Ultimately, the Taiwan Strait remains a primary geopolitical flashpoint. But the most avid China-hawks in the US, Taiwan and well beyond will be despondent over this recent hiding handed out to unconcealed China-baiting-politics. Even more gloom-making for such folk, the prospects for maintaining regional peace have also measurably improved.
Source: Divisive China-threat politics deliver defeat in Taiwan – Pearls and Irritations
At the start of the Ukraine war, Biden promised not to launch World War III. He broke that promise, by flooding Ukraine with weapons, CIA operatives and some special forces. To call this reckless is an understatement. Biden’s refusal to use his considerable weight to promote peace negotiations killed thousands of Ukrainians and Russians, will likely kill many more, and also endangers the lives of billions of other people, worldwide – 5.3 billion from nuclear-winter-induced starvation, who would suffer a slow, agonizing death. And I’m not talking about the canard that Russia may use a low-yield nuclear device on the battlefield. I’m talking about Moscow and Washington determining that they really are in a hot war and the long-range, high-yield nuclear missiles that could then begin to fly.
Source: The Military Industrial Complex Strikes Again – scheerpost.com
“I’m not saying the military’s in love with me,” Donald Trump said on Monday. “The soldiers are. The top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy.”
Trump Is Throwing Billions at the Pentagon But Wants Us to Believe He’s a Dove | The Smirking Chimp
The ultimate American Trumplican “Sales Pitch”(ODT)
Libya has been a war-zone of late; ever since the overthrow of Qaddafi via NATO bombardment and NATO-armed militias, it has basically collapsed from one of Africa’s wealthiest nations into a failed state with two competing governments. The south is plagued with ISIS. The northern …
Source: Peace At Last For Libya? Factions Sign UN Deal, Form Unity Government AnonHQ
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