Over the weekend, border-policy negotiations between Senate Democrats and Republicans fell apart. The talks were meant to firm up Republican support for the president’s massive $105 billion military support proposal ahead of Wednesday’s vote by including additional...
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Top Defense Official: US Can Handle Middle East, Russia and China All at Once
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 5, 2023 | News
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Christopher Grady said the Pentagon was prepared to fight a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, aid the Israeli onslaught in Gaza, and arm Taiwan for a potential war with China. The Admiral argued all the military...
It’s Unanimous: Ukrainian Neutrality Could Have Brought Peace
by Ted Snider | Dec 5, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A leading Ukrainian politician said in a November 24 interview that as early as April 2022, Russia was “prepared to end the war if we agreed to...neutrality.” On June 13, 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia and Ukraine had “reached an...
North Korea Says Space Program Is a Sovereign Right, Vows to Defend Satellite
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 3, 2023 | News
The North Korean Defense Ministry said the nation would go to war if its satellite was attacked. Pyongyang placed a surveillance satellite into orbit last month, declaring that having a space program is a sovereign right. The North Korean government refuses to...
News Roundup 11/30/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 30, 2023 | News Roundup
US News Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) vowed in a letter to his colleagues to bring a bill to the Senate floor as soon as December 4 to fund military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. President Biden has requested the funding as part of a massive $105...
NATO Chief Puts Hypocrisy on Full Display
by Ted Snider | Nov 29, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg put NATO’s hypocrisy on display while talking to reporters ahead of the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on November 28. Asked by a reporter about American and European struggles to continue providing Ukraine with...
Secretary of State Blinken: We Must and We Will Continue to Support Ukraine
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 29, 2023 | News
Secretary of State Antony Blinken dismissed reports that the US was pushing Ukraine towards negotiating an end to the war with Russia during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers. At the summit, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Ukraine had a "de facto" NATO...
There Could Have Been Peace: How the U.S. Ensured a Long War in Ukraine
by Ted Snider | Nov 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On February 27, just the third day of their war, Russia and Ukraine announced direct negotiations in Belarus. Having already said that he was prepared to abandon Ukraine’s pursuit of NATO membership, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went into the negotiations...
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The SANDF is a Military Dumpster Fire
The South African National Defense Force (SANDF) is in tatters. The SA Navy is also in the hazard. One glaring example is the MTU 1163 propulsion engine. Grimms was paid R55 million for a W6 engine overhaul, yet the engine has still not undergone a dyno test or no...
Terrestrial Speed Demon: Non-Nuclear Throw-Weight Comes of Age
Russians play chess and the West plays Naked Twister. ICBMs and IRBMs have been hyper-sonic since the 1950s. Replace the warhead with a terrestrial-launched Rod from God and you have a very effective non-nuclear option to reach anywhere in the northern hemisphere with...
Macgregor Steps Up to the Plate
COL Douglas Macgregor shows the stark choices ahead a defense establishment in the US and the west that is inexorably grinding to a halt in effectiveness and incompetence. The incoming President has three choices: 1. Allow service bureaucracies or external events to...
Mr Jarfart
Just think about this, whatever your child or your niece, nephew and some strangers kids are feeding their eyes with is likely attached to a clown or maybe a cynical conglomerate that knows social media and children fed algorithms will make them rich. Those little...
Free Trade Facts Don’t Matter to Democrats or Republicans
Both parties tend to ignore facts about the benefits of free trade because both parties oppose free trade.
The Government Had to Bankrupt Spirit Airlines to Save It
The US government is very good at destroying things on the pretense that its actions are required to save the things destroyed.
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