America is under full-scale economic assault. Foreign adversaries are weaponizing trade, energy, currency, and technology against us — while our own domestic policies undermine our strength from within. I’ve been reporting on this exact intersection of national security and the capital markets for decades, across nearly 400 episodes of the Economic War Room. This isn’t conspiracy theory. It is documented reality playing out in markets, boardrooms, government halls, and your daily life. And in our recent Episode #399, I laid out the whole battlefield in one sitting — along with your personal battle plan. This post shares the main points, because you do not have to be a victim. You can get in the fight.
The Foreign Assault
Start with the People’s Republic of China. They don’t even try to hide it anymore — their own military doctrine calls it unrestricted warfare, and economics is one of their primary battlefields. Consider what that looks like in practice:
- Critical minerals chokehold. China controls roughly 60–70% of global rare earth mining and up to 90% or more of the processing and refining. These materials go into your smartphone, EV batteries, medical equipment — and our F-35s and precision-guided missiles. They restrict our ability to mine our own resources, then use their dominance as leverage. That is energy and technology warfare designed to keep us dependent.
- Predatory trade and currency manipulation. An artificially cheap yuan and subsidized exports flooded our markets, hollowed out entire American industries, and cost millions of good-paying manufacturing jobs. You’ve seen the shuttered factories. You’ve lived the consequences.
- Relentless cyber reconnaissance. Thousands of attacks every single day against our companies, power grids, water systems, and financial networks. This isn’t just theft — it is preparation for large-scale disruption when the time is right. The FBI calls the China threat unlike anything our country has faced.
- Intellectual property theft on an unimaginable scale. Credible estimates put the annual cost to America between $225 billion and $600 billion — every single year. That’s our innovation and our technological edge, stolen to fuel their military modernization.
Make no mistake: what we see as a marketplace, our enemies view as a battle space. And other nations are studying Beijing’s playbook and joining the fray.
The Self-Inflicted Wounds
The threats are not only foreign. We now carry more than $39 trillion in national debt — with interest payments rivaling our entire defense budget. That is a structural threat to our currency, to interest rates, and to the tax burden facing your children and grandchildren.
Layer on the ESG mandates that pushed fund managers to chase political scoring systems instead of profits, safety, and shareholder value. Add DEI policies that too often prioritize checkboxes over merit and unity, and a cancel culture that punishes anyone who speaks basic economic truth. And looming over it all: the threat of a programmable Central Bank Digital Currency — a tool that, in the wrong form, could monitor every transaction, restrict your spending, or freeze your account based on your politics. We have warned about this on this Blog and in my books Secret Weapon and Game Plan for years; the pieces are now visibly on the board.
Put the foreign assault and the domestic sabotage together, and the combined effect attacks your retirement, your savings, your paycheck, and the economic foundation of the republic we love. If you are still invested the old-fashioned way — all paper assets, blind trust in captured institutions — you are positioned as collateral damage in this war whether you realize it or not. And don’t assume any one leader can fix it for you. There is still your part.
Five Weapons You Can Deploy Now
- Protect what you have. The old “buy, hold, and diversify with paper only” approach is no longer adequate. Move a meaningful portion beyond assets that can be inflated away or frozen. The most time-tested tool is transactional gold and silver — honest money for more than 5,000 years. Learn how at TransactionalGold.com; it’s one of our biggest projects.
- Go on offense. Stop unintentionally feeding your adversaries with your investment capital. Redirect dollars toward American energy independence, critical-minerals onshoring, reshored manufacturing, and defense technology. (We don’t give personalized investment advice — take these ideas to your own advisor, ideally one trained by our NSIC Institute.)
- Build real resilience. Substantial reserves in tangible assets you control. Aggressively eliminate high-interest debt. Favor income-producing hard assets and reduce counterparty risk wherever possible.
- Democratize investing and think generationally. Educate yourself, participate, and build wealth for your grandchildren — taking advantage of pro-freedom policies like lower taxes and new family savings vehicles.
- Engage civically with urgency. Vote in every election for sound money, fiscal responsibility, energy dominance, and free markets. Do not be seduced by “free” government giveaways — history is crystal clear where that path leads.
The Dunkirk Lesson: Miracles Still Happen
Even when the odds look impossible, miracles happen when ordinary people step up in faith and courageous action. In May 1940, nearly 400,000 Allied troops were trapped on the beaches at Dunkirk, with annihilation hours away. The commander on the ground cabled London three words — “But if not” — straight from Daniel chapter 3 and the fiery furnace: unwavering faith regardless of the outcome. King George VI called a National Day of Prayer, and the churches overflowed. Then Hitler inexplicably halted his panzers for three days. Fog grounded the Luftwaffe at the critical moment. The notoriously rough English Channel went glassy smooth — and a civilian armada of “little ships” carried more than 338,000 men home in what Churchill called a miracle of deliverance.
Sound familiar? It should. This May 17th, as many as a million Americans gathered on the National Mall for Rededicate 250 to pray and repent for our nation. The God who calmed the Channel has not changed. But notice the pattern at Dunkirk: the prayer came with the little ships. Faith and action, together.
Your Move
The elites and globalists want a population of passive consumers who stay silent and compliant. This moment demands an army of active economic warriors instead. You have far more power than Washington or the media want you to realize. Start small if you need to — even one deliberate action this week sets momentum in motion: audit your portfolio for hidden exposures, begin a position in transactional gold and silver, shift capital toward companies strengthening America, pay down that high-interest debt, and connect with an advisor who understands economic warfare.
Watch the full episode and download the FREE Economic Battle Plan at EconomicWarRoom.com. Then decide — right now. Get in the fight: for yourself, for your family, and for the America we love.
— Kevin D. Freeman, D.Sc. (hc) CFA
