Michael Allen
@michaelallenJMA
Former Bush NSC and HPSCI Staff Director
Amen. “Permitting these chip sales threatens American dominance in A.I., undermines U.S. tech companies and risks our national security — all in favor of one chipmaker’s near-term profits.”
Important: “Chinese military suppliers prefer Nvidia chips and use A.I. systems trained on U.S. chips. The stakes are not hard to grasp: We should not allow American troops and intelligence officers to be targeted by Chinese A.I. trained on Nvidia chips.” nytimes.com/2025/07/24/opi…
Where Was Xi Jinping in Iran’s Hour of Need? Good stuff from @CraigMSingleton - China was a no show blunting its pitch as a credible security partner. @DEricSayers wsj.com/opinion/where-…
(Reuters) - The whole of NATO, including the United States, is "totally committed" to keeping Ukraine in the fight against Russia's invasion, the alliance's secretary general Mark Rutte told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday.
On whether 🇮🇷 also working on weaponization in addition to HEU @IgnatiusPost rev’d 🇮🇱 intel dossier: I wld be surprised if the intel cmtes didn’t conclude that 🇺🇸 analysts were too cautious in their recent assess that 🇮🇷 not bldg nuclear bomb. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
Israeli sources tell @IgnatiusPost that Iran's nuclear program is now "rubble and dust." Among the details shared: Israel believes it destroyed 80% of Iran's missile launchers (though sources admit Iran had more solid-fuel missiles than estimated).
Looks to be first confirmation that weapons flow has been reinstated.
US resumes sending some weapons (155 mm artillery shells and GMLRS) to Ukraine after Pentagon pause surprised White House, embarrassing President Trump. Trump has privately expressed frustration with Pentagon officials for announcing the pause. militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-…
News on the phantom ‘missing’ HEU.
Iran On Iran, the official said that Israel believed Iran’s enriched uranium was “distributed in Natanz, Fordo, Isfahan. And it stayed there, to the best of our intel, it hasn’t moved.” But the official acknowledged that in Isfahan, “Is it accessible today? Yeah, they could get…
Thank you @DanaPerino !
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