The President's Daily Brief
November 26th, 2024: NATO Prepares For ‘Wartime Scenario’ & North Korean Missiles Contain Western Parts
26 Nov 2024
In this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: A top NATO commander issues a stark warning for businesses to prepare for a “wartime scenario,” urging the West to secure its production lines against adversarial nations like Russia. New satellite imagery reveals North Korea ramping up production of short-range missiles for Russia, with components sourced from the West. A surprising cybersecurity risk: Chinese-made cranes used in U.S. ports—responsible for 80% of American container operations—may pose a serious national security threat. And in today’s Back of the Brief: Mexican cartels are exploiting the CBP One app, a tool for migrants, to track and kidnap potential victims. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President’s Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief. Blackout Coffee: https://www.blackoutcoffee.com/PDB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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It's Tuesday, 26 November. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed.
Today, we'll start things off with an alarming warning from a top NATO commander who's urging businesses to prepare for a, quote, wartime scenario, basically advising companies to adjust Western production to be less vulnerable to adversarial nations like Russia.
Later, satellite imagery shows North Korea ramping up its production of short-range missiles for use by Russia, some of which contain components sourced from the West. And then you have to ask yourself, is there nothing that Kim Jong-un won't do for his comrade-in-arms, Vladimir Putin? Plus, a surprising cybersecurity risk.
Chinese-made cranes used in American ports, responsible basically for 80% of U.S. container operations, could pose a national security threat. Oh, well, you could add that to a long list of other items, including telecoms equipment that U.S. regional providers have been installing for years. And, oh, then there's TikTok.
And in today's back of the brief, a troubling report on how Mexican cartels are exploiting the CBP One app used by migrants while the cartels are using it to track potential kidnap victims. But first, today's PDB Spotlight.
We'll begin in Europe, where NATO's top military official is warning the alliance to prepare for a wartime scenario, as France and the UK reportedly consider putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. Now, honestly, I didn't have World War III on my 2025 bingo card, but there it is.
In remarks during an event hosted by the European Policy Center think tank on Monday, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, chair of NATO's military committee, asked businesses to prepare for a major conflict in Europe, urging them to bring their production and distribution lines back home in order to avoid blackmail or sabotage by Russia and China. That's according to a report from Reuters.
Bauer said increasing global instability caused by belligerent powers has left their supply chains vulnerable and time is running short, he said, to protect European interests from adversaries in the East. Okay, frankly, I can't spot the lie in any of that.
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