James Stavridis

Russiagate: Deep State coup 1.0

Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) formed by Democrat foreign policy hands and neocon Never Trumpers in Washington. The outfit aims to expose how supposed Russian Twitter bots were infecting American political discourse with divisive narratives. The initiative was endorsed by John Podesta of the Center for American Progress.

ASD was sponsored by the German Marshall Fund, funded by Western governments. Its top two financial sponsors, at more than $1 million per year each, are the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt). The U.S. State Department also provides more than half a million dollars per year, as do the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and the foreign affairs ministries of Sweden and Norway. It likewise receives at least a quarter of a million dollars per year from NATO.

ASD'e advisory council consists of Michael Chertoff, David Kramer, Bill Kristol, Michael McFaul, Mike Morell, John Podesta, Michael J. Rogers, Kori Shake, Adm. James Stavridis, Jake Sullivan, Nicole Wong and others.

James Stavridis, who provided the inspiration for Essay: Russia's long history of many bitter, military defeats.

Iran war

Stavridis said on CNN: the USS Abraham Lincoln has “80 combat aircraft, and you can move it right up to the coast.” Not only that, but there may soon be “long-range strategic bombers” going towards “the island of Diego Garcia” alongside “F-35 Lightings, the most advanced fifth generation fighter in the world, out of Doha, Qatar.” And more airpower could be coming. CENTCOM announced today on X that U.S. Air Forces Central (AFCENT) will be conducting a multi-day readiness exercise that could be used as a pretense to surge numerous other aircraft to the Middle East. Further bolstering U.S. firepower are newly arrived THAAD and Patriot missile batteries for air defense and four British Eurofighter Typhoon jets now in Qatar.

As Adm. Stavridis said, the gathered forces give “the president a lot of military capability and options” but there would still be risk should the U.S. decide to launch an attack. Analysts warns that Iranian drone swarms could threaten U.S. naval vessels, and both the Houthis and Kataib Hezbollah have pledged to join Iran in the event of war, with the latter group posting videos on social media dozens of fighters sworn to become suicide bombers.