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NATIONAL SECURITY
NICELY DONE โย US Congress revives WWII-era weapons program for Ukraine. The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly backed the โUkraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022โ on Thursday by a vote of 417 to 10, sending the bill to President Joe Biden for his signature. The bill had sailed through the Senate with unanimous support.
CHINA THREAT
DANGEROUS COLLABORATION โย China's aggressive efforts to bring back fugitives grow more brazen. Within the European Union, some fear that states like Cyprus, one of 10 members that have signed extradition treaties with Beijing, are at risk of being complicit in theย international expansion of controversial Chinese policing practices that often ignore human rights safeguards.
TOTAL NONSENSE โย Solomon Islands PM says won't accept militarization of Pacific.ย The Solomon Islands signed a security pact with China because a similar deal with Australia was inadequate, Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said, adding his country knew the cost of war and would not be part of any militarization of the Pacific.
RUSSIA THREAT
Ukraine says Russian offensive in east gathering momentum. Russia's offensive in eastern Ukraine gathered momentum Thursday as the United Nations' chief surveyed the destruction in towns outside Kyiv that experienced some of the worst horrors of the first onslaught of the war.ย
SENDING MESSAGE โย Russian submarine strikes Ukraine with cruise missiles โ defense ministry. Russia used a diesel submarine in the Black Sea to strike Ukrainian military targets with Kalibr cruise missiles, the first time Moscow has announced the use of its submarineย fleet to hit its former Soviet neighbor.
MORE DISINFORMATION โย Russian spy chief says US, Poland plotting division of Ukraine. Sergei Naryshkin, the chief of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), cited unpublished intelligence that he saidย showed the United States and Poland, NATO allies, were plotting to restore Polish control over part of western Ukraine.
INTERESTING โย Ukraine weapon โswitcheroos' are flushing Soviet arms out of Europe. The transactions, many of which go unpublicized, add a new dynamic to an already volatile military procurement pattern in Europe that clashes with the bloc's lengthy plans for collectively developed weapons.
8,000 British troops will join allied exercises in Europe, officials say. The British troops will be serving in the Joint Expeditionary Force, a British-led multinational group created in 2014 in response to Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
TESTING BIDEN โย North Korea's Kim calls for stronger military as nuclear test work โwell underway.' North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called on the country's military to โbolster up their strength in every way to annihilate the enemyโ, state media reported on Friday, as new satellite imagery showed increased preparations for a possible nuclear test.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
AFRICA'S PRIVATE ARMIES โย โWhite hands': The rise of private armies in African conflicts. Mercenaries have become increasingly influential as states across Africa find their armies unable to limit the widening reach of armed groups.
IRANIAN ARMS โย NAVCENT head on why a new Red Sea task force was needed.ย In 2021, the US seized โthree times the amount of weapons interdicted in 2020,โ NAVCENT head Vice. Adm. Brad Cooper told Breaking Defense.
BIDEN'S AFGHAN DISASTER
IT'S ONLY $7 BILLION โย Biden Pentagon downplays $7B in US military equipment left in Afghanistan. The fall of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan gave Taliban fighters access to more than $7 billion worth of American military equipment, according to data in a report submitted this week to U.S. lawmakers and confirmed by the Pentagon.
US MILITARY AND SPACE
STARVING THE A-10 FLEET โย A-10 official issues warning over US Air Force's โdevastated' Warthog fleet. A U.S. Air Force official managing the A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft says the service is โhollowingโ its Warthog fleet by starving it of resources amid a push to retire the aging attack plane โ but still continuing to heavily fly it.
MAYBE โย Troops allege military's COVID vaccine mandate is a โreligious purge.' Three active-duty service members appeared in a segment aired Thursday on a podcast hosted by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, accusing the Defense Department of using the COVID-19 vaccineย mandate to โintentionally purgeโ religious service members.
A BIG DEAL โย The Marine Corps' intellectual civil war. It is almost unheard of for retired Marine Corps general officers to criticize the policies of the sitting commandant, but three have recently done so.
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1 Comment
Defending Democracy in the Ukraine?!
LOL
Our Western politicians and world oligarchs/Globalists are the true enemy in this, “war”/cover-up.
NOT Russia!
Please don’t destroy the evidence as you drain the swamp!