🇺🇸🇬🇱 Praxis is a Thiel-backed “network state” project that aims to build its own “nation”. In Nov, Praxis founder Dryden Brown wrote about wanting Greenland for Praxis. In Dec, Trump named Thiel partner Ken Howery as Denmark ambassador & said the US should buy Greenland.

🧵https://fxtwitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1877052010559844478

👶🍼 My short talk on why family policy and demographic issues will destroy the “fusionist” compromise in the Western conservative movement at the Danube Institute family policy conference. Social conservatism + economic liberalism = no longer viable. Fundamental changes coming!

🔗 Philip Pilkington

🇺🇸🇨🇳 A secret memo from SecDef Pete Hegseth tells the military: get ready for war with China over Taiwan. Everything else [Russia, Iran, terror groups] is secondary.

The memo copies parts of a 2024 Heritage Foundation report—almost word for word. That report’s co-author now runs Pentagon policy. Heritage's playbook is now Pentagon guidance.

U.S. forces are ordered to focus on Indo-Pacific firepower—subs, bombers, bunker-busting bombs. Taiwan told to spend 10% of GDP on defense.

NATO is told to step up. If Russia attacks, Europe may be on its own. U.S. troops stay home unless it’s China or direct homeland threat.

Military units will now take on border control, deportations, and drug busts—tasks handled by DHS [Department of Homeland Security] until now. The Pentagon is being pulled into domestic enforcement.

The memo names three new hotspots: Greenland, Panama Canal, Cape Horn. U.S. forces must be ready to fight in the Western Hemisphere.

rump’s Pentagon is betting it all on one scenario: stop China from taking Taiwan. The rest [Middle East, Africa, Europe] is risked.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/29/secret-pentagon-memo-hegseth-heritage-foundation-china/

🔗 Mylovanov

🇹🇷🇸🇾 NEW: Türkiye Inspects Syrian Airbases Under Defense Deal

Türkiye reviewed at least three Syrian airbases, including T4, Palmyra, and Hama, for possible deployment under a defense agreement.

• Israel later struck these bases, destroying runways, towers, hangars, and aircraft. A March 25 visit to T4 and Palmyra was canceled hours before the strikes.

• A Syrian source close to Turkey said, “T4 is completely unusable.” Turkish teams assessed the current state of infrastructure during their visits.

• FM Hakan Fidan assured U.S. officials that Syrian President Ahmad Shara poses no threat to neighboring countries.

• Turkish officials say they’re moving cautiously with Syria to avoid triggering U.S. backlash.

• An AK Party official warned: “If Syria destabilizes, it’s not Israel but Türkiye that pays the price through refugees and security threats.”

Source: Reuters

🔗 Clash Report

🇹🇷🌍🇰🇪 Turkish Spy Chief Ibrahim Kalin attends top African intelligence conference in Kenya.

Kalin sits with Kenyan President and other senior officials.

More than 60 intelligence and security agencies joined the 2nd Mashariki Cooperation Conference in Naivasha, Kenya

🔗 ragipsoylu

🇺🇸 Officials at US Indo-Pacific Command have complained in recent days and weeks about the large number of long-range weapons being expended by CENTCOM against the Houthis, CNN reports.

Military planners at INDOPACOM are concerned that the operation could have a negative impact on US military readiness in the Pacific.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/cost-us-military-houthis-limited-impact/index.html

🔗 Apex

🇪🇬⚔️🇮🇱 Egypt and Israel: A Hypothetical War Between Arch Enemies

In recent weeks, the far-right media in Israel, alongside the Israeli government, has been alluding to the inevitability of a military clash with Egypt, suggesting that Israel must prepare for it, or even launch a first strike.

https://interbellumnews.com/opinion/egypt-and-israel-a-hypothetical-war-scenario

🇬🇧 Exclusive: British police are making more than 30 arrests a day over offensive posts on social media and other platforms

Thousands of people are being detained and questioned for sending messages that cause “annoyance”, “inconvenience” or “anxiety”

Custody data obtained by The Times shows that officers are making about 12,000 arrests a year under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988

The acts make it illegal to cause distress by sending “grossly offensive” messages or sharing content of an “indecent, obscene or menacing character” via the internet, telephone or post

Officers from 37 police forces made 12,183 arrests in 2023, the equivalent of about 33 per day. This marks an almost 58 per cent rise in arrests since before the pandemic. In 2019, forces logged 7,734 detentions

The statistics have provoked criticism from civil liberties groups The Free Speech Union and Big Brother Watch
that the authorities are over-policing the internet and threatening free speech using “vague” communications laws

https://www.thetimes.com/article/e4fce705-2a56-4e4a-aa04-0b55effb5bc0?shareToken=5ebc5dac67ef2d251e3da2fe4781f3ac

🔗 Charlie Parker

🇺🇸🇾🇪 U.S. defense officials confirm B-2 stealth bombers conducting strike operations against the Houthi (CNN)

- HSTCSG strikes Houthi for 3 weeks straight
- VINCSG transits Singapore Strait (5-7 days from CENTCOM)
- Destroyer reinforces air defense capabilities at Diego Garcia
- B-2 active weapons loading spotted on satellite

https://fxtwitter.com/ianellisjones/status/1908286120074301680

🇩🇪🇺🇸 According to The Telegraph, a number of senior officials in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Party of Germany, who are set to lead the next German Government in the Bundestag, are considering the removal of all remaining 1,200 tons of its massive gold reserve, the second largest in the world behind the United States, from an underground vault at the U.S. Federal Reserve in New York City.

Both current and former Officials with the CDU have stated considerations are ongoing about the removal of the gold from the U.S. Federal Reserve, which is believed to be worth about €113 billion and accounts for 30% of the country’s gold reserves worldwide, due to concerns that Washington is “no longer a reliable partner” to Germany.

🔗 OSINTdefender

🇺🇸🇾🇪 Gregory Brew on X:

Privately, DOD admits they have had limited success against the Houthis, despite strikes being larger than what was done under Biden, "and much bigger than what [DOD] has publicly described." Costs are $200 million so far and could exceed $1 billion by next week.

https://fxtwitter.com/gbrew24/status/1908143848934584618

🇺🇸🪖 Army Planners Are Weighing Force Reductions of Up to 90,000 Active-Duty Soldiers

The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active-duty troops, a move that underscores mounting fiscal pressures at the Pentagon and a broader shift in military strategy away from Europe and counterterrorism, according to three defense officials familiar with the deliberations.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/03/army-mulling-dramatic-reduction-of-tens-of-thousands-of-troops.html

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China has announced that a 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods entering the country from the United States beginning April 10th, in response to U.S. President Trump’s new wave of tariffs against China.

Additionally, China’s Ministry of Commerce said it was adding 11 American companies to its list of unreliable entities, essentially barring them from doing business in China or with Chinese companies.

🔗 OSINTdefender

🇺🇸🇮🇱/🇮🇷 Axios reports, citing a senior Israeli official, that Netanyahu thinks the chances of a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal are extremely low and wants to reach an understanding with Trump about striking Iran's nuclear facilities when diplomacy fails.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/netanyahu-visit-trump-wh-tariffs

🔗 Apex

🇨🇳🌏 China's largest “silent” research vessel Dong Fang Hong 3 is leaving the Indian Ocean Region after a month long survey of the Ninety East Ridge - an underwater linear intraplate rise ideal for submarine operations

🔗 Damien Symon