Daniel Hoffman

@FoxNews Contributor / Ret. CIA Senior Clandestine Services Officer/ BGR Advisory Board. Speaking ops: Harry Walker Agency. Boston sports fan

[Daniel Hoffman @danielhoffmanDC]

Daniel Hoffman: Thankful for Kim – before she died, my wife lovingly prepared me and our sons to carry on. ⁦@FoxNews⁩

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[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

NATO has never attacked the Soviet Union or Russia.

Ukraine has never threatened Russian security.

Putin calling for new security guarantees for Russia is complete nonsense.

Before he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many -- including me -- suggested reforms for enhancing European security. He rejected them. He wanted war instead.

[Kira Rudik @kiraincongress]

Absolutely disgusting.

According to Kushner, russia is asking whether Ukraine and Europe are genuinely ready for peace.

After years of killing, destruction, kidnappings, and war crimes, the aggressor has the audacity to question whether its victims want peace.

[Daniel Hoffman @danielhoffmanDC]

NATO did not expand East, but rather eastern European nations formerly under Soviet domination looked to the West…

[Jake Broe @RealJakeBroe]

NATO expansion is a myth. It is a Russian lie. Here is the map.

After World War II the Russians militarily occupied half the European continent. The Russians picked their leaders. They wrote their laws. They brutalized their people and took whatever they wanted.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, all of these peoples who had suffered immensely under the Russians were desperate to get real security and protection from the Russians.

Russia is the ONLY cause of NATO enlargement because the people of Eastern Europe always knew they were going to be invaded again as soon as the Russians succeeded at some form of economic capitalism.

Russian imperialism is the only cause of this war.

[Daniel Hoffman @danielhoffmanDC]

@thetoyman1 KING of flops

[Daniel Hoffman @danielhoffmanDC]

@thetoyman1 @Lakers @kobebryant Wow that's awesome! Plenty of Celtics going back to Bill Sharman, Don Chaney, Rajon Rondo who played with both teams so we got that!

[Washington Times Opinion @WashTimesOpEd]

“Let us do our best to honor our veterans every day by carrying their patriotic spirit with us and demanding that our elected officials do likewise — while collaborating to overcome our nation’s challenges,” @danielhoffmanDC writes.

[Daniel Hoffman @danielhoffmanDC]

@thetoyman1 @Lakers Breaks my Boston Haaaaht the you're a Lakers fan but I'll have to learn to live with that

[Eerik N Kross 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇮🇱🇪🇺 @EerikNKross]

Moscow’s offer of separate “non-aggression” pacts is a naked attempt to divide NATO by making each member wonder whether abandoning its allies might buy it safety. Describing this as an offer of “additional security guarantees” accepts the Kremlin’s premise: that Russia is entitled to threaten European countries and then offer selected governments exemption from its aggression.

Russia has no right to attack any of them in the first place. Peaceful coexistence is an obligation, not a favour Moscow can sell in exchange for political obedience.

The proposal targets the foundation of NATO: the certainty that an attack on one ally will bring assistance from the others. Separate bargains would introduce doubt about who would help, who would stand aside and whose cooperation Moscow had already secured. That uncertainty would weaken deterrence before a single shot was fired.

The Washington Treaty expressly guards against this. Article 8 requires every ally “not to enter into any international engagement in conflict with this Treaty.” Article 5 requires assistance to an attacked ally, while Article 3 requires members to maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist attack. A pact requiring an ally to withhold assistance, obstruct collective defence or accept restrictions incompatible with those duties would violate the Treaty. Calling it “non-aggression” would change nothing.

The proposals reported so far distinguish non-aggression pacts from commitments not to assist another party’s adversaries. We should not pretend that an unpublished treaty already contains the latter. But that is precisely the test any actual agreement must face: does it preserve allied obligations in full, or purchase Russian promises by compromising them?

For NATO, accepting security based on separate accommodations with Moscow would be strategic suicide. For individual members, it would mean weakening the collective protection on which their own security depends and replacing it with a promise from the power threatening them. A government might imagine it had purchased an exception. It would have helped dismantle the protection it would need when that exception expired.

The moral failure would be equally stark. While Russia occupies Ukrainian territory and attacks European security, bargaining for personal exemption would reward coercion and leave others to bear its costs. No European government should purchase apparent safety by making its neighbours less safe.

If Moscow wants to demonstrate non-aggression, it can withdraw from Ukraine, end its threats and hostile operations against Europe, and respect the sovereignty of its neighbours. It does not need separate treaties to stop doing what it has no right to do.

Europe’s security cannot depend on which countries Russia, famous for breaking all treaties and every promise, temporarily promises to spare.

[Daniel Hoffman @danielhoffmanDC]

Always a huge honor for me to join my friend and esteemed @foxnews colleague @aishahhasnie on the big screen
@AmericaNewsroom with @DanaPerino

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[Daniel Hoffman @danielhoffmanDC]

Good analysis

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

I dont want to read into this too much but doesnt this sum up the Celtics vs Sixers franchises in a nutshell? The Celtics is about class and being a brotherhood. Jaylen ignores Tatum and then Lebron basically does the Macarena with JT. If Lebron actually cared about his new team and teammates wouldnt he have toned down his love for Tatum? Bron basically picked sides and he picked Tatum and the Celtics. A giant FU to Jaylen. I dont know how else to read it? And then the Celtics thoroughly kicked their asses up and down the court all night. One team played together as one heartbeat and the other was 5 players, 5 balls, 5 egos

[Daniel Hoffman @danielhoffmanDC]

Joining awesome @foxnews anchor @aishahhasnie on @AmericaNewsroom this morning at 10:50am
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[Daniel Hoffman @danielhoffmanDC]

@Micheal_Gilson @NPR Yes sir EST

[Daniel Hoffman @danielhoffmanDC]

Joining @NPR tomorrow morning at 6:10 am

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[The Washington Times @WashTimes]

OPINION: “We can thank our veterans for demonstrating that the strength of our nation lies in our citizenry, serving together with a common purpose in the most trying circumstances,” @danielhoffmanDC writes.

[Daniel Hoffman @danielhoffmanDC]

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[Daniel Hoffman @danielhoffmanDC]

The Trump administration is putting a longstanding Russian demand at the heart of its latest push to end the war in Ukraine: renegotiating pan-European security...
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[Daniel Hoffman @danielhoffmanDC]

In today's @WashTimes @WashTimesOpEd
Veterans Day has always been a sacred holiday for my family. My grandfather and his brother, my great-uncle, fought in World War One...
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[FOX News Radio @foxnewsradio]

How far will foreign spies go?

NVIDIA is investigating CEO Jensen Huang after he admitted to an affair with a suspected Chinese operative.

Former CIA Station Chief @danielhoffmanDC breaks down how adversaries use "honey pot" traps to target top U.S. minds on the FOX News Rundown.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Former CIA Director David Petraeus accuses Russia of crimes against humanity

“Russia is committing absolutely barbaric acts, including the mass killings in Bucha, the killing of prisoners of war, torture, and the abduction of children from occupied Ukrainian territories and their transfer to Russia.

The list of their violations of the Geneva Conventions is very, very extensive.”