Admiral James Stavridis. A thousand pounds of enriched uranium. Masked ICE at the airport. The cyber tower nobody’s watching.
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Admiral James Stavridis returns to Independent Americans with the kind of no-BS strategic read Americans aren’t getting on cable. A thousand pounds of enriched uranium is still unaccounted for. Masked ICE agents are being redirected into airport terminals. And a looming cyber threat surface of 50 billion connected devices is expanding by the day. If you want to understand what’s actually happening — and what’s coming next — this is the conversation.
The waters are rough and Americans deserve a pathfinder who can actually read the map. Admiral James Stavridis — former NATO Supreme Allied…
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