Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Edward Haugland 
There are two fronts in every war – one kinetic, one cognitive. The kinetic front is obvious, the cognitive not so. We will succeed on the kinetic front in the Iran war in the next few weeks, but what happens on the cognitive front will be the determining factor of success or failure. With a fifth column subverting us from within, we must address the cognitive war taking place globally and domestically, as they are one and the same.
We are in a war in which our enemies use the veil of religion to seize power. Few understand this war in which past losses resulted in hundreds of millions of innocents being murdered, tortured, imprisoned or living for decades to centuries under tyranny. The use of religion to seize power is ancient in concept – and often uses one of two approaches. One is to attack or vilify a religion to advance tyranny. The other, to use the veil of religion to hide insidious efforts to advance tyranny. The genius (and danger) in using religion, in this perpetual cognitive war, is its subtlety. There are no tanks in the streets. Rather, memes, sermons, rhetoric, and false narratives and manufactured victims are employed using our cognitive biases (e.g., emotion, moral outrage) that erode shared reality over time.
China has badly outmaneuvered us on multiple fronts (economic, political, military, social, etc.). Unfortunately, this fact remains true despite multiple warnings over a decade.
Who would not applaud the capture of a narco-terrorist drug kingpin directly complicit in the murder of 400,000 Americans? Of course, I am speaking of the recently arrested Nicholas Maduro. Unfortunately, there are many.
The terror, assassinations, assaults, and violence taking place across America is horrendous. But what is causing this extreme violence?
For those Americans who believe in the Constitution, the rule of law, and our system of governance they would say assassination is never a solution. Our founding fathers gave us the means to avoid such bloodshed over political differences
One can see impacts in our education system as it has been taken over and turned into an indoctrination system running from pre-school to the post-graduate level.
We should not be surprised by the assassinations of Mr. Charlie Kirk or Ms. Iryna Zarutska, nor the prior attempted assassinations of President Trump or Justice Kavanaugh. For the last several years. It was inevitable.
How and why have China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran not only survived but advanced their strategic priorities at the expense of ours?
The release of previously classified documents only validated what we knew – that the Russian Collusion story was a lie, a hit piece by Hillary, and that multiple national security elements and members of Congress participated in a broad conspiracy and coup.
Getting Russia to the negotiating table, and succeeding, requires more than sanctions, tariffs or weapons. Success requires penetrating, influencing and disrupting the Russian information environment. This is no easy task and is as complex as targeting and bombing the Iranian nuclear complex.
Daily we hear in the news how we must prepare to fight China in a kinetic war. It is a forgone conclusion as our national security officials forgo the use of cognitive skills to seek other options.
I am calling on all elected democrats who have promoted violence, supported violent action, or funded violent organizations to resign immediately.
Why do Democrats (radical left) drive, support, and enable, support, or say nothing about domestic terrorism, violence, anarchy, assassinations, and assault?
Over the last several decades, we have seen how the left has successfully overtaken and abused the authorities against ‘we the people’ using our national security, education, legal, justice, welfare, immigration, military systems, etc.
With the election of Donald J. Trump (for the third time), he and our country have dodged much more than a bullet. We dodged tyranny.
They do not want to go back to freedom, independence, opportunity, peace, etc. They do not want to go back to when America was great.
If we consider what a Harris administration would do to America, has she not already much of that with Biden?
Our younger Generations have been coddled, have not been challenged, They will learn—the hard way—that freedom is not free. A price will be paid, as nothing is free.
We are seeing the numbing of America into Tyranny! It is purposeful, it is planned, it is well executed.