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China Threat
Where is the US-China relationship headed in 2022? The U.S. and China are increasingly locked in a serious economic and geopolitical competition, and the rivalry looks set to escalate next year.
Russia Threat
Putin says Russia has ‘nowhere to retreat’ over Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had no room to retreat in a standoff with the United States over Ukraine and would be forced into a tough response unless the West dropped its “aggressive line”.
No walkover’: Ukraine could extract high price for any Russian attack. Ukraine’s armed forces are heavily outnumbered and outgunned by Russia’s but could put up a level of resistance that would force Russian President Vladimir Putin to pay a price of many thousands of Russian lives for any new invasion.
What’s happening in Ukraine, and will Russia really invade? In early December, U.S. intelligence agencies warned that Russia was planning a massive military invasion of Ukraine. Here’s why Moscow would do that, and what would happen if they did.
US approves sale of Javelin missiles to Lithuania as Russia tensions build. The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles to the government of Lithuania in a deal valued at up to $125 million.
Iran Threat
Israel was involved in US drone strike that killed Soleimani, ex-intel chief says. Soleimani headed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force and helped orchestrate Iran’s involvement with paramilitary groups abroad.
Military
How weather is playing a role in information warfare. Hacks, leaked documents and information operations orchestrated through social media were the pinnacle of information warfare in the last couple of years. But for the U.S. military, there is another sphere leaders are eyeing: weather.
Marines vs. pigs, and troops in trouble on the border. The Marine Corps tries a new program to teach troops how to source food, fuel and other items from wherever they get deployed — right down to buying and butchering their own dinner. Plus an update on how National Guard members deployed to the southern U.S. border have been finding more trouble than jobs to do.
International Security
THANK YOU TRUMP – Japan agrees to higher tab for hosting US forces over next five years. Japan has agreed to increase its share of funding for U.S. troops stationed in Japan to 1.06 trillion yen, or $9.3 billion, over the next five years.
Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster
Biden administration starts denying Afghans’ requests to enter U.S. Advocates say the government belatedly set unnecessarily steep barriers that many Afghans can’t surmount.
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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 state and federal office, taught political science, wrote for the editorial board of a major newspaper and had his own radio show. A graduate of Georgetown, London and Cambridge universities, he brings decades of experience and insight to the issues that most threaten our American liberty – at home and from abroad. To read more go to: paulcrespo.com.
…….What enemy??
The CCP, Wall Street, The US ☭hamber Of ☭ommerce and ☭orporate Ameri☭a bribed ☭ongress to write the laws that made it legal to screw over America and allow the greatest transfer of jobs, wealth and intellectual property in modern history to an avowed enemy, Communist China, making them the threat they are today.
……………………☭ongress and ☭orporate America are the real enemy!
Of course the MIC, DOD and Joint ☭hief’s are OK with this. They just got trillions to pretend fight an enemy that ☭ongress and ☭orporate America created.