To date, only Japan has rebuilt a fraction of its former military power, but the notion that Japan would join the U.S. in a war against China or Russia is fanciful. In nearly all but Washington’s eyes, China is not Imperial Japan and Russia is not the Soviet Union. If anything, everyone in Asia wants to do business with China, not fight a destructive regional war.
Remember Pearl Harbor, Mr. President?
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Politico’s hallucinations
US invited to station troops & rocket systems in Ukraine in potential major escalation of tense standoff across border with Russia
Yesterday’s Wars Didn’t Prepare the Pentagon for Tomorrow’s China + Navy and Marine Exercise to Span 17 Time Zones on a Scale Last Seen During the Cold War
Washington’s Bizarre and Dangerous Ukraine Obsession
Faux Populists Shill for the Permanent War State
Faux Populists Shill for the Permanent War State
In 2018, the Pentagon announced a shift away from their failing policy of counterterrorism in the Middle East and North Africa toward a new National Defense Strategy of so called “Great Power Competition,” with Russia and China. Instead of turning toward peace, free trade, and diplomacy, this policy change will come at enormous opportunity costs such as further distorting our economy, practically guaranteeing boom-bust cycles of ever intensifying severity, as well as reducing the average American’s standard of living. It would impoverish the very people who desire genuine populism.
Pentagon gains two new air bases in Hungary
Ukrainian president wants “U.S. power” to drive Russia out of Crimea, Donbass
Lublin Triangle: Foreign ministers approve plan to counter Russian disinformation
Lublin Triangle: Foreign ministers approve plan to counter Russian disinformation
At the meeting of the Lublin Triangle, the Ukrainian, Lithuanian and Polish foreign ministers paid key attention to security challenges in the region: Russian aggression against Ukraine, the militarization of the Black Sea region, the situation in Belarus, and threats from the Nord Stream 2 project.
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A separate topic of their conversation was Ukraine’s further integration into NATO in accordance with the decisions of the 2008 Bucharest Summit and the 2021 Brussels Summit. Lithuania and Poland called for giving Ukraine a clear understanding of further steps towards membership in the North Atlantic Alliance.
Presidents: Georgia, Ukraine share commitment to NATO membership, “de-occupation” of lands from Russia
Presidents: Georgia, Ukraine share commitment to NATO membership, “de-occupation” of lands from Russia.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili paid a two-day visit to Ukraine earlier this week (her first) and met with her opposite number President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Presidents – Georgia, Ukraine share commitment to NATO membership, “de-occupation” of lands from Russia
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