It seems that an awful lot of political battles these days are connected to farms and farmland. 

This is not something I would have guessed a few years back. I thought of farms as places where good people grew food and raised livestock, both of which should be uncontroversial. We need food to ensure that all us humans keep living, and livestock for much the same reason. 

EXCLUSIVE: Map shows Chinese-owned farmland next to 19 US military bases in ‘alarming’ threat to national security: experts https://t.co/7LYbLbi88k pic.twitter.com/401yvNu9Jc

— New York Post (@nypost) June 20, 2024

But cows are apparently ultra flatulent and growing food is  an affront to Mother Earth or something, so our overlords are buying up farmland and turning it into fields of thistles or something, or perhaps bee preserves. Anything, as long as nothing useful is grown on the land. 

Bill Gates and China, but I repeat myself since they are both pseudo-Communists, have been buying up farmland in the United States, and in a move that surprises nobody China's purchases are, quite coincidentally I am certain, located suspiciously close to some strategically important military bases. 

Nothing to see here. Move along. 

China has been buying up strategically placed farmland next to military installations across the US, raising national security fears over potential espionage or even sabotage.

The Post has identified 19 bases across the US from Florida to Hawaii which are in close proximity to land bought up by Chinese entities and could be exploited by spies working for the communist nation.

They include some of the military’s most strategically important bases: Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg) in Fayetteville, North Carolina; Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood) in Killeen, Texas; Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego, California, and MacDill air force base in Tampa, Florida.

Robert S. Spalding III, a retired United States Air Force brigadier general whose work focuses US-China relations told The Post: “It is concerning due to the proximity to strategic locations.

I freely admit that my own knowledge of military matters doesn't extend to granular matters such as military basing in the United States. Not too long ago the exact locations of military bases, aside from a few such as Area 51, held almost no interest to me. 

But I never expected that an adversary nation would start buying up land next to these bases, nor did I ever imagine that a communist country would open up police stations to monitor its nationals on American shores. 

Times have changed, and frankly the federal intelligence agencies have taken their eye off the ball. They are too focused on declaring Americans who support Donald Trump enemies of the state, ignoring our actual enemies who want to do us harm. 

Of course, if you are in the Deep State, MAGA-types ARE enemies of the state, and if you are Biden lackey, you probably think of China as a bank, not a danger to the country. Maybe Hunter can make some introductions for them. 

Under the guise of farming, the Chinese landowners could set up reconnaissance sights, install tracking technology, use radar and infra-red scanning to view bases or attempt to fly drones over them as ways to surveil military sites, sources told The Post.

A report in the Wall Street Journal from September 2023 found Chinese intruders attempted to breach military facilities over 100 times in recent years, including sneaking onto a missile range in New Mexico and scuba divers spotted near a government rocket-launch site in Florida.

The threat the Chinese government poses to America is huge, with the FBI labelling it a “grave threat” and director Christopher Wray saying in April hackers have made their way into US critical infrastructure and are waiting “for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow” and “physically wreak havoc.”

Sounds like they are a mite more significant a threat than a person wearing a red hat, an American flag-themed jacket, and a MAGA flag on their pickup. 

But what do I know? I may not be MAGA, but I am MAGA-adjacent.