America’s most guarded secrets may no longer be secrets.
And that reality should send a chill through every spine from Cheyenne Mountain to Capitol Hill.
Last week, Ukraine executed a daring drone strike deep inside Russian territory. It wasn’t just a battlefield victory—it was a psychological torpedo. It proved what military experts have quietly whispered for years: that drone technology, in the wrong hands, can pierce the armor of even the most fortified sites.
But here’s the real nightmare: America may be even more vulnerable.
Because unlike Russia, our enemies may not need to launch drones from overseas. They may already be here.
All they need is proximity.
In fact, they’ve been buying it.
China has spent the last decade not just building missiles, hacking infrastructure, and infiltrating universities. They’ve been purchasing American land—near military installations, missile fields, and critical power grids. Under the guise of agricultural investment and commercial development, Chinese entities—many of them state-controlled—have been quietly positioning themselves around our nation’s most sensitive military sites.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s fact.
It was enabled under the Biden administration, which allowed a Chinese spy balloon to float lazily—almost mockingly—across the entire continental United States. It hovered over our missile silos in Montana, our B-2 bomber bases in Missouri, and even our command centers in the Midwest.
It was a slow-motion humiliation.
And the response? Delayed. Dismissive. Disgraceful.
Rather than confront China’s growing encroachment, Democrats—nationally and locally—chose appeasement. They handed over geography, data, and dignity. And now, their state-level governors are compounding the problem.
Take Arizona, where Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs recently vetoed a bipartisan bill that would’ve banned foreign adversaries like China from owning land near military bases. Bases like Luke Air Force Base, which trains our next generation of fighter pilots and coordinates air power across the Pacific.
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Governor Hobbs said the bill was unnecessary and possibly xenophobic.
Translation: better to be politically correct than geopolitically safe.
This veto wasn’t just ignorant. It was dangerous.
It signaled to Beijing that America’s internal divisions are ripe for exploitation. That some U.S. leaders are more concerned about optics than outcomes. That they’ll let China plant roots next to our missile fields—so long as the paperwork looks clean.
But not every state is bending the knee.
North Dakota, a reliably red state, saw the same threat coming and slammed the brakes. When a Chinese company tried to buy land near Grand Forks Air Force Base to build a corn milling facility, the Republican-led city council said no. Governor Doug Burgum backed them. Even the U.S. Air Force stepped in and called it what it was: a national security risk.
North Dakota didn’t waffle. It didn’t hesitate.
It put country before commerce—and did what Arizona should’ve done.
The contrast couldn’t be more stark.
One state rolled over for the Chinese Communist Party.
Another told them to take a hike.
And therein lies the truth that national security experts are now screaming about behind closed doors: it’s not just the drones we need to fear. It’s the politicians giving them a runway.
Democrat governors—enabled by years of Biden-era weakness—are still playing host to the very adversaries who wish to cripple us. They veto common-sense bills. They prioritize environmental platitudes over strategic defense. They refuse to acknowledge that proximity is power.
Because in modern warfare, you don’t need a missile to do damage.
You just need access.
A well-placed drone launched from a “farm” or “factory” near a base in Arizona or Texas or Kansas could wipe out a critical node in our nuclear chain of command. A single coordinated cyberstrike launched from equipment installed in Chinese-owned infrastructure could black out an air base, disable a silo, or ground our stealth fleet.
And make no mistake—our adversaries are watching. They saw how the Biden administration let that spy balloon complete its mission. They saw how slow the federal response was. They now see how Democrat governors like Hobbs are making it easier, not harder, to buy real estate next to our most classified facilities.
This must stop.
Immediately.
The American people should demand:
1. A federal ban on foreign adversary land ownership within 100 miles of any U.S. military, nuclear, or cyber installation.
2. Immediate divestment or seizure of current holdings by entities tied to China, Iran, or Russia.
3. Mandatory state-level protections, modeled after North Dakota, with bipartisan enforcement.
4. Investigations into all previous land deals, including retroactive reviews of transactions made under the Biden administration.
We are living in a moment where national defense requires local vigilance. The drone in Russia was a warning. The balloon over Montana was a wake-up call. The land grab in Arizona is a lit fuse.
America cannot afford to sleepwalk into disaster.
We cannot allow proximity to become the new Trojan Horse.
This is not a time for nuance.
It is a time for clarity, resolve, and action.
Stop China now—before it’s too late.