PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – MAYBE THAT’S NOT A BAD THING? Trump, the ‘America First’ candidate, has a new preoccupation: Imperialism. Donald Trump ran on a return to his “America First” foreign policy platform.
The U.S., he said, could no longer afford to be the world’s policeman. On his watch, he pledged, there would be no new wars.
US free association with Greenland: A bad deal. President-elect Donald Trump has proclaimed that American “ownership and control” of the semi-autonomous island, part of the Kingdom of Denmark, is “an absolute necessity.” This has renewed speculation that Trump will once again try to acquire Greenland.
Several European leaders have cautioned Donald Trump against violating the sovereignty of other NATO allies across the continent, following comments by Trump that he did not rule out using military force to annex Greenland.
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FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here’s a roundup of today’s other top defense stories ending the week from conservative national security expert PAUL CRESPO.
Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEFING – the PDB:
NATIONAL SECURITY
WHY NOT?? The Pentagon finessed its pivot to Asia. Can it last during Trump?
HOMELAND SECURITY
Biden administration temporarily blocks accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from entering a guilty plea in a deal that would spare him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
An old-fashioned turf battle is erupting over the transfer of a fighter squadron from the District of Columbia to Maryland linked to RFK stadium deal with critics worried this leaves the nation’s capital dangerously exposed to attack.
POLITICS
A sharply divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s final bid to put his New York hush-money case on hold, clearing the way for him to be sentenced for trumped up charges days before he returns to the presidency.
US POWER OVERSEAS
The US military has launched large strikes on the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq over the past month in an uptick in the decade-long campaign against the group — operations punctuated by an ISIS-inspired attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day.
US doubles down in Côte d’Ivoire as France pulls out. Move over, France. With last week’s decision to expel the 600 French troops in the country, the US has increasingly stepped into the breach.
IRAN THREAT/ISRAEL WARS
Conflict between Turkey and Kurdish groups rises around key dam in northern Syria.
GROWING NATIONALISM AFTER HEZBOLLAH WEAKENED – Lebanon’s parliament elects army commander Joseph Aoun as president, ending a 2-year deadlock.
CHINA THREAT
Chinese-made FK-3 air defense systems are now in service with the Serbian Air Force, marking a success for Beijing, which has sought out to expand its presence further within the Balkan country.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
SECDEF Austin announces final round of $500 million Ukraine military aid before Trump takes office.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
US MILITARY
When trash bins overflowed at Fort Liberty and continued to pile up for weeks last winter, soldiers at the North Carolina Army base sent photos to a soldier-run Instagram account to highlight the issue. Within days of that post, which prompted news coverage, base officials responded and the garbage was removed.
Congress needs to support the VA and firearms industry’s partnership to prevent veterans’ suicides. House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman sent a searing letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary writing that he found it “unfathomable that the veteran suicide rate, tragically, has not budged.”
ORDER MORE FEMININE PRODUCTS – Surge of female enlistments helped drive Army success in reaching 2024 recruiting goal.
END of PDB
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Politics is not a game for the weak, cowardly or those satisfied with the status quo. As the mantra of the successful implies, ” those that fail to grow and progress will fail, be overrun, and follow,”