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Brandon Weichert
@WeTheBrandon
"WINNING SPACE: HOW AMERICA REMAINS A SUPERPOWER", "THE SHADOW WAR: IRAN'S QUEST FOR SUPREMACY" & "BIOHACKED: CHINA'S RACE TO CONTROL LIFE" (Due Spring 2023)
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Oct 19 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Apparently ASML DUV machines that China has to make their chips recently broke down. They called the Dutch company for help repairing it. ASML sent some techs. They discovered that the Chinese broke the machine when they disassembled it and tried to put it back together. 1/ 2/ The reason Chinese techs disassembled their older ASML DUV machine is because they are desperately trying to evade the US sanctions imposed upon them for the newest ASML-type machines. By disassembling their older one & trying to reassemble it, Chinese techs learn.
Jul 10 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
Elbridge Colby is catching grief for simply protecting US national security interests. In fact, the US arsenal is depleted and we CANNOT be sending anymore systems to Ukraine (or anyone else for that matter). My latest from @TheNatlInterest ⬇️⬇️ 1/ Image @TheNatlInterest 2/ Colby is one of the few remaining true Trump-aligned realists in a senior role at the Pentagon. He is surrounded by neoconservatives who have pushed constantly to send whatever arms and funds the Americans can proffer to Ukraine. Image
Jun 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Even before the Age of Drones, remember Pearl Harbor would have been impossible without this guy, Takeo Yoshikawa, who posed as a tourist and identified all the targets pre-attack for the IJN. (More in comments)... Image 2/ Now, go back to Edwards Air Force Base. Apparently in the Lake Bed at the end of the runway there, until very recently, base security was spotting--and in some cases removing--Chinese "tourists" who were hanging out in the lake bed, pretending to be camping, but taking high-res photos of the birds launching from the facility. Base commander was unable to detain these imposters for more than a few hours because the land they were on was not owned by USG.
Mar 12 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🚨🚨BREAKING: GEOPOLITICAL ANALYST CALLS FOR ARMING THE A-10 WITH DRONES. CHECK OUT @TheNatlInterest PIECE (link in comments below) ⬇️⬇️: Image 1/ Full link: nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/give…
Jan 5 • 58 tweets • 20 min read
The Ukraine War is entering its third brutal year. NATO has caused the war with its endless expansion, failure to understand Russian strategic concerns, and an obsession to collapse what it views as a weaker post-Soviet Russian Federation. A 🧵1/ Image 2/ In 1991, the Cold War ended in a bloodless victory for NATO. After 45 years of a grueling, nuclear-tinged Cold War, communism was dead, Eastern Europe was free, Russia looked to the West for how to build a better, freer future for itself,
Dec 23, 2024 • 23 tweets • 9 min read
Let's clarify this. As I EXCLUSIVELY REPORTED in my book THE SHADOW WAR: IRAN'S QUEST FOR SUPREMACY, Iran already has a small arsenal of rudimentary nukes. The issue for them is how to miniaturize them and build reliable launch systems (they are). 1/ 2/ Now that Iran is plainly on the defensive, they are currently repositioning to make neighboring Iraq a no-man's land/contested region between itself (the Shiites of southern Iraq) and the Turkish-and-US-backed Sunni & Kurdish elements of northern Iraq. Image
Dec 22, 2024 • 22 tweets • 8 min read
Here's why the story about a US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet getting taken down in a friendly fire incident by a US Navy destroyer while engaged in anti-Houthi operations is suspect... 1/ 2/ First, a primer. F/A-18 Super Hornets are the primary fourth-generation warplane utilized by both the US Navy and Marine Corps. In this case, the F/A-18F, carrying a pilot and a weapons systems officer.
Dec 19, 2024 • 39 tweets • 15 min read
Getting ready for a post Islamic Republic Iran? It's going to be a total disaster, fyi. A brief 🧵 1/ Image 2/ Even if the war can be contained to only an air war that limits direct US military participation, the issue will be one of politics. As in, who comes after the mullahs collapse? The West seems to believe, on some level, that it'll be the Shāh's grandson: Image
Dec 9, 2024 • 23 tweets • 9 min read
FUN FACT: Bashar al-Assad's Syria was used frequently as a place to send Jihadists Western armies & intel services captured globally. It was part of America's "Extraordinary Rendition" Program (a.k.a. torture). In essence, Assad was *HELPING* the US fight al Qaeda. 1/ 2/ Ofc, people will counter that Assad also facilitated the movement of foreign fighters into and out of Iraq during the Insurgency years of the Iraq War (2003-06). Indeed, this is true. But Assad did this for two reasons...
Dec 9, 2024 • 32 tweets • 11 min read
Just to be clear, the Turkish-and-US-backed leader of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a 42-year-old man (pictured) named Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, likely killed and maimed scores of US troops during the Insurgency in Iraq (2003-2006). A 🧵1/ Image 2/ Born in 1982 is Saudi Arabia, as a young boy JOLANI moved to Damascus. Interestingly, 1982 was also the year that Hafez al-Assad, the dictator of Syria and father to recently ousted Bashar al-Assad, annihilated the Sunni Arab stronghold of Hama. Image
Dec 8, 2024 • 59 tweets • 20 min read
We were attacked on 9/11 by UBL, a general in the Islamists' Army. But let's call UBL & his comrades what they really are: they are Caliphatists. They explicitly called for the restoration of the Islamic Caliphate that had existed until the fall of the Ottoman Empire in WWI. 1/ Image 2/ al Qaeda means "The Base" in Arabic. It's based on an old Marxist-Leninist model of revolutionary organization. Like the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War, al Qaeda was meant to be the vanguard of revolutionary ideals that would force radical change.
Nov 30, 2024 • 34 tweets • 11 min read
The Iranian Regime will be no more by the end of Trump's term in office. Everything going on in the Mideast today is based on the notion that the incoming Trump administration will institute some form of a regime change operation directed against the mullahocracy in Tehran. 1/ 2/ Based on the key nat-sec appointments of the incoming Trump administration & things that have been said by Trump on the campaign trail, Trump will immediately resume the Maximum Pressure campaign against Iran that worked so well in the first term.
Nov 30, 2024 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
If you don't understand what's happening here, let me try to explain: for more than a decade, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been trying to rebuild the Ottoman Empire that collapsed at the end of WW1. It was an explicitly Islamist empire. 1/ 2/ Erdogan has long supported Islamist groups fighting in Syria against Assad, he was one of the original backers of the NATO move against Gaddafi in Libya, he was partial to the Arab Spring becoming the Islamist Winter, all because he believes that as an ethnic Turk
Oct 19, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The "foreign threat actor" is likely China as a possibility. BUT there is also Iran, North Korea, even Russia who all have axes to grind. More ominously, however, is the possibility of an "inside job." 1/ 2/ The toolkit is called "Marble" and it is designed to basically mask the true origins of a cyberattack. In this case, the US can theoretically use it to make it look like an insider attack is being waged by a foreign threat actor.securityaffairs.com/57586/intellig…
Sep 20, 2024 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Pay attention to this guy. He may have just rendered our submarine force obsolete. We underestimate China to our grave detriment.wkjiang.sjtu.edu.cn/EnglishWeb 2/ Dr. Weikang Jiang is a distinguished professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University(SJTU).  He is the chair of Technical Committee on Computational Acoustics of the Acoustics Society of China, the vice-chair of the committee of Environmental Acoustics of ASC, the chair of Noise and Vibration Control Committee on of Chinese Society of Vibration Engineering, and the member of China Acoustic Technology Standardization Committee
Apr 18, 2023 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
And this has been buried... media.washtimes.com/media/misc/202… Excerpts of remarks by Di Dongsheng, associate dean, School of International Relations at Renmin University of China on Nov 28, 2020 in Shanghai 1/ 2/ Trump waged a trade war with us. Why couldn’t we handle him? Why is it that between 1992 and 2016 we always resolved issues with US? Did you guys know?
Apr 17, 2023 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Say Goodbye to Lauren Boebert - ⁦@19_forty_five⁩ I’m not her biggest fan. 1/ 19fortyfive.com/2023/04/say-go… 2/ Since the infamous battle for the Speaker of the House earlier in January, Boebert has shown herself to be far less reasonable than even MTG, who cooperated with the GOP leadership to ensure that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was made Speaker.
Apr 17, 2023 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Joe Biden's Presidency Is a Disaster (But He Can Still Win) - My latest ⁦@19_forty_five⁩ 1/ 19fortyfive.com/2023/04/joe-bi… 2/ these polls are giving the Democratic Party’s powerbrokers real heartburn. Because the closer that we move toward the election, the harder it will be for the Democrats to find someone else to replace Biden.
Apr 16, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Something Is Wrong with AOC - 19fortyfive.com/2023/04/someth… My war @AOC continues at @19_forty_five 1/ 2/ Up until recently, AOC could be ignored as an ignorant backbencher in Congress who got the perks of having a safe seat in Congress with no real responsibility.
Apr 16, 2023 • 34 tweets • 4 min read
"George H.W. Bush was not a Reaganite and instead favored moderate, technocratic solutions to some of America’s most vexing problems. This did not appeal to voters." My latest @19_forty_five 1/ 19fortyfive.com/2023/04/george… 2/ Bush ’41 was a political moderate from an elite northeast family with a technocratic bearing. He had a tendency to turn people off because of this.
Apr 16, 2023 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
My latest piece @19_forty_five 19fortyfive.com/2023/04/joe-bi… Joe Biden and Those Cognitive Problems: Should We Worry? 1/ twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2/ “We hold these truths to be self-evident!” Joe Biden began his campaign speech strong, making a powerful reference to the Declaration of Independence. With his audience spellbound, Biden continued with the words that almost everyone knows.