Showing posts with label infrastructure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infrastructure. Show all posts

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Assume the worst

It’s time to stop pretending. Donald Trump isn't just a political aberration. He’s a clear and present danger to the security of the United States, and we must operate under the assumption that he's handed over the crown jewels of America’s intelligence to Vladimir Putin.

This isn’t some wild conspiracy theory. This is a strategic reality we must face now, because the consequences of doing nothing are catastrophic.

Let’s look at the facts—the real ones, not the alternative ones. The Felon-In-Chief has had numerous private conversations with Putin—no American officials or recorders present. He’s publicly sided with Putin over his own intelligence agencies. He’s shared classified information with foreign adversaries in the Oval Office. He’s degraded our global alliances, gutted key agencies and treated national security as if it were a game for his own benefit.

If this were happening in any other country, we wouldn’t hesitate to call it what it looks like: a national betrayal.

We have to assume Russia knows everything. Our military contingencies. Our infrastructure vulnerabilities. Our intelligence assets. Our cyber defenses. All of it. If we operate under any lesser assumption, we are inviting disaster.

We must overhaul our entire approach to defense and intelligence, not because our systems failed, but because the tiny-handed man entrusted to protect them quite possibly turned them over to a hostile autocrat.

Whether for personal gain, blackmail, or delusional admiration, the result is the same: Putin, a ruthless strategist, most likely knows more about our playbook than Congress does.

Enough talk. Enough op-eds. Enough political cowardice. Every single member of tRump’s former Cabinet who saw what happened behind closed doors has a moral obligation to speak out. Not tomorrow. Not in a memoir. Now.

The U.S. Senate needs to do something they needed to do a long time ago: grow a spine. Stop hiding blindly behind partisanship while a foreign dictator plays chess with our national defense. Invoke the 14th Amendment. Support criminal investigations. Shut down any attempt to let this president increase his power.

This is not just a crisis of intelligence. It’s a collapse of courage.

History is watching. The world is watching. And if we don’t act decisively to hold Donald Trump accountable and rebuild the security he's compromised, we will lose far more than elections. We will lose the trust, strength, and sovereignty that define the United States.