Did Rand Think Tank Agree with Socrates?

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, Your sources are renowned. The Commission on the National Defense Strategy report on the state of affairs globally agrees with you. Thank you for your undying efforts. I am sure you have probably reviewed this report as well. Do you have any comment or review? Your words here do not go unnoticed.

Anonymous

ANSWER: I am not sure this report has gained much press, if any. This report paints a dark picture of the political failure in reigning in the Neocons. My criticism is that it does not explain the shenanigans of the Neocons. It does concede that there is a strategic inadequacy amid a time with the rapidly increasing danger of World War III. The Neocons have pushed us to the brink of war because they have control under the Biden Administration, which has prioritized their actions, overlooking our declining military power. This report said that we face the “most serious and most challenging” threats since 1945. That is an understatement. This even surpasses the previous close call we had in a nuclear confrontation where we went to Defcon 3 involving the Middle East, which was after the Cuban Missile Crisis that most historians overlook.

This report further elaborates on the real risk of “near-term major war.” The report even went further warning very clearly:

“The nation was last prepared for such a fight during the Cold War, which ended 35 years ago. It is not prepared today.”

It pointed out what I have been warning about regarding the linking of China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. It did note,

“China and Russia’s ‘no-limits’ partnership, formed in February 2022 just days before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has only deepened and broadened to include a military and economic partnership with Iran and North Korea. . . . This new alignment of nations opposed to U.S. interests creates a real risk, if not likelihood, that conflict anywhere could become a multitheater or global war.”

The report concluded that war can break out but that “the U.S. military lacks both the capabilities and the capacity required to be confident it can deter and prevail in combat.” It stressed what I have been yelling about: the US appears to lack the fortitude to prevent World War III, and they also warned that victory is not assured.

What I want to add is that Russia will assist Iran in getting over the hurdles for nuclear weapons. This is the development of the arrogance of our Neocons, who have never won a single war since World War II but have continued more than 50% of the national debt without interest expenditures.

I am afraid that party politics is playing far too great a role in this issue when it is only to our detriment. I am unaware that this report is a major revelation in the mainstream press, probably because it would point the finger at the Biden Administration. Not even the presidential candidates seem to talk about it. It seems to have gone over the heads of most in Congress as if nobody cares about anything anymore. If history teaches anything, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea have chosen this moment in history to take a stand against the Neocons, who have caused others to look at America as an imperial power, quite the opposite of the American people.