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08 Feb 24. Statement From Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on a Helicopter Crash in California. We mourn the tragic loss of five U.S. Marines earlier this week during a training flight enroute from Nevada to California. My prayers are with these brave Marines and their families, loved ones, and teammates. As the Marine Corps investigates this deadly crash, it is yet another reminder that across our nation and the world our selfless service members put their lives on the line every day to keep our country safe. The entire Department of Defense honors these brave Marines’ service and grieves their passing.. (Source: U.S. DoD)
06 Feb 24. 5 Months With No Base Budget Affects Department’s Modernization Efforts. Soon, the fiscal year 2025 national defense budget is expected to be presented as part of the fiscal 2025 presidential budget request. At the same time, last year’s budget has still not been passed, and the Defense Department is operating on a continuing resolution, said the deputy Pentagon press secretary.
“The department continues to urge Congress to pass our base budget,” said Sabrina Singh during a briefing today. “We still do not have an FY24 budget … and the department will be getting ready to submit our FY25 budget. As the secretary has said, the one thing we cannot buy back is time, and we are losing critical time under a that we need to be spending modernizing our military to meet the pacing challenge. Continuously living under a is asking us to try and fight with one hand tied behind our back.”
Earlier this week, the Senate announced a supplemental bill to provide military aid to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression, Singh said. The bill means investment in the U.S. defense industrial base, the production of weapons and equipment that can be sent to Ukraine, and an ongoing and important show of support to Ukraine.
“If the U.S. stops support to Ukraine, we should be clear-eyed about the repercussions,” Singh said. “Putin is not going to stop in his quest for power and control beyond Ukraine’s borders toward NATO. If Putin attacks a NATO ally, we will find ourselves in direct conflict as we are committed to defending every inch of NATO. So let’s be clear. We can do the responsible thing and pay now to help Ukraine or we can pay much more later to counteract the gains we would hand Vladimir Putin and an emboldened Russia.”
Air Defenses in Middle East Largely Successful
In late January, three U.S. soldiers were killed and 40 other service members were injured at Tower 22 of the Jordanian Defense Network, a military base in Jordan near the Syrian border, following an attack by an uncrewed aerial system. Those service members were in Jordan to support Operation Inherent Resolve, a U.S. combined mission working by, with and through regional partners to ensure the defeat of ISIS.
Singh said the loss of lives at the base is tragic, and Centcom is assessing and reviewing the attack to find out what happened, why it happened, and how a drone was able to evade air defenses. She also noted that in the Middle East, following more than 160 similar attacks, U.S. air defenses in the region have been mostly successful.
“For a majority, those attacks have been unsuccessful,” she said. “We’ve seen a majority of those attacks have minor damage to infrastructure, incur minor casualties to our service members,” she said. “For the most part, our air defenses have been able to catch or been able to destroy any impact or any incoming … whether it be rockets or drones at bases.” (Source: U.S. DoD)
07 Feb 24. US cracks down on network fuelling Iran’s Ballistic Missile and UAV programmes. The transnational procurement network has been targeted to enable Iran’s military expansion. The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has revealed a series of sanctions against a network of suppliers facilitating Iran’s development of ballistic missiles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The move aims to disrupt illicit procurement channels and hold accountable those involved in exporting weapons to terrorist proxy groups.
In a decisive move aimed at curbing Iran’s military ambitions, the US Treasury has imposed sanctions on a prominent procurement network facilitating the development of Iran’s ballistic missile and UAV programmes. The targeted entities, spanning Iran and Hong Kong, have been identified as covert procurement fronts for individuals actively supporting Iran’s military organisations, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Iran is currently supplying Russia with weapons, including loitering munitions, which are being used in Ukraine. The US, the UK, and the EU have all sanctioned either Iran or firms linked to the weapons supplied by Iran, marking a new conflict point in Iranian/US relations, as per GlobalData’s US defence market intelligence.
In 2023, the US escalated efforts to disrupt Iran’s UAV programmes, targeting a multinational network across four countries involved in facilitating Iran’s UAV development. These actions came amidst concerns about Iran’s support for Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
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Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Brian E. Nelson emphasised the gravity of Iran’s proliferation of advanced weaponry, “Iran’s continued proliferation of its advanced conventional weapons, including the UAVs and missiles that target US soldiers, remains a critical threat to the stability of the region.
We will not hesitate to leverage our full suite of tools to disrupt the illicit procurement networks that supply the components for these weapons systems, as well as hold accountable those who seek to export these weapons to terrorist proxy groups.”
In November 2023, the US responded to attacks on its personnel in Iraq and Syria by conducting a strike on an Iranian-linked weapons storage facility in Eastern Syria, using two F-15 Strike Eagle fighters.
The designated entities, including Hong Kong-based front companies FY International Trading Co., Limited, Duling Technology HK Limited, and Advantage Trading Co., Limited, have been implicated in facilitating the procurement of sensitive technology and materials crucial for Iran’s missile and UAV programmes. Additionally, Narin Sepehr Mobin Istatis, an Iran-based subsidiary of one of the sanctioned entities, has been targeted for its complicity in supporting Iran’s military objectives.
Of particular concern is the role played by Hong Kong-based front company China Oil and Petroleum Company Limited, which is implicated in arranging contracts and selling Iranian commodities worth hundreds of ms of dollars for the benefit of the IRGC-QF. The sanctions serve as a warning from the US to entities engaging in transactions with designated individuals or organisations, with stringent penalties for violators.
Extensive battlefield experience gained from conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, coupled with a surge in loitering munitions sales, is projected to propel the global military UAV market to nearly $18bn by 2033, according to a report by GlobalData.
The US is showing resolve to counter Iran’s destabilising activities and to prevent the proliferation of advanced weaponry to rogue actors and terrorist groups. By targeting the financial networks enabling Iran’s military expansion, the US aims to disrupt the flow of resources fuelling Tehran’s aggressive agenda while signalling its commitment to regional security and stability. (Source: airforce-technology.com)
06 Feb 24. House advances arms sales bill supported by defense industry. The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday narrowly advanced 26-20 an arms sale bill largely along party lines that has pitted defense industry groups against arms control advocates. Despite the near party-line vote, the legislation emerged from a bipartisan taskforce meant to address substantial U.S. foreign military sales delays across the board, including to Taiwan.
The main point of contention in the Tiger Act, introduced by task force leader Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., is a provision raising the dollar threshold at which the president can approve an arms transfer without notifying Congress from $14 m to $23 m. It also raises the threshold for the sale of defense articles, upgrades, related training or other services without congressional notification from $50 m to $83 m. Additionally, it paves the way for the State Department to make use of the Pentagon’s Special Defense Acquisition Fund, a revolving account used to procure weapons for foreign military sales.
“We should arm our allies and simplify the bureaucracy so they can do the fighting for our interests and less involve the United States,” Waltz said before the vote. “This is about jobs. This is about empowering our allies to fight for themselves.”
The bill is backed by the National Defense Industrial Association and the Aerospace Industries Association. Its proponents note the new numbers simply reflect inflation since 2003, when Congress last adjusted the thresholds.
But a coalition of 17 arms control and human rights groups, led by the Center for Civilians in Conflict and the Middle East Democracy Center, sent a letter to lawmakers last week arguing the bill cedes congressional oversight authority by hindering lawmakers’ ability to place holds on sales over human rights concerns.
Opponents of raising congressional notification requirements point to a 2020 State Department Inspector General report, which found the Trump administration approved 4,221 below-threshold arms transfers to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates amounting to $11.2 bn between Jan. 2017 and Aug. 2020.
The House established the foreign military sales task force last year to spearhead legislative efforts meant to expedite the unwieldy arms sale process amid a multibn-dollar arms sale backlog across the world, from Taiwan to Saudi Arabia. The backlogs are caused by a confluence of U.S. industrial base constraints, contracting delays and lengthy review processes.
“Many of the most significant hurdles lie within the defense industry’s production constraints and inefficiencies within the executive branch,” Rep. Kathy Manning, D-N.C., said ahead of the vote. “The congressional review process is not the problem.”
Waltz noted the bill is only the task force’s first stab at expediting the arms sale process. The House is expected to consider additional foreign military sales legislation when it takes up the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill.
The arms sale task force included two Democrats, Reps. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Jason Crow of Colorado.
After an agreement with Moulton, the latest version of the Waltz bill includes a provision that would require a congressional notification for sales to a country once they exceed a cumulative threshold of $1 bn over three years. That threshold increases to $5 bn over three years for NATO countries and other close U.S. allies. It is unclear what other changes lawmakers made at the markup because the Foreign Affairs Committee did not publicly release the latest text of the bill before the vote.
Still, the agreement with Moulton, who sits on the Armed Services but not the Foreign Affairs Committee, was not enough to win the support of most Democrats. Crow issued a dissenting opinion to the Republican-dominated task force.
“While the task force received input from a limited number of stakeholders, the process was non-inclusive,” Crow wrote in his dissent, obtained by Defense News. “The task force did not receive needed input from leaders in civil society, arms control experts or the human rights community.”
Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., accused Waltz’s legislation of “parroting” the defense industry, noting that 95% of foreign military sale cases are approved within 48 hours.
“That’s not very slow,” Titus said before the vote. “It just focused its efforts on undermining congressional oversight mechanisms simply for the sake of expediency.” (Source: C4ISR & Networks)
07 Feb 24. House fails to pass Israel aid amid Ukraine standoff with Biden. The path forward for both Israel and Ukraine aid is unclear amid a House Republican standoff with the Democratic-held Senate and White House over a roughly $118bn foreign assistance and U.S. southern border security bill.
The House on Tuesday failed to pass a stand-alone $17.6bn Israel aid bill, which President Joe Biden has threatened to veto because it does not include Ukraine aid, border security or humanitarian assistance. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans have backtracked on the immigration policy deal they struck after two months of negotiations with Democrats to unlock Ukraine aid.
“Every week, every month that passes without new aid to Ukraine means fewer artillery shells, fewer air defense systems, fewer tools for Ukraine to defend itself against its Russian onslaught, just what [President Vladimir] Putin wants,” Biden said in a White House address Tuesday.
Pro-Israel Democrats concerned about the lack of Ukraine aid banded together with Republicans from the right-wing House Freedom Caucus to vote down the Israel assistance bill introduced by defense appropriations Chairman Ken Calvert, R-Calif. The Freedom Caucus, which also opposes Ukraine aid, voted against the bill because it did not include other spending cuts to offset the $17.6 bn for Israel.
The combined opposition from Democrats and Freedom Caucus Republicans meant House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had to bring the bill to the floor using a procedural mechanism that required a two-thirds majority vote for passage — a threshold which the bill failed to reach with a 250-180 vote.
The House passed another stand-alone $14bn Israel aid bill in November, but most Democrats voted against it because it cut an equal amount from the Internal Revenue Service. While Johnson has backed off the IRS cuts, he has declared the Senate’s $118bn foreign aid bill “dead on arrival” in the House.
“There’s an absence of leadership in the White House as President Joe Biden is attempting to dial down support for Israel,” Johnson said before a meeting with Israeli Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and relatives of the hostages Hamas abducted in its Oct. 7 attack on Israel. “House Republicans announced a new aid package to deliver defense and military aid in Israel that is desperately needed.”
The bill hews closely to Biden’s Israel supplemental spending request, providing more funding for artillery and munitions to the U.S. ally amid its four-month bombardment of Gaza that has displaced roughly 85% of the population and killed thousands of civilians. It also includes $4bn for the Iron Dome and David’s Sling air defense systems and another $1.2bn to procure the Iron Beam laser system to counter short-range rocket threats.
The bill also expands Israel’s access to the pre-positioned U.S. war reserve stockpile on its soil while potentially reducing reimbursement rates. Additionally, it includes $3.5bn in Foreign Military Financing grants for Israel while allowing the Biden administration to waive the standard congressional notification requirements.
Israel receives an annual $3.8bn in U.S. military aid via the regular appropriations process.
‘More desperate’
The House vote came as former president Donald Trump, favored to win the Republican presidential primary, lambasted the immigration deal. Trump posted Monday on his social media network, Truth Social, that an immigration bill “should not be tied to foreign aid in any way, shape or form!”
Trump and a growing number of Republicans have opposed additional aid for Ukraine, which has received a cumulative $113bn in economic and security aid since Russia’s 2022 invasion.
The former president’s opposition dulled Senate Republicans’ appetite for a deal, even though they blocked a previous iteration of Biden’s foreign aid request in December with a demand that it include immigration policy changes. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., indicated Tuesday he would now support the foreign aid legislation without the immigration provisions.
Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, told Defense News he hopes “we pass all of the security parts of the supplemental.”
“The border provisions don’t have anywhere near the votes to pass, so it will need to be stripped out,” said Wicker.
Nonetheless, Democrats still intend to hold a procedural vote on the foreign aid bill with the immigration restrictions later this week.
Senate Armed Services Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., accused the House of “a clever political ploy.” He ruled out a stand-alone Israel assistance without Ukraine aid legislation.
Reed told Defense News “the tactical situation in Ukraine is more desperate than the current situation in the Middle East, except of course all the potential escalation, but that we’re handling with U.S. forces and air strikes.”
The Biden administration in December used its last tranche of Ukraine aid funds from previous assistance packages.
“Right now, Ukraine has just 20% … of the ammunition and artillery it needs as Russia is advancing,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., told reporters.
The Senate bill also includes nearly $4bn in aid for Taiwan and Indo-Pacific security partners, $2.1bn for the submarine-industrial base and $542m for Indo-Pacific Command’s unfunded priorities list. (Source: C4ISR & Networks)
06 Feb 24. Hicks Underscores U.S. Deterrence Against Attacks on Homeland at Northcom Change of Command. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks underscored the imperative of maintaining a robust defense against threats to the homeland during a change of command ceremony yesterday at U.S. Northern Command headquarters at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado.
Air Force Gen. Gregory M. Guillot assumed dual command of Northcom and the North American Aerospace Defense Command from Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck.
Hicks noted that since its creation in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Northcom has served as the lynchpin for protecting North America against external threats.
“This command was designed to draw from the full strength of our military service talent, capabilities and approaches — land, air, sea and cyberspace — at any given moment in time and history,” she said.
“For more than 20 years now, you have stood the watch protecting our people and projecting power across domains and theaters in defense of our homeland,” she said.
Hicks noted that that protection extends far beyond the threat of terrorism, encompassing humanitarian assistance and disaster response and facing down threats posed by Russia’s long-range aviation, North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles, and Russian and Chinese out-of-area maritime operations.
“Not to mention the first kinetic engagement of a foreign object over North America since World War II when NORAD expertly led the safe shootdown and recovery of a high-altitude, surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast” last year, she said.
She added that under VanHerck’s command Northcom has also led the U.S. response to rising strategic competition in the Arctic Circle. The combatant command also led the Defense Department’s efforts to support federal, state, local and tribal partners during the COVID-19 pandemic and provide vital support for tens of thousands of Afghan nationals as they resettled in the U.S.
“This is all proof that we are better prepared today to deter, detect and defeat any threats to the homeland and in no small part thanks to Gen. VanHerck’s leadership of NORAD, Northcom,” Hicks said.
Hicks was joined by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair and Canadian Chief of the Defense Staff Army Gen. Wayne Eyre in underscoring the critical role of NORAD and Northcom.
Brown said NORAD, which has since the cold war brought U.S. and Canadian forces together under a combined organization charged with aerospace and maritime warning for North America, continues to represent the deep partnership between the two nations.
“Your presence here shows the world how deeply integrated our two countries are,” Brown said. “We’re integrated socially, economically, geopolitically, militarily, and we ultimately share responsibility for the security of our great continent. Like President Reagan said, we’re closer to family than anything else.”
VanHerck, who is retiring after more than 36 years of service, thanked leaders from both countries for their continued support for the women and men who work to ensure the continent remains secure.
“For the past three and a half years, I’ve had the privilege of waking up every day and serving the most incredible people accomplishing the most noble mission you can have: defending our homelands,” he said. “Thank you all for supporting them.” (Source: U.S. DoD)
05 Feb 24. New aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan faces uphill battle. The Senate on Sunday released a revised foreign aid bill offering military support for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan after a bipartisan group of negotiators agreed to new immigration restrictions in the legislation.
But it’s unclear whether the roughly $118bn legislation can pass Congress with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., immediately declaring it “dead on arrival” in the House and vowing to move forward with a separate Israel aid bill that would leave Ukraine without additional U.S. assistance.
“As Ukraine runs low on ammunition to fend off [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s brutal invasion, it is imperative we finally extend our support,” Senate Appropriations Chairwoman Patty Murray said in a statement. “Ukraine’s fate and so much more hangs in the balance — it’s time for Congress to act.”
Senate Republicans in December stalled votes on an earlier aid package, leading to two months of negotiations on unrelated immigration policy changes. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has said he will tee up a procedural vote on the new aid package as soon as Wednesday, but it’s unclear whether it will even have the 60 votes needed to pass the upper chamber.
The bill includes $60bn in security and economic aid for Ukraine, $48.4bn of which is for military support. That includes $13.7bn for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and $19.9bn for the Pentagon to backfill weapons sent to Ukraine through U.S. stockpiles. There’s also $1.6bn in Foreign Military Financing, allowing Ukraine and European countries impacted by Russia’s invasion to use the money to buy weapons from U.S. defense contractors.
The Biden administration in December used its last tranche of Ukraine aid funds from previous assistance packages.
A growing number of Republicans have become increasingly opposed to Ukraine aid, and many, including Johnson, claim the new bill’s immigration agreement “won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe.” The new aid bill is likely to lose Democratic support as well, with Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., accusing it of “dismantling our asylum system” and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., opposed to additional Israel aid.
“If we continue to fund [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s indiscriminate war, how can we, with a straight face, criticize Putin’s targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine as a war crime?” Sanders wrote in a statement.
The bill includes $10.6bn for the Defense Department to continue providing munitions and other weapons to Israel after a four-month bombardment of Gaza that has displaced roughly 85% of the population and killed thousands of civilians. That amount includes $4 bn for the Iron Dome and David’s Sling air defense systems and $1.2 bn to procure the Iron Beam laser system to counter short-range rocket threats.
There’s also another $3.5bn in Foreign Military Financing for Israel and another $2 bn in the same account for Indo-Pacific security partners, including Taiwan.
Unlike the December bill, the new legislation adds another $1.9bn specifically to backfill weapons sent to Taiwan from U.S. stockpiles, providing the Pentagon’s long-requested appropriation that will allow it to use presidential drawdown authority to quickly transfer weapons to Taipei.
The new bill adds another $2.4bn for U.S. Central Command to continue countering a deluge of attacks from Iran-backed proxies amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The use of expensive missile systems like Tomahawks to counter Houthi attacks on commercial ships with less expensive drones and missiles has placed additional demands on U.S. munitions stockpiles.
Additionally, the bill adds $542m for Indo-Pacific Command’s FY24 unfunded priorities list. It also retains $2.1bn in funding for the submarine-industrial base aimed at helping the Navy meet its submarine production goals while preparing to transfer as many as five Virginia-class submarines to Australia in the 2030s as part of the AUKUS agreement. (Source: Defense News)
05 Feb 24. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned a key procurement network of prolific suppliers of materials and sensitive technology for Iran’s ballistic missile and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) programs, including the Shahed-series UAV produced by Iran’s Shahed Aviation Industries Research Center (SAIRC). The four designated Iran- and Hong Kong-based entities (Narin Sepehr Mobin Istatis (NSMI) in Iran and FY International Trading Co., Limited (FYIT), Duling Technology HK Limited (Duling Technology), and Advantage Trading Co., Limited (Advantage Trading) and Hong Kong) have allegedly operated as covert procurement entities for OFAC designated Hamed Dehghan and Pishtazan Kavosh Gostar Boshra (PKGB), who are actively engaged in supporting multiple Iranian military organizations, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Additionally, OFAC has designated a Hong Kong-based front company (China Oil and Petroleum Company Limited) allegedly involved in the sale of hundreds of ms of dollars’ worth of Iranian commodities for the benefit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF). OFAC took this action pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery. This designation was enabled by key data from the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). As a result of these designations, all property and interests in property of the entities named above, and of any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more by them, individually or with other blocked persons, that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons must be blocked and reported to OFAC. All transactions by U.S. persons or within the United States (including transactions transiting the United States) that involve any property or interests in property of blocked or designated persons are prohibited. In addition, persons who engage in certain transactions with the entities designated today may themselves be exposed to sanctions. Furthermore, any foreign financial institution that knowingly facilitates a significant transaction or provides significant financial services for any of the entities designated today could be subject to U.S. sanctions. Click here for further identifying information on the designated entities. (Source: glstrade.com)
05 Feb 24. Senators reach deal on immigration and defence aid. US senators have unveiled a bipartisan immigration deal which will secure the southern border and release aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
Republican senators defied Donald Trump in backing the agreement which comes after months of negotiation.
But despite the agreement, the bill is likely to run into trouble in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, with the House Speaker, describing it as “dead on arrival”.
Key provisions of the 370-page agreement include the shutting of the border if illegal crossings hit a threshold.
President Joe Biden last month he would sign a bill shutting the border under those circumstances if the Senate sent him bipartisan legislation.
The bill will also end the practice of “catch and release” under which migrants are freed while they wait for their application to be considered.
Critics said this led to thousands of illegal migrants disappearing and remaining in the country.
The measure will also speed up the processing of immigration claims and tighten up the rules governing asylum.
Oklahoma Republican senator, James Langford who was one of the negotiators, hailed the agreement.
He described it as “a once-in-a-generation opportunity to close our open border and give future administrations the effective tools they need to stop the border chaos and protect our nation.”
The deal on immigration means that funds totaling $118bn will be released, which includes the foreign aid which was in danger of being blocked.
Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader of the Senate, said he would introduce the legislation within days.
But despite the agreement conservatives still condemned the agreement.
Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee, wrote on Twitter: “Any 41 senators can prevent the bill from proceeding. If you agree that senators should have this bill for at least a few weeks (and certainly more than a few days) before voting on it, say so!”
And some of the provisions are likely to face opposition from progressive Democrats.
Nevertheless, the deal was hailed by Mr Biden.
“For too long, going back decades, the immigration system has been broken. It’s time to fix it,” he said.
“Now we’ve reached an agreement on a bipartisan national security deal that includes the toughest and fairest set of border reforms in decades.
“It will make our country safer, make our border more secure, treat people fairly and humanely while preserving legal immigration, consistent with our values as a nation.” (Source: Daily Telegraph)
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