1) New poll shows that US military is losing the public trust. Trust and confidence fell from 56% in February to 45% in November, and down 25 points in 3 years. thehill.com/opinion/nation…
2) "the actions of General Mark 'We’re the guys with the guns' Milley likely repelled many Americans who though he sounded like a Turkish generalissimo," James Durso writes.
3) Military complex's biggest threat is "the ambitious Republican congressman who suffers no consequences for repeatedly voting against the interests of the military, despite military leaders’ usual empty exhortations of 'Support the troops!' or 'Putin!!!'"
4) Durso: "That politician will succeed because Middle America, which is the foundation for recruiting and a strong national defense, won’t risk its children’s lives for the brass, after it overlooked military officials’ ethical lapses or personal enrichment."
5) Durso proposes a "ten percent across-the-board budget cut" for the @DeptofDefense.

Good start. Once we have a proper grand strategy and a low-cost/high-impact defense approach, we can be more powerful with a 50% budget cut. As long as domestic spending is slashed as well.

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7 Dec
This Pearl Harbor day, let's not only remember our dead.

Let's also remember Stalin's secret agents who worked to make sure the Imperial Japanese attacked us and not the Soviet Union. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/one-more-reaso…
2) Pearl Harbor 80th anniversary "is an occasion to remember something else: How foreign agents operate within our government to manipulate decisionmaking with fatal effects.

Some of the most dangerous foreign agents aren’t spies who steal secrets. They are agents of influence."
3) "... the Venona decrypts show precisely how Stalin’s secret agents within the federal government worked with other agents worldwide to ensure that Japan attacked the United States and not the Soviet Union."
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4 Dec
Biden Administration has de-listed Colombia's FARC as a terrorist group and made it eligible for US taxpayer-funded aid.

FARC split into 3 parts, 2 of which remain designated terrorist & the third - still called FARC - pretending to be separate but preserving the terror brand. Image
The @StateDept's announcement sounds like US is maintaining a tough attitude toward the narcoterrorists, and says nothing about sending US aid to the FARC.

It presumes that the FARC has truly split from its narcoterrorist comrades w/o providing proof. state.gov/revocation-of-…
The Colombian government, the United States' closest ally in Latin America, is unhappy with the Biden Administration's de-listing of FARC as a terrorist group. Colombian President Ivan Duque said diplomatically, "We would have preferred another decision." today.in-24.com/News/668201.ht…
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3 Dec
1) Washington DC is a bubble. People who make their careers in federal agencies, including the military, live within that bubble. That's where nearly their colleagues, friends, social networks, and professional opportunities exist. Rewards & penalties exist within that bubble.
2) Lots of good people exist among the dregs in that bubble. With the busy-ness of every day, and the duties and lifestyles within that bubble, it occurs to very few that things are different outside. Even fewer understand and internalize those differences.
3) With professional advancement, personal affirmation, and financial security at stake, very few are comfortable living outside that bubble.

The longer they inhabit the bubble and the more senior they become, the more chronic the unawareness. This should not surprise us.
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1 Dec
With Biden outsourcing "foreign policy to progressivists and Islamists ... Omar and her allies are unhinged and seeking to make generational changes to our American system that will empower un-American global Islamist narratives," @DrZuhdiJasser writes. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/the-american-c…
.@DrZuhdiJasser's essay on Ilhan Omar is outstanding. Omar is working to set up an Islamist op inside @StateDept: "The Press Release on Rep. Omar’s website lists endorsers who are a veritable who’s who of Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups in the United States...." (continued)
@DrZuhdiJasser @StateDept "... She uses data attributed to the discredited Islamist group CAIR (a group founded to support Hamas) in order demonstrate the gravity of the so-called Islamophobia problem. Omar follows CAIR’s lead in treating all hate crimes reports as genuine..." (continued)
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24 Nov
Just what I've been saying since Day One: the J6 violence was a pre-planned, coordinated action by different units of agents-provocateurs.

For months, the progs attacked us by accusing us of blaming Antifa and pushing a "baseless conspiracy theory."
As I told - horrors! - One America News on January 14: "Somebody had mapped this out in advance. It was all organized…. This was all pre-planned way before January 6.”
On March 3, @SenRonJohnson asked FBI Assistant Director Jill Sanborn about my assessment of "armed militia groups that had conspired and organized to be there" for the J6 attack on the Capitol. Her response showed that the FBI agreed with my analysis. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/fbi-affirms-ce…
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23 Nov
Mob rule: Inspiration for some of what we're seeing in America today comes from the "turbas divinas" or "divine mobs" that the Sandinistas ran in Nicaragua to intimidate, destroy, and demoralize the public into submission. They still do, 40+ years later.
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2) Central regimes deploy mobs as extradjudicial enforcers. In 2018, students protesting Nicaragua's social handout system "were attacked with sticks by government-controlled youth mobs, known as 'turbas divinas,' (divine mobs), leaving some injured." univision.com/univision-news…
3) @Univision: "Some of the Sandinista Youth ride motobikes with their faces hidden behind visored helmets, wielding metal pipes and sticks. The mobs brutally beat dozens of young people, the elderly and independent journalists covering the protest."
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