A source told Nikkei that the training began sometime before spring 2022. In May 2022, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen announced cooperation with the National Guard while hosting Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) in Taipei.
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Pentagon to Construct New Pacific Military Base
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Jan 9, 2023 | News
The Department of Defense is set to begin construction on a new naval base in the Pacific-island nation of Palau, with a private contractor awarded more than $100 million for the installation, which will house a new advanced radar system.
Kamala Harris Blunders Philippines Visit, Stirs Conflict with China
by Nickie Deahl | Nov 30, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Philippines last week in what can only be described as three days of warmongering, hypocrisy, and another huge provocation against China. Harris spent her time spouting empty platitudes of affirmation regarding U.S. defense...
News Roundup 11/27/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 27, 2022 | News Roundup
Venezuela The US might soon grant Chevron a license to pump oil in Venezuela in a move that would ease crippling sanctions that were imposed on the South American country by the Trump administration. AWC Russia Poland said Monday that Germany will deploy a US-made...
COI #353: An Early Look at Ron DeSantis’ Foreign Policy
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 23, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #353, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover recent escalations against China, North Korea, and Iran. Kyle breaks down Kamala Harris’ Philippines trip including her provocative display onboard a coast guard ship at Palawan, an island province with a coast on...
William McKinley Was One of America’s Worst Presidents
by Starte Butone | Nov 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
When libertarians imagine terrible presidents, a few names may come to mind: Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, George W. Bush, just to name a few. However, there’s one awful president that few libertarians think very much about, and that’s William McKinley. While...
News Roundup 11/3/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 3, 2022 | News Roundup
US News America’s top military officer General Mark Milley praised SpaceX CEO Elon Musk by name at an event hosted by the Space Force. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs lauded the “Chief Twit” as symbolizing ”the civil and military cooperation and teamwork that makes...
Brown Scare, Red Scare, Fake Scare, Who’s Scared?
by Brandan P. Buck | Oct 13, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The demands of the American empire have been used throughout the twentieth century to influence domestic politics and popular opinion on foreign affairs. The exaggerated threat of foreign agents and alien ideologies in league with one’s political opponents has long...
News Roundup 10/4/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 4, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The sailor accused of setting the fire to the USS Bonhomme Richard has been found not guilty. The $1.2 billion warship was destroyed in the fire. Military Times Joe Biden is withholding the full report on the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal...
Pitch Black 2022: American F-35s Take Part in 17-Nation War Games
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 25, 2022 | News
Washington and several of its close partners kicked off massive aerial military exercises in Australia. F-35s from the US and Brittan will join advanced warplanes from India, Japan, South Korea, France and several other countries.
News Roundup 8/21/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 21, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The Army awarded Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics a $15 million contract to develop concepts for the Terrestrial Layer System-Echelons Above Brigade. The system is a part of the electronic warfare platform. Defense News The Pentagon awarded BlueHalo a...
The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 25, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
From the front pages of The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, the Economist, to The New York Times’ Best Sellers List; from CNN and MSNBC to FOX and NEWSMAX; from think tanks to Pentagon planners, congressional testimonies and White House...
News Roundup 7/18/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 18, 2022 | News Roundup
US News Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, but “egregiously poor decision-making” resulted in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman who took 21 lives was finally confronted and killed. The acting police...
Former NATO Commander Disguises War Propaganda as Novel
by Patrick Macfarlane | Apr 26, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 9, 2021, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, Admiral James Stavridis, co-authored a fiction novel with Elliott Ackerman, another former U.S. military officer. The book, entitled 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, imagines a kinetic war between the...
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Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
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