Disconnected from the realities of a President Trump & his kind of national security team, drawing wrong assumptions & miscalculating probabilities based on the June 2025 12-day war and capture of Venezuela’s Maduro, emboldened by track record of undermining entire governments (Yemen, Lebanon, Syria in the recent past) and ability to export terror and sow chaos — Iranian-regime-IRGC top war planners all pushed for self-destruction by insisting on a nuclear and ballistic-missile path

Typical trait of a highly arrogant official who floats and swims in pool of insane wealth, powers and delusional sense of ability to exercise control over any kind of situation in crushing any challenge to authority, the lessons of the phenomenon of the impossible sudden hard fall of dictators throughout the long and recent history always get lost in calculations of authoritarian leaders including in a late time period of paranoid thinking that leads to imperialistic desire believing political and military muscle-flexing ensures continued strong grip on power and control …

A revelation. Our very difficult and dangerous anti-genocide work, going it alone for many years. How our lone & loud public support of the U.S., and especially POTUS Trump then and again now, narrowed our choices? In any case, no regrets.

16Mar26 – 245am

During a considerable time period of our lives, Rian and I labored in extraordinary and very creative ways to contribute to discreet efforts to stop an organized-crime type of widespread murder of civilians. Instead of availing of offered access and privileges from some well-connected officials and politician-contractors, we opted to remain independent, foregoing millions worth of opportunities and power.

In this country, many, if not most (depending on the national political situation) organized activist groups have their position and stand on issues almost exclusively anchored on their …

Western firms empowering the CCP: When well-meaning top execs, understandably concerned with short-term profits, balance sheet & competitive advantages — but to use these concerns to veil political, & geopolitical factors in their decisions these being incompatible to the core national security interests of the United States and the American soldiers…

Wait … I’m sorry, but the PDF file is yet to be completed in 18 hours and to be sent immediately afterwards. 13Jan26 – 518am. Ernest Barraquias Jr. // Article to be composed in 24 hours.

But first, Iran and the Iranian people. (Snippets here.) We stand in solidarity with people who are fighting for freedom, and especially against brutal, violent dictators. Right now, the Iranian people, millions of them, in one of the most repressive and violent regimes in the world, so fearsome, all kinds of citizens are risking …

Zhou Bo of Tsinghua University: “After 1979, the Chinese military … hasn’t even killed a single foreigner overseas…. You cannot give me an example of a Chinese PLA firing a bullet at anyone…. The United States has never talked about using nuclear weapons against Russia first…. So … why would some people … talk about using nuclear weapons against China? … because they believe China’s nuclear arsenal is small. The Chinese should increase it to the extent that the United States would never ever dare to think about using nuclear weapons against the Chinese….” // My arguments.

Zhou Bo’s overly simplistic rationale and false logic for CCP-China’s rapid build-up of nuclear arsenal is suggestive of the U.S. posing an existential threat to China, a flipping of the reality that CCP-China is in-fact, in a U.S.-led world rules-based order environment where it thrived and rose to power (and now defying), rushing in its pursuit of diplomatic, economic, militarily global hegemony, threatening neighbors and the world. My take, an enumeration of CCP-China’s 75-year track record.

6Jan25 – 351am Taipei time. 1st draft.

Some Facts

— Between the Great Leap …

Maduro Falls. Dictator stole the last 2 elections in Venezuela, was an illegitimate leader. Not just the chief enabler but mastermind of a flood after flood of poison (illegal drugs) and violent criminals to the U.S. (and Europe, etc.) causing violence and deaths of 100s of 1000s. I have been posting about him & his relatives for many years since 2017, a risk I took, now I can say, to help save many lives (but not in ways casual visitors to this website would think)

3Jan26, 11pm – Manila-Taipei time or 10am New York/Miami time. Texts in blue added 4Jan26.

CCP-China, the PLA, Russia, Iran and sober-minded North Korean military strategists must have been in fear-inspiring awe as to the effectiveness of the swift and precise special operations conducted by the United States military to capture Nicolas Maduro and his wife in the heart of Caracas, an inland city 3,000 feet above sea level. Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford or CVN-78 (named after the 38th U.S. President who like 41st U.S President H.W. Bush, …

Amidst global revelries in the Western world, we greet Happy New Year to those who have been, as always, living and working passionately, relentlessly, thanklessly, patriotically to contain and stop those who foment hatred, inspire violence, sow chaos and parasitically, destructively operate transnational crimes for their illicit ends and radical ideologies.

This is not a world that is naturally neat, orderly, safe and secured that we live in. Human nature, and history, says that those who don’t value life other than his or her and those who conform to their beliefs and cultures, say evil intentions would prevail if otherwise unchecked and not countered. There are just so many sinister entities that aim to cause destruction to those who don’t fit in their idea of what’s acceptable in their beliefs. Worse, to countless incorrigible intentional criminals, every target is a righteous …

Taiwan Question & CCP-China’s Ultra-Nationalistic War Hawks. // 1 of the longest period of relative peace in world history was punctuated by World War I. Everybody tried to play nice with Hitler, then shortly, WWII. Now, what with communist dictator Xi, with the CCP’s war hawks & most influential military leaders who lack accurate appreciation of CCP-China’s recent-years’ & ever-growing dependence on foreign trade with domestic economic dilemmas at crisis levels not abating? China’s surprise capabilities?

First, our lives today. I have a bad headache. Far below: “Taiwan Question & CCP-China’s Ultra-Nationalistic War Hawks” which is only partial of the title topic.

Yesterday, we went to an [ event ] to celebrate, show solidarity and continued support of our team. I violated a pledge, which I declared in advance I might, if to have a drinking session with them. 3 red horse, 1 Tanduay, shared among more than a dozen of them. They already quite some, when we got there past 10pm. I had a very …

POTUS Trump: The Most Consequential World Leader in the 21st Century

As always, every one of the U.S. presidents, after World War II, was most consequential in the world, in their time in power. Every one of the American leaders was also considered leader of the free world. This is a contentious topic for the Americans. But for peoples in other societies, there’s no mistaking the impact of President Trump’s foreign and domestic policies in their very home countries, whether one likes it or not. For the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people, former President Bill Clinton could be …

Can the Philippines afford the purchase and long-term sustainment of the F16, in its most advanced customized configuration permissible for a U.S. ally?

Indeed, entire ecosystems of trainings (including in electronic warfare systems), integration, support, long-term sustenance and co-assembly arrangements for parts must be on the table. To add, weapon systems of all sorts suited for the peculiarities of the needs of the economically (relatively) fast-growing country in communist China’s near-geographical orbit.

But, the Philippines have an urgent need for a vast array of upgraded and new defensive capabilities from land defense systems, missiles, drones and overall modernization in broad fronts in the capabilities of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and entire …

A dilemma for the Trump administration for its partner-allies among developing countries: Organized crime, terrorism and severe corruption being exploited by the Communist Party of China and the PLA. The whole-of-nation, asymmetric approach that’s necessary to boost relative societal stability and good governance to counter this

A severely corrupt society is a country with serious vulnerability to soft power projection, open and covert influence operations, catalyzing of political instability, the triggering of disruptive events and divisive pointless debates, and deep and broad penetration of society, undermining of independent foreign and local policies that align with the values and principles of democracy by the Communist Party of China (CCP) and its myriad of government units, agencies and organizations.

Certainly, CCP-China can corrupt institutions, hijacking the very functions of democracy including elections. In many parts of the world, …