While I can’t disagree with his opinion regarding China’s ultimate objective and I agree that we must keep the republic intact, Mr. Longman misses a number of key points and confuses many others.
The size and complexity of the PLA (which includes the Army, Navy and Air Force) and its technological advances are due primarily to two factors: theft of intellectual property and classified information, much of which was obtained with the assistance of collaborators inside the United States, including the federal government. The alleged sale of 68 Cray mainframe computers to China in 1993 all but assured that the PLA would be able to take advantage of the information they were given or filched.
In terms of economics and US domestic policy, the Chinese almost certainly have more collaborators at large throughout the US than they do inside all three branches of the federal government. Is there any doubt that even victims of the US education system know that small businesses are the foundation of the US economy and capitalism in general? Nonetheless, multiple governors are more than willing to “lock down” their respective states and impose all manner of restrictions and edicts on the citizenry because of “COVID” - the current, universal excuse for everything unconstitutional and objectionable, the only result of which is the wholesale destruction of small business by the hundreds of thousands.
I won’t belabor all of his points, but get to the essence; the United States is in the midst of an insurgency. China has bought US companies; the media, including the news media, movie industry, entertainment and social media; significant influence throughout academia; and politicians at every level of government, including, in my opinion, at least two former presidents, the “president-elect,” his family and more than a few members of his proposed cabinet. What Mr. Longman and most “experts” are missing is that all of this amounts to the fact that the United States is in the throes of a full-blown insurgency, with all of the necessary components in place and active.
With their control of the media at all levels, the Chinese are controlling the vast majority of public messaging today. There is more than circumstantial evidence that, like drugs and precursor chemicals, fake ballots were printed in China and shipped to the United States via Canada and Mexico. How much of the materiel provided to Antifa, BLM and their analogs came from China? I could go on, but what the United States needs now - not in 2024 - is a coordinated, domestic counterinsurgency policy and program and leaders with the moral courage to declare what is happening right now is a bona fide insurgency. We need to recognize that there are belligerents and collaborators throughout our country who are wittingly and unwittingly acting on behalf of the insurgency, whether they are bona fide communists or “merely” corrupt, and we need to “declassify everything,” name names, release the details and take pictures of the arrests - lots of them.
Your comment is so brilliant that it deserves a comment.
My only thought is that one man capable of executing such an operation is Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn. No wonder why Obama warned Trump that Flynn is as dangerous as a nuclear armed North Korean dictator, i.e., he’s capable of destroying their “fundamental change.” And this is exactly the moment to do so.