ANALYSIS – Even as Joe Biden pays the Iranian terror regime billions of taxpayer dollars in ransom for five American hostages and gives Ukraine tens of billions of taxpayer dollars in aid to fight Russia, Iran is helping Vladimir Putin build a factory to mass produce lethal Iranian attack drones to pummel Ukraine. Last year Britain, France, Germany, the U.S. and Ukraine said Iran’s supplying its attack drones to Russia violates a 2015 U.N. Security Council resolution enshrining the Iran nuclear deal. They wanted U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to send officials to Kyiv to investigate, but the U.N. declined. But according…
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Paul Crespo
Paul Crespo is the Managing Editor of American Liberty Defense News. As a Marine Corps officer, he led Marines, served aboard ships in the Pacific and jumped from helicopters and airplanes. He was also a military attaché with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at U.S. embassies worldwide. He later ran for office, taught political science, wrote for a major newspaper and had his own radio show. Paul has also been a defense contractor with the Pentagon. He brings decades of experience and insight to the issues that most threaten our American liberty — at home and from abroad.
FRIDAY PDB – It’s time for a national security strategy for military recruiting. Our armed forces are shrinking in size and capacity. The current crisis in military recruiting qualifies as a direct threat to U.S. national security. In just two years, the active-duty Army has shrunk from 485,000 to only 452,000 troops. It expects to fall short of its recruiting goals again this year. The Navy and Air Force are predicting shortfalls as well. As a result, our nation will have understrength Army formations, Navy ships and Air Force squadrons—at a time when America is depending on its military to a greater…
THURSDAY PDB – While some of my military colleagues are whining that Alabama Republican senator, Tommy Tuberville, is unfairly hurting their general and flag officer friends waiting for their promotions and orders and hurting the military, I say they are looking at the wrong villain. The real problem is Joe Biden, and his woke Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, politicizing the military and illegally providing taxpayer-funded abortion travel to service members and Tuberville isn’t backing down. MESSAGE TO SECDEF – NO TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABORTION TRAVEL. We don’t have anything to negotiate: Pentagon and Tuberville remain at standoff over abortion policy. The standoff between Defense…
WEDNESDAY PDB – The Marines fought this in court – but lost. Jaskirat Singh graduated from the Marine Corps recruit depot Friday, following a legal win in December 2022 in which a federal appeals court ruled the Corps’ refusal to grant accommodations to him and two other Sikh men violated their rights to ‘religious liberty.’ OF COURSE, IT MAKES YOU DIFFERENT! – YOU HAVE A BEARD AND A TURBAN AND NO ONE ELSE DOES! – In 1st, Sikh man graduates from Marine boot camp with turban, beard. “I’m proud to demonstrate that wearing a turban or a beard does not make me any different…
ANALYSIS – In the face of a massive Chinese military buildup, and growing regional aggression, Japan is set to increase its defense spending by at least 65% over the next four years. It is also fundamentally altering the post WWII restrictions on Japan’s offensive military power with the acquisition of long-range missiles and even its new ‘aircraft carriers’ that are hosting F-35B stealth jets. This is great news for the expanding anti-China coalition being forged between the United States, Japan, Australia, South Korea and others like the Philippines and India. But it also comes at the same time Japan’s population is…
TUESDAY PDB – Chinese defense minister to visit Russia, Belarus in show of support. Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu is visiting Russia and Belarus in a show of support for those nations as the West has sought to isolate over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Li’s visit underscores the drive by China and Russia to align their foreign policies in a bid to undermine the Western-led liberal-democratic world order, despite their economic and reputational costs. Xi Jinping, meanwhile, visited Moscow in March, sending a message to Western leaders that their efforts to isolate Moscow over the fighting in Ukraine had fallen short. FOR YOUR EYES ONLY…
ANALYSIS – Just like the Obama-Biden administration did in 2015, the Biden-Harris administration is about to pay the Iranian terror regime a $6 billion ransom for five Americans held hostage in Tehran. That comes to $1.2 billion per hostage. And this payoff will be used by Iran to target and kill Americans and our allies. (RELATED: Biden Silent When Asked About Deadliest US Wildfires In 100 Years) In 2015, Barack Obama gave the Iranians $1.8 billion in cold hard cash, with as much as $400 million delivered as a first installment on cargo planes loaded with wooden pallets stacked with Swiss…
ANALYSIS – Is the FBI more trigger happy under Joe Biden and his Attorney General Merick Garland? It was just a matter of time before the aggressive FBI tactics used against Biden’s political opponents would have deadly consequences. And they just did. As I have noted previously, the bureau has taken an extremely heavy-handed approach toward pro-life activists, Catholics and other conservatives, opposed to Biden policies, conducting unnecessary early morning tactical raids on peaceful, law-abiding citizens for minor alleged crimes. (RELATED: Pro-Life Activist Biden Tried To Jail Running For Congress) One of the most notable, or notorious, was the early…
ANALYSIS – Is it becoming a ‘failed state?’ Stuck between two major cocaine producers, Ecuador, which does not produce the drug, is getting squeezed by organized crime groups from both sides, as well as Mexican cartels. And now, outspoken anti-corruption presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, 59, is the latest high-profile victim. It was the first assassination of a presidential candidate in Ecuador, once a relatively safe nation, and comes less than three weeks after Agustín Intriago, mayor of Manta, a port city, was also killed during a public appearance. Villavicencio, a former journalist who was outspoken over links between organized crime and government officials,…
ANALYSIS – Even as the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) pursues multiple, often politicized charges against former president Donald Trump, the increasing pressure, and mounting evidence of wrongdoing, has forced Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland to finally go after Hunter Biden. After years of Republicans demanding that the yearslong, slow-rolled investigations into the first son be turned over to a special prosecutor, it’s now being done. (RELATED: US Attorney Investigating Hunter Biden Now A Special Counsel, DOJ Confirms) Garland announced on Friday that he has appointed U.S. Attorney David Weiss a special counsel in the investigation of Hunter Biden, apparently focused…