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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

14 days

Worth noting that Zelenskyy was flown to Pennsylvania on an U.S. Air Force C-17. The Biden-Harris admin is using military assets to fly a foreign leader into a battleground state in order to undermine their political opponents.

Greg Price

@greg_price11

14 days

Zelensky is now touring ammunition factories in Pennsylvania and attacking President Trump and JD Vance in American media outlets. A foreign leader is essentially campaigning for Harris on American soil.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

Only in Congress would @RandPaul ’s demands that the U.S. provide a modicum of oversight for the billions of dollars worth of weapons we are shipping to a country with a history of corruption and illegal arm sales be considered “unreasonable”.

Igor Bobic

@igorbobic

2 years

Schumer says Rand Paul is the lone senator opposed to passing Ukraine aid today He says Paul's demands to change the bill entirely, which would require kicking it back to the House, are unreasonable

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

6 months

Spartz is an American, elected by Americans, to represent Americans in Congress. The idea that she should maintain loyalty to her former country as an U.S. elected official - advanced below by a staffer of a conservative institution - is absurd and fundamentally anti-American.

Kareem Rifai 🌐

@KareemRifai

6 months

Ukrainian SSR-born Rep. Victoria Spartz voted NO on Ukraine aid today. Last week, her hometown Chernihiv was bombarded by Russia, killing over a dozen civilians.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

This is from a video game called Arma 3. Yet another example of how retired generals and admirals aren’t always the best military commentators.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

3 months

. @DavidSacks is on 🎯 here. Additionally, for those of us who like JD enlisted after 9/11 to fight, having someone from our generation of veterans chosen for this position is incredibly meaningfully. Semper Fi @JDVance1 .

David Sacks

@DavidSacks

3 months

When the Twin Towers came down, JD Vance enlisted in the Marine Corps, gung-ho to exact justice on America’s enemies. Subsequently he came to believe the Forever Wars were a mistake. This is who I want by Trump’s side: an American patriot, with the courage to fight America’s wars

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

10 months

To put this in context, Ukraine is firing between 90,000 to 210,000 shells a month across a 600 mi front. Gaza is only 25 miles long and 7 miles wide.

Moshe Schwartz

@YWNReporter

10 months

The IDF says it has fired over 100,000 artillery shells at targets in Gaza since the start of the ground operation.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

And of course the self-styled military historian and so-called foreign policy “expert” @MaxBoot retweeted this fake video as well thinking it was actual combat footage.

Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

This is from a video game called Arma 3. Yet another example of how retired generals and admirals aren’t always the best military commentators.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

If there ever was a time for the veteran community to rally around one of our own, this is it. Dan Penny could have been anyone of us. However, if you use this moment to virtue signal and say “well Penny shouldn’t have done X” you are the textbook definition of a Blue Falcon.

New York Post

@nypost

1 year

Daniel Penny expected to surrender to face criminal charges in Jordan Neely chokehold

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

🧵20 years on, this is the only way I can describe the Iraq War: A monstrous crime perpetrated first and foremost against the Iraqi people and then Americans who volunteered to fight in the war as a result of their patriotic desire to serve after 9/11 being cynically exploited.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

11 months

After losing 4400 lives, suffering 30,000 wounded, and spending $2 trillion+ in Iraq, America's chief diplomat still has to show up in Baghdad in secret while wearing body armor. A damning visual indictment of our failed regime change wars in the Greater Middle East.

Idrees Ali

@idreesali114

11 months

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken waits to board a helicopter on the tarmac upon arrival en route to meeting Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani, at Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad, Iraq, November 5, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Pool

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

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3 months

It is despicable that @JoeBiden keeps repeating the lie that American troops aren’t currently in combat. There are thousands of troops in Iraq, Syria and off the coast of Yemen who are regularly under attack and returning fire. 100s have been wounded since 10/7 and 3 killed.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

This is how insane our presence in Iraq/Syria is: The Iranian-backed militias that killed an American and which the U.S. are bombing in Syria are allied with and supported by the Iraqi Army, which is trained by U.S. troops and funded by U.S. taxpayers. 🙃🙃🙃

Joe Kent for WA-3

@joekent16jan19

2 years

Pray for the American we lost, for the wounded & troops in harm’s way. Our troops should be out of Syria. This tragedy will be used by the DC war machine to justify further involvement in this on going quagmire. We need to end the 9/11 & 2002 AMUFs.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

11 days

It is mind-boggling but sadly not surprisingly that there are Republican Senators doing photo ops with and providing cover for Zelenskyy after he attacked Trump/Vance in the press and effectively served as a Harris campaign surrogate in Pennsylvania.

Andrew Desiderio

@AndrewDesiderio

12 days

President Zelensky, flanked by Schumer and McConnell, arrives for his meeting with senators. I counted at least 15 senators walking in.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

I am not surprised that a bunch of vetbro celebrities who make big $ selling inflated stories of their service are now embracing gun control. Many of them make the bulk of their money off corporate speaking gigs. They will do or say anything to stay on that gravy train.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

Thank you @RepMattGaetz for highlighting this issue. FBI personnel are financially incentivized to find evidence of and pursue cases related to so-called "domestic extremism". It's not hard to see how this helps create the conditions for things like the Whitmer Fednapping.

Rep. Matt Gaetz

@RepMattGaetz

1 year

BREAKING: FBI whistleblower @realSteveFriend revealed that bureau leadership received cash incentives to inflate the number of their “domestic extremism” cases! The FBI has been targeting our fellow Americans as “extremists” in order to abuse their power.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

4 years

We are bombing Iranian-backed militias in Syria to deter them from attacking US troops in Iraq who are training Iraqi Security Forces that fight alongside and support the same Iranian-backed militias we are bombing in Syria. 🙃🙃🙃

Jennifer Griffin

@JenGriffinFNC

4 years

Senior US official confirms the US military carried out a single airstrike in Syria against a single location used by Iranian backed militias- multiple facilities struck tonight. Pres Biden approved the attack. Strike designed to deter rocket attacks against US forces in Iraq.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

The Jordan Neely situation is very simple: A violent criminal was behaving violently towards innocent civilians. A group of responsible citizens - including a Marine - stopped him. If you are a conservative and saying “well they shouldnt have done X” you are part of the problem

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

The fact that many of Tucker’s criticisms of the DoD appealed more to the “rank and file” troops while angering the Pentagon elite that contributed to 20+ years of foreign policy failure is further affirmation that Tucker was right over target.

Lee Hudson

@LeeHudson_

1 year

NEW: On Tucker Carlson leaving Fox: “We’re a better country without him bagging on our military every night in front of hundreds of thousands of people,” said one senior Pentagon official. via @laraseligman

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

5 years

Had a great chat today with @ChrisEvans about VA reform and the need to end our endless wars in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Looking forward to the launch of his new civic engagement program.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

The last thing anyone who has actually talked to @ChristinaPushaw about foreign policy over the last few years would call her is a neocon. I am loathe to weigh in on campaign silliness but this is a particularly stupid attack on someone I know.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

Happy to see Richard Blumenthal is there to provide advice to the Ukrainian military based on his combat experience in Vietnam.

Greg Price

@greg_price11

2 years

Graham speaking in Kyiv: "If Putin gets away with this, there goes Taiwan. If Putin's successful in Ukraine and isn't prosecuted under international law, everything we've said since WWII becomes a joke. He will continue beyond Ukraine."

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

I think Team DeSantis should be heartened by the fact that they are getting attacked by people who have been wrong about every major foreign policy issue over the last 30 years.

Jonathan Swan

@jonathanvswan

2 years

GOP hawks & neocons reacted furiously to DeSantis’s statement about Ukraine. But he & Trump are closer to the average GOP voter than leaders like McConnell who are urging Biden to do more to help Ukraine defend itself against Putin’s invasion. w @maggieNYT

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

Imagine thinking its totally okay to say out loud that you would physically prevent the President (by presumably assaulting one of his aides) from ordering an end to a 20-year war that the majority of the American people opposed.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

2 years

Gen. Keith Kellogg on Trump's hasty November 2020 order for immediate troop withdrawals ahead of him leaving office: "If I ever saw anything like that, I would do something physical, because I thought what that was doing was a tremendous disservice to the nation."

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

NATO membership for Ukraine would be disastrous for the U.S. It means committing America's sons and daughters to defend yet another country where there are no vital U.S. interests at stake while significantly raising the likelihood of a confrontation with a nuclear-armed Russia

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

4 years

. @mattgaetz on point as usual. Insane more members aren’t pushing back on the nonsense coming from the witnesses at this hearing.

Kristina Wong 🇺🇸

@kristina_wong

4 years

. @MattGaetz at House hearing in Afghanistan drawdown: “This has been the longest war in our nation’s history. Our country is weary of it, even if the House Armed Services Committee is not.”

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

Wanting to significantly reduce the power of the state makes you a dictator apparently.

Marlene Robertson

@marlene4719

1 year

Vivek Ramaswarmy says as president he would abolish the IRS, the FBI and the Department of Education. Can you say dictator without saying dictator?!

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

11 months

Dozens of US troops in Iraq/Syria have suffered life-altering injuries as a result of being left on small, exposed bases in support of an ill-defined mission that isn’t in our national interest. That there aren’t many policymakers demanding their withdrawal is a national disgrace

Jacqui Heinrich

@JacquiHeinrich

11 months

Pentagon says there have been 56 injuries total to U.S. service members since October 17th from the attacks in Iraq and Syria. This includes 25 cases of TBI. All have returned to duty...

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

6 years

The best damn job I ever had was serving as a US Marine rifleman. I never felt more accomplishment, experienced so much misery, and made more lifelong friends than during my times in the Marines. Happy 243rd birthday to the @USMC .

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

11 months

Thomas Paine first published Common Sense anonymously. Madison/Hamilton/Jay originally published The Federalist Papers under a pseudonym. The ability to engage in anonymous speech has been a central pillar of the American conception of free speech since our founding.

Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸

@ChristinaPushaw

11 months

NEW: Nikki Haley asserts that allowing people to post on social media anonymously is a "national security threat". She promises that as president, she will force "every person on social media" to be "verified by their name." I am no lawyer but isn't this blatantly

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

As always, Joe is on point. You can't separate the last 20 days of the war from the whole 20 years of lies, incompetence, and neocon delusion.

Joe Kent for WA-3

@joekent16jan19

1 year

2 years ago we lost 13 American heros in a war that began when they were children. In horror we watched as 20 years of lies came crumbling down due to Biden’s hubris & our military leadership’s malice. Honor our dead by demanding accountability & ending these foolish wars.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

NATO is not a holy sacrament. Its expansion is not required to keep the U.S. free, safe, and prosperous. On the contrary, continued NATO expansion will only make the U.S. less safe, more indebted, and empower an institution that is increasingly hostile towards our founding values

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

The continual attacks against @RepSpartz by her colleagues for stating her legitimate concerns about the Zelensky government is the perfect example of how even the slightest dissent on Ukraine will invite anonymous smears and insinuations of strengthening Putin from Russia hawks.

Melanie Zanona

@MZanona

2 years

NEW: Victoria Spartz crashed a codel in Ukraine. Members of the Ukraine parliament are raising alarm about her outspoken criticism of their government. And intel briefings & private pleas from top Rs have failed to rein Spartz in. w/ @NatashaBertrand ⁩

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

3 years

I have been critical of how many reporters have covered the recent chaos in Afghanistan, but this is solid and brave reporting from @clarissaward . You want more reporters like this - reminds me of watching clips of CNN reporters in Baghdad during the Gulf War.

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

3 years

Amazing piece from the brave @clarissaward , reporting from Kabul as the Taliban take over. Proud to run her spots on my show, honored to call her a colleague.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

Israel will launch retaliatory operations on multiple fronts that will consume large amounts of ammo. There could be requests for the U.S. to resupply Israel but the stocks from which we have resupplied the IDF in the past have been significantly drawn-down to support Ukraine:

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

Good to see @JDVance1 joining with @HawleyMO on this.

Philip Letsou

@philipletsou

2 years

NEW: @HawleyMO joins new letter from @JDVance1 demanding Biden admin report on exact amount of security assistance that the US has sent Ukraine since February 2022

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

5 years

I am sure our troops and contractors in Iraq who face near daily rocket and mortar attacks, IED threats, and small arms fire would strenuously disagree with Rubio’s assertion that they aren’t in combat. What a disgraceful tweet that by @marcorubio that diminishes their service.

Marco Rubio

@marcorubio

5 years

5000 U.S. troops in Iraq aren’t in combat. They provide security for our diplomats & train/advise Iraqis to fight ISIS When will media ask Dem candidates calling for immediate troop withdrawal what they plan to do when shortly after we leave ISIS starts butchering people again

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

JD Vance triggering the German ambassador to the U.S. and making her look like a fool is one of the highlights of 2023 so far.

JD Vance

@JDVance

2 years

Wow. Germany likely to miss the 2 percent defense spending target by a half a percent in 2023 after missing big time in 2022. This is atrocious.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

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2 years

It's absurd how our elected officials repeatedly subordinate our interests and the safety of our people to foreign leaders like Zelensky, who has been very clear his goal is to get America's sons and daughters to fight and die in the war in Ukraine - nuclear Armageddon be damned.

Byron York

@ByronYork

2 years

Zelensky is apparently prepared to tell Congress that whatever the US has given Ukraine -- $45 billion in new aid now under consideration -- it is not enough. From @AP :

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

Our Ukraine policy is immoral. We are urging Ukrainians to fight and die in pursuit of an increasingly unattainable decisive victory. Most of the foreign policy elite know this but can't publicly admit it because of their own hyperbolic rhetoric inflating the stakes of this war.

Lucas Tomlinson

@LucasFoxNews

1 year

WSJ: “…Western military officials knew Kyiv didn’t have all the training or weapons—from shells to warplanes—that it needed to dislodge Russian forces. But they hoped Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness would carry the day. They haven’t.”

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

7 years

Also a convicted drug dealer who got kicked out of the Army with a less than honorable discharge. Headlines in this case leave out that important context.

CNN

@CNN

7 years

US Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan has been deported to Mexico

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

With no authorization from Congress and no explanation of how this makes America safer or more prosperous.

David Sacks

@DavidSacks

2 years

The New Yorker acknowledges that the U.S. is in “a full proxy war with Russia.”

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

5 years

. @Rep_Hunter is embarrassing himself and his fellow Marine OIF vets with these and other remarks he has made. Worth noting that when Mattis took the Marines into Iraq (including Hunter) he criticized and discouraged the behavior Hunter is now excusing.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

4 years

Encourage folks to watch this interview Joe Kent does with @PeteHegseth . Joe has nothing to gain from making nice with Trump. If he thought Trump was disrespectful to him and his family or that Trump didn’t respect military service, he would say so:

Joe Kent for WA-3

@joekent16jan19

4 years

I was honored to join a fellow Gold Star family member, David Horton to discuss our experiences with President Trump & our reaction to the Atlantic’s accusations. David’s son Chris Horton was killed in AFG on 9 SEP 2011 taking the fight to the enemy.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

5 years

Currently attending this hearing. Disappointing that @RandPaul and @SenatorHassan are only Senators currently in committee room to discuss this important issue.

Rand Paul

@RandPaul

5 years

What did government officials know, and when did they know it? I'm holding a hearing at 1:30 pm today on the Afghanistan Papers! Tune in!

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

Twitter/X still rules. Only place in the world where you can watch the Iraqi who threw his shoes at George W. Bush in 2008 argue with a racist Turkish academic who also seems to be an aspiring male Instagram model.

Muntadhar al-Zaidi

@muntazer_zaidi

1 year

العرب يدخلون مليارات الدولارات الى بلادكم سنوياً وهذه الاموال تجعلك تاكل وتلبس وتشتري هاتف تهاجم منه العرب

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

The Washington Post Editorial Board proposes stripping National Guard units of equipment and sending it to Ukraine. This is an insane idea that would undermine the effectiveness of the US military in support of a war where no critical American interests are at stake.

James Hohmann

@jameshohmann

2 years

Some U.S. military officials suggest that Ukraine should slow the rate at which it fires artillery shells, or pick its targets more selectively. That’s an armchair general’s risky prescription, overlooking how Kyiv’s already enormously outgunned/outmanned.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

9 months

I can't emphasize this enough: If Austin had pulled this stunt when he was a brigade or division commander he would have been relieved of command. As SecDef his behavior here created far more risks to national security than if this occurred when he was a more junior officer.

Saagar Enjeti

@esaagar

9 months

Basically the Secretary of Defense had prostrate cancer and wanted to cover it up from the public and the President. He then got an infection from surgery and continued the coverup while in the hospital endangering US national security Should have been fired a week ago

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

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5 months

🧵This article doesn’t explicitly state that the ammunition is being withheld due to Biden admin frustrations with Israeli strategy in Gaza. While that is entirely likely, there is another plausible reason for this hold: The ammo is going to Ukraine instead.

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

5 months

🚨🚨Scoop: U.S. put a hold on an ammunition shipment to Israel last week, two Israeli officials told me. My story on @axios

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3 years

Glad to see Austin admit this.

Mike Gwin

@MGwin46

3 years

. @SenWarren : "Knowing what you know now, if we had stayed in Afghanistan for another year, would it have made a fundamental difference?" @SecDef : "If you stayed there at a posture of 2,500 certainly you'd be in a fight with the Taliban and you'd have to reinforce yourself."

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

McCaffrey deleted his tweet but worth noting that the text at the bottom of the video clip he originally shared makes it pretty clear the video is from Arma 3 and not actual combat footage from Ukraine.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

The Limit, Save, Grow Act mandates exactly zero cuts to veterans benefits. The below is an outright lie.

Congressman Chris Deluzio

@RepDeluzio

1 year

My fellow veterans are not political props. Republicans can't wrap themselves in the flag one day, and then vote to cut veterans care the next. This bill is a disgrace.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

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4 months

So a supposedly “independent” Ukrainian data journalism website just dropped a report smearing American opponents of the Biden admin’s Ukraine policy as Russian propagandists. Not surprisingly, the founder of the website is part of a US State Department journalist program.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

3 years

In a sane society, the guy who wrote this would have no standing to lecture anyone about “disinformation” or how “dangerous” rhetoric could lead to violence:

Ben Smith

@semaforben

3 years

New: Two Fox News Contributors Quit in Protest of Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 Special

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

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2 years

Many say pushing Ukraine to compromise and negotiate is immoral. But what do you call encouraging and enabling a country to fight to the death in a war you don’t believe they can win? I can’t believe the latter is the more moral position, much less what is best for US interests

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

6 months

George Washington warned us about this: “So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and

Greg Price

@greg_price11

6 months

Democrats are waving Ukraine flags on the House floor while the vote on giving them billions more tax dollars is ongoing

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6 months

At the beginning of the war, Rep. Spartz was a vocal supporter of aid to Ukraine. Yet the Ukrainian government and Spartz's own colleagues went out of their way to smear her in some of the most vitriolic ways for the sin of questioning the actions of the Zelenskyy government.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

3 years

Fantastic ad from @joekent16jan19 .

Joe Kent for WA-3

@joekent16jan19

3 years

The establishment is trying to push us into a new war, without our consent. I know what war is & war’s cost. I won’t vote for war or acts of war w/out defining the vital national security interest to my constituents & receiving their support.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

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3 years

Cheney's alternative vision of the GOP is a return to the Bush-Cheney era policies that enabled the rise of Trump in the first place. If NeverTrump Inc. were serious about minimizing or defeating Trumpism (they aren't because he is their oxygen), they wouldn't embrace Cheneyism.

Alayna Treene

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3 years

Cheney will now fully embrace her role as chief Republican Trump critic and fighter for an alternative vision of the GOP’s future

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

. @ConcernedVets released a new poll today with @YouGov that found Americans: -Want Biden to focus more on defeating inflation than completely defeating Russia -Oppose more troops/security commitments in Middle East More from @katiadoyl here:

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

11 months

@emeriticus I can speak from experience that we devildogs are pretty good at pretending to be stupid.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

The FBI through a paid informant was arming BLM and urging them to become more violent. Hard to overstate how insidious this is. The weaponization of informants is a key theme across Russiagate, the Whitmer fednapping plot, J6, and the post-9/11 investigations of U.S. Muslims.

Lee Fang

@lhfang

2 years

BLM organizer distributed guns, urged activists to become more militant and go on the offensive against the police. He was secretly paid by the FBI. The FBI stoked violence among naive young radicals in order to undermine them.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

The Bush Administration along with its allies in the media and foreign policy establishment executed a campaign of deception, manipulation, and intimidation to create the conditions for war. That those involved have not been held accountable should be a source of national shame.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

The laughing and joking at the end of this reveals everything you will ever need to know about George W. Bush.

Sahil Kapur

@sahilkapur

2 years

Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

This is a stark reminder that the U.S. has made significant trade offs in order to support Ukraine. Our large-scale support to Ukraine and mis-prioritization of other resources has constrained our ability to support other partners - including Taiwan and Israel.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

6 years

Your dad continued a ban on gays serving in the military and combined MLK day with a day honoring Robert E Lee while governor of AR. If you apply the same standard you are applying to Wilkie to your own family then your dad was not fit to be President.

Chelsea Clinton

@ChelseaClinton

6 years

Someone who has defended treason against the United States, pines for the days of slavery and advocated for banning our brave transgender troops from serving is not fit to lead the VA.

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@dandcaldwell

1 year

Israel has been grossly slandered as pro-Russia due to their refusal to provide Iron Dome and other systems that they need to defend themselves to Ukraine. Had they caved to pressure and sent those weapons to Ukraine they would be in a worse position to respond to today’s attacks

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

For example, in the early 2000s', corrupt elements of the Ukrainian government sold nuclear-capable cruise missiles to Iran along with manufacturing technology that helped them enhance their missile program. We are in danger of repeating this history:

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

3 years

Good news for fighting-age, neocon keyboard warriors who somehow missed the opportunity to serve in all the wars they advocated for the last 20 years: You can prove your martial prowess and bravery by joining the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces. Learn more here 👇

Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦

@IAPonomarenko

3 years

The Battle of Ukraine needs your assistance

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

David supports red-flag laws and banning open-carry, which would make it harder to defend your family and property. His issue is increasingly with gun rights, not “gun idolatry”. However conservative gun culture needs to change, just not in the ways David wants. More in 🧵👇

David French

@DavidAFrench

1 year

Gun idolatry is repulsive. Trigger-happy Americans shed innocent blood. Some are even spoiling for a gunfight. Time and again gun-owners reject the moral weight of their responsibility. If the public turns against guns, their recklessness is to blame:

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

Aaron thinks this is a dunk against him but @GovRonDeSantis is stating the obvious and is 💯percent correct here. Glad to see DeSantis push back against the DC blob narrative around Russia/Ukraine.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

2 years

DeSantis downplays the threat Russia poses to other countries: "I think it's important to point out, I mean, you know, the fear of Russia going into NATO countries and all that, and steamrolling, that has not even come close to happening."

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@dandcaldwell

6 months

🧵An anonymous Senate staffer claims @jdvance1 is wrong about how many artillery shells Ukraine needs, because of what is supposedly in "classified intelligence".🙄 But Vance's numbers line up with what the Ukrainian Defense Minister told @FT they needed per month.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

Saddam-era Iraq was awful but no one can say with a straight face that the current state of the country is worth the death of up to a million Iraqis along with thousands of Americans and the broader destabilization of the Middle East.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

Instead of disrupting the lives of 3,500 American reservists to subsidize the defense of European welfare states, the Biden Administration should stop playing Uncle Sucker in Europe and force the Europeans to take the lead in securing their own backyard.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

4 years

Republican voters want their leaders to be more like @mattgaetz on foreign policy, not Liz Cheney. Democrat voters want their leaders to be more like @RoKhanna on foreign policy, not Susan Rice. Ambitious politicians in both parties should take note.

Darren J. Beattie 🌐

@DarrenJBeattie

4 years

It's clear what the American people of both parties want. What Vets and their families want. It's time for swamp servants in Congress (looking at you Liz Cheney) to put aside their blood lust and listen.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

5 years

If you needed any further proof that John Bolton is an absolute ghoul:

John Bolton

@AmbJohnBolton

5 years

Another good day. Iran rips the mask off the idea it ever fully complied with the nuclear deal, or that it made a strategic decision to forswear nuclear weapons. Now, it's on to the real job: effectively preventing the ayatollahs from getting such a capability.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

I will close with this. Below is a picture of me with two Yazidi kids in Iraq in 2009. In 2014 they were likely murdered by ISIS or driven to a refugee camp. Their lives would have been difficult absent the US invasion but at least they would have had the opportunity to live them

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

Iraq is a wreck of a country. Its government is an Iranian-controlled kleptocracy that routinely murders its own citizens and imprisons, tortures, or disappears political activists. Most of its people don't have regular access to electricity and live in immense poverty.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

The law is the HEROES Act of 2003, which was originally intended to provide student loan payment relief for reservists and guardsmen activated in support of the GWOT. Another example of how the expansion of executive power after 9/11 is being used far beyond its original intent.

Steven Portnoy

@stevenportnoy

2 years

How's he doing it? Biden is employing a post-9/11 law that allows for debt cancelation "in connection with a war or other military operation or national emergency." Which emergency? "[T]he present COVID-19 pandemic," per a Dept of Ed memo issued yesterday. h/t @kathrynw5 .

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@dandcaldwell

1 year

🧵The last thing America needs is direct involvement in another major Middle East war, this time against Iran. It could cost us 1000s of lives, 100s of billions of $, and put more financial strain on U.S. families. These Biden aides are being reckless:

Saagar Enjeti

@esaagar

1 year

Times of Israel reporting that Biden team has assured the IDF the US military will engage if Hezbollah enters the war ->

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

No one who wrote this book should be able to accuse anyone else of propagandizing:

Stephen Hayes

@stephenfhayes

1 year

Contrast this with the pro-Putin propagandizing Rand Paul has engaged in over the years. Disgraceful.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

3 years

Unpatriotic for @ChristinaPushaw to essentially state the foreign policy of our founding? "[America] is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." - John Quincy Adams 1821

Charlie Crist

@CharlieCrist

3 years

America stands for freedom and democracy. We strongly support democratic values when they are threatened, whether at home or abroad. This statement is unpatriotic and should be condemned by @govrondesantis .

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

The war also broke an uncounted number of families. The broader war on terror also likely contributed indirectly to the opioid crisis, with the VA and DoD health care systems over-subscribing pain medication to veterans of the GWOT.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

A Russian Army that couldn’t take Kharkiv can’t take Warsaw, Berlin, or Paris. Europe has nearly 10x the GDP of Russia and can support Ukraine/balance Russia largely on its own. All Uncle Sam is doing in Ukraine is allowing itself to be Uncle Sucker once again for wealthy Europe.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

4 years

Thanks @mattgaetz . High praise coming from one of the biggest champions in Congress of ending our endless wars (while also not starting new ones) and ensuring our veterans get the health care and benefits they earned.

Matt Gaetz

@mattgaetz

4 years

Brilliant piece by @dandcaldwell

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

3 years

At end of day the least worst option that preserves the most Ukrainian lives is a diplomatic solution that ends this war before it escalates in WW3 or turns into an Iraq/Syria/Afghanistan-style protracted insurgency or civil war. (4/4)

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

11 months

This is probably what most rank and file think about Tuberville’s holds: "Gee I am really upset and depressed that our commander who downgraded every combat award on the last deployment and whose wife ran the key wives club like Pol Pot ran the Khmer Rogue are in limbo.”

Andrew Desiderio

@AndrewDesiderio

11 months

More from Sullivan: “This is a morale issue. This is a readiness issue. Arguments that it’s not impacting morale and readiness are not serious. That’s certainly a point I made in today’s conference [meeting].”

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

4 months

I wish more Senators talked this way about America’s role and position in the world. The below is an excellent articulation of what should undergird a realist foreign policy for America. From @JDVance1 ’s interview with @DouthatNYT in @nytimes :

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

If you are a GOP presidential candidate and you can't bring yourself to say the words "The Iraq War was a mistake", you are revealing yourself to be delusional when it comes to American foreign policy and disconnected from where the Republican base is on these issues.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

3 months

. @WadeMiller_USMC off the top rope yet again.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

83 senators support subordinating the U.S. Constitution to NATO. Republicans need to stop treating NATO as a foreign policy holy sacrament and instead view it with the same skepticism as the WHO, UN, and other international institutions.

Senate Cloakroom

@SenateCloakroom

1 year

Not adopted, 16-83: Adoption of the Paul amendment #222 in relation to Cal. #119 , S.2226, FY2024 NDAA. (60-vote affirmative threshold)

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

3 years

As as a proud signatory of this letter and someone who saw firsthand the effects of a prolonged insurgency in Iraq, I will respond. Innocent civilians are the ones who pay the highest price for insurgencies fueled by outside powers. This would apply to Ukraine as well. (1/4)

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

1 year

Also - every minute you spend attacking a campaign staffer is one less minute you have to drive a message about your candidate or your opponent. Voters don’t care about campaign staff (official staff is a different story) unless they are particularly abhorrent or criminal.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

It is a reflection of the brokenness of so many of our institutions and the mediocrity of much of our ruling elite, that unrepentant advocates of the war are still elevated to positions of power and given platforms to advance their noxious and discredited foreign policy ideology.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

The communities that supply most of America's fighting men and women were devastated by the war. 10Ks are dead as a result of combat or suicide due to moral injury sustained in the war. 100Ks more are suffering life-long health challenges - seen and unseen - due to the conflict.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

3 years

🧵On days like today, it is important to remember that the most hawkish DC-based analysts/pundits are largely shielded from the consequences of the policies they advocate. Nor have they been held accountable for their failures on Russia or Ukraine in addition to Iraq, etc.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

Millions of Iraqis remain internally or externally displaced. The Iraqi Christian community - once one of the most vibrant in the Middle East - is on the verge of extinction, with over 1 million Iraqi Christians having fled the country following the U.S. invasion.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

🧵Some neocons have been pushing a false narrative that @GOPLeader 's recent remarks on Ukraine aid is out of step with both R and D voters. The reality is support for aiding Ukraine among Americans has noticeably softened since the start of war-especially among GOP voters.(1/9)

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

11 months

My latest in @amconmag on our troop presence in Iraq/Syria. Biden is condemning our troops to serve as soft targets for those looking to punish the US for its support of Israel and as trip wires for a larger regional war. He should bring them home instead:

Our National Disgrace in Iraq and Syria

American troops are needlessly risking life and limb because of policy paralysis and lack of political courage

www.theamericanconservative.com

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

4 years

It is a shame that more supporters of the Iraq War didn't follow Rep. Jones's example.

Drew Spookvicki (Savicki) 🦇👻🧛‍♂️🎃

@DrewSav

4 years

Walter Jones spent the last 15 years of his life atoning for his support of the Iraq War. He wrote a form letter he would sign to the families of every soldier who fell in battle. He personally signed every single one of those letters. No autopen.

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Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸

@dandcaldwell

2 years

What an absolute joke. Let’s be clear what is happening here: the VA is jettisoning a motto based on the words of President Lincoln primarily to appease a small yet vocal group of woke DC and NYC-based VSO staffers.

Leo Shane III

@LeoShane

2 years

Breaking now: @DeptVetAffairs is changing its motto for the first time in 70 years, dumping male-only language in an effort to be more welcoming to women vets, family members

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