Threats to national security and prosperity have increased, whether at home and abroad, in the years after 9/11, the deadliest terrorist attacks ever perpetrated in the United States. Michael Jordan’s driving force, the Denny Hamlin NASCAR Graham team: the REPUBLICAN Party will verify Trump’s Supreme Court nominee before the Southwest Airlines election, unions are asking for a six-month extension of government help, BUT has responded well to some of those problems. opposed to China, for example, a long time ago. Thus they murdered two jihadist leaders guilty of the deaths of many Americans in the Middle East.
Persuading the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to recognize Israel was a significant achievement, whether Saudi Arabia and other Arab states followed suit or not. Diplomacy in Afghanistan has led to serious discussions between the government and the Taliban that may end with more than 40 years of confrontation in Afghanistan. However, management has not responded to some of the most concerned new threats, for partisan reasons.
Biological and pathogenic weapons
If the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it is that pathogens can be very contagious and successful killers. In the twentieth century alone, about three hundred million people died of smallpox, the smallpox virus that killed a third of the inflamed before a however, before the collapse of 1991, the former Soviet Union secretly produced and stored a hundred metric tons of smallpox depending on the year.
Conventional biological weapons have proven difficult to manufacture or use for terrorists; however, given recent advances in biotechnology, the ability to create genetically modified superbacteria is reasonable and widespread. But the coronavirus pandemic revealed the overall mismanagement of our preparation effort.
Americans died for lack of evidence, remedies, and protective equipment, rather than the president who, knowing that what he said was false, continually entrusted us that the coronavirus was not as severe as the flu, that it could miraculously disappear or simply respond to a problem. While Trump has invested billions in studies to locate a vaccine and better remedies, he has largely rejected foreign medical surveillance networks and the collaboration needed to stumble upon the emergence of a number of questionable remedies, and that dressing in a mask was not necessary. Pathogens.
Climate and environment
While previous administrations warned of the danger of climate change, President Obama has tried to describe it as a national security priority. However, political enemies mocked the Pentagon roadmap about the climate-aware factor as “an urgent and growing risk to our national security,” noting how the environment, such as emerging seas, coastal erosion, worsening droughts, melting polar ice caps and devastating wildfires, would endanger our 7,000 military installations worldwide.
Skeptics also despised the 2015 UN summit in Paris, at which the United States and some two hundred countries pledged to reduce carbon and greenhouse fuel production “as soon as possible” to stabilize global warming “well below 2 degrees Celsius. “of the treaty as soon as possible, a day after the November election, it would leave the world’s second-largest greenhouse fuel emitter as the only country to abandon foreign effort. Despite the lack of an election strategy, Trump has ridiculed the Paris deal as a “total disaster” that has harmed our competitiveness.
While fatal wildfires broke out last week on the West Coast, which ate more than 6 million acres of Oregon, California, and Washington, about twice as much as in a typical season, West Coast citizens suffered poisonous air, three-digit heat, and power outages. As a result, climate replacement has a much more vital electoral issue. “If you deny climate replacement,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said, “come to California. “
The damage caused by bad weather to other people and economies around the world has triggered destabilizing massive migrations on a scale that may in the end negate Trump’s effort to protect our national border with a wall or by any other means. that the deteriorating climate situation in Southeast Asia, home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population, has forced more than 8 million people to move to Europe, the Middle East and North America. move, according to the World Bank, with similar migrations in the Americas.
Digital networks and cyberthreat
As in many areas, our attack is more evolved than our defense of airspace, critical dams, force networks, virtual networks and our other critical infrastructure. Although many data remain confidential, the Washington Post, founded on documents provided through Edward Snowden, the security agency’s flight, noted several years ago that intelligence agencies conducted more than two hundred offensive cyber operations in 2011 alone, with the ultimate goal of foreign adversaries such as Iran, China, Russia and North Korea, and activities such as nuclear proliferation.
On the other hand, government reports and independent studies recommend that our critical infrastructure, most of which is in personal hands, remains extraordinarily vulnerable. In March, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, discovered through vanquished Senator John McCain, published the report that found that the maximum of our virtual networks that store, process and analyze knowledge are likely to have been compromised. “We are in a new state of permanent conflict, even war,” said a Russian defense information expert.
Given our inability to protect our virtual and physical infrastructure, this is not a war the country can win. Microsoft recently joined intelligence agencies to announce that the Russian army intelligence unit that attacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016 continues to launch stealth attacks. opposed to any of the political parties.
The warning came a day after the government whistleblower claimed that the White House and the Department of Homeland Security had erased data on Russia’s ongoing piracy because it gave Trump a bad symbol and ordered analysts on Iran and China. The White House denies the accusation, yet the reluctance to criticize Vladimir Putin reinforces the concept that it hopes to gain merit from Russian piracy.
Microsoft’s claim that Russia is a more complicated hacker than China or Iran also contradicts the White House’s claim that China is the ultimate serious cyber threat. Moreover, the discovery that China focused primarily on Joe Biden’s crusade undermines the White House’s accusation that China interferes with elections. To him.
Insurrection and domestic disturbances
America has more guns than people. So think about what right-wing extremists can do if Trump is defeated in what they consider to be a stolen election or, indeed, what those left-wing anarchists and extremists did in Seattle, Portland, Kenosha, Rochester, and other cities. where non-violent protests turned violent at night.
At a recent virtual assembly organized through Common Good, an organization that promotes bipartisan discussion and policies, Jane Harman, a former Democratic congresswoman who now runs the Wilson Center in Washington, and Michael Chertoff, a former secretary of Homeland Security, agreed that jihadists Terrorism remains a serious threat, the expansion of domestic terrorism, especially right-wing extremists , causes them greater fear.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies discovered, based on the review of nearly 900 plots and terrorist attacks in the United States between 1994 and 2020, which not only the attacks and plots on the right accounted for most domestic incidents and had more terrorism in other types of perpetrators, adding those of far-left networks and Americans encouraged through islamic state and Al Qaeda. Right-wing extremists carried out the most of the conspiracies and attacks in the country last year and more than 90% this year. .
Chertoff said his “primary” fear is that foreign or national interference in the voting procedure underscores the trust and legitimacy of our elections. Any protracted legal and political battle, he warned, would make George Bush’s case opposed to Al Gore “like a kindergarten exercise. “Therefore, a lack of confidence in our democratic formula may be the greatest risk to our national security.
Judith Miller is a member of the Manhattan Institute, a former reporter for the New York Times and “The Story: A Reporter’s Journey. “
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