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President Trump just fired the chairman of the joint chief of staff, General CQ Brown.

He announced that he is replacing them with an Air Force three star, LTG Caine, who will now receive his fourth star.

LTG Caine has had an interesting career LTG Caine is a fighter pilot who was stationed at Andrew‘s Air Force Base on 911, came up with a plan to defend Washington, and then took to the skies.
cia.gov/stories/story/…

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The Gaza hostage negotiations are at a standstill and not for good reasons based on information released and there does not appear to be an easy way out for the current or incoming U.S. administrations. There are no good options at this point.

1/ We know from interrogations of 10/7 terrorists and documents discovered post attack that Hamas set out take a large number of hostages because they knew the scale of the their attack, if successful, would draw a major Israeli military response they couldn’t defense against.

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We now have a U.S. Space Force for the space domain, but we have no force dedicated to the information environment which has become a primary war fighting domain.

Department of Defense has no strategic vision or plan to deal with this threat and has taken steps backward. The U.S. Army’s 1st Information Operations Command is being disbanded and it’s responsibilities farmed out. The only full Colonel command in the army for information operations on active duty. PSYOP is being realigned to support special forces. We have no generals or admirals.

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23 years ago, I was a NYC resident. Our neighbor in the condo next door, Bronx Borough President Fernando “Freddy” Ferrer, was running in the Democratic primary for Mayor on 9/11. He could be Mayor, I thought! I went to bed not having any idea what was to come.

1/ We had moved in into a building in the Riverdale section of the Bronx directly on the Hudson River a few years prior. My parents were oncologists working at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. We were in 5C and Freddy was in 5B

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I’m back from Doha after a series of update meetings with a number of Ambassadors and hostage specialists. It does not look optimistic but not due to lack of trying by mediators. Incredibly frustrating and complicated. The Qataris are doing amazing work and are under appreciated. Final deals end with a technocratic government in Gaza that do not include any senior Hamas officials and agreeing to it would be the beginning of the end for Sinwar. He has no motivation to sign up for his own demise even if to better the people of Gaza. It’s self preservation.

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I just witnessed ~45 minutes of footage of the October 7th terrorist attack at the @AtlanticCouncil courtesy of @IsraelinUSA along with colleagues from think tanks across the ideological spectrum. What I saw was worse than I’ve ever seen.

Pure evil.

***Trigger Warning*** The video footage is a compilation from GoPro cameras, cell phones, CCTV, radio intercepts, and social media from the terrorists and the victims. It was unedited without editorializing and strung together in sequence. In many cases, you saw both the terrorist and the victims view

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Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Syrian militias, Popular Mobilization Forces, & Houthi Rebels are the terror groups who conducted the terrorist attack on October 7th and/or have been firing at Israeli civilians & U.S. bases. All funded, armed, & directed by Iran. Iran has developed or supported these proxy forces to maintain standoff and plausible deniability in some cases, in order to prevent having to take direct action, or be held directly accountable for those actions, in pursuit of its foreign policy objectives.

Iran threatened to attack from Yemen, Iran, Syria, and Lebanon if they are struck directly in a deterrence message to the U.S. and Israel some days ago

Now on the precipice of the incursion into Gaza:

Houthis missiles stopped by U.S. war ship

Syria drone attack U.S. bases

👇🏼 Houthis launched a missile attack and it was intercepted by a U.S. warship
cnn.com/2023/10/19/pol…

Iran told Israel through the UN today that it doesn’t want an escalation but if the operation in Gaza continues, it’ll have to get involved. Iran knows the ground operation is going to happen so it could be setting a red line knowing it will be crossed and use it as justification Also, Israel has been striking airport in Syria is a known transit point for arms from Iran to Hezbollah. It is likely Iran was going to fly in weapons and Israel caught wind. That says they are at least preparing for conflict and most likely through a proxy like Hezbollah.

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Putin has been using Wagner Group in Africa to extract natural resources to bypass sanctions in return for providing “security.” Putin recently admitted to paying them. Wagner is accused of rape, torture, & murder that Wagner calls security in many African countries

https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1688483450943139840

Sudan

“Kill, terrorize, expel: Testimonies detail atrocities by Wagner-backed militia in Sudan” cnn.com/2023/06/16/afr…

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“According to Schumer, “the sheer number and variety” of UFO-related claims “led some in Congress to believe that the [U.S. government] was concealing important information regarding UAPs over broad periods of time.”thehill.com/opinion/techno… “Moreover, as noted in the legislation, “credible evidence and testimony indicates that Federal Government [UFO] records exist that have not been declassified” as required by law.”

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Some of the biggest pro-Russia propaganda Twitter accounts are run by criminals and dirt bags

Let’s take a look



1. Scott Ritter

“Scott Ritter exchanged online messages with '15-year-old Emily' - in reality undercover policeman Ryan Venneman - before masturbating in front of a web cam after the undercover officer stressed he was a minor”dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Iraq War 20 year anniversary

From my tours on the ground in Baghdad during the Surge and afterwards

Battle of Sadr City, 2008 — third battle scene in “American Sniper” Battle of Sadr City, 2008 — third battle scene in “American Sniper”

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After 20 years & a few tours, this is what the Iraq War taught me:

Restrain the U.S. of military force unless absolutely necessary

You break it, you own it. You own it, you fix it.

Nation and State building are long term efforts and costly in blood and treasure We won the opening battle of the war and eventually, the counterinsurgency, only to lose state building to Iranian influence

Superior military technology and weaponry isn’t enough if an insurgency has popular support

Hearts and minds matter more than most realize

“The @AtlanticCouncil @N7_Initiative hosted a conference this week in the United Arab Emirates aimed at promoting cooperation between Israel and the Arab world in order to find results that serve a broader community of people.” @TreyYingst for @FoxNews foxnews.com/world/water-sc… “Our goal is to produce innovative regional solutions to the shared challenges of climate change, water scarcity, and food insecurity," @OE164 Oren Eisner , President of the Jeffrey M. Talpins Foundation, said in a statement.”