The Pentagon has claimed that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin could not reach his Chinese counterpart shortly after an American fighter jet shot down a craft Beijing says was a weather balloon.
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COI #382: Ukraine Ramps Up Effort to Get Western-Made Fighter Jets
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 10, 2023 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #382, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover rapidly increasing tensions with Russia and China. Kyle breaks down Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s pitch for fighter jets on his European tour, the UK’s plan to begin training Ukrainian pilots on NATO...
No, China Is Not ‘Switching Sides’
by Ted Snider | Feb 10, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since President Xi Jinping was re-elected as China’s leader at the Communist Party Congress on October 23, 2022, there has been a noticeable change in tone from Chinese officials towards the United States. This change in tone, coupled with Chinese restraint in their...
News Roundup 2/9/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 9, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Paris on Wednesday, where he made a fresh pitch for fighter jets and other advanced weapons. AWC Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...
Rep. McCaul Plans Taiwan Visit This Spring, McCarthy Later
by Dave DeCamp | Feb 9, 2023 | News
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has said he plans to lead a bipartisan congressional delegation to Taiwan this spring despite the risk of provoking China.
News Roundup 2/8/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 8, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia Key Republican members of Congress are launching a two-front campaign to pressure the Biden administration to send Ukraine more advanced weapons, Defense One reported Saturday, citing people familiar with the plan. AWC Several North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
An Overblown Balloon Headline Inflates False Narrative on China
by Patrick Macfarlane | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For several decades the American public has been instilled with an intrinsic fear of and hatred for China. No singular event in this seemingly inevitable march to war is more emblematic of the American public’s warped psyche than the “Chinese Spy Balloon”...
State of the Union: Biden Says Beating China Should ‘Unite All of Us’
by Dave DeCamp | Feb 8, 2023 | News
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Biden took aim at China and said winning the “competition” with Beijing should “unite all of us.”
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Restricting Production
"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...
Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving
Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...
“Capitalism” Is about Freedom, Not Capital
"Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make...
Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink
The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...
US Forces Booted Out of Niger
2024 is the end of the ten year lease after expending $110 million to build and $30 million a year to maintain the base. The French forces were booted in October 2023. American troops are leaving now and the German troops will leave in September. The military regimes...
They Hate Our Freedom
They Hate Our Freedom Near the end of 2022,[1] the government finally released the notes from the 9/11 Commission’s interview of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from April 29, 2004. Would you believe it turns out the president admitted that his...
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