ALLIES JOLTED BY LEAK OF DOD DOCS: The leak of highly-classified Pentagon documents and briefing slides, which circulated on the internet Thursday and Friday, has prompted a criminal leak investigation and resulted in a scramble to contain the damage to relations with U.S. allies who may have been…
ALLIES JOLTED BY LEAK OF DOD DOCS: The leak of highly-classified Pentagon documents and briefing slides, which circulated on the internet Thursday and Friday, has prompted a criminal leak investigation and resulted in a scramble to contain the damage to relations with U.S. allies who may have been the target of spy operations.
“One document based on what is delicately referred to as ‘signals intelligence’ describes the internal debate in Seoul over how to handle American pressure to send more lethal aid to Ukraine, which would violate the country’s practice of not directly sending weapons into a war zone,” reported the New York Times. According to the document, discussions included the “possibility” of selling 330,000 rounds of 155-millimeter artillery shells to Poland to get around the policy.
But there’s plenty of useful information on the briefing slides, which provide a snapshot of the U.S. assessment of the war effort during the February-March timeframe. The level of detail suggests the U.S. may have a spy in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, which could result in a “mole hunt” in Moscow that endangers the life of the source.
HAPPENING THIS WEEK: President Joe Biden departs tomorrow for a weeklong trip to his ancestral home of Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday accord, a U.S.-brokered agreement that helped end decades of deadly sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. “This is a stern warning to the provocative activities of ‘Taiwan independence’ secessionist forces and their collusion with external forces, and a necessary move to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the ministry said in a statement.
“Secondly is the combat training that is occurring on the island. We need to ramp that up to a larger scale so they can provide that projection of strength and deterrence,” he said. “That will provide deterrence to Chairman Xi to think twice about an invasion.” “We need to train more aggressively Taiwanese forces so they can fight like the Ukrainians,” he said. “I would increase training and get the F-16s they need in Taiwan. There's a backlog. I would solve that backlog. I would move war forces to South Korea and Japan. I would put nuclear-tipped cruise missiles in all of our submarines all over the world, like the Russians did when they got out of the nuclear treaty and started using cruise missiles, nuclear tipped.
Macron also suggested Europe should reduce its dependence on the “extraterritoriality of the U.S. dollar,” a key policy objective of both Moscow and Beijing, according to Politico. “If the tensions between the two superpowers heat up … we won’t have the time nor the resources to finance our strategic autonomy and we will become vassals,” he said.
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12 p.m. 37th and O Sts. NW — Georgetown University discussion:"Stabilizing China-U.S. Relations: A Chinese Perspective," with Shao Yuqun, senior fellow at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies's Center for American Studies https://www.georgetown.edu/event/stabilizing-china-u-s-relations 4 p.m. 1957 E St. NW — George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs discussion:"A Rock and A Hard Place: The Russian Opposition in a Time of War," with Jeremy Ladd, visiting assistant professor at Cornell University https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/a_rock_and_a_hard_place
1 p.m. 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW -— Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies event:"Ukraine's Cultural Response to War," with Ian Grant, creator and host of PBS's Culture Quest https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/ukraines-cultural-response 11 a.m. — Government Executive Media Group virtual discussion:"Enabling the Mission of the New Triad: A Dispatch from Global Force 2023," with Col. Pete Atkinson, chief of operations at the U.S. Army Space Division https://events.govexec.com/enabling-the-mission-of-the-new-triad/
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