J Michael Waller

Senior Analyst for Strategy, Center for Security Policy. Author, "Big Intel: How the CIA & FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains" (2024).

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

@JohnManNotSuper @Sultanknish @DeputySecState @ChrisLandauUSA @SecRubio It's not the funding that's the problem. It's when someone acts as a foreign agent without registering as one. That's a big problem.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

Time to pull Trita Parsi’s visa and send him home. @DeputySecState @ChrisLandauUSA @SecRubio

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

@Sunchasegirl Fake airline. Exactly.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne set up a fake airline to smuggle hundreds from Africa into the US.

Faced with the loss of his patron Maduro, Browne says he will cooperate with the US - but he won't take back more than 10. 🧵

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

@JackJolis @WarrenPlatts Jack - This is the time to get into those legal wrangles and just settle it once and for all.

Any Marxist by definition adheres to an ideology that seeks to overthrow our government by force.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

No other American president has spoken this plainly about the subversive threat to our country.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: President Trump vows to eradicate what he calls a "horrible thread of cancer" quietly moving through the nation, issuing a stark warning against the rise of communism in America.

"We have a country that's just the hottest. It just is so hot and I'm working really hard to make it even better. We're going to get rid of some of the flaws. We're going to make it even better."

"But the biggest thing we have to do is we have to stop this, this horrible thread of cancer that's permeating our country called communism."

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

@SG_OEA_OAS @OEA_oficial This is all just blather. You are doing nothing. @nayibbukele, @realDonaldTrump, and others have already been delivering aid while you do nothing but talk and offer “thoughts.” Resign.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

More correctly, Browne facilitated the setup of a fake airline, with a Nigerian investor.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

The US should deport hundreds of illegal aliens to Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 for resettlement - equal to the number that Prime Minister Gaston Browne facilitated to smuggle into the United States, including those poor souls who died along the way.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

Much of America's leftist movement finds its roots in late 19th and early 20th century immigrants from Europe who brought foreign extremist ideologies here.

Imagine if they had all been deported.

Now we face jihadists and DSA subversives whom we must deport. @Phase2Deport

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

Israel's Shin Bet internal security service is starting to become a little less woke.

Too bad this change had to come at such a high price. https://t.co/kehmKPfO9J

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

@MikeBelcher14 Thanks for the offer, Mike, but authors should help authors. Just ordered a copy.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

Vital answer to this vital question. Beneficial to read the whole post below.

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

Why does every social issue seem to be reframed as a struggle between oppressors and the oppressed?

It's no coincidence. It's the product of a philosophical method that has shaped the left for more than two centuries: the dialectic.

It originated with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in the early 19th century. Hegel argued that history advances through a process of conflict between opposing forces - a thesis and its antithesis - which are then resolved in a higher synthesis. This dialectical movement, he believed, represented the progressive unfolding of human freedom and reason.

Karl Marx took Hegel’s method but stripped it of its idealism. He replaced the clash of ideas with the clash of economic classes. For Marx, history was driven by material contradictions within modes of production. Capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction through class struggle, which would eventually produce a communist synthesis. The dialectic became a tool not just for understanding history, but for justifying revolutionary action.

When classical Marxism failed to produce the expected proletarian revolution in the West, the Frankfurt School adapted the dialectic once again. Thinkers like Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse shifted the focus from economic base to cultural superstructure. They developed Critical Theory as a form of permanent negative critique, aimed at exposing and undermining the contradictions within liberal capitalist society — in family structures, sexuality, education, and language.

This dialectical framework continues to shape progressive politics today. Identity-based activism often follows the same pattern: identify an oppressive structure (thesis), mobilise a marginalised group against it (antithesis), and demand systemic transformation toward equity (synthesis). Because the dialectic views conflict as the necessary engine of historical progress, it has little interest in stable institutions, incremental reform, or the preservation of existing social order.

This is why progressive movements frequently reject liberal norms of debate and tolerance. Once politics is understood as an endless series of contradictions that must be resolved through struggle, the goal is no longer peaceful coexistence or mutual accommodation, but the permanent transformation of society through continuous agitation. The dialectic has proven remarkably effective precisely because it offers both a method of analysis and a justification for never-ending conflict.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

Beautiful to see our military on this life-saving mission for our neighbors.

[U.S. Southern Command @Southcom]

Venezuela Earthquake Relief:
Unmatched @DeptofWar forces and assets are on the move to help the people of Venezuela, in support of @StateDept-led efforts.

Today, #SOUTHCOM is surging airlift, sealift, and logistics capabilities to get life-saving help to Venezuela, including:

☑️Two C-17 Globemaster aircraft delivering Urban Search and Rescue teams
☑️A C-17 will deliver load-movement equipment to Caracas
☑️USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28) and USS Billings (LCS 15) arrived in the waters near Venezuela
☑️MV-22 Ospreys transporting an airfield assessment team
☑️Three U.S. Army CH-47 Chinooks headed to support critical airlift
☑️Providing satellite imagery of devastated areas to disaster relief planners

Read more in our latest update: https://t.co/6FhkW5me4f

@SecWar @WHAAsstSecty @usembassyve @USForeignAssist @USAenEspanol

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

Democratic Socialists of America is a criminal syndicate and a counterintelligence threat.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

@TheAmanuensis The Founding Fathers would have tarred and feathered them on the spot, and run them from town on a rail.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

Many of my colleagues have had their reputations and careers destroyed over the past 25 years for accurately warning about jihadist colonization of America.

It would have been easy to mitigate back then, but 16 years of Bush43 and Obama allowed it to metastasize.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

An imam in Alabama, Ragab Abdelmoneim of the Islamic Academy of Huntsville, openly told his audience that Muslims must be ready to sacrifice their lives through jihad in order to establish “the religion of Allah” in the United States.
He claimed that victory over America is closer than ever.
This isn’t being preached in some remote village overseas. This is being said openly on American soil.
At what point does this stop being protected “religious speech” and become a national security threat?
How is he not arrested?

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them.

Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country.

Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants.

The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible.

And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore.

Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest.

They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

@leon85035 Trotsky was deported from Spain to the US.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

Fun fact: HIAS, the USAID-funded NGO that processed illegal aliens in Panama for smuggling into the United States, greeted Leon Trotsky on his well-publicized January 1917 arrival to New York, carrying his bags & helping him settle in.

Not in HIAS records. See Chapter 2.