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POLITICS
GOP senators threaten to block NDAA over COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Nearly half of the Senate Republican caucus is threatening to block the annual defense authorization bill unless Congress agrees to abolish the military's coronavirus vaccine mandate for troops and reinstate all those dismissed under the policy.
YUP – Politicization contributing to Americans' low trust in the military. The American public's historically low confidence in the military as a public institution is not due solely to the action of civil or uniformed military leaders, according to an annual survey from the Reagan Institute.
CHECKED THE BOX – House Democrats pick Hakeem Jeffries to succeed Nancy Pelosi, the first Black lawmaker to lead a party in Congress. House Democrats chose caucus chair Hakeem Jeffries of New York to succeed Nancy Pelosi as leader of the Democrats in the chamber next year, a historic move that will make him the first Black person to lead one of the two major parties in either chamber of Congress.
NATIONAL SECURITY
What Tucker Carlson and ‘Trumpist' Republicans get wrong about Ukraine. It might seem like common sense to put U.S. interests first. Here's why that's illogical.
US ‘deeply concerned' about Whelan after week without contact. White House officials expressed concern on Wednesday about the condition of Paul Whelan, who is being detained in Russia, after his family said they have gone several days without hearing from him.
Congress needs to act immediately so drone authorities don't lapse. Many in Congress have ambitious agendas for the current lame duck session — fund the government, raise the debt ceiling, and legislate the right to marry — but one vital step Congress absolutely must take is to protect the public against threats from Unmanned Aerial Systems, popularly known as drones.
PENTAGON WOKE WATCH
GOOD MOVE, OR WOKE NONSENSE? – Pentagon scrubbing all policies of language that stigmatizes mental health conditions. An effort is underway in the Pentagon to remove language from Defense Department policies, regulations and instruction that stigmatizes mental health conditions and discourages service members from seeking help.
HOMELAND SECURITY
DHS warns of ‘heightened threat environment' in pre-holiday terrorism bulletin. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday warned of a “heightened threat environment” across the country in its latest terrorism advisory bulletin, cautioning that the U.S. could see several acts of violence in the coming months.
Oath Keepers' Rhodes guilty of Jan 6 seditious conspiracy. Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was convicted Tuesday of seditious conspiracy for a violent plot to overturn President Joe Biden's election, handing the Justice Department a major victory in its massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Why the Oath Keeper verdict is so significant. On Tuesday, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing militia group Oath Keepers, was convicted by a jury in Washington, DC, of seditious conspiracy for his role in planning and orchestrating the January 6, 2021 US Capitol ‘insurrection.'
Multiple cars rented by President Biden's Secret Service burst into flames in Nantucket. Several cars reportedly rented by the Secret Service caught fire at Nantucket Memorial Airport following President Joe Biden's visit to the island for Thanksgiving.
TikTok poses ‘legitimate national security concerns': Treasury Secretary Yellen. TikTok and its parent company are under investigation by Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in US.
CHINA THREAT
NATO concerned by China's ‘rapid and opaque' military buildup, says Blinken. “The members of our alliance remain concerned by the PRC's [People's Republic of China] coercive policies, by its use of disinformation, by its rapid, opaque military buildup, including its cooperation with Russia,” Blinken told a news conference on Wednesday after a two-day meeting of foreign ministers from the defense alliance.
NATO Nations Grow More Receptive to U.S. Pleas to Confront China. After the pain of an energy crisis brought on by the Ukraine war, Europe is keen to reduce its strategic vulnerabilities to China, not to speak of other authoritarian governments.
Let's put the Pentagon's China report in context. What do the relative sizes of the U.S. and Chinese nuclear arsenals really suggest?
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
Ukraine presses NATO on membership, but alliance gives no guarantees. NATO officials said their focus first is getting Ukraine through the war and the winter.
A letter bomb delivered to the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid explodes. An employee was slightly injured. Ukraine ordered all Kyiv's embassies to strengthen security after the attack.
How Ukraine is innovating Soviet-era weapons for a 21st century battleground. In a basement in eastern Ukraine, young men sit at a long table strewn with laptops, their eyes glued to a television screen an arm's length away.
Allies must find ways to help Ukraine protect grid from Russian strikes, US says. Civilian infrastructure has become the Russian military's primary target in Ukraine and steps must be taken to protect it, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday, a day after allies agreed to help fund repairs to Ukraine's energy grid.
Why modern technology hasn't rendered trench warfare useless in Ukraine. After months of fighting, the Ukrainian town of Bakhmut looks like hell.
US considers dramatically expanding training of Ukrainian forces, US officials say. The Biden administration is considering a dramatic expansion in the training the US military provides to Ukrainian forces, including instructing as many as 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers a month at a US base in Germany.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY – NATO, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA
IS says leader Abu al-Hassan al-Qurayshi killed in battle. The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in battle recently, the group's spokesman said in audio released Wednesday. He gave no further details.
FACING CHINA ‘DOWN UNDER.' – Australia delays largest program, IFV, as Strategic Defense Review grapples with ‘hard choices.' Will the SDR make big decisions and refocus Australia's strategy? “It ultimately comes down to the ultimate question that we're not really good at answering in this country— what are we really trying do with our military?”
When Macron and Biden meet, will it be love, actually? America needs to see eye-to-eye with its oldest ally.
BIDEN'S AFGHAN DISASTER
‘The messages from Afghanistan come in daily.' I'm a veteran doing what the government won't. Last year the war in Afghanistan came to a chaotic and dispiriting end for the United States, and the conflict all but faded from the American consciousness.
THE ONE GUY STOPPED AT BORDER! – Afghan soldier sought asylum in US and was arrested at Texas border. About 18 months ago, Abdul Wasi Safi, whose family calls him Wasi, was a newly minted officer in Afghanistan's special forces, working alongside U.S. troops to combat the Taliban in the longest U.S. military engagement in its history.
SPACE
Space Force set to establish CENTCOM-focused component. The Space Force will establish its second geographically focused command on Friday when it activates U.S. Space Forces-Central at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., military officials announced Wednesday.
US MILITARY
Marine Raiders: The Corps' only Special Operations unit. Marine Raiders trace their lineage to America's first commandos, and they still remain at the cutting edge of unconventional warfare.
A record 6 women completed the Marine infantry officer course in 2022. A total of 12 women have now completed the grueling course, out of 39 women who have attempted it.
Influencer Magnus Mitdbo takes on the Marines in shallow water grappling at Camp Pendleton. In a scene reminiscent of Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood, Magnus Mitdbo takes on current Marines in MCMAP in shallow water grappling challenge at Camp Pendleton. The meeting was arranged through the Entertainment Media Liaison Office, which is aboard Camp Pendleton and handles the media for the Marine Corps on the West Coast.
What is the future of Air Force fighter drones? The Air Force Secretary for Science, Technology and Engineering talks about how the U.S. is advancing autonomous wingmen to stay ahead of adversaries.
Israel's Rafael ‘Drone Dome' counter-UAS system wins Pentagon certification. The Pentagon's Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office approved the “Drone Dome” system, made by a unit of Israel's Rafael, for C-UAS as a Service contracts, following tests at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.
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Why are they still pushing a vaccine that does NOT work? Not only does it not work, it causes heart problems that people fall over dead from.
All someone needs to do is look at the subject matter in each of those points in this article and it should scare the hell out of every American. The left is hellbent on destroying our constitution and our republic and replace it with some version of their own, with them being in charge of course. They are pushing this country closer and closer to that second war for independence that has been talked about for years now. When it comes it will tear this country apart and the United States of America may well cease to exist. If we want this country to survive the left must be purged from our government.