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/

https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1847705406136635835

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…

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

Trump is many things. Senile is NOT one of them. My latest @19_forty_five 19fortyfive.com/2023/04/is-don… 1/ 2/ People are understandably questioning whether the forty-fifth president is all there mentally. This is especially so, given the fact that Trump’s behavior is so erratic.

This has to have something to do with the dreaded Chinese Spy Balloon incident. airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-… 1/ 2/ Six leaders — including two commanders and four of their subordinates — were fired from a key Air Force nuclear base in North Dakota without explanation Monday.

More Than Just a Balloon lawliberty.org/more-than-just… My latest at @LawLiberty "The spy balloon was a giant, floating symbol of China's military advantages and brazen attitude" 1/ @LawLiberty 2/ The United States military is failing to “close the gap” in hypersonic weapons development with both China and Russia, according to my colleague, Gabriel Honrada of the Asia Times. Sadly, he’s correct.

Biden’s mission from God taking NATO straight to hell – My latest @asiatimesonline asiatimes.com/2023/02/bidens… "For Biden and the foreign policy establishment, NATO expansion is ‘sacred’ and supporting the Ukraine war a sign of faith" 1/ @asiatimesonline 2/According to US President Joe Biden, America’s commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is “sacred.”

Even Fiona Hill knew it was a TERRIBLE idea to admit (or even say we were thinking about admitting) #Ukraine into #NATO Another horrific legacy of the terrible G.W. Bush Legacy and his "FreeDUMB Agenda" businessinsider.com/fiona-hill-adv… 2/ Hill was the national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia for the National Intelligence Council at the time, and warned Bush that backing the NATO bids of Kyiv and Tbilisi could be problematic and viewed as a provocation by Russian President Vladimir Putin,

Here is the full, unedited interview that one of America's (whether you agree or disagree) foremost international relations scholars today gave to the Chinese state-owned CGTN This was an excellent interview so all the hacks on Twitter need to calm down.1/ 2/ Despite what the WW2 cosplay-types are claiming, Mearsheimer is NOT talking about appeasement in the slightest. He is talking throughout this piece for the status quo ex ante; a divided Ukraine that looks an awful lot like Korea, though like me he is skeptical it'll happen now

Kamala's Humiliating 'Please Clap' Moment Shows How Bad Things Are for Dems redstate.com/nick-arama/202… Let's hope this piece is correct. I think the writer may overstate Biden's weakness, though 1/ 2/ Among those alternatives is Biden’s “second” — Kamala Harris, known for her word salads and her cackles, but not much else. Indeed, it would be hard to point to one solid achievement that she’s had since she came into office.

My God. They really think that he’s FDR reincarnate. Biden isn’t “saving” Europe or NATO at all. He’s destroying it. politico.com/news/2023/02/1… 1/ 2/ He will mark a second year of war by denouncing Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and publicly declare that the United States will support Kyiv until the final moments of the conflict.

Beijing Pulls The Plug On WHO’s Coronavirus Origin Investigation tippinsights.com/beijing-pulls-… LOL of course they did! 1/ 2/ Dr. Tedros was responding to queries based on an article published on the Nature website, which claimed that the WHO had “quietly shelved the second phase of its much-anticipated scientific investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

US fumbling to close hypersonic gap with China, Russia – @asiatimesonline asiatimes.com/2023/02/us-fum… Another for those who say "it was just hobby lobby balloons the US military mistakenly shot down!" Nope. I'm right (again). China is beating us & Washington is lying. 1/ @asiatimesonline 2/ China and Russia’s increasing deployments of hypersonic missile-armed large surface combatants are pressuring the US to respond.

China set to eclipse US air superiority in Pacific – @asiatimesonline asiatimes.com/2023/02/china-… This reinforces my claims that recent USAF shoot downs of Chinese military drones over North America as being representative of an overall Chinese military leapfrogging of US military 1/ @asiatimesonline 2/ China is on pace to surpass the United States in 5th generation fighter production, a dynamic shift with significant implications for the balance of air power in the Pacific.

The Crimean folly – @asiatimesonline asiatimes.com/2023/02/the-cr… My latest piece: "The Ukrainians will face Russian nuclear reprisals if they appear poised to succeed in their mission to recapture Crimea" 1/ 2/ Since its inception, the Russian state has struggled against what it feared was a conspiracy of outsiders seeking to invade, pick apart, and subjugate Mother Russia.

'Harmful' Chinese Spy Balloons Could Target US With Electromagnetic Bomb newsmax.com/platinum/china… I was quoted in this @NEWSMAX piece. 1/ 2/ Brandon Weichert, a geopolitical analyst and the author of "Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower," said that while Chinese spy balloons could eventually have "first strike" capabilities, they're likely not equipped with them "quite yet."