KRYS IS AWAKE WHILE SLEEPING: If the United States of America cannot identify takedown disable or remove a “drone” over all of our military bases then we have major problems.

Thank you to J. Michael Waller.   

Been going on for decades folks, come on.

It ramped up in recent years.

The word “Drone” needs to stop being used. If the United States of America cannot identify takedown disable or remove a “drone” over all of our military bases then we have major problems.

Also if it’s…

— Krys is AwakeWhileSleeping (@KrysDevine) March 20, 2026

J. MICHAEL WALLER: another one, which is China's export of its weapon systems and Russia's export of its weapons systems, high-tech systems that were touted as among the best in the world, completely worthless.

"China and Russia cannot protect their allies anymore. They can do nothing to stop the United States."@LillaNoraKiss hosts the NAS Annual foreign policy review with Ian Oxnevad, George Bogden, and @JMichaelWaller. pic.twitter.com/XvSsoZcqXH

— National Association of Scholars (@NASorg) March 18, 2026

China and also Russia, they cannot protect their allies anymore even on the contiguous land mass they can do nothing to stop the United States from going after their key peripheral interests.  So that's a very important point.  It's an important issue to show Arab countries, especially the Gulf States with their Bedouin cultures, and they play all sides of the field much of the time, if not all, that, that they can rely on us or that they have no choice but to rely on us because we're taking care of a threat that many of them were even helping because they were playing both sides.  So and this is also an extension of the success of the Abraham Accords because when you even have Qatar on the side of Israel in a war on Iran, that's a really big deal because of Qatar's sponsorship of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.  So lots of dynamics are going on here all at the same time.  Not least of which is another one, which is China's export of its weapon systems and Russia's export of its weapons systems, high-tech systems that were touted as among the best in the world, completely worthless.  What does that say to every other country in the world that's building a defense system based on China?  What does it say to other countries in the world that are that have high-tech surveillance systems that the Israelis could easily hack and that's how they were actually witnessing the bombings of the targets that they were killing.  So I mean it's a whole new thing now.  It shows that these technologies are not what they claim to be on the Chinese and Russian side, or that the American and Israeli countermeasures are far superior. 

J. Michael Waller on the Jenny Beth Martin Show on "Operation Epic Fury: America's Strike on Iran," February 28, 2026.

J. Michael Waller on the Jenny Beth Martin Show on "Operation Epic Fury: America's Strike on Iran," February 28, 2026.

When regimes do this to us, and we don't retaliate against them, we don't severely punish them and go peer to peer on it, they understand, and the other bad guys understand, oh, you can mess with the United States, you can hit them at this threshold, and they won't retaliate.  It was the Iranian regime who killed 600 or more of our people in Iraq and Afghanistan because they were inventing and supplying the IEDs.  So everyone aho was killed by an IED, or maimed by one, met their fate at the hands of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.  So they've been making war against us all this time.  Imagine that in Iraq and Afghanistan say what you will you know about how well those Wars we're done or where they should have been done at all we had Iran surrounded eastern border with Afghanistan and we never did anything to them.  They were attacking us the whole time. 

It's a wonderful thing to see that the next generation is not going to have to deal with that regime.  Of course, when you smash something, things scatter and we don't know what's going to come afterward.  But the regime would have come after our future Generations had president Trump not been doing what he's doing right now.

Why do you think other presidents did not take decisive actions like we've seen from President Trump?

Well we didn't have the technology then.  In every other case you'd be sending a lot of troops in there.  It would be a very costly conventional War as we saw even in the 2000s it was costly conventional War you would have had to have it all out invasion at the time you could have dropped some B-52 bombers capabilities

Operation Epic Fury was not about building democracy.  This is where the forever Wars comes in.  If you're going to install a new regime you have to put troops on the ground much of the time depending on the situation.  That's why Trump just snatched Maduro in Venezuela but he left the cartel in power but he now behaviors so it's not a threat like it was.  But it's not bringing democracy to Venezuela because the Venezuelan Democratic people can't organize themselves to do it.  Same thing with Iran the internal opposition has been squabbling among themselves and fighting among themselves for decades they can't set foot together a cohesive force.  And the shaw or the Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi he's been a pretty weak character recently until he started speaking out so they don't have a lot to go with so building democracy is certainly not part of the Trump agenda and actualroughlypr you think about it one of the first things he did as president was was to rip out the Forever War industrial complex when he tore up USAID and that whole giant contracting apparatus incentivizes these democracy building forever Wars.

Elaborate on that and how it prevents the forever Wars that so many people are concerned about and I want to go back to the Iranian resistance.

When you have a clear-cut objective, as a military objective, let's say it's destroy their weapons of mass destruction.  Make sure they're not a threat to us and to our interests. Destroy the regime elements that are harmful to us, which in this case is the Ayatollahs, their political theocratic leadership, and the Revolutionary guard.  Not so much the army; that's not really the problem.  The Iranian Navy has been destroyed.  That was a threat to international shipping and also to our Navy.  So those were the threats that had to be destroyed.  But Trump said in his statement when he announced the attack.  He called on the Iranian people to take this into their own hands.  It was entirely up to them.  So he was very clear.  His objective is not a Forever War to run the place, to have Americans administer the place, and have some sort of a transitional Authority under American control.  And this is a very important point.  He was signaling to the Iranians, "Do it yourself.  We've done the heavy lifting for you."

How does dismantling USAID play into that?

The USAID had a purpose during the Cold War when President Kennedy set it up. He gave many speeches on this.  You can have all the nuclear weapons in the world, and it's important for us to be supreme in that, but we can never win against subversion by having nuclear weapons.  We have to use development.  We have to use humanitarian aid as a means of fighting communism.  Not as a do-gooder mission, but as a means of showing appeal to the United States, making people become pro-American which they were but helping them to have the basic needs of a humane society was an aid industrial complex.  So you were getting and I had been a subcontractor for USAID in the late 80s and early 90s and I saw the fraud.  I only lasted a few weeks.  There's so much padding so much waste, so much abuse in the USAID funding that something that might cost literally $10,000 to implement, the taxpayer would pay a million bucks for it.  So there's all this padding in there where you're allowed if you set up a Contracting Company, one of these Beltway Bandits, you can pay yourself up to $600,000 a year off these government contracts and roughly up to 10%, 10.5% profit on top of that.  So if you own a company, you have a $10 million contract,  you pay yourself $600,000/year, you pay your spouse half a million dollars a year and you get 10% off that remaining roughly 9 million dollars, so you're making $2 million dollars a year just starting out on a relatively small contract.  So you look at all the houses in the McLean Virginia, Bethesda Chevy Chase Potomac, so many of those homes are owned by these Beltway Bandits whether it's the Pentagon or US AID.  But their incentive is to have conflicts because that's what lines their pockets and builds their entire standard of living.

Those numbers are really staggering that is a lot of money and a lot of waste to the people who are getting the grant or the contract and implementing it I'm glad that we've worked to try to untangle that and reduce the amount of waste and fraud it is disgusting to think that they are doing that with our hard-earned tax dollars.

I think some foreign aid can be in our interests.  If there's a country that needs help and the Chinese are going to bribe the leadership and the leader of the country is like, "Look, I need your help on something with a public works program with . . . private charities can and should do it, but it can be in our national interest to do it if we're competing with the Soviets back then, or the Chinese Communists now.  It makes sense if it is done judiciously and we make sure that we get a return on our investment like Charities through churches or volunteer contributions foreign aid is a weapon.  It's like intelligence it's like the military it's a weapon and when it becomes a cause unto itself like the military industrial complex Eisenhower warned about well there is an aid industrial complex that Trump took down in his first month as president. 

TRAD WEST: The Czech Republic has approved a law that criminalizes the promotion of communist ideology. From January 1, 2026, it has been law that anyone who creates, supports, or disseminates communist movements may face 1 to 5 years in prison.

To borrow a phrase, the world is healing.

The Czech Republic has approved a law that criminalizes the promotion of communist ideology.

From January 1, 2026, it has been law that anyone who creates, supports, or disseminates communist movements may face 1 to 5 years in prison. pic.twitter.com/JMfqYvKaqA

— Trad West (@trad_west_) March 17, 2026

TEDDY ROOSEVELT: If the peoples of Europe had not possessed a military equality with, and gradually a growing superiority over, the Mohammedans who invaded Europe, Europe would at this moment be Mohammedan and the Christian religion would be exterminated.

An American President on the importance of courage and strength in defending civilization:

“Christianity is not the creed of Asia and Africa at this moment solely because the seventh-century Christians of Asia and Africa had trained themselves not to fight, whereas the Moslems… pic.twitter.com/4R73yAG83z

— Humble Flow (@HumbleFlow) March 17, 2026

An American President on the importance of courage and strength in defending civilization: “Christianity is not the creed of Asia and Africa at this moment solely because the seventh-century Christians of Asia and Africa had trained themselves not to fight, whereas the Moslems were trained to fight. Christianity was saved in Europe solely because the peoples of Europe fought. If the peoples of Europe had not possessed a military equality with, and gradually a growing superiority over, the Mohammedans who invaded Europe, Europe would at this moment be Mohammedan and the Christian religion would be exterminated. Wherever the Mohammedans have had complete sway, wherever the Christians have been unable to resist them by the sword, Christianity has ultimately disappeared. From the hammer of Charles Martel, 688-741, to the sword of Sobieski, 1629-1696, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact that it was able to show that it could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressor. The civilization of Europe, America, and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization.” — Teddy Roosevelt

J. MICHAEL WALLER: CUBAN ASSETS? - Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Oakland Congresswoman Barbara Lee

CUBAN ASSETS?
- Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass
- Congresswoman Barbara Lee

The brilliance of Trump’s Cuba Gambit NO ONE’S talking about:

US access to Cuba’s intelligence ARCHIVES and DOSSIERS @JMichaelWaller: Cuban spies in America on BOTH sides. Including “anti communists.” pic.twitter.com/mZRLAo0fMM

— Chanel Rion OAN (@ChanelRion) March 14, 2026

Barbara Lee is a communist or a Marxist, and was a Congresswoman from Oakland, serving from 2018 to January 2025.  Dear God. 

🚨BREAKING: The dictator of Cuba, Miguel Díaz Canel, announces to the nation that they have given in to the pressure and are officially in negotiations with the United States

“The Cuban Communist Party Is Doomed.” When asked about the potential collapse of Cuba’s communist regime, former CIA operative and president of Georgetown Research @JMichaelWaller said there is no certain way to predict how a collapse might unfold. However, he argued the… pic.twitter.com/vFWnYYTJPi

— Steve Lance (@SteveLanceNTD) March 11, 2026

from J. Michael Waller, @ Georgetown Research,

It would be a fantastic thing to see collapse.  The question is how do we do it? Is there going to be a revolution from inside where you've got a huge security apparatus that would make it almost impossible to do?  Is there going to be some sort of agreement that Trump makes with the existing regime leadership or something that nobody is really thought of?  

What we do know is the Cuban Communist Party is doomed.  It has a short lifetime left on it, and Trump and secretary Marco Rubio are committed to seeing this through.  I think if we can take over the regime actually and make it work for us and then dismantle it from . . . piece by piece, I think it would be a fantastic step forward.  Because imagine if we took control of the Cuban intelligence archives and found out who are all of the Cuban spies in America, who are all the Cuban terrorist agents in America?  If we could get all of that intact through deals that we would have to cut, then I could see cutting a deal with the communist regime.  But otherwise, anyone who doesn't cooperate 100% with us should not be free to roam the Earth without fear. 

🚨BREAKING: The dictator of Cuba, Miguel Díaz Canel, announces to the nation that they have given in to the pressure and are officially in negotiations with the United States

The Cuban regime is about to fall! pic.twitter.com/cJ8iDFU051

— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) March 13, 2026

“The Cuban Communist Party Is Doomed.” When asked about the potential collapse of Cuba’s communist regime, former CIA operative and president of Georgetown Research @JMichaelWaller said there is no certain way to predict how a collapse might unfold. However, he argued the… pic.twitter.com/vFWnYYTJPi

— Steve Lance (@SteveLanceNTD) March 11, 2026

KASHAMI: These acts were not carried out by trained or confessed terrorists; they were carried out by everyday Muslims and almajiri. Many of them are still alive today in government and the military; some of them are your friends here online.

One gory feature of this genocide against Christians was the dumping of dead Christians into wells to hide evidence, reduce the reported number of casualties, and contaminate the water supply. --Kashami

I was shocked to my core when I discovered this.

There are "Death Wells" in northern Nigeria filled with the bodies of Christians.

The genocide and persecution of Christians, especially in the north and Middle Belt of Nigeria, did not begin today, and it did not begin with Boko… pic.twitter.com/kGHst0XHlx

— Ka sha mi (@welcomekashami) February 17, 2026

I was shocked to my core when I discovered this. There are "Death Wells" in northern Nigeria filled with the bodies of Christians. The genocide and persecution of Christians, especially in the north and Middle Belt of Nigeria, did not begin today, and it did not begin with Boko Haram, ISWAP, or Fulani jihadists. It began since the 1980s with ordinary, everyday Muslims who, at any opportunity, would start religious riots and kill Christians, people they knew and spoke to every day. Because Muslims were far more numerous than Christians in the north. While Christians believed in peaceful coexistence, many Muslims viewed Christians and Christianity as a threat. They saw Christians as infidels, Kafiri, Arne, common unclean things that needed to be removed. One gory feature of this genocide against Christians was the dumping of dead Christians into wells to hide evidence, reduce the reported number of casualties, and contaminate the water supply. This practice was common in places like Kano, Kaduna, and Plateau. After the killing was eventually stopped in many cases by the military, Christians were in some cases left with no choice but to turn those wells into the final resting place for their fellow Christians. After being lynched and butchered, they were also denied a proper burial. There are countless sealed-up "death wells" in the north filled with the bones of murdered Christians: children, women, and men who died at the hands of Muslims during various crises. Kano tops the list in this practice, but in one incident in Plateau, survivors recovered about 150 dead Christians from wells in one village alone, with some of them missing vital organs or limbs. Journalists and witnesses saw bodies dumped in wells and sewage pits. Survivors say the images and videos are so horrific they can traumatize a person for life. These acts were not carried out by trained or confessed terrorists; they were carried out by everyday Muslims and almajiri. Many of them are still alive today in government and the military; some of them are your friends here online. These stories can be confirmed online and are important for every Nigerian and every Christian to know. Because we cannot build any peace on a foundation of lies.

LOGAN LANCING: Cloward-Piven strategy. The destruction is intentional.

Still relevant. https://t.co/EjVjXP7RyW

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) February 16, 2026

Thank you to J. Michael Waller. 

Here's a transcript.

DAVID PATRTIKARAKOS: I’ve just returned from Nigeria’s killing fields. Pastors burned alive. Entire villages erased. Yet the world is barely paying attention.

I’ve just returned from Nigeria’s killing fields.
Pastors burned alive. Entire villages erased.
Yet the world is barely paying attention.

My dispatch in today’s @DailyMail. https://t.co/v1PNKFehDN pic.twitter.com/n7rMLl7x5X

— David Patrikarakos (@dpatrikarakos) February 14, 2026

"Churches burned, fields destroyed and families slaughtered . . . the Nigerian Christians brutalized by jihadists--and the horrors I saw on the frontlines," David Patrikarakos, Daily Mail, February 13, 2026.

This is interesting.  Apparently Erik Prince, Blackwater founder, called out Pope Leo to fund Prince's private army to go and protect Nigerian Christians.

HARVEY C. MANSFIELD: But manliness is taking charge of things in a situation of risk and it's just for the few. So it's not the same thing as being a gentleman, which is being gentle though strong.

Harvey C. Mansfield on how intellectuals replaced priests. @audrey_unver

00:00 — Preview
00:35 — Is America too feminine?
01:01 — Men are unemployed
03:17 — What Simone de Beauvoir gets wrong
04:32 — Love vs. lust
06:08 — Do you want to be alone?
07:39 — How was Margaret… pic.twitter.com/B4qGsTOYWH

— University of Austin (UATX) (@uaustinorg) February 10, 2026

Harvey C. Mansfield on how intellectuals replaced priests.

@audrey_unver

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00:00 — Preview 

00:35 — Is America too feminine? 

01:01 — Men are unemployed.

[1:35]  Feminism is an opinion that there's no serious differences between the sex, between the sexes, meaning that your sex doesn't give you duties or rights or status in any way different from the other sex. So that's the kind of equality that feminism wanted which means that the two sexes we're pretty much the same.  In the 19th century, feminism was different.  In the 19th century, women declared that women were superior not just equal but superior to men, especially in morals and this was an opinion a traditional opinion long time to be seen.  You can see it in de Tocqueville's discussion of American women.  And since women were more moral, if they had the vote, they would improve our politics and they would take us out of the corruption of the Big City bosses and parties and male voters getting drunk.  And that to some extent succeeded, because we did give women the suffrage in the early 20th century.  But that wasn't good enough for Simone de Beauvoir, the author of present-day feminism.  She wrote a book called The Second Sex. 

03:17 — What Simone de Beauvoir gets wrong 

04:32 — Love vs. lust 

06:08 — Do you want to be alone? 

07:39 — How was Margaret Thatcher manly? 

[7:40] One of the themes of your book on Manliness is your extraordinary and I think correct respect for both sexes there is such conscientiousness and respect woven throughout your text and I wonder for those who haven't yet had the chance to read your book tell us what is Manliness and how is Margaret Thatcher manly.

My quick definition of manliness is taking charge of things in a situation of risk. So manliness is a quality, sometimes good, sometimes bad, of those who seek to take charge and handle dangerous situations or at least tricky situations, and don't hang back or just watch or ponder things.  So manliness is a quality of a very few men, not of most men or all men.  That's why I distinguish Manliness from masculinity, or what's called toxic masculinity. There is a certain toxic masculinity that goes with being a male. But manliness is an attitude especially of those people who are manly against those men who aren't.  It's not so much against women because they're excused from being manly. After all they're women.  But manliness is just for the few. So it's not the same thing as being a gentleman, which is being gentle though strong. A person can be manly without being very gentle or being gentlemanly.  So they're kind of levels of the quality of Manliness but it's also the case that there are exceptions and overlaps between men and women and Margaret Thatcher is an example of a woman who sought risk and suffered it in a manly fashion very bold and very durable, "The Iron Lady."

10:44 — Should conservatives police their ranks?

13:37 — Read John Locke 15:35 — Pluralism today 

19:36 — How have our elites failed? What do populists get wrong? 

25:43 — Anti-Americanism at Harvard 

29:50 — Can the universities be saved? 

30:41 — Why UATX? 

31:37 — Tocqueville's wisdom 35:59 — America's biggest long-term threat 

37:51 — Remembering Leo Strauss 

38:45 — Prof. Mansfield's intellectual adversary 

40:47 — Machiavelli's legacy 45:02 — What happens when intellectuals replace priests? 

47:06 — Should UATX be neutral? 

48:52 — How Prof. Mansfield wastes time 

49:07 — If mass culture poisons the soul, what should we consume instead?