President Trump is a master multitasker. Still, while he was busy dining and deal-making with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia last week, I doubt he had time to carefully examine the 28-point "peace" plan drafted by Steve Witkoff, his special envoy, and Kirill Dmitriev, de facto special envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Initially, Mr. Trump appeared to endorse the plan, saying that Thanksgiving would be "an appropriate time" for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to agree to it.

Over the weekend, however, American and Ukrainian officials met to revise the plan in Geneva where, according to a joint White House/Ukraine statement, they made "meaningful progress."

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My beat is national security and foreign policy, so I don't usually weigh in on municipal elections. But when the world's foremost capitalist city elects a socialist mayor, I make an exception.

I'll return to the economic implications in a moment, but first let me suggest that, given what al Qaeda did on Sept. 11, 2001, you might expect New Yorkers (for at least a few generations) to choose leaders whose opposition to jihadism is unequivocal.

But that description does not fit mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. His most heartfelt concern about the terrorist attack that killed more than 2,600 people in the World Trade Towers appears to be for a relative who thereafter "did not feel safe" wearing her hijab on the subways.

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"Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria," President Trump asserted on X last week. "The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening there, and in numerous other Countries. We stand ready, willing, and able to save our Great Christian Population around the World!"

His concern is justified. Wars in various forms are being waged against Christians in a long list of countries including China, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, Eritrea, and much of the Arab Middle East.

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In 1918, V.I. Lenin renamed the Bolshevik Party the Russian Communist Party. Western scholars and policymakers soon began studying communism and the threat it posed to free nations.

In 1920, the German Workers' Party adopted a new name: the National Socialist German Workers' Party, better known as the Nazi Party. Western scholars and policymakers soon began studying Nazism and the threat it posed to free nations.

In 1928, Hassan al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Western scholars and policymakers were uninterested, regarding it as just a nothing more than a religious-social welfare organization and therefore no threat to free nations.

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National security requires energy security. American greatness – by which I mean the maintenance of American power second to none in a world where despotic regimes threaten free nations – requires more than that. It requires energy dominance.

To achieve this goal, President Trump has established a National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC) whose chairman, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, and vice chairman, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, also have seats on the National Security Council.

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