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NATIONAL SECURITY
Western governments confront China-Russia security threats — but US business won’t. The United States and NATO are striving to halt Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggressive campaign to reintegrate former Soviet-dominated nations under Moscow’s control.
HOMELAND SECURITY
Oath Keepers claimed to be a veteran support group but is a dangerous militia, former member tells Jan. 6 panel. Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes claimed to be running a veteran support group but in reality was running a dangerous militia and aspired to be a paramilitary leader, a former member testified Tuesday to a House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
CHINA THREAT
Marines, Australians hone logistics skills they’ll need to deploy from down under. A three-week exercise in northern Australia is testing U.S. and Australian forces’ ability to move troops and equipment across hundreds of miles in the event of a regional crisis or humanitarian disaster.
B-2s deploy to Australia for Bomber Task Force mission. A pair of B-2 bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., arrived in Australia on July 10, starting a new bomber task force mission in the Indo-Pacific just days after the Air Force completed its last one.
US sends destroyer near Paracel Islands angering China. The US says sailing near disputed islands was a ‘freedom of navigation operation’ while China calls it ‘illegal’.
RUSSIA THREAT
Ukraine claims arms depot attack in occupied Kherson with Himars rockets. Ukraine’s military says it has destroyed a Russian ammunition depot in the southern city of Nova Kakhovka, killing dozens of soldiers, in an attack apparently involving US-supplied missiles.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 140. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not commented on a Russian-backed official’s claim that a Ukrainian strike on Nova Kakhovka, in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine, killed at least seven people, including civilians, and wounded dozens more.
Belarus launches military drills on border with Ukraine, tests troop readiness. Belarus announced Tuesday it launched military drills along its shared border with Ukraine in an effort to assess the readiness of its territorial troops, Belarusian defense officials said.
Russia seems to be running low on drones. The Russian military wrote the book on tactical drones in 2014. Now its leaders are begging foreign partners and regional officials to help replace downed UAVs.
IRAN THREAT
Russia reaches out to Iran for help in countering West. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia will visit Tehran next week, along with the leader of Turkey. But competition in oil markets reflects a complicated new landscape.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
This drone is helping Ukraine fight Russia. It’s also killing civilians across the globe. Turkey is changing the face of modern warfare with its TB2 drone. As the weapon spreads across the globe, some U.S. lawmakers seek to crack down on the country, saying it’s exploiting its NATO status to obtain key parts from Western manufacturers.
Pentagon: US killed ISIS leader in Syria in drone strike. The Pentagon said Tuesday that it killed a leader of the Islamic State in Syria in a drone strike.
ISIS planned chemical attacks in Europe, new details on weapons program reveal. In the summer of 2014, as his followers were ravaging the cities of northern Iraq, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi convened a secret meeting with a weapons expert whose unusual skills the terrorist chief was anxious to acquire.
Biden’s trip, and Ukraine’s war, could boost the Abraham Accords. President Biden’s Middle Eastern diplomatic mission this week contrasts with news reports and public discussion in the past year suggesting that the region has become a lesser priority for U.S. foreign and security policy. Biden’s visits to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Palestinian West Bank territory build on a reality that Middle Eastern states have been knitting new relations, notably via the 2020 Abraham Accords. They are doing so in ways that Biden’s visit, and overall U.S. diplomacy, can advance.
US MILITARY AND SPACE
Coast Guard aims to learn from Navy at RIMPAC. Although the Rim of the Pacific 2022 exercise is led by the U.S. Navy, the Coast Guard is playing a larger role this year.
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IMPEACH BIDEN…………CAN NOT TAKE ALL HIS LIES AND HE DOESN’T HAVE A CLUE ON WHERE HE IS AT………….JUST SHUFFLES ALONG…..NOT WHAT AN AMERICAN PRES SHOULD DO………HAS NO IDEA HOW BADLY HE IS DETESTED IN THIS COUNTRY AND LAUGHED AT BY THE WORLD…..SHAMEFUL
YEA just keep shipping all our National oil reserve to China, Do you wonder at all why millions of barrels of oil are being shipped to China from our US National reserve is not a national security risk to our Nation? It’s your oil also paid for by American tax payers. China first policy are failing across both parties. Traitor or Trader ?
Theyre IN ON breaking national security
Lying Corrupt Quid Pro KING Joe doesn’t seem to concerned with National Security, so why should corporate America be concerned? If Corrupt Quid Pro was concerned about National Security, Corrupt Quid Pro wouldn’t be inviting every illegal under the sun to come to the U.S. and America would be energy independent. The only thing Corrupt quid Pro is concerned with is destroying America. Corrupt Quid Pro wouldn’t be selling our oil reserves to Communist China, to a company Hunter has a vested interest in.
There is no greater threat to America than NARCOMEX!
What has China done for the United States ? Steal our technology, Buy our farm land, ship into Mexico for delivery to the US, all the fentanal they can make, China gets our oil reserves Why? Biden owes China? What is it? Hunter? Americans owe China nothing. Last thing we received was poison pet food, leaded paint toys, fxxxed up drywall, the virus. We should not be supporting them with reserve oil, paid for with their slave labor profits.Because Joe and hunter Biden are compromised with their China corruption does not mean we should stand by and let our Country sold out from under us. Midterm’s are near vote them out ,keep them out, make them return all monies made illegally and then have them jailed for all the federal laws they broke.