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Trump administration 2024-2028

The intelligence assessment was presented Tuesday at the Senate Intelligence Committee’s hearing on the annual Worldwide Threat report, where top intelligence officials including Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testified. It comes as the Trump administration has been pressing both sides to stop the fighting.
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Gabbard testified that:
  • China: The intelligence community assesses “that China is our most capable, strategic competitor. Under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, the People’s Republic of China seeks to position itself as a leading power on the world stage, economically, technologically and militarily.”
  • Iran: Intelligence agencies continue to “assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, and Supreme Leader Khomeini has not authorized a nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.”
  • Climate Change: The new report appears to have eliminated any reference to the threat from climate change, which was cited in last year’s report as placing more of the world’s population at risk. Gabbard testified that the latest report focused instead “on the most extreme and direct threats” to national security.
Gabbard and FBI Director Kash Patel also elevated crime and drugs brought by migrants into the US as one of the major threats to the US, in keeping with Trump’s priority on sealing US borders.
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Crime is elevated as a national security concern over Climate Change. I can't say I would disagree with that.

On the war that began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, Trump administration officials are aiming to reach a full ceasefire as soon as April 20, Bloomberg reported previously, but that timeline has been seen by Ukrainian and European officials as overly ambitious given moves by President Vladimir Putin that appear to be aimed at prolonging the discussions.

According to the White House, Russia and Ukraine agreed Tuesday on implementing partial ceasefires to protect civilian navigation in the Black Sea and to “develop measures” to ban strikes against energy facilities in Ukraine and Russia.

For Putin, “positive battlefield trends allow for some strategic patience, and for Ukraine, conceding territory or neutrality to Russia without substantial security guarantees from the West could prompt domestic backlash and future insecurity,” according to the annual intelligence assessment.
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For future insecurity I read civil unrest if not a never ending civil war against whatever government claims control.

Nonetheless, both Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy probably understand the risks of a prolonged war. A protracted conflict could drag down the Russian economy and risks “undesired escalation with the West,” while for Ukraine, Zelenskiy likely understands that the future of western assistance is uncertain, the report found.

Moscow also retains the momentum on the battlefield as a grinding war of attrition plays to Russia’s military advantages and “will lead to a gradual but steady erosion of Kyiv’s position on the battlefield, regardless of any U.S. or allied attempts to impose new and greater costs on Moscow.”

The US intelligence community also continues to see a risk that Putin may resort to nuclear weapons. “Russia’s inability to achieve quick and decisive battlefield wins, coupled with Ukrainian strikes within Russia, continues to drive concerns that Putin might use nuclear weapons,” according to the assessment.
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It seems a reasonable appreciation to me.

 
This clown show just keeps going and going and going...

www.spiegel.de

Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online

Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers, is freely accessible on the internet.
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Alt: https://archive.ph/v3Z7U

[Internal screaming]

www.wired.com

Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public

A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
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Alt: https://archive.ph/G68KW
 
brihard said:
They do not. Musk is a clown; he’s not the least bit well qualified for that work, or to identify who should do it. The U.S. has some of the best cybersecurity professionals in the world working in various agencies. These are tasks for the pros. However, it will start with the cyber security equivalents of “is it plugged in? Is it turned on?”
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He is a performative support for the party’s most essential command.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1904975943518572575
 
We are currently clean on OPSEC
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Well, that aged well.

Navy_Pete said:
Do they really need Elon Musk to invent a new solution to a problem that doesn't exist if they just use existing IT and security protocols? Tabernak this guy is a grifter.
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No, but for a billion dollars stipend he can convince the easily convinced that the reporter (or Biden, or Hilary, or Trudeau, or Greenland) actually hacked into the super-secret conversation.
 
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