Tongue..

 

Drill..

 

About 20 military ships - half from China and half from Taiwan - are involved in a stand-off near the Taiwan Strait's sensitive median line, according to Reuters.

It comes as China says its military has carried out simulated precision strikes on "key targets on the island and the surrounding sea areas" during a second day of drills, and Taiwan reported multiple air force sorties by Beijing.

The mock air and sea attacks were on "foreign military targets" in waters off Taiwan's southwest coast.

"Taiwan is not their only target," said the unnamed source who was familiar with the situation. "It's very provocative."

The drills have not been as big as those that followed Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei last August.

Famine..

 

During the presidency of Barack Obama, the United States began providing Saudi Arabia with critical support to "sustain" the Saudi Arabian–led intervention in the Yemeni Civil War. 

 US Navy has actively participated in the Saudi-led naval blockade, which humanitarian organizations argue has been the main contributing factor to the outbreak of famine in Yemen.

The blockade has contributed to the current famine in Yemen, which the United Nations said may become the deadliest famine in decades. The World Health Organization announced in 2017, that the number of suspected persons with cholera in Yemen reached approximately 500,000 people.  

In 2018, Save the Children estimated that 85,000 children have died due to starvation in the three years prior. (Wikipedia)

Comment: Is that true? Is that Legal? Is that what is expected from our military? 

Human rights!!!?     Just a thought.

Policy..

 
Pelosi visited the Taiwan Island, yak yak yak of promises.

The President himself said that US will defend the Island against China.

Other officials secretly say many things to the Taiwanese.

Then time to sell weapons and weapons and weapons.

And we support "the One China Policy."  Just a thought.

New

 

Build Back a "New Cold War" Better.    Just a thought

Defend..

 

Doc..

 

A trove of secret Pentagon documents that were exposed on social media have shed new light on the state of the war in Ukraine, showing just how deeply the United States has penetrated Russia’s military and intelligence services, and revealing that Washington has been spying on some of its closest allies as well its adversaries.

The leaked documents provide a grim assessment of the strength of Moscow’s war machine, and the Ukrainian military is in dire straits, too.

The intelligence reports show that the United States appears to be spying on Ukraine’s military and political leaders, as well as other important American allies, including Israel and South Korea.

The leaked documents have already complicated relations with allied countries, raising doubts about the United States’ ability to keep its secrets.

 Is this the "fighting for Democracy" that the politicians keep talking about?

Moderator..

 

Two of Europe's top political heavyweights  held talks with China's President Xi Jinping last week.

After a grand military ceremony and bilateral and trilateral talks, French President Emmanuel Macron called on Xi to "bring back Russia to reason."

He said China could also help bring Moscow, with which Beijing maintains friendly relations, back to the negotiating table more than a year after the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who is also in Beijing for talks with Xi, said in a news conference, "As a member of the U.N. Security Council there is a big responsibility – we expect China will play its role and promote a just peace, one that respects Ukraine's sovereign and territorial integrity, one of the cornerstones of the U.N. charter."

Xi said all countries should respect commitments on not using nuclear weapons and "refrain from any action that would lead to further deterioration of the crisis or even to it getting out of contro."

On the other hand, ...  What is the USA position..?..

Libya..

 

The Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong.  Libya's 2011 uprising was never peaceful, but instead was armed and violent from the start. 

Muammar al-Qaddafi did not target civilians or resort to indiscriminate force. 

NATO's intervention did not aim mainly to protect civilians, but rather to overthrow Qaddafi's regime, even at the expense of increasing the harm to Libyans.

The Intervention Backfired. NATO's action magnified the conflict's duration about sixfold and its death toll at least sevenfold, while also exacerbating human rights abuses, humanitarian suffering, Islamic radicalism, and weapons proliferation in Libya and its neighbors. 

If Libya was a "model intervention," then it was a model of failure. However, did anyone paid a price for the dead?   Just a thought.

[Belfer Center.]

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