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Some 50,000 Wagner fighters are currently in Ukraine, mostly poorly trained convicts, costing over $100 million per month, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said.
What Beijing may actually learn, Frank Kendall feared, was that “if we’re going to go and do an act of aggression, we have to do it in a way which [is] much more decisive.”
The US says the sale would support American national security interests by “helping to improve the security of a friendly country that continues to be an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East.”
“I think the FCC needs some remodeling,” Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said, announcing the new bureau as well as a new, separate International Affairs office.
“Russia’s need for economic support in the face of new sanctions combined with China’s need for energy and Arctic influence make them logical partners,” says the report published through the NGA’s Tearline project.
Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting talks “contested” space, his worries about space cybersecurity and what happens if adversaries target commercial US firms in orbit.
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