text: OKINAWA REELECTS GOVERNOR OPPOSED TO U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE: Okinawa prefecture re-elected its incumbent governor, who is opposed to the U.S. military presence. The prefecture is a key series of southern islands that extend Japan’s territory nearly all the way to Taiwan. The reelection comes as Japan builds up its Japanese Self Defense Forces against possible military moves by China to seize Taiwan and nearby Japanese islands. (AC: Okinawa is home to the III Marine Expeditionary Force, the most likely ground combat component in any conflict with China. The U.S. military presence in Okinawa has been a point of friction with locals who feel the U.S. Marine forces take up too much land on the islands. Chinese information operations and anti-American Japanese political parties have exploited this friction for decades, resulting in some U.S. Marine forces relocating to Australia and Guam. Now with tensions escalating in the East China Sea between China and everyone else, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will need to tamp down the situation in Okinawa to avoid giving China an exploitable gray zone opportunity. – M.M.)Russia-NATO SITREPJOINT CHIEFS: UKRAINE DEFEATED RUSSIA’S STRATEGIC GOALS: In statements about the status of the war in Ukraine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, said Russia’s “strategic objectives” have been defeated. Citing Ukrainian forces’ tactical proficiency and will to fight, Milley said Russia had been entirely unsuccessful in achieving its operational objectives, instead only securing “minor tactical successes.” The general noted Ukraine’s use of western supplied long-range fires has allowed them to shape ground maneuver warfare to make “steady” and “deliberate” progress as it launches counterattacks against Russian forces in the north and south.CIA: SHARING SECRETS EFFECTIVE AGAINST RUSSIA: During a keynote speech at a cybersecurity summit CIA Director William Burns said the rapid declassification of CIA intelligence to counter Russia played a “very effective role” in the war in Ukraine and denied Putin the ability to create false narratives and provocations before the war exposing Russia’s actions as “a naked, unprovoked aggression.” The CIA is exploring methods to continue selective usage of rapid declassification of intelligence as a strategy to counter cyber threats and challenges faced by the United States and its allies. Burns noted that the strategy required delicate application to prevent the loss of sources and access to intelligence through reckless handling of information.LatAm SITREPMEXICAN PRESIDENT: U.N. “PRETENDERS”: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) denounced the United Nations after facing criticism from U.N. human rights officials over granting control of the country’s National Guard to the Army. AMLO said the U.N. was made up of people “on the right” who make money by acting as “go-betweens for authoritarian governments” and criticized the organization for doing nothing to protect human rights or prevent the war in Ukraine. The president defended the new legislation saying it would end the corruption previously caused by the Federal Police and bolster the country’s ability to combat violent drug cartels and gangs.China SITREP