All of these, plus more than a hundred thousand American soldiers in other parts of the world working to preserve effective deterrence against the likelihood of major acts of war igniting and precipitating global crises of all kinds. While many of us feel entitled to a good night sleep, a fresh morning, an economically productive day and quality time and experiences with our loved ones — without ever minding who secure our freedoms, rights, ways of life and lives of our loved ones. There are those who work in the most unpleasant, very dangerous, hostile environments far away from home, to help maintain strategic (sometimes even tactical) deterrence that assures us all of the relative world peace we are still enjoying. Since tens of thousands of American soldiers (not a few of them siblings and close relatives) willingly, bravely embarked to confront the world’s worst and most destructive force in its entire history (in raw numbers), one that also set out to rush to develop atomic bombs with clear, very evil intent.
I rushed this first draft for the 250th 4th of July, Independence Day, celebrations, to honor those who could not celebrate with food fests and fireworks, and grand vacations with their families, this 250th year of independence of the greatest nation on Earth, shouldering much of the burden of keeping relative world peace, strategic peace that’s certainly requiring, exacting great costs to those who care about it the most. Moreover, these soldiers, the American warriors both who are visibly out there and the others, have been greatly contributing in Philippine political stability and predictability of economic direction (in spite of all the MidEast, Iran-induced economic crises in almost all of the world). No one sees it as much as we do, and no one is as appreciative as we are, never mind the posturing politicians who not long ago supported the country’s supposed pivot to CCP-China throwing the first salvo of insults to America and American soldiers who fought in WWII to liberate the Philippines, by employing suspected China-supported alleged communist sympathizers, by appointing them and others to key national posts, and adviser positions to top level of government. I’m being vague in some pronouncements here, on purpose. (2nd draft, with additional paragraphs far below after 2 === lines, and basic few edits, 15July2026.)
If anyone thinks peace is expensive and costly, try an inevitable major war! Think Ukraine since years ago, and after roughly 3 decades of voluntarily giving up on its inherited nuclear deterrence in an atmosphere of global grand optimism after the fall of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War, a period of world history when global, civilizational destruction, was always just a few minutes away from a single miscalculation and uncertainty in signals (even human) intelligence. President Trump knows this extremely well, and was never an advocate of war. But a limited war of necessity, is always preferable to a war of annihilation (not necessarily global, and for humanity, but even for some peoples and countries in some regions of the world) in case of a nuclear war that ignited from rogue, careless, even single act and mis-calculus of dictators who think it’s their mandate from the heavens to carry out an apocalyptic destruction of perceived enemies.
We are still at work, intensely, and on frenzy, to complete a highly-ambitious new project. But also busy with many other concerns, personalities and even transactions. As we battle poor working conditions right now, even easing up on habits and routines to avoid hot weather-induced emergencies. Moreover, my cries, my fears, my lamentations, and calls for a just situation, that all lingers in my heart. And in spite of all of these, still on course to help create better realities, and near-term prospects for matters of strategic importance, to a just, peaceful, viable society and a world free from economically, materially, devastating major conflict or regional war. Every one of us deserves the best of lives, of future for our loved ones. This is our new contribution to strengthening democracy the part of the world where we are now.
More on the project at Facebook account of Ernest Barraquias Jr.
President Trump and his core national security team are decisive, and make highly, globally, historically consequential bold decisions. They know that every time, those who only see what’s in the surface, from their kind of ideological and partisan lenses, and even for parochial political ends, or those who simply hate them and what they and America represents, would nit-pick on any angle, beyond-context or unpopular pre-requisite step, component or fact, inevitable inefficiency or a simple mistake, to paint them as people’s enemies than the actual evil enemies of freedom who commit to acts of or worse, inspire targeted and also widespread violence feeling justified with their extremist views and sentiments. Enemies of freedom can’t use and exploit the very freedoms guaranteed to them in a free society, to forment hatred of the very society, peoples (even soldiers and law enforcers), and country who all work together, not always in ageement with each other, to keep it that way.
President Trump would have had much easier time, more conveniently amass more in easy wealth, if he instead catered to the noisiest and most forceful in imposing their ideological and personal beliefs, carefully avoiding difficult decisions, however that’s not leadership especially for a figure head of the free world. Every one has the responsibility to act in small and big ways, to help address the seeds of looming and future conflicts. It can’t be that it’s always others or someone else to pay the price of our full enjoyment even of our personal freedoms.
For President Trump, Vice President Vance, the national security team, Secretary Hegseth, former and new and incoming Chiefs of the NDI (Chiefs) Tulsi Gabbard, Pulte and Clayton, The head of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force General Dan Caine, CETCOMM Chief in Navy Admiral Cooper, the entire intelligence apparatus of the United States and partner agencies in other cooperative countries, chief diplomat Marco Rubio, special envoys for peace Kushner and Witkoff, the sanctions regime top enforcers (including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent)…
Congratulations! Our salute to President Trump, Vice President Vance, and the United States National Security teams. You already won the war in all strategic terms, and on a long-term basis. The sorry state of affairs, is that those who are trying to tie the hands of president Trump and his war team, trying to curtail his flexibility in further solidifying gains, for blind hatred of Trump due to a different ideology, or for political gains, or for the love of noise, maybe for some, are the same ones crying defeat and practical victory for the Iranian-IRGC-Islamist-dictators. If someone wants victory, he or she should not impose all the costs (political, personal, and all) required for victory to one man alone who ironically pursued and achieved victory not without costs.
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When you embark on an ambitious project, relatively and contextually speaking, you are less concerned with stringent academic research standards, with being as thorough and broad in the brainstorming of ideas and concepts, in stress-testing all of these, than in simply accomplishing above-minimal quality output if clear and reasonable projections suggest high consequence to those who need and would avail of the tools.
In a society where millions have ammased, benefited from, severe acts of corruption, in all of its recent history and across administrations (I’m talking about a developing country here), millions enjoying massive and unlimited fruits of people’s, public money, and I’m resorting to (personally-speaking) extra-ordinary means, going in seeming hibernation to ignore or defer non-essential routines and even important other projects that already costs us an arm and a leg, it’s extremely painful, tears-exhausting thought, that those who pushed us in very difficult situation, are right now, unbelievable, amassing, harvesting big-time, hundreds of millions of personal gains, profits, from faking advocacy for causes and against the very people they actually helped, literally help prop up, fully supported, in using threats of both targeted and especially mass violence (against the masses), and actually carried it out, if to use it a sledgehammer and Damocles-sword, against anyone who ever speaks up (we did, comprehensively, prolifically, in our own unique and original means, helping it all be stopped mid-way) or who are threats to ever-massive acts of corruption and abuses of power then! Some key personalities who enabled acts of evil by the devilish programs, are using their fake support of the present duly-elected government, they are the least reliable allies of anyone, parasitic in-fact, and should not be given extra-ordinary treatment and benefits that they’re getting now.
Complex sentence above. That would give me an F or lowest grade in English 1 in college, laughs (No, I didn’t fail it). Good to have AI edits now, but no, I promise, unless for fact-checking. and simple short-sentence or short but precise, or culturally-sensitive expression of a specific sentiment or thought. Also, it’s deliberate, I don’t want to be feeding AI so many of my original thoughts and ideas, and how I express these, in a period of time I’m still in the mid-part of the rise in arc, as I go through the very steep learning curve to catch up with entire ecosystems of systems.
Moreover, AI is rapidly developing, and expanding in its capabilities, that the only thing I inferred from reading contradictory statements from experts is that the most predictable thing direction in AI development and capabilities is its lack of predictability, ironically, or maybe at least describability or definition of parameters to clearly articulate in terms I would easily grasp at this time as to how it’s all going to evolve. (Because I’m rushing it, rapidly, but I’m a fast learner especially in basic pattern and discrete knowledge and analyses linking and co-relating (un-aided by computer system tools I’m not even aware of), it’s either a talent or as required acquisition of this capability due to our simultaneous work on high-consequence matters, causes and projects across disciplines and required basics of many relevant sciences.)
Now, these silent minions (because they fear President Marcos — who’se an under-rated and under-appreciated leader as per our own terms and the context of recent history — and his administration might prioritize them for investigations), have been wielding powers to not only constrain but literally constrict us, stopping many of our initiatives that proved highly consequential in exposing or more clearly (thus more actionable) articulating seeds of future conflicts, these money-laundering “public-servants” that should be internationally investigated because they advance the causes and prospects of near-future targeted mass violence and even acts from extremism in an already highly volatile regional society in a once very troubled part of Asia, having given, and indirectly supporting underlying ecosystems conducive to such bad realities.
And now, throw in the once enablers and actual co-operators of POGO hubs, as organized-crime and scam centers operated by Chinese-China big bosses, these being involved from big-time money-laundering, to trafficking of all sorts, to financing the advancement of public careers of Chinese spies, to employing slave labor even of their own fellows, to corrupting heads of units of some government agencies, to strategically compromising regional security in a part of Asia, to posing active and credible threats to those they fear might expose their organized crime acts and the use of the fruits of the crimes to wield powers over vulnerable communities.
It’s almost morning, I’m not sure I’m typing gibberish here now. Well, my milk, prepared by Ri. And my dear pillows pulling me to bed, it’s long past midnight. I’ve been working in frenzy to make tools available for those poorly-equipped in carrying out their participation in the most basic exercise of democracy. To avoid heat-induced stroke, If that’s the right phrase, I have to stop working mid-day, and forced to work only an hour after sun down.
I intend to contribute this groundbreaking, publicly-available materials (meaning, not through very expensive consultancy contracts, not indicriminate access) to those laboring hard to help aspirants for leadership of societies whose beliefs are conducive to the thriving of any version of a really (even loosely characterized if based on context of and relative to historical realities in a region of the world) democratic society in a free world. Good night, morning.
By Ernest Barraquias Jr. / Photo-graphic editing by Rian Igos.
