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[FoxNews] Congressional delegation saw Beijing's influence over ports and critical infrastructure in Latin America.
More than 200 years ago, President James Monroe established a simple principle: the security of the United States is directly tied to the security of the Western Hemisphere. Today, that principle is just as vital. With communist China expanding its influence throughout Latin America and transnational criminal organizations threatening American communities, it is time to reaffirm the Monroe Doctrine and put American interests first in our own hemisphere.
President Donald Trump's efforts to expand military training and security cooperation with Latin American partners represent the exact forward-thinking America First policies our national security demands. Deploying elements of the 10th Mountain Division to Panama for jungle training and joint exercises marks an important step toward strengthening the Shield of the Americas initiative.
By strengthening our regional allies, we take the fight to criminal organizations before their operations reach American communities. Providing partners with the training, equipment and intelligence they need helps them dismantle drug-trafficking networks, disrupt smuggling routes and stop deadly drugs before reaching our borders. This protects American interests while allowing allies to take the lead in securing their own countries.
The Trump administration is also expanding regional intelligence capabilities by shifting MQ-9 Reaper drones from U.S. Africa Command to U.S. Southern Command. Supporting operations in Colombia and Ecuador, these aircraft deliver critical surveillance to track trafficking networks across remote jungles, borders and maritime routes. Combined with greater intelligence sharing and coordinated operations, these efforts help dismantle criminal networks at the source.
However, drug trafficking is only one part of the threat. During a recent congressional delegation trip to Ecuador, Peru and Colombia, we saw firsthand the growing influence of communist China. Beijing has spent years expanding its economic and strategic footprint through investments in ports, mining operations, critical infrastructure and key industries. These investments are not simply about trade; they give China leverage over regional economies, access to critical resources and influence over historically reliable American partners.
One of the clearest examples is the Port of Chancay in Peru. Built and operated by Chinese state-owned COSCO, this deep-water port has the capacity to transform trade between South America and Asia. While increased trade benefits Peru's economy, China's control of critical infrastructure raises serious security concerns regarding intelligence collection, logistical support or future military use. The United States cannot stand by while our greatest strategic competitor establishes a foothold in our backyard.
While in Peru, our delegation met with U.S. Ambassador Bernie Navarro, who is actively strengthening this crucial partnership. Navarro is demonstrating the value of strong American diplomatic leadership. His recent coordination with Peruvian defense officials and Southern Command commander General Francis Donovan to combat narcoterrorist organizations, including those in the Valle de los Ríos Apurímac, Ene y Mantaro (Valley of the Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro rivers), also known as the VRAEM region, is the results-driven engagement we need.
These efforts reinforce a central truth: a strong American presence in the hemisphere does not require us to act alone. It requires working with willing partners who share our interest in combating criminal networks, protecting sovereignty and preventing hostile foreign powers from gaining strategic influence. That is why renewing our commitment to the Monroe Doctrine is critical.
Commentary by Russian military field correspondent Aleksandr Kots
[Facebook] That's how Putin responded yesterday to a question about the week's biggest news. The day before, the lapsed Ukrainian president told Fox News that, for the sake of peace, he was prepared to accept the loss of a quarter of the country and freeze the war along the front lines. In Kyiv, this is apparently considered an unprecedented gesture of generosity. In the Kremlin, it's considered inappropriate words. That's exactly how the president described them.
For Putin, the territorial issue is closed. We've got ours back—and that's it, period. He cuts off any talk of "concessions" from Bankova with two arguments. The first is history: these are the lands of historical Russia.
Then there's the will of the people, who first voted for state independence and then, as the president emphasized, for reunification with our country.
Ukraine has neither a historical nor a moral right to the liberated territories. Kyiv itself destroyed its moral right back in 2014, when, instead of negotiating with the southeast, it sent tanks and planes there. Putin reminded us of this yesterday.
Hence Zelensky's "yes, I'm ready" price. What exactly was he willing to give up? You can't cede what doesn't belong to you anyway. The president added that they could argue about this as much as they wanted. There was nothing to bargain about.
That's why territories aren't on the agenda for the upcoming talks. After meeting with Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, the parties agreed to resume trilateral contacts. Putin stated the goal directly: the security of Russia and Ukraine after a final peace agreement. A final peace agreement, not a brief respite during which the Ukrainian Armed Forces would have time to catch their breath and replenish their trenches with those whom the president said were being caught on the streets "like stray dogs." The American added that then it would be necessary to discuss the European security architecture as a whole. Putin agreed, but the map wasn't on that list.
Moscow is ready to negotiate. But "if someone wants it differently, fine, it will be different," and the goals of the Joint Military Council will be achieved in any case.
Kyiv is being asked to discuss the future. The past has already been decided—by ballot
[Reuters] Advances in artificial intelligence have uncovered a stream of new software vulnerabilities that are almost certain to trigger more disruption along the lines of the outages that percolated across global government websites this week, according to seven cybersecurity professionals who spoke to Reuters.
AI helped drive a doubling of the number of digital flaws discovered year-on-year, according to research due to be published in the coming days by VulnCheck, a Massachusetts-based threat intelligence firm.
Matthew Prince, the chief executive of the digital infrastructure firm Cloudflare (NET.N), opens new tab, told Reuters he was aware of “a bunch of additional severe vulnerabilities that are present in other pieces of critical software” and predicted busy months ahead as AI surfaced long-hidden weaknesses in the fabric of the internet.
“I think we’re going to have a couple years where every single week it’s going to feel like the sky is falling,” Prince said in an interview on Thursday.
The outages that spread across government sites in Europe and elsewhere beginning on Wednesday happened after the discovery of weaknesses in PHP, a venerable programming language that powers a huge swath of the internet. Operators have been rushing to fix their software in anticipation of mass exploitation and, because some felt they could not patch before hackers jumped in, a subset simply yanked their sites offline until they could make them safe.
VulnCheck researcher Patrick Garrity said the scramble to fix PHP came during an already busy week in cybersecurity. The week also brought disclosures of vulnerabilities PHP alternative Node.js and streaming program Plex, breaches tied to AI gateway LiteLLM and development platform Railway, and the revelation that the Indian certificate authority eMudhra had used an extraordinarily flimsy cryptographic key that potentially put users across the internet at risk.
“If we just saw four or five things like this, this week, I would expect we’re going to see a lot more,” Garrity said. “I think there’s going to be a lot more fire drills for anything that’s internet exposed.”
[ConservativeTreehouse] Two fundamental issues that Canadian politicians and media keep hidden from Canadians. First, in the 2025 U.S. Supreme Court decision last year about tariffs, the court outlined that the executive branch can constitutionally ban trade with another country. Second, the U.S. can exit the USMCA with a six-month notification.
There is an awful lot of pretending and gaslighting within this general discussion segment; purposefully advanced to keep the Canadian people in the dark. However, that said, Canada’s chief trade negotiator to the United States, Janice Charette does admit that tariff free access to the U.S market is lost forever.
Janice Charette is participating in a discussion at the Toronto Global Forum, where she is questioned by Brian Tobin, vice chair of the BMO Financial Group about the trade relationship with the United States and the opinion that many Canadian officials have espoused that Canada just needs to outlast President Donald Trump.
Charette informs the audience that regardless of who is the U.S. President, tariffs will likely remain in place permanently because the amount of revenue being generated to the U.S. Treasury is too great for any President or congress to stop. PROMPTED – WATCH:
Half hour video at the link.
While almost all of her analysis is flawed, skewed and seriously underestimates the nature of the dynamic that Canada is facing, what Janice Charette outlines about how Donald Trump has shifted the national revenue model using global tariffs to offset national expenditures (her baseline) is accurate.
Beyond her statement it is worth pausing for a moment and using Charette’s frame of reference to reconsider the post WWII European revenue model. It was/is President Trump’s model in reverse.
The Marshal plan, was essentially one-way tariffs on American trade that provided one-way benefits (revenue) that permitted the EU to rebuild after the second world war. To Charlette’s framework, how willing was the EU mindset to change this beneficial economic outcome?
Answer: The EU fought it (and is still fighting it), perceiving the elimination of that benefit as an existential threat to their economic power. The EU became reliant on the Marshal Plan.
In many ways Canada made the same economic mistake.
Canada legislated and built their economy around dependencies they never thought would go away.
They disassembled their dirty “carbon emitting” jobs. They took apart their energy foundation. They deindustrialized in an effort to join/lead the world in their virtue signaling around clean energy. Canada intentionally chose to take a series of steps to make their economy less independent, less strong and much less resilient; while worshipping at the altar of the “climate change” religion.
Tariff free access to the USA market, while combining non-tariff protectionist barriers to USA imports formed the foundation of this progressive system. Without the benefit of tariff-free trade with the USA, Canada could never have deindustrialized and become an economy dependent on: (1) shipping out raw materials for dirty processing in other countries; then (2) reimporting the finished component goods for assembly in Canada.
Finally, a person steps forth to stop this one-way benefit. Along came Donald Trump.
When Canada was told those USA dependencies will no longer be permitted and reciprocity will frame the new trade agreement, suddenly all those decades-long deindustrialized vulnerabilities surfaced. This is their current status.
That’s why former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told President-elect Trump the “reciprocity” demand was no longer feasible; which led to the 51st state response.
The current problem is that ‘elbow’s up’ Canada continues to maintain economic denial about their status.
[Sarcastosaurus] Imagine flying a drone toward a Russian logistics truck in occupied Ukraine. You can see the target clearly on your screen, and you are guiding the drone toward it. Then, suddenly the video disappears.
Perhaps the enemy has jammed your communications. Maybe you have flown beyond the effective range of your radio. Either way, you can no longer see what the drone sees, and you can no longer control it.
For much of the modern battlespace, this would have been the end of the drone mission.
But what if, before losing the video, you could simply tell the drone what you wanted it to follow? What if the drone could continue tracking that object without any further instructions from you?
That is the basic idea behind a technology commonly called pixel lock.
In Ukraine, where electronic warfare (EW) is a constant presence on the battlefield, this method of terminal guidance has become very important.
الضربة القادمة على إيران لن تمنح مجتبى خامنئي فرصة تجرّع السم كما فعل سلفه الخميني عام 1988!
الحرب القادمة ستكون مختلفة؛ ضربة أميركية–إسرائيلية حاسمة، بمشاركة دول عديدة بعيداً عن الأضواء، تستهدف شلّ القدرات العسكرية وتدمير البنى التحتية والقضاء على كل القيادات، وإسقاط النظام الكهنوتي في طهران الذي رفض كل مبادرات التسوية، وتمسّك بعناده، وواصل تدخّلاته في دول المنطقة عبر الميليشيات الولائية في لبنان والعراق واليمن، التي تضع ولاءها للحرس الثوري فوق سيادة الدولة الوطنية.
الخطأ الاستراتيجي الفادح كان تمادي الحوثيين، بأوامر الحرس الثوري الإيراني، في تهديد الملاحة السعودية بالذات عبر مضيق باب المندب، ثم استهداف المطارات والمنشآت الاقتصادية السعودية. عندها تغيّرت المعادلة، وتبدّدت مبررات كبح مسار المواجهة، بعد أن سعت السعودية مراراً إلى تجنّب التصعيد لأسباب إسلامية وإنسانية.
طفح الكيل هذه المرة، ولن يكون الرهان على تجرّع السم وإنقاذ النظام، بل على مواجهة ستنتهي بسقوطه، وتضع حداً لمشروعه التخريبي وتدخّلاته في المنطقة…!
— صباح الخزاعي Sabah Al-Khozai (@sabahalkhozai) October 23, 2026
Translated Text:
The next strike on Iran will not grant Mojtaba Khamenei the chance to drink the poison as his predecessor Khomeini did in 1988!
The coming war will be different; a decisive American–Israeli strike, with the participation of numerous countries away from the spotlight, aimed at paralyzing military capabilities and destroying infrastructure and eliminating all leaderships, and toppling the clerical regime in Tehran that rejected all settlement initiatives, clung to its stubbornness, and continued its interventions in regional countries through loyalist militias in Lebanon and Iraq and Yemen, which place their loyalty to the Revolutionary Guard above national state sovereignty.
The grave strategic error was the Houthis' overreach, on orders from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, in threatening Saudi navigation in particular through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, then targeting Saudi airports and economic facilities. At that point, the equation changed, and the justifications for curbing the course of confrontation evaporated, after Saudi Arabia had repeatedly sought to avoid escalation for Islamic and humanitarian reasons.
This time, the cup has overflowed, and the bet will not be on drinking the poison and saving the regime, but on a confrontation that will end with its fall, putting an end to its subversive project and interventions in the region…!
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by Lucas Webber, Riccardo Valle, Colin Clarke, Daniele Garofalo
Very long. You’ll want food as well as a stimulating drink before you get to the end.
[CombatingTerrorismCenter-WestPoint] ABSTRACT: This article traces how the Islamic State has come to view China over the years. Over the past decade, within the Islamic State’s broader propaganda and operations ecosystem, Beijing has evolved from a peripheral grievance into a routinized enemy, with serious implications. It argues that this evolution unfolded in four phases: early, episodic references to Uyghur suffering prior to 2014 and, after 2014 and the caliphate’s proclamation, a gradual consolidation under Islamic State central media, which embedded Xinjiang and “East Turkestan” into the group’s global narrative; a period of experimentation with Chinese‑language content and symbolic threats, including Mandarin-language nasheeds and Uyghur‑focused videos; the emergence of Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) as the movement’s anti‑China vanguard; and finally, normalization of China alongside the usual arch-enemies of jihadis—America, Russia, and local regimes—and expansion of the anti-China campaign to Africa.
The article concludes that China’s ascent to great‑power status and deepening involvement in fragile Muslim‑majority regions will sustain, and likely increase, its prominence in Islamic State discourse, posing a persistent, if uneven, security challenge for Beijing and its partners.
Over the past decade, the Islamic State has moved China from the periphery of its worldview to a routinized enemy whose interests are legitimate targets for both propaganda and attack.1 This shift has not been linear, and it cannot be understood simply as a reaction to Beijing’s repression of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. Rather, it emerges from the interplay of three major developments: the evolution of Islamic State central media after the proclamation of the caliphate in 2014; experimentation with Chinese‑language and Uyghur‑focused content; and, more recently, the rise of Islamic State Khorasan Province as the movement’s anti‑China vanguard.2
This article traces that trajectory in four phases primarily through the lens of Islamic State propaganda content and output. It begins by briefly situating the Islamic State’s hostility toward China in pre‑2014 jihadi discourse, then shows how the group’s central media after 2014 converted sporadic grievances into a recurring campaign theme. It then examines the Islamic State’s experimentation with Chinese‑language material and symbolic threats during the mid‑2010s, before turning to ISKP’s post‑2019 efforts to weaponize China’s regional posture and Taliban-China relations.3 The final section argues that by the mid‑2020s, violence and propaganda against Chinese targets had become normalized components of the Islamic State repertoire, lowering the threshold for future attacks on Chinese interests. The aim of this article is to accurately describe how the Islamic State views China in its media releases, how the views expressed through media content have changed over time, and why this matters for the terrorist threat landscape facing China. This includes a look ahead to regions such as sub-Saharan Africa where Beijing is likely to face increased resistance and outright hostility toward its expanding presence. This more aggressive pushback against Chinese interests is reflected in the proliferation of Islamic State media accounts, both official and unofficial, placing Beijing in their collective crosshairs.
Phase 1: From Early Uyghur Grievances to Caliphate Rhetoric (2009-2014)
The Islamic State’s hostility toward China predates the formal caliphate but was initially episodic and derivative of broader jihadi concerns. In the late 2000s, when the Islamic State was still the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI) and part of al‑Qa`ida’s transnational network, references to Uyghur suffering only appeared sporadically in its messaging. Shortly after the 2009 Urumqi riots and ensuing crackdown, ISI released a lengthy martyrdom video4 that advocated for the protection of the Uyghurs, threatened Beijing, and folded Xinjiang into a global narrative of Muslim oppression at the hands of “crusaders,” “Jews,” and local “apostates.” This material foreshadowed later themes but did not yet place China at the center of Islamic State strategy. Geopolitical developments have impacted this shift to a more China-focused Islamic State propaganda campaign, with operational implications expected to follow.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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