The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
How do I know the "Teodoro letters" being pushed in the 🇵🇭#Philippines by propagandists like 🇨🇳@MediaUnlock & @AnnaMalindogUy are not only fake, but a conspiracy Made in #China?
I unpack here 👇👇👇
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
USAF F-16s Back On Alert Duty In Aleutian Islands For First Time In Decades
NORAD’s return to fighter alert ops on remote Shemya Island is yet another reminder of the eroding security environment in the Pacific and the Arctic.
twz.com/air/usaf-f-16s-back-…
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
China Maritime Report #57: Sailing Thousands of Miles Without Losing Course: The Roles and Authorities of the PLAN Party Standing Committee
Full Report:
tinyurl.com/3n9mpa37
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
Reuters reports U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Adm. Brad Cooper has warned U.S. troops that cellphone videos and social media posts are giving Iran real-time battle damage assessments, potentially helping it plan follow on strikes against American forces.
According to Reuters, some troops in Jordan have been told their phones could soon be confiscated as the military considers tighter operational security measures following recent attacks.
Cooper wrote that footage posted by service members can reveal whether Iranian missiles hit their targets, warning that publicly shared images and reporting can provide Tehran with intelligence "free of charge."
Source: reuters.com/business/media-t…
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
Attention, current and former U.S. government employees! Foreign intelligence services are posing as employers on professional networking sites like LinkedIn to target clearance holders for recruitment. We urge you to visit fbi.gov/investigate/counteri… to learn how to mitigate the threat.
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
On June 6, 1944, a 56-year-old general with a secret walked onto Utah Beach under fire, armed with a cane and a pistol.
The secret: his heart was failing. He had hidden it from the army doctors so they wouldn't pull him from the mission.
His name was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Son of the President. He had begged three separate times to lead the first wave ashore at Normandy before his commanders finally said yes.
When his landing craft drifted 2,000 yards off course, every instinct said redirect the following waves to the correct zone. Instead, Roosevelt walked the beach himself, alone, under artillery fire, cane in hand, reading the terrain.
His verdict: "We'll start the war from right here."
He then stood on that beach and personally greeted every regiment that landed after him, pointing them inland, cracking jokes under shellfire, steadying 18-year-olds who had never seen combat. He did this for hours.
Years later, Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic act he had ever witnessed in combat.
His answer, without hesitation: "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."
Roosevelt's son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, also landed at Normandy that same morning. He was named after his uncle, Quentin Roosevelt, who had been shot down as a fighter pilot over France in World War I.
Three generations. Three wars. One family.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep 36 days later. Heart attack. The thing he had been hiding finally won. He never learned he had been awarded the Medal of Honor.
He was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery.
In 1955, his family had his brother Quentin, killed in WWI, exhumed from where he fell in France and reinterred right beside him. Quentin is the only World War I soldier buried there.
Two brothers. Two world wars. The same French soil.
Their father had once said: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Both of his sons did exactly that.
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
The Origins of #China’s Nine-Dash Line claim in the South China Sea, according to Greg Poling
Link to the full episode down below
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
🙄In its so-far unsuccessful campaign to discredit 🇵🇭#Philippines Coast Guard spokesperson @jaytaryela, 🇨🇳@Chinaembmanila goes for the triple-bank shot🏀🏀🏀.
You see, because Jay highlighted a report from a well regarded US-based think tank on social media ... and because that think tank's origin story includes support by a former CIA director ... well, of course that means ... 🕵️
We're used to this kind of silliness from unserious trolls (for which I am similarly targeted). But for an official diplomatic mission's spokesperson in Manila this is bizarre behavior and conspiracy theorizing of the first order.
Jay and I talked a bit about this on a recent @IndoPacPodcast episode (see below).👇 – at West Menlo Park, CA
Replying to @IndoPacPodcast
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🇯🇵🇺🇸 TAKAICHI & TRUMP VOW TO "FORGE NEW HISTORY" FOR JAPAN-US ALLIANCE, SPRING SUMMIT LOCKED TO COUNTER INDO-PACIFIC THREATS
Japan PM Sanae Takaichi wasted no time syncing up with Trump, hopping on a phone call to congratulate him on America's 250th anniversary and lock in tight cooperation amid the wild global scene.
Trump extended a spring invitation for Takaichi to visit the US and hash out security and economic moves, with both leaders hyping a "new chapter" in the Japan-US alliance.
Takaichi called it "extremely significant," reaffirming the rock-solid partnership right at the new year's start.
With China flexing and the Indo-Pacific heating up, this quick alignment shows the duo's ready to turn words into action, spring summit could drop some real firepower. Pacific power play just leveled up.
Source: @takaichi_sanae
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
How China's civilian fleet is rehearsing to take Taiwan - reuters.com/investigations/s…
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
🇵🇭🇨🇳🇹🇼ALERT: What is the Philippine Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification of #China (PCPPRC) and why are authorities watching it?
The Organization:
The PCPPRC is identified by experts as a local arm of Beijing’s United Front Work Department—used by the Chinese Communist Party to influence foreign societies in support of its political goals.
The Event:
On October 19th the PCPPRC hosted the 8th China Peaceful Reunification Forum at the Century Park Hotel in Manila, gathering over 300 delegates with Chinese government officials. The agenda explicitly pushed for #Taiwan's annexation and urged attendees to oppose "separatist activities".
Why It Matters:
Security experts warn that the PCPPRC serves as a vehicle for #CCP-directed foreign influence operations on Philippine soil.
Mobilization: The group works to align local Chinese-Filipino business & civic leaders with Beijing's interests.
Read the full story by @Frances_Mng: 👇👇👇 #Philippines #CCP – at West Menlo Park, CA
Philippine authorities cautious about forum seeking Taiwan’s ‘reunification’ with China coverstory.ph/2025/12/27/phi…
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
It's time. 🇵🇭🤝🇺🇸
For the Filipino families living on Thitu (Pag-Asa) Island, the threat isn't abstract—it's on the horizon every morning. 🌊🚢
In October I explained to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee why 🇺🇸 can no longer stay away.
#WestPhilippineSea #Philippines
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
USN high-resolution rendering provided to @navalnewscom:
- Three 64-cell Mark 41 VLS banks
- One CPS hypersonic launch bank
- Two 21-cell RAM launchers
- Two high power lasers
- Four SEWIP Block III modules
- One railgun
- Two Mark 45 guns
- Outsized SPY-6 arrays
Story ⬇️
Trump Announces Nuclear-Armed Battleships for the U.S. Navy 🇺🇸
The U.S. Navy will take delivery of new-build battleships, the largest ever built, according to President Trump
Story by @__CJohnston__
navalnews.com/naval-news/202…
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
🇯🇵 Kimi Onoda explains that the Japanese government is now looking at the nationality of foreigners who buy land in Japan.
Chinese citizens often purchase land in Japan but their nationality is never disclosed. This will now change.
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
The Filipinos did NOT kick the US military out of their bases in the 90’s.
This myth needs to die.
A majority also did NOT vote for independence from the United States.
The Democratic Party did NOT want 15 million brown Catholics voting in US elections, so they bribed the elite to push for independence, and the media swung in to convince Americans this was a good idea.
It was not a good idea.
Then we turned the jewel of the Pacific over to corrupt elites and the CIA (read the book Gold Warriors), who sucked it dry, turning our rightful land into a poverty zone.
And then, worse, they pushed the elites to embrace expatriation to support American corporations around the world (read Confessions of an Economic Hitman), draining the nation of its best talent.
And it didn’t end there. Visit any port or major construction zone around the world and you will find brothels. They literally sent tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of Catholic women into sex slavery to pull down the moral envelope of the nation. And I say “sent,” but in reality it was a massive organized effort that used, of all things, American Idol–style talent shows to recruit smart, religious, morally upright women for “Hollywood and TV gigs.”
These brothels still exist today and send intelligence back to the CIA. Enter one and you will find smart, talented women who can sing like angels.
How do I know? Well, the first industry they outsourced to Filipinos was the US Merchant Marine. Why? Because someone has to move all the CIA’s poppies and gold and oil without telling the press. That was our job until we got replaced.
But not all of us American ship captains got replaced—they kept a token few of us. But they think we won’t talk because we’ve been to these brothels. We have, except some of us haven’t used all the services.
Bottom line is what was historically a rich land with a population WE educated became a third-world nation. And we used the labor to build our post–Bretton Woods empire.
The bases?
Some Filipinos understood how corrupt our relationship with their nation was and pushed for America to leave, but many more wanted us to return. Didn’t matter, though, theDems were in battle to shitcan it because the director of the CIA was VP, then POTUS. They funded the movement to kick us out.
When Mount Pinatubo erupted, the Dems and the Filipino elite (still controlled by Dems) circled for the kill, knowing fiscally conservative Republicans wouldn’t want to pay to refurbish Subic Bay & Clark AFB.
The independence movement & the base-closure movement were first and foremost an anti-Catholic PSYOP by racist Democrats.
And certain elements of my Catholic Church (the same elements that support Catholic Charities & the flood of migrants crossing our borders) were paid off with Philippine gold (mostly stolen from China by the Japanese) to look the other way (read: Operation Gladio).
And the continuation of this myth we were taught by the media and in school is putting the stability of the entire region in peril.
Americans don’t understand the true history, but China absolutely does & is exploiting it to their advantage.
Americans also don’t understand the absolute importance to maritime trade of the Luzon Strait but again China does, which is why it’s encroaching on their “fishing grounds”
It’s frankly unbelievable to me that all well-informed Americans are fully aware the uniparty and media control the primaries in our own nation, but many of those same people still think the Filipinos could freely choose their leaders.
This is well documented in the book How to Hide an Empire: amzn.to/4agxo0g
Bottom line: elites screwed over the good people of the Philippines long enough. I don’t know if we owe them the statehood, but we absolutely owe them whatever military equipment, money & training we can give them to defend themselves against what’s coming.
The religious war against Catholics must end. I pray that @JDVance & @USWPColby investigate ✝️
Replying to @johnkonrad
They kicked us out in the early 90's.
Now that China is a threat they want us back...hmm.
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
🇵🇭Manila's Chinatown TV News (CNTV) orders the "code red" on its 🇨🇳CCP propaganda videos 😲
2⃣ weeks ago, I published an investigation exposing how the Philippine Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification of #China operates as a #CCP political mobilization vehicle right in the heart of Manila.
My article linked to videos from Manila-based CNTV showing Philippine civic leaders being instructed by Chinese officials to "unite around the Party Central Committee and Comrade Xi Jinping." 🫡🇨🇳
🗑️ Shortly after publication, however Chinatown TV started deleting those videos from its platforms.
🤔 Why would a broadcaster erase its own content?
The answer is simple: the videos are undeniable evidence of foreign-directed political organizing on Philippine soil. CNTV's propagandistic coverage—delivered by anchors describing how attendees "must bear in mind the entrustment of President Xi Jinping"—can no longer be defended as "cultural" programming.
😉 Fortunately, SeaLight archived everything.
🎦 We've now re-uploaded all seven deleted videos documenting Chinese diplomats directing local organizations on "anti-independence" activities; Philippine business and civic leaders at events where loyalty to Xi Jinping is promoted; and systematic coordination of transnational 🇨🇳 #UnitedFront networks across Asia.
As foreign influence operations face growing scrutiny, the scrubbing of the archives becomes part of the story. It's an admission that this content poses a reputational liability they can no longer afford.
Full investigation with all archived videos below in comments📷:
#ForeignInfluence #Philippines #MediaTransparency #InvestigativeJournalism #SouthChinaSea #IndoPacific
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
China is writing the narrative it wants future Southeast Asians to inherit by normalizing its presence in the South China Sea. Every quiet push, every new marker, every routine patrol is part of that story.
We counter that by making sure our own presence is just as steady. Consistent patrols, constant operations, and a clear assertion of our rights in our EEZ keep the record straight. The more visible and regular we are, the less room there is for their creeping expansion to take hold.
#knowourseas
#protectourseas
#WestPhilippineSea
#sitrepph
Philippine Coast Guard Maintains Uninterrupted Presence in Bajo De Masinloc with Deployment of BRP Cape San Agustin
The Philippine Coast Guard has seamlessly continued its maritime patrol operations off Zambales with the deployment of the 44-meter multi-role response vessel BRP Cape San Agustin (MRRV-4408), which relieved BRP Cabra the other day after the latter completed over a week of continuous operations and returned to port for logistics and crew rest.
Despite rough sea conditions with waves of 2–3 meters, BRP Cape San Agustin (MRRV-4408) skillfully maneuvered and successfully pushed the distance of Chinese Coast Guard vessel CCG-3303 further to approximately 135 nautical miles off the Zambales coastline. Meanwhile, CCG-3305 and CCG-3502 continue to be monitored on the vessel’s radar as they loiter and conduct unlawful patrols in the immediate vicinity of Bajo de Masinloc.
The Philippine Coast Guard remains steadfast in asserting the Philippines’ sovereignty, sovereign rights, and jurisdiction over the West Philippine Sea, in full accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Philippine Maritime Zones Act, and the final and binding 2016 Arbitral Award.
The PCG Commandant, Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan, emphasized that, despite operating with limited assets and facing rough seas that endanger the safety of its personnel, the men and women of the Philippine Coast Guard will remain resolute and will never back down in defending the nation’s maritime interests—fully aligned with the firm directives of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
Here's my response to 🇨🇳#China's claim that the 🇵🇭#Philippines is provoking it by documenting its aggressions: you're allowed to claim victimhood if you are, in fact, the victim. 👇👇👇 – at Washington, DC
The "Victim" Playbook:
🦀Provoke first
📣Cry louder
🎥Get filmed out of context
📰Turned into a "victim"
#SouthChinaSea #AICartoon
The Watch 🇺🇸🌎📡 retweeted
Just updated with a statement from U.S. Pacific Fleet. According to the release, Task Force-Philippines is a joint 60 personnel coordination unit led by a one-star. It also aims to bolster the capability of Manila’s new defense strategy (CADC). 1/2
“American and Philippine defense secretaries unveiled a task force designed to deter Chinese coercion in the South China Sea and enhance alliance defense cooperation.”
Task Force Philippines comes amid SCS concerns and new fronts for the 🇺🇸🇵🇭 alliance:
news.usni.org/2025/10/31/u-s…




































