’s been sounding off and on for the past two years, but lately he’s making the threats to our security caused by Biden-Harris policies the central theme of his events. “I think our country right now is in the most dangerous position it’s ever been in from an economic standpoint, from a safety standpoint,” the former president warned at a press conference this week at Mar-a-Lago. “Both gangs on the street and frankly gangs outside of our country in the form of other countries that are frankly very powerful.” The problem comes down to leadership, the former president said. The Biden-Harris team have “no clue” about American power or world affairs. Democrats just laughed at the former president, still drunk with the euphoria of having convinced Ole Joe to bow out of the presidential race. But the challenges to America’s security are very real, and it’s not just Donald Trump who is warning about them. The congressionally-mandated Commission on the National Defense Strategy just issued a 114 page report that buttresses Trump’s concerns for the future of our nation. The commission was created by Congress in 2022 and began its deliberations in April 2023. It is co-chaired by former Democrat congresswoman Jane Harmon, and by Eric Edelman, a top Pentagon official during George W. Bush administration. Here are just a few of the top line takeaways from their report: – “The threats the United States faces are the most serious and most challenging the nation has encountered since 1945 and include the potential for near-term major war.” – “China and Russia are major powers that seek to undermine U.S. influence… China is outpacing the United States and has largely negated the U.S. military advantage in the Western Pacific through two decades of focused military investment.” – “China and Russia’s “no-limits” partnership, formed in February 2022 just days before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has only deepened and broadened to include a military and economic partnership with Iran and North Korea, each of which presents its own significant threat to U.S. interests. This new alignment of nations opposed to U.S. interests creates a real risk, if not likelihood, that conflict anywhere could become a multitheater or global war.” Did you get that last bit? A real risk of “global war?” That’s exactly what Donald Trump is warning about. I’ve been warning about the Russia-China-Iran alliance for several years in my weekly podcasts on Prophecy Today Weekend. In a policy paper published on Friday by the America First Policy Institute, I call that threesome an “Axis of Opportunism.” Add to that North Korea, which recently tested an ICBM capable of hitting targets anywhere inside the continental United States, and you have a threat of truly global proportions. And what have Biden-Harris done over the past four years to mitigate these threats? – They have provoked Russia to attack Ukraine by absurdly offering Ukraine NATO membership; – They have removed sanctions from Iranian oil, paid $6 billion for five hostages, and provided the Iranian regime with more than $100 billion in windfall profits; – They have turned a blind eye to Chinese aggression, including military balloons over U.S. ICBM sites and the recent joint Chinese-Russian bomber incursion of the Alaska surveillance zone. – And worst of all, they have ignored North Korea, prompting Little Rocket Man to step up development of long-range missiles. As we learned during the Trump presidency, a little hand-holding can sometimes go a long ways. You can read the full report of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy here. Donald Trump is right that we are closer to World War III than at any time in our history because of Biden-Harris policies. And there’s only one thing that ordinary citizens can do about it: vote on November 5 for a change of leadership. I discuss this, as well as the recent arrest of an Iranian operative dispatched to hire assassins to kill former president Trump and other U.S. politicians, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Fl, area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. You can listen later to the podcast here. Yours in freedom, Ken |
| Ken Timmerman’s 12th book of non-fiction, AND THE REST IS HISTORY: Tales of Hostages, Arms Dealers, Dirty Tricks, and Spies, can be ordered by clicking here or by viewing my author’s page, here. Raising Olives in Provence, can be ordered by clicking here. – Senior Fellow, America First Policy Institute (current) – Republican nominee for Congress, Maryland District 8 (2012) – President & CEO, Foundation for Democracy in Iran, www.iran.org – Nobel Peace Prize nominee, 2006 Cell: 301-675-7922 Follow me on Twitter @kentimmerman #TheElectionHeist Facebook: ken timmerman Reply to: [email protected] |
