Tuesday, December 9, 2025

The 2025 National Security Strategy: America's Shield Abroad, But Silent on the Homefront Ideological War

 

Socialist Mayor of NYC - Mamdani



America’s New Security Plan: Fortress Abroad, Marxist Playground at Home. What Could Go Wrong?











Washington, D.C. – December 9, 2025. Just days ago, on December 4th, the Trump administration unveiled its 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS), a 33 page blueprint redefining U.S. global posture under an unapologetic "America First" banner. Clocking in at a leaner read than predecessors, the document pivots from post-Cold War ideals of democracy promotion to a laser-focused pursuit of economic dominance, border security, and pragmatic deal-making. It's a stark departure: no more "permanent American domination of the world," but a hard-nosed emphasis on tariffs, tech supremacy, and burden-sharing with allies.
At its core, the NSS prioritizes four pillars: revitalizing U.S. industry through "strategic tariffs and new technologies," securing the homeland with a "Golden Dome" missile defense and reduced Middle East footprints, forging "mutually advantageous" economic ties with rivals like China (framed more as a competitor than a systemic threat), and enforcing a "Trump Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting U.S. primacy in the Western Hemisphere while chiding Europe for freeloading on defense. Russia gets a pass as an "existential threat" mainly to Europeans, Iran is downplayed post recent strikes, and North Korea vanishes entirely from the threat ledger. The message? Foreign policy serves profit and protection, not moral crusades.
Yet, amid this muscular realism, a glaring omission stands out: the NSS is eerily silent on the creeping influence of communism and socialism within America's borders. Just a month prior, President Trump proclaimed November 2–8 as "Anti-Communism Week," a bold rebuke of "history's most destructive ideologies" that explicitly targeted not just foreign foes like the Chinese Communist Party, but domestic guises cloaked in "social justice" or "democratic socialist" rhetoric. The proclamation echoed Ronald Reagan's ashes-of-history vow, warning that "no ideology, whether foreign or domestic, can extinguish" American liberty. Analysts hailed it as a "strategic reset" against CCP infiltration and left-wing movements romanticizing socialism in academia, media, and politics.
By sidelining this in the NSS, the strategy risks reinforcing the very ideologies it decries elsewhere. History screams a different lesson: America has long deterred communism and socialism as existential poisons to open societies. From the Red Scares of the early 20th century to McCarthy's hunts and the Cold War's containment doctrine, the U.S. treated these as threats to individual freedoms, economic vitality, and democratic pluralism—fueled by evidence of Soviet espionage, Cuban missile crises, and Maoist famines that claimed millions. Policies like the Smith Act and visa ineligibility for communist affiliates (still on the books today) underscored a bipartisan consensus: these systems erode property rights, stifle innovation, and breed authoritarianism under egalitarian veneers. Omitting them from the NSS signals tacit acceptance, emboldening proponents who rebrand collectivism as "equity" while chipping at capitalism's foundations.
Nowhere is this risk more acute than in New York City, the world's financial nerve center, where democratic socialist Muslim Zohran Mamdani, NYC's newly elected mayor and the first Muslim to hold the office, embodies the fusion of these ideologies in a high-stakes arena. 
A 34-year-old Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) stalwart representing Queens' Astoria since 2021, Mamdani swept the November 4 election on promises of affordability for working-class residents, including rent controls and wealth taxes that critics decry as socialist redistribution. Born in Uganda to Indian-Muslim parents and a naturalized U.S. citizen since 2018, his campaign leaned into faith and immigrant roots, visiting mosques and releasing Urdu videos on cost-of-living woes. As mayor, he'll oversee Wall Street's heartbeat, where policies echoing DSA's "collective ownership" of key sectors could ripple globally, undermining U.S. economic security at a time when the NSS bets everything on industrial resurgence. In a city handling trillions in trades daily, even incremental socialist experiments risk investor flight, mirroring Venezuela's collapse or Europe's stagnation under heavy-handed redistribution.
This blind spot isn't just oversight; it's a vulnerability. The NSS masterfully guards against external predators but ignores the internal rot that history warns can topple empires from within. As Anti-Communism Week reminded us, liberty isn't passive, it's vigilant. 
Congress and the administration should amend this strategy to confront domestic ideological incursions head-on, lest silence becomes surrender. America's open society thrives on freedom, not forgetfulness.
For the full NSS, visit whitehouse.gov. Anti-Communism Week details at whitehouse.gov. Mamdani transition site: transition2025.com.





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Farmers: Here’s What You Need to Know About the New $12 Billion Bridge Payment – How and When You Get It

 

The Trump administration has just authorized $12 billion in immediate “bridge” payments to help row-crop and specialty-crop farmers weather low commodity prices and lingering trade impacts while new trade deals are finalized.





$12B Farmer Bridge Payments: How to claim your share before Feb 2026. Deadlines, rates, and official USDA links.

Here’s the breakdown every farmer needs:
  1. $11 billion for row crops (corn, soybeans, wheat, sorghum, rice, upland cotton, peanuts, etc.)
    • Payments start rolling out in February 2026 and will be completed by February 28, 2026.
    • This is a one-time direct payment based on your 2025 planted and (or prevented-planted) acres.
    • Rates per commodity will be announced by the end of December 2025.
    • To be eligible and get the maximum payment, you must have an accurate 2025 acreage report (Form FSA-578) on file with your local FSA office by December 19, 2025. If you haven’t filed yet, do it now, missing the deadline could reduce or eliminate your payment.
  2. $1 billion reserved for specialty crops (fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, sugar, etc.)
    • Program details and timeline are still being finalized. USDA says more information will come “soon” based on ongoing market-loss assessments.
This money comes from the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) no new congressional appropriation needed and is designed to give you cash flow for 2026 planting season.
What you should do right now
  • Double-check your 2025 acreage report at the FSA office (or file it if you haven’t).
  • Make sure your payment limitations, AGI, and conservation compliance are up to date.
  • Watch for the official per-acre/per-bushel rates coming before Christmas.
Official USDA LinksGet your paperwork squared away before the holidays,  February will be here fast.

If you see any errors or broken links, please kindly let me know. Thanks! 
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