ANALYSIS – Warning: false flag, Kremlin intrigue or something else? Russia’s Investigative Committee – the country’s top state criminal investigation agency – announced the arrest of a 26-year-old woman, Daria Trepova, for the assassination of the pro-war 40-year-old Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky. The blogger was killed in a bomb blast at a St Petersburg café reportedly belonging to Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin. Tatarksy, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, was one of Russia’s most influential military bloggers and a “prominent figure” in the Russian pro-war information space. He had more than half a million followers on Telegram. He…
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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.
TUESDAY PDB – Finland doubling NATO’s border with Russia in blow to Putin. The blue-and-white Finnish flag rises outside NATO headquarters Tuesday afternoon, making Finland a member and doubling Russia’s border with the world’s biggest security alliance. Four maps explain how Finland could alter NATO’s security. The move will transform Europe’s security landscape for years to come — and further strain relations with Russia. FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here’s a roundup of other developing stories. Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DAILY BRIEFING – the PDB: PENTAGON WOKE WATCH NO TAXPAYER-FUNDED PENTAGON ABORTIONS – Senator holding up military promotions…
MONDAY PDB – Our military is in a dangerous decline, and this is the reason why. The U.S. military has one mission: To protect our nation from foreign enemies. Our troops are as committed to that mission as ever before. But according to a harsh new report, our warriors’ ability to do their job is undermined by civilian leaders pushing woke indoctrination and partisan politics instead of warfighting readiness. The woke indoctrination comes with radical, anti-white race theories and transgender policies, including taxpayer-funded ‘gender-affirming care’ (genital mutilation surgeries) and taxpayer-funded abortions. WE NEED TO SAY NO TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABORTIONS OR ABORTION…
ANALYSIS – Some things are funny, even when dealing with a tragic and deadly incident. Last March, Russian military pilots bombed a theater-turned-shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, killing hundreds of civilians. But now Ukrainian hacktivists tricked a group of 12 Russian military wives into posing for a photo that outed their war criminal husbands involved in the horrific bombing, as well as potentially hundreds of other airstrikes on civilian targets, homes and businesses. The southern port city on the Sea of Azov had been under siege and bombardment from Russian forces for more than two weeks when the theater was deliberately struck. The bombing was even more infamous…
FRIDAY PDB – We must focus on patriotism, fitness and warfighting, not gender pronouns, divisive race ideologies or lower standards for weaker, mostly female recruits. Pentagon critics blame diversity policies and lower fitness standards for recruiting woes. Conservative politicians and critics of Team Biden have released a report that offers a solution to the recruiting issues facing the military: Ditch efforts to add diversity, fight extremism or combat climate change. “What we’re trying to do is save the military from a pernicious ideology that can have a very negative effect on warfighting capability,” said a member of the Heritage Foundation panel that…
ANALYSIS – It seems like just yesterday that the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) was categorically disavowing claims that ‘Havana Syndrome’ was the result of a directed energy weapon. Actually, it was a few weeks ago, and I mocked that ridiculous report by comparing it to the same idiotic IC consensus that COVID-19 could not have originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s BSL-4 biolab. On March 1st, Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), told journalists that most cases of Havana Syndrome were likely attributed to “environmental factors” or “conventional illnesses.” She added that the idea that the symptoms were caused by a…
THURSDAY PDB – Top military officials questioned over drag shows on military bases. The military’s top uniformed officer suggested he does not support ‘woke’ drag shows hosted on military bases, something that has reportedly been done for years to ‘boost morale and show support for LGBTQ members’ of the military, but which has rightfully come under attack by Republicans. I DON’T RECALL ‘MORALE BOOSTING’ DRAG SHOWS – EVER – WELL, MAYBE AS COMEDY ON SHIP WITH NAVY! MEANWHILE – Transgender vets call for more protections from Congress, VA. Advocates want VA to move ahead with plans to provide ‘gender-affirming’ (genital mutilation) surgery to…
ALERT – Following the same authoritarian playbook – As I just wrote about, last week communist Chinese authorities detained the entire staff of a U.S. corporate investigations firm in Beijing, and now Russia’s security service – the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) has arrested a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter in Moscow for ‘spying.’ Evan Gershkovich is a U.S. citizen and member of the Journal’s Moscow bureau. These politically motivated false arrests are often used to send a message, to chill normally legal activities, or to provide leverage in negotiations or for trade. And the Russians usually get a very good deal from these…
ANALYSIS – The communist regime in China raided a private U.S. investigations company’s office in Beijing on March 20. This brazen and likely unlawful act against the New York-based due diligence firm, the Mintz Group, follows the FBI raid last fall of an illegal Chinese overseas ‘police station’ in New York City. (RELATED: ‘Transnational Repression’ – FBI ‘Very Concerned’ By Illegal Chinese ‘Police Stations’ In US And Abroad) And some see it as a heavy-handed and non-symmetrical retaliation. But the raid in Beijing is also likely tied to Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s draconian security crackdown on information inside China. “Red alerts should be…
ANALYSIS – None dare call it hate. The recent horrific mass killing in Nashville is even more tragic when we understand who the killer was – and how the mass media has either ignored or downplayed her ‘trans’ identity. Or has made it a point of calling her a man rather than a mentally ill woman. It’s also tragic, no – outrageous – that none in the establishment media, or Joe Biden or anyone in his administration, has labeled the shooting a ‘hate crime’ even though it was. Local law enforcement has called it a targeted attack against a Christian…