National Intelligence Director Details Five Top Security Threats
The national security experts recently handed Congress their annual threat assessment. It’s no surprise that China is at the top of the list. Along with Iran, North Korea and Russia. It’s obvious that they’ve been conspiring between themselves to “undercut U.S. interests.” Each of them poses a different set of challenges but they’re all dangerous. Just because Vlad Putin has been cooperating lately doesn’t mean we can trust him.
Biggest security threats
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard signed off on this year’s security threat assessment. The 30-page report issued Tuesday, March 25, pegged China as the “actor most capable of threatening U.S. interests globally.”
While they’re the most capable, they’re also the most cautious. It’s the Ayatollah who’s itching to start World War III.
The Pooh Bear isn’t comfortable risking his “economic and diplomatic image in the world by being too aggressive and disruptive.” He’s concerned for his own security. Trump’s been rattling his cage pretty hard.
That’s not a problem for Iran, even though the U.S. president blatantly threatened the Ayatollah with total destruction. Russia is apparently ready to at least hear Trump out. North Korea lurks on the fringes and is watching China and Russia before making any sudden moves.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton relates that many of the security threats we face “are truly existential.” The Pooh Bear may smile a lot and look friendly but “Communist China is actively working to replace the United States as the world’s dominant superpower.”
You can’t blame him for trying. Trump isn’t about to let him get away with his plans for global domination though. He has his own plans for that.
Not well postured
Senator Cotton isn’t real happy with our current state of national security. “Given these threats, we have to ask are our intelligence agencies well-postured against these threats? I’m afraid the answer is no, at least not yet.” It’s a fluid situation though. Clearly, we need to keep the pressure on China.
They’re “using complex, whole-of-government campaigns featuring coercive military, economic, and influence operations short of war to assert its positions and strength against others, reserving more destructive tools for full-scale conflict.” That’s why Trump is targeting the Panama canal and hitting China with major trade tariffs.
The biggest thing to expect from China is more pressure to reunify Taiwan. They’re also up to no good in the South and East China Sea, doing nasty things to our allies in the region, Japan and the Philippines. Russia may be in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine but they haven’t shown any signs of doing it soon.
Our national security experts say “Putin appears resolved and prepared to pay a very high price to prevail in what he sees as a defining time in Russia’s strategic competition with the United States, world history, and his personal legacy.” Ukraine, meanwhile, will “fight to the end with their bare hands, if they have to,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe insists.
DNI Gabbard informed the Senators that it doesn’t look the Ayatollah has a nuclear bomb yet and they don’t appear to be working on one right now but “Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons.”
They’re also a big security threat for another reason. They do have and are working on “chemical and biological agents” for military use, with Tehran regime scientists showing special interests in “chemicals that have a wide range of sedation, dissociation, and amnestic incapacitating effects, and can also be lethal.“
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