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China’s state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times declared President Joe Biden “inadequate” and his administration “disorderly” on Monday over the secret hospitalization of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin – a criticism levied nearly five months after the still-unexplained disappearance of now-former Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” CNN National Security Analyst and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper argued that the outcry over Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin being hospitalized in secret is “making a mountain out of a molehill”

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Brett Bruen, who served as Director of Global Engagement under President Barack Obama, stated that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin should resign and that should be one of “several resignations here, including his chief of

Rep. Matt Gaetz called for a hearing on Austin’s failure to communicate his hospitalization to Biden and other top national security officials.

Stefanik called on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to resign following revelations he was admitted to the intensive care unit on January 1 but did not tell the president until January 4.

Although Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin failed to inform the White House about his recent hospitalization, President Joe Biden (D) is not considering firing him, Politico reported Monday.

President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin — the two officials with National Command Authority, or the authority to give military orders — were both out of office on New Year’s Day, raising questions as to who exactly would be in charge in the case of a military emergency.

Washington remained in collective shock on Sunday, as more information trickled out about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s failure to disclose that he was admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit for days without telling the president, the national security adviser, members of Congress, and the public.

Republican officials are expressing outrage over the Biden administration’s Department of Defense “lack of transparency” after the revelation it hid the fact Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for days, raising serious queries about the maintenance of security during that period.

The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Roger Wicker, slammed the Pentagon for its “shocking defiance of the law” after it failed to disclose Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization to the president, the National Security Council, and Congress for several days, and called for a briefing from the administration “immediately.”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) demanded in a statement that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin explain why he did not notify President Joe Biden and the National Security Council that he was hospitalized for more than three days.

The Pentagon on Friday evening revealed that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was admitted to the hospital four days earlier, on New Year’s Day, January 1.

A recently released independent study showed that there was no extremism problem in the United States military, despite the Biden Pentagon making it a top priority to root out alleged extremists.

The Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen fired a missile that struck the Maersk Hangzhou in the Red Sea on Saturday, according to U.S. Central Command — the first successful strike against a commercial ship since the U.S. formed a coalition to deter attacks.

Iraqi PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani says U.S. and allied troops will be asked to leave the country after attacks by Iran’s Shiite militias.

The Biden administration’s ballyhooed naval coalition scrapped together for the purpose of deterring missile and drone attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen is failing.

The U.S. military struck three sites used by Iran-backed terrorist forces in Iraq on Monday in response to a one-way drone attack that wounded three American personnel earlier in the day, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.

Pro-Palestinian protesters converged on the homes of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Christmas Day.

Spain has backed away from a U.S.-led coalition meant to deter the Iranian-backed Houthis from attacks on global shipping near the Bab-el-Mandeb strait at the southern end of the Red Sea.

Trump stood up to the Houthis, and to Iran. Biden reversed that policy within days of taking office. We see the result: a failure, like the rest of his foreign policy.

Sources in the shipping industry told Reuters on Thursday they are “in the dark” about the Biden administration’s new Operation Prosperity Garden, a multinational effort to protect Red Sea shipping from terrorist attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorist organization controlling Yemen threatened to turn the Red Sea into a “graveyard” on Monday in response to U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announcing a coalition to stop Houthi pirate attacks on shipping vessels in the region.

President Trump’s successful policies in containing the Houthis were reversed by President Biden within days of taking office in 2021.

U.S. defense leaders fawned over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday during his visit to the Pentagon’s National Defense University, as he pitched for more U.S. taxpayer aid to Ukraine.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Congress on Tuesday during a private briefing that if they do not pass more aid to Ukraine, it would “very likely” lead to U.S. troops fighting a war in Europe.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin warned at the Reagan National Defense Forum on Saturday that if Israel could face “strategic defeat” if it was not more careful about how it fought Hamas, because more Palestinians might be driven to support the terrorist group.

Former Secretary of State and longtime presidential adviser Henry Kissinger made one last trip to China before passing at the age of 100.

Austin visited Ukraine for the third time on Monday, to reassure its leaders that the United States “will continue to support Ukraine,” despite waning American public support for doing so.

Xi Jinping reportedly agreed to allow talks between U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the non-existent Defense Minister of China.

Iran-controlled Shiite militias in Iraq on Thursday claimed responsibility for rocket and drone attacks on two bases housing U.S. troops in Syria and Iraq.

Current clashes in the Middle East are part of a larger picture of volatility in a wide range of countries amid the global loss of American prestige.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin placed additional U.S. troops on prepare-to-deploy orders to the Middle East Sunday after speaking with President Joe Biden.

The United States is sending a second aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Eisenhower, to join the U.S.S. Ford in the eastern Mediterranean to deter Iran from opening a second front against Israel from Lebanon using the Hezbollah terror group and its rocket arsenal.

The Pentagon confirmed that American armed forces shot down a Turkish drone near Hasakah, Syria, as it posed a ‘potential threat’ to a nearby U.S. base.

Republicans in both the House and Senate on Tuesday called for an investigation of the Iran Experts Initiative (IEI), an alleged Tehran-backed influence operation believed to have placed several of its proteges in the Biden administration, including officials close to Iran envoy Robert Malley.

President Joe Biden and his leaders at the Pentagon are doubling down on their support of Ukraine despite a failing military counteroffensive, amid a push to get Congress to approve $24 billion more for the war.