Russia Could Help China Invade Taiwan By Attacking NATO

PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – How Russia could complicate US efforts to defend Taiwan. There are questions about how much these two nations would cooperate should China opt to invade Taiwan. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte recently suggested that the cooperation could be significant as China could pressure Russia to assist.

“There’s an increasing realization, and let’s not be naïve about this: If Xi Jinping would attack Taiwan, he would first make sure that he makes a call to his very junior partner in all of this, Vladimir…Putin, residing in Moscow, and telling him, ‘Hey, I’m going to do this, and I need you to keep them busy in Europe by attacking NATO territory,’” Rutte told The New York Times.

“That is most likely the way this will progress.”

Rutte was responding to a question about the relationship between President Trump and NATO allies.

The alliance leader did not provide a timeline or any other details, other than to say that NATO has to be “so strong that the Russians will never do this. And second, working together with the Indo-Pacific — something President Trump is very much promoting.”

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

A wave of new US arms deals with European allies has highlighted growing defense investment across the continent, as several countries secure high-value contracts to bolster their airpower and missile defense capabilities.

HOMELAND SECURITY

Push to self-deport. Federal officers and National Guard troops fanned out around a mostly empty Los Angeles park in a largely immigrant neighborhood on foot, horseback and military vehicles on Monday for about an hour before abruptly leaving, an operation that local officials said seemed designed to sow fear.

At least 81 dead and dozens missing in Texas floods as more rain looms.

Coast Guard rescue swimmer is already being hailed as an “American hero” after his very first mission — helping to save the lives of 165 Texas flash flood victims.

Coast Guard, along with a unified command, is responding to an area affected by flash flooding near Kerrville, Texas.

Why Texas Hill Country, where a devastating flood killed dozens, is one of the deadliest places in the U.S. for flash flooding.

DEFENSE POLITICS

13 retired 4-stars urge Congress to fund E-7 Wedgetail battle management aircraft and more F-35As omitted from DOD’s 2026 budget request.

Trump administration’s plans to terminate most employees inside the DHS’s main intelligence office are facing a flurry of pushback from members of Congress and stakeholder organizations, including from the law enforcement community.

President Trump says it would have been “inappropriate” for Jared Isaacman to lead NASA given his ties to Elon Musk and history of political donations, without offering any clues on who he might instead choose.

Voluntary retirements and resignations are expected to trim 30,000 VA workforce positions by the end of September, forgoing plans for potential forced resignations this fiscal year to meet administration goals to reduce the size of government.

US POWER OVERSEAS

These are the approximate positions of the Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of July 7, 2025.

George Washington Carrier Strike Group wrapped up a port visit to Manila and sailed into the South China Sea on Monday. Further west on the South China Sea, the People’s Liberation Army Navy Shandong CSG departed Hong Kong after conducting its first port visit to the city.

IRAN THREAT/MIDDLE EAST

Israel’s defense minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah.

U.S. envoy has praised the Lebanese government’s response to a U.S. proposal aimed at disarming Hezbollah amid Israel’s continued military presence in the country.

Houthis attack commercial ship in the Red Sea for the first time in approximately seven months, Israeli forces strike targets in Yemen.

Hamas used sexual violence as “part of a deliberate genocidal strategy” during the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, an all-women group of Israeli legal and gender experts allege.

Tony Blair’s thinktank worked with a project developing a postwar Gaza plan that included the creation of a “Trump Riviera” and a manufacturing zone named after Elon Musk.

RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR

GOP lawmaker: Trump’s ‘patience’ with Putin ‘wearing thin’ after the president had a call with the Russian leader late last week.

Trump said Monday he plans to send additional defensive weapons to Ukraine after his administration paused certain shipments last week.

Dutch and Norwegian F-35 fighter jets will be stationed in Poland under NATO command to protect supplies of equipment to Ukraine.

U.S.-based Saildrone deployed a handful of unmanned surface vessels as part of NATO’s Task Force X demonstration in the Baltic Sea, which helped detect and track Russian shadow-fleet vessels operating in the area.

Former Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit died by suicide on Monday, just hours after Putin fired him from the job.

NORTH KOREA THREAT

More drones instead? South Korea’s plans for a follow-on buy of 36 AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters have been aborted. These aircraft would have joined 36 AH-64s already procured.

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

White House hosts five African presidents this week while also making progress on trade talks with the continent.

US MILITARY

Next Ford-class aircraft carrier is facing a two-year delay that will leave the Navy with ten carriers for about a year.

Air Force is exploring new options to help with the development of improved fuzes for the 30,000-pound GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker buster bomb, following the first combat use of the MOP in strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last month.

Air Force fighters control semi-autonomous drones in ‘crucial’ test, a significant step in its push to integrate crewed fighters with semi-autonomous drones.

Remote Air Force base in Alaska has been selected to be the first U.S. military installation with a nuclear microreactor under a DOD pilot project.

Army tests robotic coyotes to defend fighters at their home stations.

With push to 3D print drones, Army examines battlefield calculation in exercise Combined Resolve 25-02.

END of PDB

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