Trump Must Not Fall Into Xi Jinping’s Trap by Giving China a Pretext to Destroy the US

Rebutting accusations that I am an isolationist or a defeatist for believing that it is grossly immoral to send US military servicemen to fight an unwinnable war against a nuclear superpower adversary

Chinese President Xi Jinping reviewing a PLA military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to include email responses I wrote on April 4th shortly after the publication of this article.

The following article was written as a rebuttal to one of my esteemed colleagues with a long and distinguished career as a high-ranking intelligence officer in the United States Navy who criticized me for “spouting neo-isolationist rhetoric” and “defeatist propaganda” after I published my last article “How Trump Can Avoid World War Three with China Over Taiwan.” My decision to publish this article caused me to be removed from a neocon-led group known as the Committee for the Present Danger-China in which I had served faithfully for the past three years. The committee includes some stellar experts but its leaders have long advocated for the US to fight an all-out war with China, to overthrow China's Communist regime, presumably through conventional or nuclear strikes on the PRC, that would be sure to provoke the nuclear annihilation of the US. The reason for my removal was not given but it was the morning after I published an article in which I was unyielding with regards to my position that it is grossly immoral for America to fight unwinnable wars against nuclear superpower adversaries to provoke them to destroy the US homeland. The group appears to have had an unstated ideological litmus test that its leaders concluded I simply did not meet.

I have no regrets and will never falter from my belief that the overriding national security priority should be to protect, preserve and defend the lives of 286 million Americans, not to wage war to defend countries half a world away with whom we have no security obligations such as Ukraine and Taiwan. I will never yield to pressure to conform my speech and writings to the narrow ideological constraints of organizations that would rather have the US commit national suicide in pursuit of unachievable military objectives than preserve the existence of the United States and its treaty allies. Rather, I will continue to champion the cause of America First in terms of US national security, foreign policy, trade policy and immigration policy now and forever.

I have decided to publish my rebuttal at the behest of some of my other colleagues with whom I served on this committee tasked with the mission of determining what actions the US can take to defeat China’s plan to become the global hegemon, an objective which I have been supporting for the last quarter century at least.

My Record of Warning about the Chinese Threat

I have been warning about the Chinese threat since the 1980s. In 1985, when I read President Richard Nixon’s excellent treatise entitled “The Real War,” which President Ronald Reagan reportedly used as the blueprint to win the Cold War against the Soviet Union, I realized that Nixon’s greatest foreign policy mistake was going to Beijing and normalizing diplomatic and trade ties with the PRC in the naïve belief he could forge a new US-Chinese entente against the Soviets. I have always believed the Sino-Soviet split was a ruse designed to trick the US into building up China economically to provide them trillions of dollars’ worth of US subsidies to massively build up their nuclear arsenal and conventional military might into the best nuclear superpower enemy US money can buy and I believe I have been proven 100 percent right on that.

I angrily confronted my Congressman in his Washington DC office over the Reagan administration’s decision to give advanced military technology to Communist China when I was just sixteen years old. I am still disappointed in President Ronald Reagan for appeasing Communist China and Mozambique with over a billion dollars in direct US military aid and for referring to the Butchers of Beijing as “so-called Communist China.” Did you know Reagan transferred advanced tank and avionics technology to China and even entertained building M-1 Abrams tank and F-16 fighter factories in the PRC? I have published innumerable articles about the Chinese threat and have been warning about the existential threat posed by the Sino-Russian alliance since they formed their strategic partnership in 1996 when I wrote a never published book manuscript warning about it.

I was one of the few arguing we should arm Taiwan, Japan, South Korea (and Germany) with US tactical nuclear weapons in the 1990s so they could defend themselves against Chinese and North Korean aggression. For the past few years, I have been saying that all the weapons President Joe Biden sent to Ukraine should have been sent to Taiwan instead and have criticized “Beijing Biden” for refusing to prioritize the $20 billion in congressionally authorized weapon sales to Taiwan.

The USS George Washington CVN 73 which is the only US aircraft carrier currently deployed in the Western Pacific. The US typically maintains two aircraft carriers there and is moving a second carrier strike group to replace the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group which was ordered to the Middle East in advance of a possible upcoming US bombing campaign on Iranian nuclear sites.

I have been calling on the US to surge our naval and nuclear assets to the Western Pacific to deter Chinese aggression for many years. I would love to see all our US Navy Carrier Strike Groups at sea deployed there instead of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East and for the life of me I don’t understand why we haven’t done that yet. More importantly, we need to reconstitute a robust US non-strategic nuclear capability including 200 B-61 nuclear bombs deployed on our carriers and 300 SLCM-Ns deployed on our cruisers, destroyers and attack submarines in the Western Pacific region where we currently have no usable non-strategic nuclear weapons. I have also been calling on the US to fight a trade war against China since the 1980s opposing MFN trade status and WTO membership for the Butchers of Beijing to the hilt. Thankfully, we now have an America First conservative President that is doing exactly that!

Supporting a Diplomatic Solution to Preserve Freedom and Self-Rule in Taiwan

From a US national security perspective, my primary objective is to avert a pre-emptive Chinese super-EMP strike that destroys the US before the Trump administration has even made a decision whether the benefits of waging a global, nuclear war with the PRC outweigh the risks. The only way to do that is to make clear in advance of a Chinese blockade or invasion that the US is open to a compromise solution which takes into account China’s security interests. Obviously, the US should not accept any deal that includes a Chinese occupation or annexation of Taiwan.

I have never supported turning Taiwan over to the PRC. Rather, I have championed the US taking action to ensure their indefinite self-rule, retention of their political and economic freedoms as well as control of their own armed forces. Under my compromise peace proposal, the US could save Taiwan from Chinese military occupation and annexation without the need to sacrifice 250 million American lives in a failed attempt to prevent such a conquest. Taiwan would retain its self-rule, control over its armed forces, its political and economic freedoms and other than a joint base at Kenting, Taiwan would remain free of Chinese troops and bases. This was meant as a long-term solution to prevent all of Taiwan from being annexed and Chinese-occupied while averting a potential Chinese preemptive cyber and super EMP first strike on the US which would destroy the US homeland. If we decide to roll the dice and fight China directly over their nuclear redline of Taiwan, the US will not likely survive the conflict. Rather, President Trump should negotiate the best deal possible for Taiwan while drawing a nuclear redline around US treaty allies that China doesn't seem to have a problem with other than a few outlying islands and shoals.

I have never called upon President Trump to defend Taiwan with a US nuclear umbrella as it has not been a treaty ally since Carter abrogated our mutual security treaty with Taiwan in 1979 and withdrew all our troops and nuclear weapons from the island. Like you, President Joe Biden also mistakenly claimed our mutual security treaty was still in effect when he said on four different occasions we were obligated by treaty to go to war with the PRC to defend Taiwan militarily which I suspect is why Chinese President Xi Jinping decided to wait for President Trump to take office as Trump obviously knows we have no such obligation, only to supply them with weapons under the Taiwan Relations Act passed by the US Congress in 1979.

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Over the past decade and a half the correlation of forces has shifted dramatically in favor of Red China and the chances of a US military victory over the PRC even if the war was fought without escalating to the cyber, super-EMP or nuclear level are very low indeed given the fact that China’s industrial manufacturing base is nearly four times larger than ours by PPP, they can outproduce us in advanced weapon systems by a factor of 5 or 6 to 1, and they can outbuild us in ships by 232 to 1. Furthermore, their military alliance with Russia is much closer meaning it is conceivable that Russia could join the war on China’s side. If we had to fight a protracted war with the PRC in the Pacific today, it would be the Pacific War in reverse with the US playing the role of badly overmatched Imperial Japan as the PLA engaged in an island hopping campaign sweeping across the Pacific all the way to the US West Coast or perhaps more likely they would sink our entire Pacific fleet, occupy Hawaii, and then decide whether to nuke us or stage a massive amphibious invasion of the US homeland as we made the same fateful decision with Japan eighty years ago. This sobering realization should lead to an increase in support for a diplomatic resolution of the Taiwan crisis to avert all-out war with the PRC.

I have never bought into the idea that the First or Second Island Chains constrain China’s ability to invade and occupy nations outside those island chains. The US does not have control over, let alone fortified military bases with airbases and anti-ship missile launchers on, the vast majority of those island chains that would provide us the ability to interdict PLA Navy movements in and out of those chains. China has already developed strategic partnerships with over a dozen islands far outside the Second Island Chain which they would operationalize against us in the event of the outbreak of war. You have previously stated that “the PLA Navy rules the waves inside the Second Island Chain” and that if we fought a war with China over Taiwan, “we would be outnumbered 10-1 in warships” in the South China Sea. If indeed, you are correct, then the US has effectively already “given away” the First Island Chain by unilaterally surrendering perpetual US naval dominance over the PLA Navy to prevent them from dominating the waves between the First Island Chain and the Second Island Chain, effectively enabling them to potentially blockade not just Taiwan, but also the ROK, Japan and the Philippines just as they practiced doing during their Joint Sword blockade exercises last year.

Defeatism or Foreign Policy Realism?

US bases and military capabilities in the region leave much to be desired and are far from adequate to successfully fight let alone win a war against the PRC particularly given their theater nuclear supremacy and their supremacy over us in nuclear capable ballistic missiles which is on the order of 7-14 times to one including our strategic nuclear missile arsenal. Unfortunately, I don’t see any real prospects for the US building up “an Asian NATO.” India is a longtime Russian ally and will never ally with the US against China unless potentially we first establish a US entente with Russia. The Quad has no real potential to become a functional military alliance. AUKUS is a real alliance but is hardly capable to pose a meaningful counterweight to combined Sino-Russian-North Korean military might in the region. Based on the statements of their past leaders, it is very possible that if the US fought China over Taiwan, none of our treaty allies would join us. My guess is none of them likely would. Japan and the Philippines have stated they would allow the US military to operate from their bases but would not commit to join the war. Australia has also been non-committal about whether they would be willing to fight a war against the PRC over Taiwan. Japan would certainly come under Chinese attack due to our bases located there and so they might not have a choice though they might assess that China might spare their cities if they don’t fight China directly and decide its not worth the risk.

Is it really “defeatism” to point out the glaring differential in nuclear and conventional military capabilities between the US and the PRC in the Western Pacific or is it just realism? As soon to be confirmed Under Secretary of Defense for Policy-designate Elbridge Colby stated late last year, if the US makes a judgment that we have little to no prospect of winning a war against China over Taiwan due to China’s vastly increased military capabilities and that the most probable outcome of such a war would either be the destruction of virtually our entire military in the Pacific, or even worse, the destruction of the US homeland, what would be the point of fighting such a conflict? As he said, we are fast approaching that point. In fact, I would argue that we are most likely already there. China is close to deploying Type 096 nuclear ballistic missile submarines with JL-3 SLBMs which can range much of the continental United States from their ports on the Chinese mainland. Accordingly, a Chinese takeover of Taiwan which is 81 miles away from the Chinese coast would not expand their range all that much.

If the US Defends Taiwan Militarily, We Will Essentially Be Committing National Suicide

Unlike Ukraine, the US does have a national security interest in defending Taiwan to the extent it does not embroil the US in a direct war with Communist China. It is certainly in the US national security interest not to see 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductors taken over by the PRC although I think it is likely China would continue selling them to the US if we didn’t go to war with them or enact massive sanctions against them in response to their invasion. That is why I stated that we had a security interest in defending Taiwan, but not Ukraine. I have been informed that the TSMC factory has already started production of computer chips, so Trump clearly gets the credit for making that happen quickly. Implementation of my proposal by the Trump administration would buy the US time to finish moving all their advanced chip production to the US and more importantly to restore our own advanced computer chip production here at home.

Map Showing the radius of a super EMP blast over the United States that could destroy all US critical infrastructure and cause 255 million Americans to die within a year.

A war with China would be all but guaranteed to escalate to the nuclear level within a few weeks or less. China currently enjoys a virtual monopoly on theater nuclear weapons in the Western Pacific and enjoys nuclear superiority over the US overall thanks to its massive nuclear buildup over the past five years. They also have a joint missile defense with Russia employing thousands of Chinese ABMs and a nuclear command center 2,500 feet underground impervious to even a direct nuclear hit, not to mention China’s Underground Great Wall ensuring they would survive and perhaps even “win” a nuclear war with the US. A senior Chinese leader has stated China would be willing to sacrifice fifty percent of its population, if necessary, to win such a war with the US.

There is no question in my mind that Emperor Xi Jinping would order a massive cyber and/or super EMP attack on the US on the first day of major combat operations to win the war in a single day and prevent us from surging additional military forces to the Pacific theater. Such an attack could kill up to 255 million Americans over a year and there is absolutely nothing we could do to stop him from doing it. He could even order North Korea to do it or else simply blame them for the attack even if China was responsible. As I have written, our Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3) might be so severely damaged we might not have the option to retaliate following successive super-EMP strikes on the US homeland. I suppose there are others who ascribe much more humanitarian motives to Xi and believe he would not want to kill a quarter billion Americans if it came to a full-scale war with the US, but I am not one of them. In my mind, Xi is a genocidal terrorist leader several orders of magnitude more murderous than Russian President Vladimir Putin. I know it is difficult to face up to these stark realities. I know it has been for me, and it has taken me many years to adjust my thinking to a more realistic and achievable Assured National Survival strategy that would ensure the defense and continued survival of all of America’s treaty allies.

America is on Track to Lose a Nuclear War with China

If President Trump were to either declare that the US will defend Taiwan militarily or, even worse, publicly declares Taiwan as coming under our nuclear umbrella, it would guarantee not just a super-EMP attack on the US homeland but very likely a pre-emptive Chinese counterforce nuclear first strike on the US nuclear triad and Washington, DC as well. China would probably use its Huawei cell tower in DC to prevent any nuclear launch orders from the President in DC to reach our nuclear triad ensuring we were unable to launch on warning. If China succeeded in taking out all three nuclear footballs in DC (very possible if we are not at DEFCON 3 or above), then it would take several days if not weeks for us to re-establish launch control of our nuclear triad if at all, meaning China might not have to face a US nuclear retaliatory strike at all, particularly if they used a super EMP attack to take out much of our Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3). Even if we were successful in launching our ICBMs, a second super EMP detonation could potentially take those out as well assuming a Chinese or North Korean super EMP satellite was in orbit over the US homeland at the time since America’s nuclear triad is not likely hardened to the 200,000 volt per meter standard necessary to withstand super EMP effects.

The Heritage Foundation recently published an excellent video documentary, entitled “America is on Track to Lose a Nuclear War with China” that draws attention to the fact that the US unilaterally dismantled nearly 90% of its nuclear arsenal. It compares the US nuclear arsenal to “your grandfather's 1975 Cadillac” that we keep trying to fix as it increasingly breaks down. Underscoring that point, the last STRATCOM commander testified that given the US ICBM arsenal is well over half a century old, he couldn't guarantee that it would work in a crisis. The video also does a great job outlining the current theater nuclear balance in the Pacific where China basically enjoys a monopoly on theater nuclear forces, noting that if China attacked one or more US military bases with non-strategic nuclear weapons, the US likely would not be able to respond in kind. Needless to say, US nuclear weakness massively incentivizes Chinese non-strategic nuclear first use in the event of war or else employ nuclear blackmail to compel the US to end the conflict on Chinese terms.

CSIS Missile Defense Project chart showing the ranges of China’s massive nuclear-capable ballistic missile arsenal which is far larger than our own.

However, the documentary massively underestimates the Chinese nuclear threat claiming China only had 200 nuclear weapons before 2021 and now has 600 while claiming China will soon have nuclear hypersonic missiles capable of reaching the US. In fact, China likely had 1,000 nuclear weapons in 2020 and already has many nuclear hypersonic missiles that can strike the US. According to an unclassified 2021 USAF intelligence briefing China was on track to have 2,000 warheads this year. Moreover, even that estimate is likely a US intelligence community attempt at Chinese threat deflation. My estimates suggest given that US intelligence has reported that the PRC has likely completed construction of 360 ten warhead DF-41 ICBM silos, China likely has a total of 4,000 nuclear warheads currently and may have up to 5,000 by year's end. Hopefully, senior Trump officials are not being fed this same Chinese threat deflation disinformation that we are hearing even from conservative think tanks.

Catastrophic Mistakes of Past US Liberal Interventionist Presidents Gave Birth to Communist China

The truth is that the US has never had an “isolationist” foreign policy or President in its history. We have always engaged with the world to spread US constitutional freedoms, commerce and influence allying with other countries whenever it was in our national interest to do so. From 1823 to 1941, the US pursued a policy of hemispheric hegemony invading and occupying our neighbors at a whim often with little pretext. Except for a brief period from 1917-1918, the US pursued this hegemonic policy ultimately including US dominance of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans until the end of World War Two when we adopted a policy of global hegemony. President Trump is rightly ending our policy of global hegemony and gradually moving us back to a policy of hemispheric hegemony that prioritizes both homeland/hemispheric defense as well as bolstering our capabilities to deter aggression against the Communist Chinese terror regime in the Western Pacific region.

The hundreds of thousands of brave US sailors, airmen, soldiers and Marines who died during World War Two didn’t die because we had an “isolationist” foreign policy. They died because FDR pressured the UK and the Dutch to join the US in a total oil embargo on the Japanese Empire designed to provoke Japan to attack the US Pacific Fleet which he ordered forward deployed from their base in San Diego to Pearl Harbor. An “isolationist” President would never have undertaken such a provocative action that any foreign policy realist had reason to know would force the Japanese to take decisive military action against the US and/or its allies to end or else force them to unilaterally surrender their entire empire just as the Soviet Union did in 1991. Of course, if the US had not made the catastrophic mistake of engaging in an unholy alliance with the Evil Soviet Empire during the Second World War, Communist China, North Korea and Communist Vietnam never would have existed. Nationalist China would have fought the Cold War on the US side and the US might not have any major adversaries to worry about today.

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, our greatest modern day general and an ardent anti-Communist who was fired for wanting to liberate mainland China from Communist enslavement at a time when the US had nuclear supremacy over the USSR and the PRC was still a non-nuclear power.

I believe President Harry Truman was wrong to fire General of the Army Douglas MacArthur in 1951 for wanting to not only liberate North Korea from Communist control but all of mainland China as well even if it meant using atomic bombs on PLA Army formations to do so. Then the PRC and DPRK would not exist today, and Nationalist China would have fought on the US side during the Cold War. For most of my life, I felt immense guilt that Truman and Marshall deliberately betrayed mainland China to Communist control by cutting off all US aid to the National Revolutionary Army in 1946 when Nationalist freedom fighters were on the verge of winning the Chinese Civil War to ensure a Communist victory and believed we had a moral debt to sacrifice, if necessary, 200 million of our own citizens to try to defend them from a Chinese invasion to pay for the sins of our late, pro-Communist President Harry Truman. But now that China overmatches the US in terms of economic and industrial might and conventional military and nuclear firepower, I have come to realize that there is no realistic prospect that a US attempt to liberate Taiwan from Chinese military occupation or even break a PLA Navy blockade would be successful.

China’s Plan to Bait the US Into Firing the First Shot

China’s blockade strategy would reportedly entail baiting the US position of firing the first shot against PLA warships and warplanes (much as FDR baited the Japanese to attack us at Pearl Harbor as a back door to war with Nazi Germany) to give them a pretext to send the US Third and Seventh Fleets to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, occupy and invade our Pacific treaty allies, destroy the US homeland and invade and occupy Alaska, Hawaii and the Western US. As I have stated, China’s massive amphibious fleet, supported by its recently built blue-water navy, is designed not just to invade Taiwan but to invade Japan, the Philippines, Australia, Hawaii and the US West Coast as well if we give them a pretext to do so.

We would be foolish to delude ourselves that China would refrain from doing so in the event we went to war against them as the destruction of the US would force Taiwan to surrender the PRC without the need for a single PLA soldier to land on Taiwan’s beaches. Indeed, a US Army Major interviewed a PLA soldier engaging in amphibious exercises near their military base in Djibouti a decade ago asking them if they were practicing invading Taiwan and he replied, “no, we are practicing invading the US.” China’s Minister of Defense’s speech outlining China’s plans for doing exactly that were leaked back in 2005.

The Trump administration must not fall into Emperor Xi’s trap, cross their nuclear redline, and provide them a pretext to destroy the US homeland as that would allow Communist China to rule the world unopposed, spelling the end of the free world. I am confident that President Trump will steer us away from the brink of nuclear war with the PRC to ensure the US survives to defeat China’s plan, together with its treaty allies, to become the global hegemon by the end of the decade.

© David T. Pyne 2025

David T. Pyne, Esq. is a former U.S. Army combat arms and Headquarters staff officer, who was in charge of armaments cooperation with the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas from 2000-2003, with an M.A. in National Security Studies from Georgetown University. He is the former President and current Deputy Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security. He recently served as Defense and Foreign Policy Advisor to former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. He has also co-authored the best-selling new book, “Catastrophe Now--America’s Last Chance to Avoid an EMP Disaster” and his new book “Restoring Strategic Deterrence” will be published in July 2025. He serves as the Editor of “The Real War” newsletter at dpyne.substack.com and previously served as a contributor to “The National Interest”. Here is a link to his interview archive. He also posts multiple times a day on X at @AmericaFirstCon. He may be reached at emptaskforce.ut@gmail.com.

Recent Interviews

March 1st—Interview with Greg Allison on his show to discuss the Trump-Zelensky feud, the prospects for a peace deal ending the war in Ukraine, the increasing fissures between the US and EU and whether it would be better for US national security to pull the US out of NATO entirely.

March 3rd—Panel Interview with Brannon Howse, COL Rob Maness and Leo Hohmann on Brannon Howse Live to discuss the fiery aftermath of the Trump-Zelensky meeting at the White House, the prospects for peace, the growing fissures between the US and its European “allies” and the threats I am most worried about materializing in the next few months.

March 3rd—Interview on the Dr. Maria show on Lindell TV to discuss the ramifications of Friday’s Trump-Zelensky shouting match in the Oval Office on the upcoming US-Russia peace deal ending the war in Ukraine.

March 5th—Interview with Nima Alkhorshid on his Dialogue Works podcast to discuss President Trump’s decision to cut off all military aid to Ukraine. We will also discuss the future of Europe whose leaders are doing everything they can to join Zelensky in supporting his efforts to sabotage Trump’s noble effort to negotiate peace and a new strategic partnership with Russia.

March 6th—Interview with Brannon Howse on Brannon Howse Live to discuss Trump’s latest comments that he will only defend NATO countries that pay their fair share making America’s Article V security guarantee conditional rather than "“ironclad.” We will also discuss Trump’s efforts to replace Zelensky, China’s plan to send troops to fight in Ukraine and Trump’s efforts to get Britain or France to replace the US as the military leader of NATO.

March 7th—Interview with Brannon Howse on Brannon Howse Live to discuss Trump’s latest comments that Zelensky is much harder to negotiate with, his plans to send a US delegation to negotiate a peace framework with Ukraine in Saudi Arabia next week and Russia’s February 18th offer for a temporary truce after a peace framework not involving NATO peacekeeping troops in Ukraine had been substantially agreed upon.

March 13th—Interview with Brannon Howse on his Worldview Weekend Radio Show to discuss the latest development with regards to peace negotiations with Russia and Ukraine to end the war including Ukraine’s cease-fire terms and Putin’s response.

March 17th—Interview with Brannon Howse on Brannon Howse Live to discuss growing reports that the US is preparing to engage in joint US-Israeli missile strikes on Iran as the Trump administration continues to ramp up attacks on the Houthis as well as Chinese preparations to invade Taiwan as early as April.

March 18th—Interview with Brannon Howse on his Worldview Weekend Radio Show to discuss the latest developments with regards to US and Israeli air and missile strikes on Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria and the chances it may lead to a direct war between the US and Israel that could bring in Russia and China.

March 18th—Interview with Brannon Howse on Brannon Howse Live to discuss the outcome of the three-hour long Trump-Putin phone call and the chances it could lead to a permanent end to the war in Ukraine. We will also discuss how America’s alliances don’t make us safer but rather put Americans at far greater risk of World War Three than if the US were to commit not to intervene militarily in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Taiwan.

March 20th—Interview with Brannon Howse on Brannon Howse Live to discuss the ramifications of the Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Engels air base which may have damaged some of Russia’s T-160 “Blackjack” nuclear bombers and his continuing attempts to get the US and NATO into a direct war with Russia. We will also discuss reported Russian military buildups in Belarus and Kaliningrad and how they may relate to China’s preparations to blockade and/or invade Taiwan as early as next month.

March 21st- Interview on the Dr. Maria show on Lindell TV to discuss the ramifications of the Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Engels air base which may have damaged some of Russia’s T-160 “Blackjack” nuclear bombers and his continuing attempts to get the US and NATO into a direct war with Russia.

March 21st—Interview with KUTV 2 News reporter David Ochoa about the Rep. Mike Kennedy and Rep. Celeste Malloy townhall in which they were booed and heckled by boisterous liberal protesters calling for them to impeach President Trump for DOGE cuts and defying judicial orders to bring back criminal gang members to the U.S.

March 21st—Interview with Brannon Howse on Brannon Howse Live to discuss the ramifications of the fire at London’s Heathrow Airport which stopped all flights at the UK’s largest airport as well as the US decision to move a carrier strike group from the Western Pacific to the Middle East at a time that China may be on the verge of invading Taiwan.

March 25th—Interview on Main Street Radio with Jon Twitchell to discuss the progress of US and Russian negotiations on a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine and form a US-Russia grand strategic partnership for peace as well as the chances that China will blockade Taiwan in early April.

March 25th—Interview with Brannon Howse on Brannon Howse Live to discuss the leak of imminent plans for US military strikes on the Houthis in a Signal group between top Trump administration national security officials to a leftwing news magazine editor and whether any of the officials responsible should face disciplinary measures from President Trump including dismissal.

March 26th—Interview with Brannon Howse on Brannon Howse Live to discuss a US intelligence official’s assertion that National Security Mike Waltz lied about knowing Atlantic news magazine’s Jeffrey Goldberg and that he was a source for Goldberg’s articles while he was on the US intelligence committee as well as Deputy National Security Advisor Alex Wong’s family ties to the CCP.

March 31st—Interview with Brannon Howse on Brannon Howse Live to discuss the leak of the DoD guidance memo saying NATO can not expect the US to defend them, ending all war planning to fight Russia at a time the Trump administration is surging US troops and even US nukes to NATO’s eastern border to threaten Russia.

April 2nd—Interview with Brannon Howse on Brannon Howse Live to discuss whether China’s Joint Exercise Strait Thunder-2025A is a prelude to a full blockade of Taiwan and whether China would benefit from a Trump decision to start a new war against Iran and bomb Iranian nuclear sites.

Upcoming Interviews

April 4th—I will be giving a ninety minute presentation at the Highland Community Center at 5378 West 10400 North in Highland, Utah at 7pm followed by a 30-minute question and answer session. It will include all my latest US national security and foreign policy updates especially Trump’s chances of negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine.

April 7th—Interview with Brannon Howse on Brannon Howse Live to discuss Iran’s recent underground nuclear tests and Russia’s threat that if Trump bombs Iran’s nuclear arsenal, it will cause an “irreversible global catastrophe”—i.e. World War Three.

April 8th—Interview with Nima Alkhorshid on his Dialogue Works podcast to discuss why he started a new war with the Houthis, how a US decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites could give China an opportunity to blockade Taiwan as well as why Trump has been unsuccessful in negotiating an end to Biden’s war with Russia in Ukraine.

April 8th—Interview with Brannon Howse on Brannon Howse Live to discuss the recent revelation that the second Trump shooter Ryan Routh, who served as a recruiter for the Ukrainian Foreign Legion asked the Ukrainian military to provide him with a Stinger missile to shoot down Trump Force One during the 2024 presidential campaign.

April 9th—Interview on Main Street Radio on the “Dan the Eagle” show to discuss the importance of Trump’s reciprocal tariffs in restoring America’s economic independence from Communist China, reshoring our Defense Industrial Base and preventing the PRC from blackmailing US leaders into doing their bidding.

April 15th—Interview on Main Street Radio with Jon Twitchell to discuss the latest developments with regards to Trump’s drive to end the war in Ukraine, his threats to bomb a nuclear-armed Iran and potentially start World War Three and the chances that China will blockade Taiwan in April.

April 17th-Interview with Paul Mills on his Off-Grid Desert Farming Podcast to discuss the latest developments regarding the potential outbreak of World War Three with Russia over Ukraine, with China over Taiwan, and with Iran over its continued nuclear weapons production.

April 17th-Interview with Brannon Howse on Brannon Howse Live to discuss the recent revelation that JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth succeeding in persuading President Trump to call off plans for a joint US-Israeli air and missile strike on Iranian nuclear missile sites to avert World War Three.