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Feb 9 6 tweets 7 min read
NEW: #Britain sending another 1,000 troops to #Poland "to support a humanitarian response in the region should it be needed" per UK gvt

PM @BorisJohnson also traveling to #Brussels, #Warsaw for discussions w/@NATO SecGen @jensstoltenberg & Polish leaders

re #Russia-#Ukraine
MORE: #Britain foreign secretary & defense secretary in #Moscow Wednesday, Thursday for talks w/#Russia|n officials

"They will stress the only way forward is for Russia to cease its aggressive campaign of hybrid warfare and engage in meaningful talks" per UK statement
MORE: "What we need to see is real diplomacy, not coercive diplomacy" per #Britain PM @BorisJohnson in statement

re #Russia-#Ukraine
"As an alliance we must draw lines in the snow and be clear there are principles upon which we will not compromise" per #Britain's @BorisJohnson "That includes the security of every @NATO ally & the right of every European democracy to aspire to NATO membership"
As part of talks w/@NATO SecGen @jensstoltenberg, #Britain's @BorisJohnson will talk about offer to double UK troops in #Estonia, deploy more @RoyalAirForce jets to souther #Europe, & more
Troops w/#Britain's 45 Commando have already deployed to #Poland, per UK officials

Members of the Royal Welsh battlegroup set to arrive in #Estonia in the coming weeks

Goal is to help Eastern European allies "ope with the impact of any #Russia|n aggression" per statement

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More from @jseldin

Feb 11
JUST IN: US @SecDef Lloyd Austin ordering 3,000 soldiers from @82ndABNDiv Infantry Brigade Combat Team to #Poland

Troops will depart Fort Bragg in coming days & arrive in Poland early next week
Per a senior defense official, the 3,000 troops will join 1,700 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne already ordered to #Poland

About 1,100 of those troops have already arrived
More: Per a senior defense official, 300 members of the 18th Airborne Corps ordered to #Germany are now in place
Read 4 tweets
Feb 11
HAPPENING NOW: US National Security Adviser @JakeSullivan46 briefs reporters on #Russia-#Ukraine

"We are in the window where an invasion could begin at any time should Vladimir Putin decide to order it" he says
Possible #Russia invasion of #Ukraine - "I do want to be clear" per @JakeSullivan46 "It could begin during the olympics despite a lot of speculation that it would only happen after"
"We are ready either way" per @JakeSullivan46 on possible #Russia invasion of #Ukraine

US "ready to respond decisively" alongside allies, partners should Russia choose to take military action" he says

"It would include continued support to #Ukraine"
Read 28 tweets
Feb 11
Still no comment from #ISIS - nothing in the just posted issue of al-Naba - more than a week after a US raid in NW #Syria led to the death of Amir Muhammad Sa'id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla aka Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi

via @JihadoScope
The only possible reference is to what #ISIS called a “zero error airstrike” by the US that killed children, though per @JihadoScope there was not any mention of ISIS leadership
In the new edition of al-Naba, #ISIS claimed 42 ops in #Hasakah, #DeirEzzor & #Raqqa, saying its fighters killed or wounded 115 enemies, per @siteintelgroup
Read 4 tweets
Feb 9
ICYMI: Police in #Washington responding to multiple bomb threats to public schools & charter schools

"Schools are currently being evacuated" per @DCPoliceDept
MORE: Per @DCPSChancellor, there have now been threats in 3 high schools in just the past 24 hours

"These are troublesome incidents that we take very seriously. All students & staff were safely evacuated..."
Read 4 tweets
Feb 9
NEW: "At best at the moment we have strategic warning...everyone knows there is a gathering storm" per US National #Cyber Director @ncdinglis, who tells @thecipherbrief summit agencies, private sector need something more
"We need to double down on resilience" per @ncdinglis to be better prepared for or able to avoid the next #Log4j
#Ukraine-#Russia-#Cyber: "We've seen this play before" per @ncdinglis referring to #notpetya

"We have to double down on collaboration...create relationships and muscle memory" to deal w/whatever crisis might unfold, he says
Read 4 tweets
Feb 7
BREAKING: @DHSgov updates its National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin

US "remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories..."
MORE: Per new @DHSgov #NTAS bulletin, heightened threat environment in the US further fuled by "other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign & domestic threat actors"
MORE: Mass casualty attacks/targeted violence conducted by lone offenders, small groups acting in furtherance of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances "pose an ongoing threat to the nation" per @DHSgov
Read 9 tweets

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