#national-security — Public Fediverse posts
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Trump’s secret Ankara flight amid Iran threat echoes Air Force One history
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump’s cloak-and-dagger departure from Ankara, Turkey, last month…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #Iran #nationalsecurity #Politics #usairforce #warwithiran #WhiteHouse
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Thank god the president is saving us from the tubas. 📯
“This week, the Trump administration declared tubas, trombones, trumpets, and French horns a national security threat.
Yes, really.”
The catering-cart-in-chief is terrified of the sousaphone.
https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/donald-trump-tariffs-brass-instruments/
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Thank god the president is saving us from the tubas. 📯
“This week, the Trump administration declared tubas, trombones, trumpets, and French horns a national security threat.
Yes, really.”
The catering-cart-in-chief is terrified of the sousaphone.
https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/donald-trump-tariffs-brass-instruments/
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Finally, the hot take on the robotics National Security Determination no one was waiting for!
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Finally, the hot take on the robotics National Security Determination no one was waiting for!
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Are hacks of U.S. water facilities a new front in the Iran war?
While the hackers failed to compromise the water supply, they succeeded in inspiring headlines and provoking uncertainty. And the scope, scale and real-world impacts of the attacks have been remarkable even to the experts.
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Are hacks of U.S. water facilities a new front in the Iran war?
While the hackers failed to compromise the water supply, they succeeded in inspiring headlines and provoking uncertainty. And the scope, scale and real-world impacts of the attacks have been remarkable even to the experts.
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IC Brief Morning — 2026-08-12
Germany's Bundestag will likely pass the BND reform into law within the next 10 months, granting the service offensive cyber authorities and expanded domestic surveillance powers for the first time. High confidence reflects the governing coalition's parliamentary majority and the reform's direct response to the Constitutional Court's year-end SIGINT compliance deadline. Coalition instability or a renewed constitutional challenge would delay passage, but neither is currently in evidence. Sweden's disruption of an SVR network and MI6's peer-confirmed primacy fit a pattern of allied counterintelligence disclosures, observable across Nordic and Baltic services since 2023, raising operational costs for Russian intelligence in Europe.
Two cases exposed parallel PRC collection against US military communications: a recruited source inside Camp Humphreys and a satellite-modem procurement pipeline. South Korean prosecutors very likely will indict at least one suspect within 30 days, but a public USFK counterintelligence response is unlikely within 90 days. Iran's IRGC intelligence leadership remains without named chiefs five months after the April strike, and a public appointment is unlikely within 90 days. Congressional leadership likely receives a classified briefing on the Iranian threat within four weeks, and oversight likely expands to Iran's post-strike intelligence degradation by the end of October.
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US Aircraft Carriers Deploy in Show of Force Amid Iran Talks
As tensions with Iran escalate, two US aircraft carriers have been deployed to the northern Arabian Sea, flexing their military muscle in a show of force. With less than a week to go until a crucial deadline, the US is walking a fine line between applying pressure and exercising restraint.
#UsNavalOperations #MiddleEast #NationalSecurity #Geopolitics #Iran
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The Register: North Korean spies are running local LLMs to cause AI mischief. “The researchers said they observed Kimsuky setting up and operating local LLM environments using Ollama, GPT4All, and Msty, experimenting with other AI tools such as Cursor, and using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for local document searches. This prevents the data from getting sucked into the cloud where […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/11/the-register-north-korean-spies-are-running-local-llms-to-cause-ai-mischief/ -
The Register: North Korean spies are running local LLMs to cause AI mischief. “The researchers said they observed Kimsuky setting up and operating local LLM environments using Ollama, GPT4All, and Msty, experimenting with other AI tools such as Cursor, and using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for local document searches. This prevents the data from getting sucked into the cloud where […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/11/the-register-north-korean-spies-are-running-local-llms-to-cause-ai-mischief/ -
IC Brief Morning — 2026-08-11
Forensic evidence links the Leipzig airport drone to the GRU's established sabotage network, converting prior US intelligence attribution from circumstantial to physical, but the European response remains fractured. Germany is unlikely to issue formal state attribution within 60 days despite DNA tying the device to the 2024 DHL arson and the Vilnius parcel-bomb network. Austria is likely to retain all twenty intelligence-linked Russian diplomats through November, and the gap between German enforcement and Austrian permissiveness preserves platforms the network can exploit.
Israel will likely refrain from striking Syria's Site 99 through September 30 while the US-brokered IAEA removal operation proceeds. The arrangement tests whether post-Assad Damascus can manage inherited nuclear material under international supervision without unilateral Israeli enforcement. An Israeli strike during active IAEA extraction would indicate the diplomatic channel has broken down.
Concurrent supply-chain compromises, a DPRK IT worker embedded in a US federal agency and Chinese-made cameras transmitting from Royal Navy special-forces drones, expose vetting gaps that NSPM-12's elevated NSA enforcement authority is designed to close. Whether CNSS meets the memorandum's three-month directive-revision deadline will signal whether the new compliance model translates to operational change.
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Trump claims ‘100% control’ of Hormuz, demands Iran pay reparations
US President Donald Trump speaks b…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #@LCO26V #@LCO27F #AsiaEconomy #breakingnews #BreakingNews:Asia #BreakingNews:Politics #businessnews #DonaldTrump #Foreignpolicy #Governmentandpolitics #ICEBrentCrude(Oct'25) #Iran #Jr. #LP #nationalsecurity #Politics #ScottBessent #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesBrentOilFund #UnitedStatesOilFund #Washington #WTICrude(Sep'25)
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Here's another case for @pluralistic et al when opposing #DRM #anticircumvention while addressing #nationalSecurity hawks or #defence personnel.
And a reminder to everyone else: there's never a good reason for a device to require a network connection to its manufacturer, nor for a device which could operate offline, LAN-only, or site-to-site to connect to its manufacturer by default.
https://defence-blog.com/royal-navy-naval-drone-cameras-secretly-sent-data-to-china/
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Here's another case for @pluralistic et al when opposing #DRM #anticircumvention while addressing #nationalSecurity hawks or #defence personnel.
And a reminder to everyone else: there's never a good reason for a device to require a network connection to its manufacturer, nor for a device which could operate offline, LAN-only, or site-to-site to connect to its manufacturer by default.
https://defence-blog.com/royal-navy-naval-drone-cameras-secretly-sent-data-to-china/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117073544608024515
Source: 'Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet' by Edward Luce, an interesting book I am reading this week.
Today, on #MSNOW, Claire McCaskill called Donald Trump: "Jimmy Carter, with no morals." Both Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump were incompetent on #NationalSecurity issues involving Iran. #politics
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117073544608024515
Source: 'Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet' by Edward Luce, an interesting book I am reading this week.
Today, on #MSNOW, Claire McCaskill called Donald Trump: "Jimmy Carter, with no morals." Both Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump were incompetent on #NationalSecurity issues involving Iran. #politics
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OurShallowState: "I'm going to predict that when the damage assessment is complete, well into the future, Trump's greatest crime will prove to be espionage - AND - it will be the most catastrophic breach of national security in American history. We will discover he passed secrets to Russia from day 1 because he was compromised; and did favors for the Saudis shortly after, purely for personal profit; and who knows what the hell else."
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OurShallowState: "I'm going to predict that when the damage assessment is complete, well into the future, Trump's greatest crime will prove to be espionage - AND - it will be the most catastrophic breach of national security in American history. We will discover he passed secrets to Russia from day 1 because he was compromised; and did favors for the Saudis shortly after, purely for personal profit; and who knows what the hell else."
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117073465974210724
People increasingly understand that Donald Trump lost the #IranWar. When Trump decided to have incompetent people as Secretary of Defense and as Army Chief of Staff, he made this war very much harder to win. Trump's nominee for Army Chief of Staff was not confirmed by Republicans in the Senate due to their concerns about his lack of experience for this top job.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117073465974210724
People increasingly understand that Donald Trump lost the #IranWar. When Trump decided to have incompetent people as Secretary of Defense and as Army Chief of Staff, he made this war very much harder to win. Trump's nominee for Army Chief of Staff was not confirmed by Republicans in the Senate due to their concerns about his lack of experience for this top job.
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Trump turns Iran’s reparations demand around with a costly demand of his own
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump on Monday demanded that Iran compensate Americans…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #foreignaffairs #Iran #MiddleEast #nationalsecurity #Sanctions #warwithiran #World
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Trump extends Jones Act waiver as Iran war roils oil market
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at Red Rock Casino Resort Spa in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., Aug.…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #@LCO26V #@LCO27F #breakingnews #BreakingNews:Politics #businessnews #DonaldTrump #donald-j-trump #Elections #Energy #Foreignpolicy #Governmentandpolitics #Iran #nationalsecurity #OilandGas #Politics #UnitedStates
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The Illusion of a “Golden Age”: How the Iran War Impacts the Economy and the Nation’s Security
by Winston Wendell President Donald Trump has asserted that America has entered upon a new "Golden Age." This is a far cry from the reality we see on the ground today, where over one hundred thousand jobs have been lost in just the past two months. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and groceries are costing a record amount. Yet another consequence of the Trump administration's disastrous war with Iran is that we are facing unprecedented deficits and soaring gas prices. More concerning still, […] -
The Illusion of a “Golden Age”: How the Iran War Impacts the Economy and the Nation’s Security
by Winston Wendell President Donald Trump has asserted that America has entered upon a new "Golden Age." This is a far cry from the reality we see on the ground today, where over one hundred thousand jobs have been lost in just the past two months. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and groceries are costing a record amount. Yet another consequence of the Trump administration's disastrous war with Iran is that we are facing unprecedented deficits and soaring gas prices. More concerning still, […] -
#Education and National Security are deeply interconnected in modern democracies. The link manifests in several ways, contributing to a country's stability, resilience, and ability to address internal and external challenges. #NationalSecurity
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Iran-affiliated hackers target Minnesota water systems in cyberattack
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As tensions continue to rise between the United States and…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #infrastructureacrossamerica #Iran #nationalsecurity #Opinion #warwithiran
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IC Brief Morning — 2026-08-10
Intelligence services across the US-Russia-Iran axis are expanding proxy enablement at the cost of counterintelligence exposure, a tension sharpened as FBI Director Patel prepares an October Moscow visit amid Kremlin-aligned pre-positioning for transactional exchange. Russian or Iranian officials will likely attribute a specific Ukrainian strike on Russian territory to US targeting intelligence within 60 days. Moderate confidence rests on Russia's documented monthly attribution cadence during deep-strike periods, with uncertainty on whether Moscow cites The Atlantic's disclosure or defaults to generic complicity framing.
At least one additional assassination attempt against a Russian drone-manufacturing executive is likely by October 9. High confidence reflects two attacks on rival firms' leadership within one August week, adaptable tradecraft, and a broad pool of unprotected mid-tier manufacturers. A targeting expansion beyond the Russia-Ukraine theater would indicate a broader campaign.
Chinese technology acquisition continues through two exposed vectors: state telecoms embedded in US networks despite FCC license revocations and personnel-based semiconductor theft via overseas offices. Formal US attribution of water-sector intrusions to Iran remains unlikely by November, sustaining voluntary disconnection guidance for roughly 50,000 utilities lacking mandated cybersecurity standards. A confirmed attack causing water service disruption would accelerate that timeline.
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CNN stands by Iran reporting after Kimmitt challenges anonymous sources
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! CNN stood by its reporting in a statement to Fox…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Conflicts #Foreignpolicy #foxnewsmedia #interviews #Iran #nationalsecurity #warwithiran
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Israel’s new $634M German-built ‘doomsday’ sub gives major boost to Iran deterrence
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Israel has taken delivery of its most advanced and expensive…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Germany #Iran #Israel #MiddleEast #Military #militarytech #nationalsecurity #navy #warwithiran #World
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Bombing #Iran burned through thousands of multimillion-dollar missiles that contain precision parts from a global web of suppliers & can take years to produce. Defending against Iran’s retaliatory barrages has worn down #US stocks of air-defense missiles to an extent that has privately alarmed top officials in the #Trump admin & has led to the US’ delaying deliveries to European & Asian customers.
#TrumpsWar #Hegseth #idiocracy #kakistocracy #MilitaryReadiness #NationalSecurity #geopolitics
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Bombing #Iran burned through thousands of multimillion-dollar missiles that contain precision parts from a global web of suppliers & can take years to produce. Defending against Iran’s retaliatory barrages has worn down #US stocks of air-defense missiles to an extent that has privately alarmed top officials in the #Trump admin & has led to the US’ delaying deliveries to European & Asian customers.
#TrumpsWar #Hegseth #idiocracy #kakistocracy #MilitaryReadiness #NationalSecurity #geopolitics
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#TrumpsWar against #Iran has depleted #US weapons stockpiles to troubling levels, siphoning supplies from Asia & Europe…
The rapidly shrinking supply of air-defense missiles & other critical weaponry in Europe & Asia not only leaves the US #military less equipped, but could also leave #Russia & #China feeling emboldened should they contemplate a conflict with the US, experts said.
#Trump #Hegseth #idiocracy #kakistocracy #MilitaryReadiness #NationalSecurity #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/us/politics/pentagon-weapons-stockpiles-china-russia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4FA.3UPv.J5O4zE4p5b12&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#TrumpsWar against #Iran has depleted #US weapons stockpiles to troubling levels, siphoning supplies from Asia & Europe…
The rapidly shrinking supply of air-defense missiles & other critical weaponry in Europe & Asia not only leaves the US #military less equipped, but could also leave #Russia & #China feeling emboldened should they contemplate a conflict with the US, experts said.
#Trump #Hegseth #idiocracy #kakistocracy #MilitaryReadiness #NationalSecurity #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/us/politics/pentagon-weapons-stockpiles-china-russia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4FA.3UPv.J5O4zE4p5b12&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117065586029061764
"Bombing Iran burned through thousands of multimillion-dollar missiles that contain precision parts from a global web of suppliers and can take years to produce. Defending against Iran’s retaliatory barrages has worn down U.S. stocks of air-defense missiles."
This is to be expected when the Secretary of Defense is a clown who worked at Fox News and who is incompetent at managing large, complex organizations.
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"The United States Is Burning Through Weapons in Iran":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/us/politics/pentagon-weapons-stockpiles-china-russia.html
This happens when the Secretary of War is incompetent. Hegseth insisted that the Department of Defense be called the Department of War, but he forgot that the military cannot win a war if it does not have enough weapons."Russia and China Are Taking Note."
This is one more way that Trump, as #PutinsPuppet, helps Russia.
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A top #Iran national security official delivered a sweeping set of demands on Saturday that he said the #US must meet before the #StraitOfHormuz can reopen to maritime traffic, throwing the fate of the critical #trade waterway into question.
#kakistocracy #TrumpsWar #IranWar #war #ForeverWars #Trump #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/world/middleeast/iran-us-oman-strait-of-hormuz.html?unlocked_article_code=1.31A.Y1lR.hK5DoHNM9BKl&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
"Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan Sign Joint Defense Pact. The agreement treats an attack on any of the countries as an attack on all":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/world/middleeast/saudi-turkey-pakistan-joint-defense-pact.html
Turkey is also a member of #NATO.
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"The Senate passed a sweeping new package of sanctions targeting Russia and Iran on Friday, approving a measure aimed at supporting Ukraine in its fight against Pres. Vladimir V. Putin’s war of aggression. The 86-to-11 vote was a rare bipartisan feat":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/us/politics/senate-russia-sanctions.html
This is a veto-proof majority. #GoodNews #SlavaUkraini #politics #NationalSecurity