“We say in the first place [that we must understand] right ordering to distinguish a commonwealth from a band of thievers or pirates. With them one should have neither intercourse, commerce, nor alliance. Care has always been taken in well-ordered commonwealths not to include robber-chiefs and their followers in any agreements in which honour is pledged, peace treated, war declared, offensive or defensive alliances agreed upon, frontiers defined, or the disputes of princes and sovereign lords submitted to arbitration….”
-Jean Bodin
The well-ordered commonwealth does not recognize the legitimacy of robber-chiefs. According to French political theorist Jean Bodin, you do not negotiate with criminals and murderers. You do not trade with them. You do not mix with them. You hang them.
The Chinese and Russian leaders are criminals and murderers. They are robber-chiefs with nuclear weapons. Are we then forced to trade with them? No. Never allow yourself to be forced by such people. Robbers with nukes should be hated more, and blockaded all the faster, because they represents something incompatible with civilization. You must never compromise with such people.
The ancients defined a commonwealth “as a society of men gathered together for the good and happy life,” noted Bodin.
“This definition however falls short on the one hand, and goes beyond the mark on the other. It omits the three principal elements of a commonwealth: the family, sovereign power, and that which is of common concern, while the term ‘happy,’ as they understood it, is not essential. If it were, the good life would depend on the wind always blowing fair….”
A well-ordered commonwealth holds fast in good times and bad times. Bodin tells us that “true felicity are one and the same for the commonwealth and the individual.” The good lies in “the elective and contemplative virtues, for so wise men have determined. It is generally agreed that the ultimate purpose, and therefore sovereign good, of the individual, consists in the constant contemplation of things human, natural, and divine.” This is the direction in which the happy life is found, however difficult the road traveled.
In the current situation the American commonwealth is not as well-ordered as it should be. Our leaders are confused about basic principles. They have been involved in commercial deals with robbers and pirates. This has corrupted them in a profound way. They consider the worst murderers to be “friends.” This has opened the way to an unprecedented crisis which is now unfolding.
The sitution changes rapidly, from day to day, as the unprincipled and erratic Donald Trump follows his zig-zag course. In response, the Chinese leadership registers shock. Trump is not the gangster they were all looking for. He is not as easy to manipulate as they assumed. What follows is my most recent interview with Lude.
Interview with Lude
JRN: With Trump’s zig-zag course, what do these Chinese CCP analysts think now of the strategic situation; especially about the tariffs Trump is putting on China? Do you have intelligence on this? (Trump hinted he will lower these tariff’s on 23 April, but this is another instance of his unpredictability.)
LUDE: Three months after Trump became president the CCP realized he is directly targeting the CCP. Xi Jinping realizes the relationship cannot be fixed and military conflict must begin. His agents near Trump have failed and he realizes he must plan an escalation. Economically, the CCP absolutely cannot hold out in this tariff war. They cannot win it. The economic situation is very bad for China. They are extremely fearful. They are preparing to decouple from the United States. They understand that full scale blockade is coming soon. Trump says the relationship with China is good, but this is a tactic. Xi sees Trump moving closer to Russia and damaging China. He sees Trump is going for this.
JRN: Given what you told me in our last interview, about CCP agents around Trump, and knowing that Trump would go for a Russian alliance, you said they were confident of Russia’s loyalty to Beijing. Are the CCP leaders planning to start their war in the fall when Russia invades the Baltic States? Are we headed to World War III?
LUDE: First, Russia has long wanted to take over the Baltic States, but the resistance is very strong and it is not easy because the U.S. and NATO have drawn a strong red line. The situation is not the same with Ukraine. Although Russia has that ambition, to take the Baltic countries, Ukraine is the first priority. Russia’s focus will be on the Ukraine War. The reverse Nixon strategy is seen as a solution to that for Putin, who wants to pretend to side with America. Russia is not that stupid to initiate a war directly against NATO on the Baltic States. Pushing on the Baltic States will guarantee European rearmament.
JRN: Most analysts thought Putin was not stupid enough to attack Ukraine, but he attacked Ukraine. People say he is not stupid enough to attack the Baltic States, but he is preparing to do so. Right now the Russians can assemble attack forces much faster than NATO can organize defense. Russia has an advantage now, and will lose that advantage in three years. Furthermore, I have sources who think Trump intends to withdraw from NATO. Does the CCP think the U.S. will withdraw from NATO?
LUDE: I confirmed, in advance, before the Ukraine War started, that war in Ukraine is possible. Ukraine is fundamentally different from the Baltic States. Even if Russia intended to launch an invasion, they will revert to caution. Russia will go to Poland and isolate the Baltic States rather than launch a fullscale assault. Also, capturing the Baltic States is not significant now. The strategic direction has shifted to the East. Baltic States was a critical battle, but Russia is now interested in the Far Eastern region. These areas are of strategic importance to Russia for over a century. Of course, Trump might withdraw from NATO. But Russia lacks the ability to threaten the way China does. Russia’s ambition is just territory. This cannot compare with China’s ambition, which is to dismantle the American world order and trading system. They are targeting the world order and China has more global influence.
JRN: Are you suggesting that China is preparing for war now? Did I understand correctly?
LUDE: Xi fully realizes that if China wants to be a true great power, it must go through a major war. The U.S. and its alliance must be mentally prepared because such a conflict is now difficult to avoid. Xi is now making comprehensive preparations for war. Xi wants control of international discourse and to take the lead, and this cannot be achieved with unrestricted warfare alone. This cannot be achieved without a major war. You cannot go from being the number two economic power to the economic number one power without a war.
JRN: Surely China can only go to war with America if Russia is on China’s side.
LUDE: Xi definitely wants and needs Russia’s support, however, it does not seem Russia will provide support against the U.S. directly because historically Russia and China have been rivals. Their alliance is based on temporary interests. So, they are not able to stay together as strong allies indefinitely.
JRN: I have information that shows a different picture. Are you saying that Russia actually intends to side with President Trump? You had previously said, in our last interview, that the CCP was confident of Moscow’s loyalty. How can the CCP expect to fight a war against America with Russia being disloyal to China? The CCP would be defeated. If China is pressed by U.S. tariffs, then China needs Russia more than ever.
LUDE: Russia has always been represented as a double-headed eagle. Why is it looking East? Japan before was deceived by the Soviet Union in the past. Japan fought against China, and when Japan launched the Pearl Harbor attack the Russians turned against them later. In Asia there is this mentality of spiritual victory, that the Japanese already won the Russo-Japanese War, so the double-headed eagle is prone to change repeatedly. Xi believes Putin will help him. The final result will be similar to Japan’s experience. Japan made a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, and Moscow broke that deal in 1945. The West cannot deal with the Asia problem, and this worries Moscow. The West cares too much about their soldier’s lives. So Russia believes the West will retreat and China might become too strong. Japan wanted a peace treaty after Pearl Harbor, and hoped for a short war. We know this was a miscalculation by Tokyo. We know that China is making this same miscalculation. Xi is very embarrassed when Trump launched Tariff war against him. He appealed to South Korea and Japan, but no one joined Xi in alliance against the U.S. tariffs. Initially, China offered Japan and Korea to fight against the U.S. trade policy, but the Japanese and South Koreans would not join with China.
JRN: So when will China begin this war?
LUDE: It is hard to say. It depends on how quickly the U.S. moves to decouple with the CCP. At the beginning of the year our information said China was hiring new people. With the tariff they are all shutting down. If the extreme pressure continues the resulting unemployment waves will shift the focus to the public. Unrest could be triggered. Xi would like to lead the Chinese people to the battlefield to relieve the pressure. If the pressure is less, it will happen slower. They still believe there is a chance for peace if the Democrats win the midterm election. If the Democratic Party wins Congress Xi believes he will get another chance and he will get relief.
JRN: So there is no plan to begin a war by the end of the year?
LUDE: Xi Jinping has many folks looking to these midterm elections. Xi cannot decide on war alone. There are many other factors affecting a decision for war. A spark or unexpected escalation can trigger a war. If the U.S. has shipping restrictions on Chinese ships, tensions will be very high. Anything can happen when tensions are high.
JRN: It is almost a certainty the Democrats will take control of Congress in the U.S. midterm elections next years.
LUDE: In the current situation Xi sees the midterm election as his lifeline. This is what Xi sees. Xi is merely reacting to the present situation. He does not have a comprehensive grasp of the situation. He realizes that his influence on Washington has significantly diminished. How things unfold, this or that way, is not up to Xi now. It still depends on the strategy of the Trump administration.
JRN: What of this previous assessment of Trump by CCP analysts? They thought his unpredictability was not a problem. They thought they understood Trump. But Trump has proved to be insanely erratic. Do they still think Trump is going to be tricked by Russia in Ukraine?
LUDE: Xi is very angry because he believes he has been misled by his agents. Xi’s agents claimed they had control of Trump. He sees Trump targeting China and did not expect it to happen and it happened. Xi spent a lot of money and these agents failed. Trump’s tariffs are very aggressive.
JRN: Presently the tariffs have been paused for 90 days. Is that right?
LUDE: The 90 day pause does not apply to China. There are exemptions for smart phones and certain computer items. They do not give exemption for all goods. This is a broad strategy, which picks things that trouble America the most. So this is going to hurt China’s trade. Shipping exceptions are made for goods in transit. This is not going to continue. This is to protect major American brands. I believe that once this exception batch is delivered the tariff will become higher.
JRN: Is there a danger that China’s economy could collapse from the shock of this?
LUDE: Now that China’s economy is on the verge of collapse, this pressure could lead to complete breakdown. In fact, a complete breakdown is inevitable. I believe that once all trade agreements are finalized after 90 days, if the new trade system excludes China, then China’s economy will collapse.
JRN: Does the CCP have to go to war if China’s economy begins to collapse?
LUDE: I believe the war will begin with small-scale conflict. The main purpose would be to use local conflict to address unemployment problem. There are no signs China would directly declare war on the U.S., however, U.S. intervention in a local conflict China will declare war.
JRN: You had previously stated that China wanted the next major war to be fought on American soil, and that China was infiltrating 250,000 PLA reservists into the United States. Is that plan still in effect? Or has it been abandoned as impractical?
LUDE: That plan is continuous and will persist whether or not there is a war, because this is their strategy. This infiltration will not stop. This will help them to sabotage the U.S. economy.
JRN: Couldn’t they win a war through this infiltration method into the United States?
LUDE: If the U.S. does not pay attention or take countermeasures, but the Trump administration has begun a forceful cleanup. The infiltration operation has been hurt. The U.S. military bases have strengthened their defenses and the administration is blocking the southern infiltration route. Thus, the infiltration power has been closed off.
JRN: But haven’t they already infiltrated many thousands? They’ve had so much time to infiltrate. Don’t they have everyone they need already?
LUDE: The CCP strategy is called “human wave” tactic which depends on continuous infiltration. The Chinese are not like Russian infiltration. The Russian operators are highly skilled. The CCP uses numbers, and needs 12 times the number of the Russian operatives. You can see how this works. They use these people as part of a mass movement. They can get and effect only with numbers.
JRN: So China is still too weak to have a war on American soil?
LUDE: CCP does not think of themselves as weak. The timing is not right. The best timing is required for the start of the big war. The CCP is using ordinary people to wage a people’s war. The CCP sees the U.S. as the weaker party. But once they have the stronger hand, they will act. This will evolve from a direct battlefield confrontation. There could be economic events, or social disturbances. This is how they see it.
JRN: Is there anything Americans should know that we have not touched on?
LUDE: People need to be aware that the CCP is preparing an offense, and the U.S. is always in a defensive position. The damage is always on the American side. The offensive approach is not only good for hot wars. We cannot afford to wait until a hot war happens since we will be at a disadvantage. America needs to bring war to the enemy’s turf.
JRN: This has been interesting and informative as always. Thank you.
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114 responses to “The CCP Prepares for War: An Interview with Lude”
Trump threw Putin a life line and now Xi is waiting for the left to throw him a life line. China’s economy is collapsing yet they seem to be able to continue their push forward all over the world. I just read Michael Yon and he said, “here in Panama, I see zero indication the United States is making any impacts on Chinese encroachment.” This is all so very confusing.
Jeff, What do you make of your interview?
By the way: “push forward” … – This reminds me of what a very, VERY progressive pastoral theologian, Paul Zulehner (* 1939), said the other day about the death of the most hilarious (and non-existent) “Pope” ever:
“Francis has initiated a process, has changed attitudes, has sharpened people’s spiritual attentiveness towards each other and thus pushed forward the Church’s internal dialogue as well as the dialogue among the different denominations and religions. He wasn’t Catholic in a denominational sense, but in a universal sense.”
The reporting over here is so crazy (as if they were all Catholic news outlets, which they aren’t), it’s really hard to bear. Clearly, all they care about is the next revolutionary to be “Pope” and continue Bergoglio’s (and his Conciliar predecessors’) work of destruction. It’s almost like some sadistic extermination fest, in which they secretly recite Voltaire’s infamous phrase, “Crush the Infamous! Crush the Infamous! Crush the Infamous!”
https://religion.orf.at/stories/3229913 (use Google Translate)
Sadly, more than two thirds of the cardinals who will be electing the next Pope have been created by Comrade Bergoglio and are everything but even remotely “conservative”. As a consequence, Ghanaian Cardinal Robert Sarah, visibly a saintly man, is not very likely to emerge out of the upcoming conclave as the new Pope. But wouldn’t it be nice to have again a Pope who would be seeking, at least within certain confines, to return Catholicism to what it should be?
Yes. It would be amazing.
Canon 188, #4, 1917 Code of Canon Law states very clearly that “the office of a cleric becomes VACANT by way of tacit resignation, by the force of law (IPSO IURE) and automatically (IPSO FACTO), without any declarion, if a cleric has publicly defected from the Catholic Faith.
Catholic Faith is nothing else but Catholic Tradition. Everything else is a heresy and since it is manifest in the case of this Novus Ordo anti-Catholic Sect, they are all excommunicated and are NOT members of the Catholic Church and do NOT possess any clerical office in the Church at all.
They are NOT Cardinals and cannot validly and do NOT validly assemble in a true Papal Conclave to elect a “successor” to this public apostate Bergoglio.
The Catholic Church stands protected, and there is no compromise on this at all possible. MOREOVER the Apostolic Constitution Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV, 1559 AD, nullifies all such election of a heretic to the Papacy or any such appointments of heretics into the office of Cardinals and Cardinals have to be named by a true Pope, which this Novus Ordo Sect does NOT have and thus any such “Conclave” is automatically invalid and utterly NULL.
It is a non-Catholic apostate Sect that uses the name of Catholic, they have protestant heretical worship which is NOT the true Catholic liturgy at all and thus they are all excommunicated by Canon 2314, 1917 Code, automatically and it does not have to be declared at all…
Thus be very careful what kind of opinions you offer on this theological and canonical subject, because then it contradicts the infallible safeguards the Catholic Church possesses and they are not open to discussion.
ANYBODY whom this apostate Novus Ordo Sect selects will still remain an excommunicated impostor and apostate non-Catholic layman, nothing more, as these excommunicated apostates do NOT possess any authority to assemble in a valid Papal Conclave at all, even if they occupy the Church property, including the Vatican. Moreover, as laymen apostates from the Catholic Faith they do NOT possess the assistance of the Holy Ghost which Christ Our Lord promised to His Catholic Church till the end of times….
Cardinal Sarah would be great. Also Burke, Muller, or Schneider would be excellent.
It is sad how all of the large Christian denominations have been influenced by modernism, at the top.
I guess we can just keep the faith on a local and individual level. And pray for our country and the world.
Check out, everybody, these remarks of last Monday by the chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference and Bishop of Limburg, Georg Bätzing (* 1961): He says “Francis” was a great Pope and a great gift for the Catholic Church (what???) and portrays, over endless 15 minutes, all of Bergoglio’s scandalous heresies as great accomplishments! (Use YouTube’s English subtitles.) Clearly, this is not a Catholic priest speaking, but a socialist politician (who, by the way, as a Catholic bishop, should be wearing a cassock rather than a suit).
And wasn’t Germany one of the main originators in the radical revolutionary upheaval known as the Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965, which brought forth this current desacralised mess of a church-in-name-only? One wonders sometimes whether it was a wise decision by the U.S. and Britain to help West Germany, following the war, to come back on its feet again. As, let’s be honest, they’ve continued ever since exporting madness after madness and have never abandoned their same-old arrogant, pan-Teutonic attitudes, which are grounded in plain atheistic hubris.
Interesting thought.
I don’t trust anything, lol.
I agree with CMA above. This is confusing. It seems that Lude is sort of indicating that the approach that China and Russia are taking is now sort of like “every man for himself!” I had thought they were coordinating with one another in a kind of larger scale, longer term plan against the United States. Are Russia and China really so quick to cut each other loose? What about the coordinated pincer-type strategy that has been mentioned here where China works the left and Russia works the right? And the Sino-Russian pact to divide up the free world?
By what I observe Russia and China are more intensively cooperating than ever. This can be proved.
I agree. But it seems like maybe LUDE does not see that collaboration being so close or lasting very long. It was this part of the interview that was confusing, like maybe CCP is expecting Russia to turn on it:
“LUDE: Xi definitely wants and needs Russia’s support, however, it does not seem Russia will provide support against the U.S. directly because historically Russia and China have been rivals. Their alliance is based on temporary interests. So, they are not able to stay together as strong allies indefinitely.
JRN: I have information that shows a different picture. Are you saying that Russia actually intends to side with President Trump? You had previously said, in our last interview, that the CCP was confident of Moscow’s loyalty. How can the CCP expect to fight a war against America with Russia being disloyal to China? The CCP would be defeated. If China is pressed by U.S. tariffs, then China needs Russia more than ever.
LUDE: Russia has always been represented as a double-headed eagle. Why is it looking East? Japan before was deceived by the Soviet Union in the past. Japan fought against China, and when Japan launched the Pearl Harbor attack the Russians turned against them later. In Asia there is this mentality of spiritual victory, that the Japanese already won the Russo-Japanese War, so the double-headed eagle is prone to change repeatedly. Xi believes Putin will help him. The final result will be similar to Japan’s experience. Japan made a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, and Moscow broke that deal in 1945.”
I found this to be very different than the sense given in the previous interview. Yes. And by the way, I am aware of evidence that coordination between Beijing and Moscow is accelerating in April.
Are you able to elaborate at this point?
I am not free to present details yet.
Yes. Impossible to think they’ve made all the progress they have under the strategy Golitsyn revealed, and seemingly got almost to the finish line, only to turn against one another now.
Not happening.
I do not think Russia and China will turn on each other. They both need each other more than ever.
Me neither.
It’s a ONE solid communist criminal bloc and that has not changed and will never change until they are fully destroyed….and they will be.
Anything they try to invent to the contrary (i.e. pretended divisions) is for the outward consumption and a clear KGB-CCP deception.
Trump is no doubt playing the same game as he is helping them by innaction in one place and by attacking Ukraine and withholding the necessary help on the pretense that there might be “corruption” or that the US wants this kind compromised peace with these KGB criminals and to force it upon Ukraine as if this was something they are obligated to do.
So the analysis about Trump stands, there is no change and neither there will be change, he is one of them, his fruits are evil, i.e. pro-communist, pro-Russian.
Trump’s intentions were made clear. Any deviation is apparent and diversionary. He will collapse Ukraine and death will rain down.
…if he can.
Don’t know if they’d go that far, but it is possible. But it is much more profitable for Moscow to keep this game going, as they are actively trying to paint America as NAZI run country, and to demoralise the American people when Trump will do something they don’t agree with and they will have to choose between the truth and Trump…and they don’t like it but many will no doubt compromise on the truth and pick the Trump-way instead, which will be the Moscow way, which is the objective to get…and it is a very dangerous situation in terms on national security because when MOscow is certain that the people are substantially disunited and demoralised, Moscow will order to begin the attack, or the communist revolution or the GRU run “Islamic terrorist attacks” – OR all the above together.
But maybe they are just waiting for the subversive operations to bring more fruits, which by far the worst kind of scenario because if you have committed communists running your local PD and Sheriff’s Office, and the military infiltrated, and when there is no substantial opposition to the communist policies or crippling decisions made by the leadership, then there is no open resistance to the communists available, because such subversive elements will always hide behind the legitimate authority, and they will never declare they are communists and communist agents, until it is too late…this is by far the worst kind of scenario and if you look at history, this is exactly the Stalin took over Eastern Europe and how they achieved most of their evil goals…and how they annexed most of the territories and entire countries to the communist block.
Of course the WW3 is not off the table, but it is not the imminent priority, at least it doesn’t look like it, although if they attack one NATO country they will have to continue, and on several fronts at the same time, China of course helping substantially.
Yes the Russian and China leaders are criminals and murderers. The Khmer Rouge Communist Regime marked a 50 year anniversary of the Killing Fields last week. The Communists never changed. Witness what happens every day to civilians in Ukraine. Stop them instead of cutting a deal with them.
“Xi believes Putin will help him. The final result will be similar to Japan’s experience. Japan made a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, and Moscow broke that deal in 1945.”
???
That’s an interesting take on the topic from my end. I can definitely see the Ukrainians having tied too many of their forces down. But there’s a HUGE difference between sitting out a war and seizing the rest of Manchuria from the CCP. The former, the Kremlin could probably get away with, but I can’t see the latter working out so well for them unless Beijing is literally on the brink of collapse.
And even if the Russians do sit it out, I’m still pretty sure the CCP could still get aid from (most of) the remaining proletarian nations- er, I mean, the “Global South.”
“It is almost a certainty the Democrats will take control of Congress in the U.S. midterm elections next year.”
God, I literally pray that this isn’t the case, if for no other reason than dread of whatever Enabling Act they’ll prepare for whatever puppet they have in the White House next or simply just squirrel it into some budget or another.
“I believe the war will begin with small-scale conflict. The main purpose would be to use local conflict to address unemployment problem.”
Oh, they definitely could and likely will squawk about “interfering in China’s internal affairs” over defending Taiwan. But whether or not they would escalate that into a wider conflict is anyone’s guess.
“You had previously stated that China wanted the next major war to be fought on American soil, and that China was infiltrating 250,000 PLA reservists into the United States. Is that plan still in effect? Or has it been abandoned as impractical?”
“That plan is continuous and will persist whether or not there is a war, because this is their strategy. This infiltration will not stop. This will help them to sabotage the U.S. economy.”
I knew it. I freaking knew CCP infiltrators were embedded to come across our sieve-like borders.
Yes.
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1915190400458908073?t=8GNZ7n4mP585BqL9AhKAbQ&s=19
Trump has a lot of innocent blood on his hands. I am beyond pissed. Hell is waiting for Trump and his administration. This makes me sick.
https://x.com/regularguylevi/status/1915233258507272246?t=yDQDlAJEEAbjYwA6Ek4Z1A&s=19
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1915220115852833159?t=jQD-tBZ8CtgQOXNt9nCcWg&s=19
As Kiev is pounded by Russian attacks the victim of this monstrous aggression is somehow at fault. The aggressor is somehow justified by the moral idiots in the Administration. It is vile. Trump and his vice president are rabble.
Yes they are
Zelensky described the latest Ballistics Missiles aimed at Ukranian civilians in last 24 hour.
He was talking to Cyril Ramaphosa in S. Africa and talked about the nightly bombings.
Even Ramaphosa talked about the Ukranian children that were kidnapped. The meeting was cordial which is quite different than the meeting with Trump and Vance. Ramaphosa has his own dark history with the ANC but he did not send Zelensky packing like at the White House.
No doubt Ramaphosa will suffer harsh words from his Russian friends, though South Africa will soon be asked to destroy itself for the sake of China.
Kyiv was the most protected of all cities. Russia increased intensity of the attack. Now there are 12 dead already by this moment. And many people are still under rubble.
The savagery of this Russian attack, which serves no military purpose, is found in its murdering of innocent civilians. Here is why Ukraine must be supported. American money is not a high price to pay to defeat a power that would do the same to American cities.
EXACTLY RIGHT.
I wish all the ignorant jackasses in our Congress would think, just for once, and wake up to that fact.
Boris Johnson sums up really well.
https://www.facebook.com/borisjohnson
Putin indiscriminately butchers more Ukrainian civilians, killing and injuring 100 in Kyiv including children. And what is his reward under the latest peace proposals?
1. The right to keep sovereign Ukrainian territory he has taken by violence and in breach of international law.
2. The right to control Ukraine’s destiny by forbidding Nato membership
3. The lifting of sanctions against Russia
4. An economic partnership with America.
5. The chance to rebuild his armed forces for the next attack in a few short years’ time.
As for Ukraine – what do they get after three years of heroic resistance against a brutal and unprovoked invasion? What is their reward for the appalling sacrifices they have made – for the sake, as they have endlessly been told, of freedom and democracy around the world?
Apart from the right to share their natural resources with the United States they get nothing.
What is there in this deal that can realistically stop a third Russian invasion? Nothing.
If we are to prevent more atrocities by Putin then we must have a long term, credible and above all properly funded security guarantee for Ukraine – a guarantee issued by the UK, the US and all western allies.
Trump will destroy his presidency with this and other issues.
The sooner he destroys it, the better. At this point, I’m not too sure what privatized I and mine have to endure, as long as I get the satisfaction of seeing Trump and his band of juvenile delinquents go down in flames. I was so upset last night seeing the images Ukrainians were sharing on X, and seeing their extreme frustration, that my chest was hurting, and that’s never happened to me before. I’m ready to see this administration *collapse*, and see what comes next.
Maybe I’m speaking foolishly, but Trump has made America accomplices of the worst evil.
*privations*
I am afraid the left is sending people into MAGA. I think it is not a conservative movement.
Nothing conservative about it.
The more it looks like this was a KGB project hijacking the genuine patriotic love for one’s country and subverting it into the Moscow objectives and policies, and utlimately causing a major division among the most llikely parts of the genuine anti-communist resistance – it is a no doubt a very important military strategy, before the actually war begins.
This doesn’t mean the ordinary people who support MAGA but the leadership – and its policies of the state, which are now very pro-Russian….and not by coincidence at all but by Moscow’s design.
Jeff, if Russia controls Trump, and if China and Russia are in a “no limits” partnership as they have stated, and as Golitsyn claimed, then a) why would China be so concerned about losing control of Trump, and b) why would Trump be conducting a trade war that seems to be inflicting maximum damage to China’s economy?
I have some theories as to why this might be happening, but I’m curious to hear your thoughts.
I am not Jeff, but I want to share my thoughts. There is nothing here that is set in stone. I don’t think that Russia controls Trump. They manipulate and entice him, but I do not believe in a straightforward control. These three entities, Trump, China and Russia, are not guided by morals, but by interests, which they seek in immoral ways. And as any immoral being they are unreliable. So their relationship is far more complicated than we can imagine, which we can also see from this interview.
I agree. Any such relationship is going be complicated.
Trump is somewhat backing off from that vigorous approach he had for the peace agreement, while he has the “secret weapon” behind him, while he could easily use that as his leverage against Putin but he is not doing that – why ?
If it is such a great weapon, and he wants to use the doctrine of peace through strength, why is he backing off from this opportunity now when it comes to Russia leaving Ukraine be ?
Why ? BECAUSE Moscow dictates the terms NOT Trump.
He was an active member of the Jimmy Carter campaign back in 1970s when Carter was doing just about the same as Biden and Obama and Clinton were doing just in the recent years, so Trump was a democrat and when he claims to have such an understanding of who is who and why, why didn’t he realize that the Democrat Party has been penetrated by communists even back then and before, why did he continue helping its communist socialist cause ? Why ? – because he believes in it, that’s why.
And that’s why he was glad to go to visit Kremlin in 1987 and to have all kinds of KGB contacts and dealing with their assets, and that’s why he is not going after BIden and OBama and so on, and that’s why he’s helping the KGB Kremlin Mafia to destroy Ukraine by forcing Zelensky to accept these conditions of “peace”…and so on, the rest is known and falls directly into the overall analysis that this is nothing less than the worldwide communist domination strategy Trump is helping – as he is not ignorant nor stupid and spoke about the communist threat in his rallies….and his communist clenched fist confirms this point about him, he’s signaling the communist base that he is inside, and not the outsider….
I don’t know. Intelligence has to be sifted and disinformation is in the mix. We have to think through. But it’s never so simple as “Russia controls Trump.” Real relationships are not where somebody totally controls you. That’s only in science fiction. There is complexity here.
I agree. I would like to understand it. Perhaps Russia only calls in favors when it really matters. It’ll be interesting to see whether Trump backs down before the “two weeks till empty shelves” pass.
Life is a negotiation. Is something possible? Will a friend do you a favor?
Dear K,
If Trump was not doing what they order him to do, he wouldn’t be alive today, they don’t allow deviances from the long-term strategy, which is worldwide domination of communism and its implementation, and this is being run by Moscow and everybody else has to obey or else that person or persons are exterminated, including their families if necessary.
There is much greater Communist Party discipline and it is extremely strict and absolutelly fanatical about any disobedience to the Party directives etc.
Gen. Sejna spoke about this in his Congressional statement on the subject, and said that independed actions were at the risk of those who took them and penalties were (still are and will remain) without any regard for human rights and decency etc.
Trump is only pretending to broker the peace between Ukraine and Russia, but disregards the fact that RUssia is the criminal and aggressor and Trump is pushing his weight onto Ukraine to give up the fight, which means betrayal of the moral principles of freedom and liberty and sovereignty of a free nation….
It is very evil what Trump does, and it is in alignment with the Moscow’s strategy and its execution, including the case of Ukraine and so on. It will only get worse, while Trump left himself an open window to make it look like that Zelensky is at fault by rejecting the peace process and not Putin…
Thank you for your thoughts. Any ideas on why Russia is allowing Trump to wage a trade war with China?
They don’t mind because their objective is not the money but political power, and communists don’t care if half of their population starves to death, they are evil monsters without any constraints of conscience. Russians want to paint America as a NAZI evil country and Trump is the tool, but the overall controls come from the Kremlin, they are in firm control of their controlled opposition and they are very strict what is done and what is forbidden to be done.
The “trade war” may not be that hot after all, it is only what is publicly proclaimed but the reality might not be exactly what they say it is, and there might be some loopholes for getting around such “trade war” – and there is many aspects what Russia and or China could say and order and then the opposite will be the execution of that point of strategy, so that the communist deception will remain and the reality of support for the communist cause intact. They have done this before, they know how to do this, they are evil experts in deception and doublecross and what have you, they know it all, the KGB Kremlin and CCP criminals.
Thank you. This is a very good answer.
Just like the Russian “black fleet” loophole to get around oil sanctions.
One thing is extremely important to realise – communists are pathological liars and are capable of anything evil under the sun – and that’s why the only way to deal with them is to isolate them, do no business with them at all, do not have any diplomatic relationship with them and avoid their advances and false promises….they always come up with solutions how to go around the constraints they signed when they promise to behave and keep any agreement – and they sign such an agreement with the already backup plan how to get around it, so they already know they will not honor it at all…they must never be trusted nor believed, they have no conscience nor any honor, they are criminal atheistic mafia and nothing less or nothing else.
I know it. They are like their father, and will do his deeds: Murder, lie, steal, kill, destroy whom they can, and vainly attempt to overthrow God. This is all Communism does. Everything else is just to help achieve those goals.
And there are many useful idiots and blackmailable people who aid them along the way. And manipulable people.
It’s a sign of our times that no leader can stand up to them -that shows there are many people with vices (like greed, for instance, or insatiable desire for recognition) that make them easy to manipulate, and skeletons in the closet that make them easy to blackmail.
Also, did everyone see that Dugin endorsed Robert Sarah for pope?
https://x.com/ubersoy1/status/1914707122144612359?s=46
Sound like Dugin wants to create more division when he says that black people are more authentic than whites.
Sarah probably has no chance, so Dugin loses nothing and gains credit. But I am only guessing. Who knows where Dugin’s influence had gone in Africa.
An endorsement that has gotten him some criticism from his comrades. Very odd.
It’s very interesting how Trump likes to portray himself as a tough guy, yet on Russia he’s being extremely weak, and his administration is only showcasing they’re willing to bend over backwards for Russia for unexplained reasons, as you once mentioned that Marco Rubio let it slip: why can’t the Trump administration let Russia lose? This is a question that they must answer to the population. What’s with the push for the peace talks that are one-sided in favor of the Kremlin? Is it simply an ego trip where Trump wants to get a Peace Prize for a hollow, short-lived peace deal? Yes many Ukrainians and Russians are losing their lives, but neither side wants to give up.
I remember seeing Joe Rogan, before Trump being elected again, arguing that how Ukraine should give up, because the war over there might lead to a larger conflict. There’s just this disconnect from reality and basic empathy when you see some millionaire in America, from the conform of his well-cushioned seat, to demand for someone fighting for their survival to give up because the American might get inconvenienced down the line. I see the same thing going on with the Trump administration’s tone deaf preaching for peace at any cost, when the ones who have tolerated the grunt of the suffering are not the Americans making the ridiculous demands.
Where did you find that de Tocqueville quote?
Jeff, please delete that post.
I am currently reading his Democracy in America, but still have a ways to go. I have always seen that quote attributed to him, and from that book. I just Googled to see about where in the book he said it, as I have not come across it yet. And I learned that he never wrote that. If you don’t mind, just delete that.
I know the other two were said for sure, and I’ve put all three to memory, erroneously believing de Tocqueville wrote that in Democracy in America.
I was just curious. No problem.
Thank you, and I’m glad you asked.
That is one of the more famous fake quotes from a famous person, lol.
I see that now, lol. I’m not quite halfway through the book yet. Started reading it once and set it down for too long to be able to pick back up. I always assumed it was in there since I’ve seen so many “quote” it. But, I know what assuming makes…
An ass out of u and me, lol. In this case, me.
Jeff,
I was listening to you yesterday on John’s show and that obnoxious caller from Florida said that he didn’t care about any country but the USA and then said he didn’t care about California that they were choosing their own fate. We know that China has practically taken over California so is he suggesting that his “team” thinks that we should just surrender parts of the United States?
Lee just reported that Muslims are buying cars in New York city and making them look exactly like NYPD cars and also making their own NYPD uniforms and patrolling the Muslim areas and enforcing Muslim laws. So, we are surrendering parts of America to China and the Muslim countries. I have been thinking about what surrending is and wondered if I surrender when I fled Michigan to get away from tyrannical Whitmer. Did I retreat and is that just a better way of looking at it.
Also, from what I am listening to Trump is going to ease up on China so now they don’t even have to wait for the Democrats. Walmart and Target put pressure on him saying that consumers were going to start to feel the impact. I guess we will be comfortable until we are bombed by China or Russia.
The one good piece of news, the collapse of China, could be compromised now — though I think China may not able to stop its economic slide into darkness. Trump is so easily pressured. He just looks weak.
PS – yeah, we are not going to change this immigration mess. I am very skeptical.
On the subject of immigration -we know that many thousands of Chinese operatives came into the country during the Biden years. Mr. Wang said the infiltration will continue.
I’ve been wondering for several weeks if any of these operatives have been sent packing. Because all I see in the news are mainly Latinos. I haven’t seen anything indicating lots of Chinese infiltrating being captured snd sent out by ICE.
Many students and lab workers.
Don’t forget Chinese restaurants. 40,000+ staffed with cooks of military age. I told a story just post 9-11 of seeing 2 white guys standing in back speaking rapid apparently fluent Mandarin with the cooks at my local joint. Seemed suspicious. Was thinking Russians immediately. Money laundering. I have no evidence but… 40,000 × 4 or 5 is quite alot.
Listened to this last year.
https://rumble.com/v5y3l98-red-chinas-invasion-of-america.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
If we’re not sending these guys and others out, then nothing of much value is being done by Noem, Homan, Et al.
It’s sad, Chinese international students are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met, and more open to the gospel than any other international student group. But their government is diabolical, and there’s no way of telling who is compromised and who isn’t (and potentially any one of them could become compromised). When I worked at a state university one year, we saw over 100 international students accept Christ. The vast majority were Chinese. So I have very mixed feelings about this news.
Interesting. But are they told to accept Christ so as to win trust?
Do you mean told to by the CCP? Interesting question. Dreadful thought. I guess we’ll find out one day…
I am too paranoid perhaps. Or not.
Oh, I’d hazard that you’re not paranoid enough. If we knew the half of what the communists were doing…
And future “judges” in political tribunals and police officers and saboteurs and terrorists and so on, the ground forces to take over the country….
As of mid-2022, there were approximately 239,000 unauthorized Chinese immigrants in the United States, according to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI).
And approximately 275,000 Chinese international students at universities, as of 2024.
A very big number!
Meant to ask, are you aware of any substantial numbers of Chinese being deported?
No.
That tells me something.
I think Lude’s change in opinion is based on what he’s seeing on the ground in China, which is chaos. Even before the tariffs, Chinese folks were going on “revenge against society” attacks almost on a daily basis for some weeks, usually in the form of mass stabbings of children or ramming children with cars. These are still going on but China is doing a little bit better in keeping them censored. You only hear about an attack every other week now. Chinese folks were also burning down their factories, one after the other, due to non-payment of their wages. More than 50% of graduates can’t get jobs, and thousands of businesses were closing down across the country…. and then the tariffs hit.
Now China is trotting out videos of Mao and declarations of “fighting to the end”. The “China Fact Watchers” Serpentza and Laowhy (Winston Sterzel and Matthew Tye on YouTube), who lived in China for more than a decade, both have Chinese wives, and are dedicated enemies of the CCP, have said this is a warning sign that China is planning on “doing something very bad” and that they really well sacrifice millions of Chinese people if necessary to stay in power (as we already know). They also report that the tariffs are doing immense damage to China’s economy and might just spell the end of the CCP if they continue. Meanwhile, there is, at least from the outside looking in, apparent chaos within the CCP. Xi’s hand picked generals keep getting busted for corruption and removed.
I think it’s easy for Lude to see all of this and think that the CCP is in a state of collapse. As we know, this could easily develop into China going into full Communist war mode and conscripting millions of now unemployed Chinese to “take revenge” against the USA for this fatal attack, and millions of others back to the country side or into the factories making bullets.
It is a very dangerous situation. War could easily begin this year. God only knows what they are willing to unleash.
Jeff, what did you finally decide about the recent UVB-76 broadcast? Just another attempt to manipulate Trump? Or possibly significant?
There is an increase in military activity in the rear of the Russian forces. I assume it is part of the ongoing mobilization of men and machines. Putin is not drawing down, which must mean….
Leaked records show 48 nations fighting for Russia
“The leaked medical records show that the largest number of foreign fighters — 771 people — came from South and East Asian countries. Former Soviet states ranked second (523), followed by African nations (72). When it comes to single countries, the highest number of recruits came from Nepal: iStories found that at least 603 Nepalese nationals passed through the enlistment center on Yablochkova Street. The discovery provides new context to a request from Nepal’s government to the Kremlin in November 2023, seeking to halt the recruitment of Nepalese citizens. The leaked database reveals that this recruitment nevertheless continued….
“Elsewhere around the world, another 71 mercenaries came from the Middle East, including Egypt (31), Iran (7), Algeria (7), Iraq (2), Syria (1), and Turkey (1). Seventy-two people were recruited from African nations with high unemployment and poverty rates. The top three African countries in terms of recruits were Ghana (26), Cameroon (10), and Senegal (8).”
https://meduza.io/amp/en/feature/2025/04/23/despite-putin-s-denials-russia-s-military-has-welcomed-foreign-mercenaries-from-at-least-48-nations-istories
BIG ARSE BREAKING NEWS!!!:
A wild story today out of Russia and Ukraine, following reports that Michael Gloss, the 21-year-old son of Julianne Gallina Gloss, who currently serves as CIA Deputy Director for Digital Innovation, and Larry Gloss, a Retired U.S. Naval Officer who participated in the 1991 Gulf War, was killed near Bakhmut in Eastern Ukraine back on April 4, 2024 while serving a contract in the Russian Army. Gloss’s family held a private funeral for him in Fairfax, Virginia near Washington, D.C. in December.
Radicalized son of a CIA director was killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine …
2 hours ago — The radicalized son of a CIA director was killed last year while allegedly fighting for Russia in Ukraine, according to a new investigation.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/25/world-news/son-of-a-cia-leader-killed-fighting-for-russia-in-ukraine-report/
Mess with the best, die like the rest.
Looks like he died as he lived: stupid as hell
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/chuck-grassley-calls-for-vladimir-putin-russia-sanctions-ukraine-war/83278502007/
Now remember that this has been mentioned and watch what Trump will do about it – if anything.
This may be a signal that he will make it look like there is no problem there but watch the results instead and what he does, that is the most important thing about him, NOT what he says. Communist dialectics and nothing else – one step back, two steps forward etc.
I have finished watching Ben Shapiro’s two episodes featuring his interview with Zelensky in Ukraine. They are definitely worth watching. Following the conclusion of the interview in the second episode, Shapiro comments on Dugin and reads extensively from his writing, including his just released book. He mentions Tucker and Vance’s enthusiasm for Dugin, not approvingly, and even includes a clip of Tucker’s interview with the latter. Shapiro does not see or at least does not mention the communist factor and states twice that Putin’s desire to reconstitute the Soviet Union is territorial and imperial, not ideological. Nevertheless, those territorial ambitions, which he lays out clearly and bolsters with Dugin, are quite enough for him to draw the proper geopolitical conclusions and to call Russia our enemy, whose expansion needs to be stopped in Ukraine. Given the grim political scenario in which I have been immersed this week, catching up after having been totally unplugged from news and the internet for Lent, it was an unexpected positive and demonstrated that conscience (and conscientiousness) are not entirely dead in the commentariat.
Glad to hear Shapiro recognizes Russia as an enemy. I wonder how many people follow him? Has he lost readers?
Another thing is to watch about this new “DOJ Task force on the religious matters and government overreach” or whatever other names they give it – and the scandalous impotence of such a task force, in name only that is.
They will only pick and choose what the address, and what cases to fix, and only what is convenient and they will not call it for what it is that the government has been penetrated by communists and that they are persecuting people and entire families in matters of religion….and education and so on.
The worst possible thing is when the government decides to set the standards of education and takes control of them and all the criteria, then you end up with atheistic perversion and absolute disaster, in fact you end up with a complete destruction of the existing order and its replacement with communist socialist nihilistic utopia and tyranny afterwards.
What Sen. Joseph McCarthy said about the communists infiltration, that if these people were merely stupid that they would sometimes make a mistake in favor of the truth and justice (paraphrasing here), – which means that the communists do not do that and all results lead to the advancement of their strategy and sabotage and ultimately destruction of the existig order…this is very true today and much visible and very few do see it…very few. The rest are either MAGA or in on it….and there seems to be less and less distinction about it now for which is which and why.
This was mentioned before but it is perhaps even more significant now than ever – the case of this devout Catholic woman and her stolen (abducted by the State) children and how the DOJ Civil Rights Div. wouldn’t proceed even though they said, according to the source who is familiar with this scandalous situation and in fact with this horrible crime and violation of religious rights, and so the woman tried to contact just about anybody important from this “conservative” movement, including:
Tom Fitton – Judicial Watch (NO REPLY AT ALL)
Harmeet Dillhon – her law firm (NO REPLY AT ALL)
Rep Jim Jordan and his Judical Committee (NO REPLY AT ALL)
the woman’s local state AG (NO REPLY AT ALL)
the woman’s local US Rep. (NO REPLY AT ALL)
The White House – they put her on their message list and began to send her invitations and such like junk-mail via texts, and then when she replied to one of them and said to them, the source says, that they are not helping her at all, they replied with a form to fill out on her phone so that they would get more information from her, which data she had already supplied – so it was a run-around and nothing else – and absolutely uncharitable non-Catholic reposnse…from Trump’s WH – shame on them !
So now the communist state she used to live in is trying to get her to pay outrageous child support on 3 chidren she is not even allowed to see and hasn;t see in 4 years, because the state slapped a restraining order on her and supervised visits, which she will not accept as it is another violation of her and her children’s 1st Am. relligious rights as the children are baptized Catholics also and are part of the true Catholic CHurch.
And if this is not the proof that these communist criminals are imbedded almost everywhere, than it is evident that people simply are not willing to see it.
She tried some other avenues, no go. She lives a religious life and from alms and so there is no income, life of holy poverty and nothing more, but she has the true Catholic Faith, and they are persecuting her, she has done nothing wrong, one little bruise on the forehead of the one of the children, which the child caused and nobody else and this was the excuse for these monsters to accuse her and take the children away and give them to their father, who is an excommunicated heretic, works for a chinese american boss and has spent some weeks in China “working”, and has other history that suggests the worst…including his lies about the bruise which the “family court” used as an excuse to prevent the mother to have the custody, which BTW the Canon Law orders as she provides the Catholic upbringing to the children and their father is excommunicated heretic and the Church doesn’t allow him to have the custody…
One does plainly see that what that communist criminal Gorbachov said in 1987 in Uzbekistan is true more than ever today – QUOTE: (quoted in Red Cocaine, and in The Peretsroina Deception)
“The war against religion is at the core of the (communist) revolution. There must be no let up in the war against religion because as long as religion exists, Communism cannot prevail. We must intensify the obliteration of all religions wherever they are being practiced or taught.”
Their main weapon is subversion, and this is the example of it, and those who do nothing about it are just helping the communist cause to win…and God will repay it to the fullest.
If anybody is willing to help, prehaps just to FOIA the case details from these evildoers, to make them more nervous, we will supply the data – those who would be willing to help, as this case is very serious.
USC 18, 242 (and or 241) – criminal religious rights violation under the color of the law – and 1 year prison sentence for elected or public officials involved. 10 years prison for civilians.
I don’t know if Mr. Chang is referring to American or Chinese (possibly the latter?), but if true this is interesting:
https://x.com/gordongchang/status/1915584597561164271?s=46
Not surprising.
The 50-50-1 movement has their next set of nationwide protests coming up on one of the ‘high holy’ days of Communism — May 1st. https://maydaystrong.org/
Oh boy
“It ma1kes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through banking or secondary sanctions?” Trump said.https://kyivindependent.com/putin-maybe-doesnt-want-to-stop-the-war-trump-admits/
Trump has repeatedly blamed Ukraine for letting this war happen and called Zelensky a dictator. He’s said its easier to work with Putin than Zelensky. Among other wrong actions against Ukraine. Trump doesn’t have a strategy, only reactions according to John Bolton. What a capricious clown
It is much easier to work with Putin, because he is a KGB professional recruiter. He mirrors your body language, flatters you and uses a thousand other tricks to make you like him. Zelenskiy is a psychological child, inexperienced, ruled by emotion, straightforward and clumsy (but defending a better cause).
He held his emotions well during the Oval Office set up.
Again – by their fruits – they want the people to think that it is somewhat incompetence and never intent, but the intent to help the communist cause is visible because they are capable to do the right thing in other areas but when it comes to this, they want to be seen as ignorant incompentents, which is of course a clear contradition of how Trump presents himself in the public eye…
When he’s able to blame Ukraine for the Russian aggression that he’s not stupid to know that that’s a direct lie – so why would be he doing this evil ?
He’s fully committed to the Russian communist cause, and his helps to the CCP and Russia prove this…and of course Trump will now try to save his face by such claims, but how does it solve the problem of this war attrocity against Ukraine, a sovereign country, by this KGB Kremlin criminals ?
It is one thing to say the right thing and another to do what is required to be done to remedy the problem – and Trump is failing and has already failed in the second and more important part of this situation. Nobody wants wars, but defensive war is necessary when this communist criminal Mafia is attempting to take over the whole world….and those who do nothing about while they have the power to do something about are either incompetent idiots (which profile Trump doesn’t fit), OR they are FULLY involved in this Russian communist evil…they are communists or communist agents in their deeds.
The WP software is horrible, lot of typos, it is difficult to fix or to type, as the spellin suggestions sometimes pop into the text and that delays the whole posting – sorry for the typos and incomplete sense sometime.
Ditto!! I finally got it to recognize that I had logged in by using brain-dead Windows and their edge browser–how much danger does that open me to? When ever I tried using Brave in privacy mode on Mac or Linux, it says that I am logged in, but need to log in to post a message.
There’s a difference between a dupe and an agent fully committed to the Communist cause. He’s done harm and good for their cause. But he’s certainly no anti Communist.
Yes.
One thought that comes to mind: did the CCP allow the crash of the civilian economy in China occur in order to weaken challenges to CCP’s power? An example being Jack Ma and his ANT Group?
A second thought is that a modern, mechanized military needs support personal for the front line troops. In Vietnam the U.S. had ten support personal for every front line grunt in the field. So how many of the now unemployed in China would be willing to be support personal for a CCP invasion of the U.S.? If the CCP is able to field a million front line troops in the U.S., how many support people would also be imported?
Years ago, I don’t remember where, I read that the Japanese spies had uncovered that the CCP and Soviets together plan a “nuclear Pearl Harbor” attack against the U.S. What better time that late this summer? Sure, they may want to wait a few more years, but Europe and the U.S. are waking up that the CCP and Soviets are an existential danger therefore are starting to arm up to fight against that danger. While the CCP and Soviets may be able to out produce us in numbers, the qualitative differences are already giving the Soviets major headaches in Ukraine, so their best chance may be now when our quantities are dangerously low. One plays the hand he is dealt. Can they have a better hand vis-a-vis the West than this year?
Good points
A surprise attack is very possible now, yes. The Russians seem to be deploying for that.