Secure Freedom Minute

One of the most time-tested principles in international affairs is the prescription “If you want peace, prepare for war.” 
Since he became Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth has been clear about the most serious threat against which we must prepare – namely, that posed by the Chinese Communist Party. 
The long-awaited National Defense Strategy reportedly will emphasize that reality. Secretary Hegseth told senior military leaders recently there would be “no rear areas” in the next war –presumably, because of the large numbers of Chinese soldiers here. 
And on Saturday, Secretary Hegseth warned Asian nations of the imperative of improving “threat awareness” and maritime capabilities in the face of China's increasingly “destabilizing” and “coercive” actions in the South China Sea.  
If you want “everlasting peace” with China, prepare for war – and help bring down the greatest threat we’ve ever faced: the Chinese Communist Party.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Today, a tiny fraction of New York City voters will enable a “Trojan horse” to be wheeled into their mayor’s office in the person of the Democratic candidate, Zohran Mamdani. 
Worse yet, he may prove to be a horseman of the apocalypse. 
A recent, chilling VictoryCo.org webinar documented Mamdani’s ominous personification of the “Red-Green axis” forged by a shared goal of destroying our constitutional Republic. 
His candidacy has drawn heavily on the national manpower of the Marxist Democratic Socialists of America. Mamdani also converted to Islam, resulting in substantial financing from jihadist groups, including the Council on American Islamic Relations.   
And his strain of Islam is a Shiite death-cult whose adherents – notably, the “12er” leaders of Iran – believe they must cause apocalyptic destruction now to prompt their messiah violently to achieve Muslim rule worldwide. 
God help New York City, and America.
This is Frank Gaffney.

In what may be the finest hour to date of his two presidencies, Donald Trump has pledged to counter the dire threat to civilization inherent in history’s greatest crime against humanity: the persecution of over 380 million Christians worldwide. 
The overwhelming majority of the acts of heavy persecution to which those followers of Jesus are subjected occur at the hands of adherents to Islam’s totalitarian sharia code.
In two recent Truth Social posts, Mr. Trump focused on one of the most egregious and ongoing examples of a place where such barbarity is allowed to occur with impunity: Africa’s Nigeria.  
To his credit, President Trump has committed to hold accountable and punish the Nigerian government – which has long tolerated, and even aided and abetted, such persecution – including by U.S. military attacks on the perpetrators.
Praise God!
This is Frank Gaffney!

For thirty-three years, the United States has unilaterally refrained from conducting even very-low-yield underground tests of our aging arsenal of nuclear weapons. 
By relying on computer simulations and educated guesses – instead of actual, realistic experimentation, we have precluded the sort of modernization in which both Russia and China have engaged relentlessly, surely with the benefit of covert nuclear tests.
Worse yet, we have seen serious and growing concerns about the reliability and effectiveness of our deterrent forces. 
Dr. Mark Schneider, one of America’s most competent experts on nuclear weapons policy and arms control, recently published an extraordinarily important paper laying out the case for a resumption of nuclear testing. 
Fortunately, President Trump has just ordered the Department of War to start testing immediately our nuclear weapons on an equal basis with other nations. 
Praise the Lord, and test the ammunition.
This is Frank Gaffney.

The meeting between President Trump and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in South Korea is now in the past. Still in the future, and very much in doubt, is what will come of it. 
The President has characterized the meeting as “a 12” on a one-to-ten scale. He announced numerous initiatives designed to help: American manufacturers dependent on Chinese exports of rare earth minerals; U.S. farmers’ agricultural sales, and the vast numbers of predominantly young people in this country not yet killed by Chinese chemical warfare in the form of fentanyl. 
If past experience is any guide, however, the Chinese Communist Party will not live up to its commitments and will persist in its decades-long “unrestricted warfare” against us. 
President Trump and every American should take aboard yesterday’s PresentDangerChina.org webinar on why we must not ignore that reality – and respond appropriately. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

A chilling VictoryCo.org briefing yesterday raised an alarm about a mortal threat posed to America’s preeminent metropolis. 
According to four eminent experts, the predicted election of Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani would put a man who adheres to several ideologies that call for the destruction of this country in charge of the security of its most populous city.
While New York City voters have been on notice about Mamdani’s ominous ties to the Communist Democratic Socialists of America front group and his Muslim Sharia-supremacism, until yesterday, his attachment to the apocalyptic death cult that animates Iran’s regime has gone basically unremarked. 
The federal government calls for us to “See something, Say something.” We need it urgently to do the same by warning New Yorkers that Zohran Mamdani is a “12er” whose his election could imperil their city and the country.     
This is Frank Gaffney.