Author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer is used to discussing his latest books, but on the “Foreign PODicy podcast,” interviewer Cliff May began with a look at one of his earliest.
In 1994, Schweizer wrote a book called Victory: The Reagan Administration’s Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union, arguing President Reagan’s policy towards the Soviet regime in the 1980s is what led to that regime’s downfall.
“You may not know this, but for more than a decade, my longtime colleague and friend Mark Dubowitz has been handing out copies of that book to U.S. government officials and legislators,” May told Schweizer, “and telling them that Reagan’s strategy against the Soviet Union – maximum pressure on the regime, maximum support for the people – should be the playbook for the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Schweizer agrees that the same approach of maximum pressure should be exerted on the Islamic Republic. He notes that US intelligence agencies routinely underestimate the strength of our adversaries, warning that a nuclear-armed Iran would hold the Strait of Hormuz hostage.
Yet Schweizer’s focus remains on China as America’s central adversary. His previous book, Blood Money, detailed how Chinese state-owned banks laundered the proceeds of fentanyl sales by Mexican drug cartels, and that 2,000 Chinese chemists are embedded with those cartels helping to produce the drug in Mexico from Chinese-made precursor chemicals. The book before that, Red Handed, told the side of the story of American politicians who helped the Chinese do it.
May’s interview of Schweizer returns to Schweizer’s latest bestseller, The Invisible Coup. In this book, researched for two years by researchers at the Government Accountability Institute Schweizer runs, details how America’s enemiesa have weaponized immigration against the US and turned it into a weapon.
Schweizer learned while researching thew book that the “proof of concept” for this strategy was actually the 1980 Mariel Boatlift from Cuba. Cuban dictator Fidel Castro opened prisons and mental hospitals, while allowing some dissidents also to leave the island in makeshift boats, bringing a wave of 250,000 Cubans to South Florida. US President Jimmy Carter said he would welcome them “with open arms,” Schweizer recalled. “Castro said, ‘then I’ll fill his arms with s***.”
Today, Somali immigrants have been found responsible for vast amounts of welfare fraud in many states where they were settled. Radicals imams admitted on temporary visas to the US have preached overthrow of the government and encouraged jihad by American Muslims, and Mexico’s government refers to the illegal migrants that swarmed over the southern border during the Biden administration as part of its “Reconquista” of lands it lost to the United States… in 1848.
In the book’s most alarming chapter, one he titled “The Manchurian Generation,” he detailed the CCP-backed birth tourism industry. Chinese women by the hundreds of thousands have come to US territory, mostly in the US territory of Saipan in the Pacific and in southern California to give birth through the help of more than 500 companies that facilitate their visit. Schweizer cites Chinese government estimates that roughly one million birthright U.S. citizens are now being raised inside China since 2013, a voting bloc that will come of age beginning in 2030 and that no US government agency is tracking.
