Trump has been following the Project 2025 playbook, Mandate for Leadership. USAID is discussed in Chapter 9. It all comes down to countering China and the Belt and Road Initiative.
Trump’s Mandate for Leadership: USAID
Category: Japan
Pentagon Appointee Opposes ‘Belligerent Military Initiatives’ Aimed at China
The Pentagon official tasked with overseeing U.S. defense policy toward Southeast Asia recently advised against pursuing hawkish defense policies and a major trade war against China, a marked contrast with top Trump appointees.
John Andrew Byers, a longtime history professor who oversaw the Charles Koch philanthropic network’s grants promoting libertarian foreign policy stances at universities, was sworn in this week as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia — a role that immediately thrusts him to the center of America’s response to China’s ongoing military pressure campaign targeting the Philippines, with which Washington holds a mutual defense treaty.
Pentagon Appointee Opposes ‘Belligerent Military Initiatives’ Aimed at China
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Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia: Andrew Byers
US moves Typhon missile launchers to new strategic site in Philippines
The Typhon launchers, which carry Tomahawk cruise missiles capable of reaching targets in China and Russia from the Philippines, also house SM-6 missiles, which can strike air or sea targets more than 200 km away.
The US military has relocated its Typhon missile launchers—capable of firing multipurpose missiles over thousands of kilometers—from Laoag Airfield in the Philippines to another location on Luzon island, a senior Philippine government source revealed, as reported by Reuters.
US moves Typhon missile launchers to new strategic site in Philippines
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‘It’s a win’: Philippines, China uphold South China Sea deal on resupply missions
Philippine Army acquiring US missile system
What’s Really Going On In the South China Sea Between the Philippines and China
Mao – On the Question of the National Bourgeoisie and the Enlightened Gentry
Chinese Military Might vs Washington’s Asymmetrical Tools of Empire
China continues to strengthen its military capabilities, combining rapid growth in conventional power with readiness to counter U.S. asymmetrical strategies.
Chinese Military Might vs Washington’s Asymmetrical Tools of Empire (archived)
Previously:
US proxy groups capture Rakhine State in Myanmar
US Greenland-Panama Ambitions Aimed at War with Russia-China
Hot spots where war may break out or escalate in 2025: Balochistan
The World’s Major Maritime Trade Routes: Connecting the Globe (Strait of Malacca)
Listening to Soldiers Of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
Soldiers Of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
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The Rand Corporation: The Think Tank That Controls America (archived)
By the 1960s, America’s rivals were paying attention. The Soviet newspaper Pravda nicknamed RAND “the academy of science and death and destruction.” American outfits preferred to call them the “wizards of Armageddon.”
Grover Furr: “Trotsky was a fascist!” – Talk on Trotsky’s Comintern Conspiracy to the Oakland ICSS October 20, 2024
I’d like to thank the ICSS organizers for inviting me to talk about our – my and Vladimir L. Bobrov’s — latest book, Trotsky’s Comintern Conspiracy – the Case of Osip Pyatnitsky.
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