MONDAY PDB – Biden says there’s ‘not much time’ to keep aid flowing to Ukraine. Joe Biden spoke Sunday after Congress passed a short-term funding package that dropped assistance for Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Leaked doc shows Biden admin is more worried about Ukraine corruption than it says publicly. This according to a confidential U.S. strategy document. Ukraine says it has a massive database the American Embassy can use to track every weapon the US has sent to Kyiv. Ukraine said it now has a meticulous system for storing and tracking U.S.-provided munitions that the American embassy can access…
Author: Paul Crespo
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.
ANALYSIS – Is this another bluff, or is Vladimir Putin preparing for a worst-case outcome in Ukraine? According to sources linked to the Kremlin, Russian authorities will hold large-scale war drills across the country on October 3 because of the “growing danger of armed conflicts including [with] nuclear-capable powers near Russia’s borders.” While smaller-scale exercises have already reportedly taken place in several Russian regions, noted Newsweek, this final drill will culminate on a national level, the first ever for Russia. Officials from across Russian society, “from civil defense leaders to heads of state corporations,” will take part in the drills, reported the Baza Telegram…
ANALYSIS – Only an administration as shameless as this one would create a ‘Homeland Intelligence Experts Group’ consisting of senior former Intelligence Community (IC) officials who signed the infamously partisan 2020 letter falsely claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. At least three top members of the new group formed by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas helped suppress the laptop story in the final weeks preceding the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as I wrote about here and here. Appointing any of these partisan hacks to any position within the administration or to any official advisory group is an insult and affront to all…
ANALYSIS – Words matter. In a post on his Truth Social platform last Friday, former President Donald Trump suggested that outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley deserved to be executed after speaking with China’s top general during Trump’s final months in office. Trump said Milley’s “treasonous act” was “so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!” Clearly, Trump wasn’t threatening to do so but saying that Milley’s actions could have been punished by death in a prior era. I condemned Milley’s actions at the time because they seemed to give the Chinese Communist regime a…
THURSDAY PDB – Expect the same to happen in America thanks to Joe Biden’s open border – Sweden’s PM calls in army chief as gang violence surges. A wave of killings has shaken Sweden over the past few weeks, leaving 11 people dead in September alone. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson summoned the head of Sweden’s armed forces and the state’s police chief, as a wave of gang violence grips the country. “We’re going to hunt down the gangs and we’re going to defeat them,” Kristersson said. “I cannot stress enough how serious the situation is,” he said. “Sweden has never seen anything like this…
ANALYSIS – I wish I would have been there to watch, but it appears that the recent ‘Trans Rights’ panel at the prestigious Georgetown University in DC, the nation’s oldest ‘Catholic’ institution, and my alma mater, turned into a bit of a train wreck when a reporter had the temerity to ask, “what is a woman?” This, of course, produced gasps of incredulity among the brain-washed students and guests in attendance in the historic Gaston Hall, who couldn’t believe the question was even asked. It also led to the diligent reporter’s expulsion from the event. The question ‘what is a…
ANALYSIS – In the face of constant Chinese military threats, and attack drills, Taiwan is planning to deploy at least two new, domestically developed submarines by 2027 to strengthen its ability to sink Chinese warships and protect key supply lines. The Taiwanese submarines rely heavily on the U.S. and other Western technology, likely including from the UK, Japan, South Korea and even India. They will also be armed initially with 18 U.S.-made MK-48 Mod 6 heavyweight torpedoes. The Republic of China (ROC, aka Taiwan) would then launch another six subs after that, and possibly equip later models with anti-ship missiles, such…
THURSDAY PDB – It’s getting harder for Joe Biden to claim he had nothing to do with son Hunter’s shady foreign business deals. Hunter Biden’s $250K wire from China labeled as a ‘personal investment.’ The wires’ beneficiary address is listed as Joe Biden’s Delaware home. This, despite his legal team claiming the funds were part of a loan and previously saying he never “received any return on his investment.” “In 2020, Joe Biden told Americans that his family never received money from China. We’ve already proved that to be a lie earlier this year, and now we know that two wires originating…
ANALYSIS – Even as the indictments pile up, or maybe because of them, a new national NBC News poll finds former President Donald Trump expanding his national lead in the Republican presidential nominating contest to 43 points over his nearest rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Trump leads the first-choice field with 59% of national Republican primary voters. In comparison, Ron DeSantis gets support from 16% — followed by former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley at 7% and former Vice President Mike Pence at 4%. The poll also includes an all-time high disapproval of Joe Biden’s job performance. Fewer than 4 in…
WEDNESDAY PDB – Beijing hits back at Manila over Scarborough Shoal barrier ‘farce.’ Chinese foreign ministry insists the shoal is Chinese territory and dismisses the removal of its barrier of buoys by the Philippines. I wrote about this here. Beijing backed down last month over the Second Thomas Shoal when Filipino vessels resupplied a small Filipino outpost despite Chinese ships using water cannons to try to stop them, but analysts say it won’t do so this time. Hu Bo, director of the Beijing-based think tank South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative (SCSPI), said it was unlikely that China would allow Philippine vessels…