My friend @ssankar wrote a treatise on how to revolutionize our defense industrial base. I summarize it below.

He is right: U.S. national defense is in an "undeclared state of emergency."

America's arsenal of democracy is waning. A Quartet of Evil banks on U.S. failure — and international peace is on the line. 🧵⬇️ 1️⃣America spends more on defense than any other country. Where’s our ROI?

The CCP is beating our best defense companies on scope and scale.

They build bigger fleets, more munitions, and deploy new technology faster — all as they march toward supremacy in the Indo-Pacific.

🧵Xi spent 4 years undermining our national security, facing little consequence from Biden and Harris.

As Americans watched a spy balloon traverse our country, many other failures went unnoticed. Here’s a recap of errors that advanced the CCP at the expense of our security. 🗓️𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏: China & the WHO release a misleading COVID-19 report, pushing the bat-to-human transmission theory while restricting access to data and facilities.

Team members were handpicked by the CCP, and Biden/Harris shut down State’s probe into COVID’s origins.

🚨BREAKING: The @HouseForeignGOP released a report which exposed the Biden/Harris administration's failure to act on repeated warnings about the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, leaving 1,000+ Americans stranded behind enemy lines.

Here are the shocking details:🧵👇 On July 13, 2021, 26 Kabul Embassy staffers, led by the Chief of the Political Section, warned Secretary Blinken of an imminent collapse in a dissent cable.

The warning was ignored. The first evacuation flight didn’t depart until July 29: just two weeks before Kabul fell.

🚨Let’s set the record straight: The disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal was one of the worst national security blunders of our lifetimes, and the Biden/Harris administration owns it.

Here are the facts, by the numbers🧵

https://twitter.com/kamalaharris/status/1829915590468731167

1️⃣Trump’s plan included a conditions-based withdrawal. The Taliban had to meet specific conditions: cutting ties with terror groups & negotiating with the Afghan government.

The Biden/Harris administration scrapped this, removing all leverage on the Taliban.

🧵THREAD: Jake Sullivan became the latest member of the Biden-Harris national security team to make a diplomatic pilgrimage to Beijing.

Naturally, you may be wondering: What does America get from all this diplomacy? Here’s just a few moments this admin wants you to forget: 1️⃣March 19, 2021: In Alaska, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi lectures Blinken and Sullivan.

In a long tirade, he notes that many "have little confidence" in American democracy [...] it is important for the United States to change its own image."

🧵When VP Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for President, she told everyone she has “confronted threats to our security, negotiated with foreign leaders, and strengthened our alliances.”  

Let’s debunk some of her statements⬇️ ❌Fact Check: False.

When Biden and Harris took office, Iran was months from a nuclear weapon. Now they’re a week away. Iran went from 5% enrichment in 2020 to 60% enrichment under Biden/Harris with no consequences.

Iran is now meddling is our elections in favor of Harris.

🧵THREAD: The Democratic Party’s 2024 foreign policy platform is not representative of their actual foreign policy for the past four years. It would take hours to debunk its claims, but here's a brief takedown of its most wild arguments. 2️⃣ The most blatant omissions are on Afghanistan in a section absurdly titled “Leading with Diplomacy and American Values.”

With just one cursory mention, the platform states Biden “ended America’s longest war” and led the “largest resettlement effort since the Vietnam War.”

The last 3.5 years of Biden-Harris Middle East policy have been a catastrophe.

With Gov. Tim Walz announced as Kamala's running mate, I'm deeply concerned it could get worse.

Walz's policy record and instincts from Syria to Iran to Israel are both radical and wrong. A thread🧵 1⃣In 2009, Walz met with Bashar al-Assad. 2 years later, Assad began massacring the Syrian people.

When Assad began using chemical weapons on his own people, Walz still opposed Obama's proposed military strikes in Syria, leading to the 'Red Line' debacle.
minnpost.com/political-agen…

🧵Tim Walz, Kamala Harris's VP choice, has views towards the Chinese Communist Party that are way outside of the mainstream consensus.

Here’s a detailed look at his relationship with Beijing over the years. 🗓️ 1989-1990: Walz taught a CCP-approved course in China during the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Despite the political turmoil, he later argued that U.S. classrooms should avoid depicting China as a “scary” threat and instead focus on its complexity.

🧵THREAD: The Biden-Harris Administration has set a new record for the most embassy evacuations of any presidency in U.S. history, topping Obama's eight.

But it doesn't stop there: a whopping 16 nations have faced coups or had governments toppled under Biden and Harris (1/6) 2⃣ The Blinken State Department have partially or fully evacuated 11 U.S. embassies via ordered or authorized departure directives.

These include our diplomatic posts in Burma, Chad, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Nigeria, Sudan, Niger, and Haiti.

1 - The Biden administration is on the verge of providing a large cash infusion to the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran.

This deal could violate U.S. law by providing Iran with $17-24 BILLION dollars. 🧵 2 - Biden's deal with Iran could unlock $7B frozen in South Korean banks, ~$10B in Iraqi banks, and access to $6.7B in IMF funds.

Part of these funds would be used to pay billions in ransom payments for three innocent Americans in Iranian jails.

The Chinese spy balloon is the tip of an iceberg. There's a CCP spy balloon in every house and every hand that has @tiktok_us on their phone. And there's much more.🧵 1. In 2020, @FBI Director Wray gave a speech that outlined Chinese spies' invasion of American society.

The FBI has over 2,000 open cases against the Chinese government. They open a new case into the CCP every 10 hours. fbi.gov/news/speeches/…

Here's my list of the five least-talked-about stories in 2022 that we need to be worried about in 2023:🧵 1) Cartels made upwards of $13 billion this year from human smuggling operations - 26x more $ than in 2018. It's only getting worse. nytimes.com/2022/07/25/us/…

1. Last week, the Chinese Communist Party tightened how a COVID-19 death is classified, as leaked notes show officials think 250 million are infected.

The CCP says just 5,242 have died since the pandemic began. 0 this week. Google displays this propaganda at the top of a search. 2. However, dead bodies are tragically overflowing crematoriums across China. China is ravaged with cases of COVID.

Some Western models currently predict 1 million deaths in China by the end of 2023. Why is the CCP lying?

You likely weren't paying attention to the Chinese meeting with Arab leaders last week— let me explain why there are now global ramifications resulting from their partnership 🧵 On Thursday, Saudi Arabia rolled out the red (purple) carpet for Xi Jinping.

The two nations published a 6,000-word joint statement following the meetings.

It deepens their partnerships across economic, military, and financial domains, while ignoring domestic purviews.

🧵Christian Persecution Alert 🚨
Hong Kong's Judiciary - now controlled by the CCP - is on a rampage against religion and freedom.

Yesterday, they found 90-year old Cardinal Joseph Zen and five others guilty over funding Hong Kong protesters in 2019.
vaticannews.va/en/vatican-cit… China views Hong Kong's Catholics as a threat, with some saying that they should be removed from positions of influence.

That's why they are trying to "sinecise" the Hong Kong church - meaning it will be neutered and cannibalized into Xi Jinping Thought.
economist.com/china/2022/11/…

Ok, Randi, since you decided to weigh in on foreign policy, let me educate you...🧵

https://twitter.com/rweingarten/status/1594846722139729920

While you were busy shutting down schools in 2020, @mikepompeo was busy meeting with Zelensky and making sure Russia didn't invade on our watch (spoiler alert: they didn't).

In June 2020, we pushed through $250 million in arms sales to Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1222987681405317128

1. The Iran talks appear to have fallen apart (again). This might be the final time unless the US and European diplomats are foolish enough to fall for this ruse yet again.

Americans should ask: how did this happen and who is at fault? Some answers: 🧵 2. This outcome was predictable from the moment we dropped sanctions and economic pressure while Iran advanced its nuclear enrichment.

We gave the Biden administration incredible leverage to start - Iran was on the brink of financial and political collapse.

Over the next 13 days, I’m going to honor each of our brave service members who paid the ultimate sacrifice during the withdrawal of Afghanistan. First is Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, from Roseville, CA.

Described as a radiant light in a dark world, she posted this picture a few days before her death, writing,

“I love my job.”

🧵Two years ago, the U.S. killed Iranian terrorist mastermind Qassem Soleimani. A reminder of some of his greatest crimes:

1. Aided Assad's brutal killing of half a million Syrians.

2. Responsible for killing at least 603 U.S. servicemembers in Iraq and injuring thousands more.

https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1212955403077767168

3. Soleimani's hands were soaked with the blood of Iranians, Iraqis, and Muslims across the region. He personally directed military campaigns and proxies in Iraq and Yemen that caused death of thousands civilians and the suffering of millions more.

This is one of the most interesting articles I’ve read lately.

“But a legacy of the one-child policy, scrapped in 2016, is a dwindling number of women of childbearing age as well as a generation of only children who are less eager to marry and start a family.”

https://twitter.com/lingling_wei/status/1478021494420779008

“Shandong province is known in China for sometimes extreme enforcement of birth restrictions, including a 1991 campaign in parts of the city of Liaocheng dubbed “Hundred Days, No Child.” A 2012 documentary by Hong Kong-based Phoenix Television…”