Our national security is extraordinarily vulnerable, Romney said on SiriusXM s The Big Picture with Olivier Knox. In this setting, not to have the White House aggressively speaking out and protesting and taking punitive action is really, really quite extraordinary.
Hackers believed to be part of a nation state have had access to federal networks since March after exploiting a vulnerability in updates to IT group SolarWinds’s Orion software. The hack has compromised the Treasury, State and Homeland Security departments and branches of the Pentagon, though it is expected to get worse. SolarWinds counts many more federal agencies as customers, along with the majority of U.S. Fortune 500 companies.
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A joint call for an urgent recalibration of U.S. strategy in the eastern Mediterranean is made by former U.S. ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman and Aykan Erdemir, a former deputy with Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and current director of the Turkey programme at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based think tank, in a newly published report on the region.
The two former politicians co-authored the chapter “American Interests in the Eastern Mediterranean” for the think tank’s report “Defending Forward: Securing America by Projecting Military Power Abroad” – published Wednesday and shared in advance with Kathimerini – in which they express strong concerns about Turkey’s interventionist approach and the expansionist policies of Russia and Iran in the region.
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DENVER and WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ David Kilcullen, CEO of risk management company Cordillera Applications Group, has predicted that United States military bases established for the Global War on Terror in Africa and Asia will be essential if the West wants to effectively counter China s aggressive expansionism in the next decade.
In an analysis distributed this week by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington, DC-based, nonpartisan institute focusing on national security and foreign policy, Kilcullen states that existing military infrastructure abroad will be valuable in dealing with future Chinese expansion strategies in those regions. The terror threat to Americans will not end because Washington says so. But even if the terror threat does fade, bases established for the Global War on Terror offer the ability to compete more effectively against Beijing, he writes.
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MEP Fragkos to European Council President: Prevent Turkey from acquiring nuclear weapons
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Member of European Parliament for the Hellenic Solution, Emmanouil Fragkos, in an urgent letter to the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, called for vigilance and data about Turkey’s efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.
MEP Fragkos, who is also a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, warned Michel that the continuous and worrying course of Turkey will intensify.
The consequences, in addition to its neighboring states, are being felt in the wider European, Middle Eastern and Central Asian region.
Fragkos names the revelations that make Turkey look for nuclear weapons.