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Latest Articles: WORLD WAR III
All Quiet (Panic) on the Western Front
Post Date: 2023-01-22 22:45:07 by Charles_Byrd
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Lights! Action! Reset! The World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Davos Freak Show is back in business on Monday. Click for Full Text!
NYT: US Considering Helping Ukraine Strike Crimea
Post Date: 2023-01-20 01:40:22 by Charles_Byrd
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The New York Times reported Wednesday that the US is warming to the idea of helping Ukraine strike Crimea, something the Biden administration has previously avoided due to the risk of provoking a major response from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Citing unnamed US officials, the report said that after months of discussions with Ukrainian officials, the administration is now “starting to concede that Kyiv may need the power to strike the Russian sanctuary, even if such a move increases the risk of escalation.” Click for Full Text!
Zelensky Advisor Resigns After Comments on Dnipro Strike Caused Backlash
Post Date: 2023-01-20 01:21:09 by Charles_Byrd
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Oleksiy Arestovych submitted his resignation as an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday after comments he made about a Russian missile hitting an apartment building in Dnipro. After the strike in Dnipro on Saturday, Arestovych said the Russian missile that hit the building may have fallen after it was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses. The comments drew heavy criticism in Ukraine, leading Arestovych to say that no one would blame Ukraine for the incident since it happened as Russia was bombarding the country. Click for Full Text!
Ukrainian Volunteers Say They Were Unprepared for Battle Around Bakhmut
Post Date: 2023-01-20 01:11:24 by Charles_Byrd
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Ukrainian volunteers detailed in comments to The Times how they were unprepared to fight Russian forces near the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk Oblast, where the two sides have been locked in heavy battles for months. The report came after Russia’s Wagner Group said it took Soledar, a small mining town three miles northeast of Bakhmut. Ukrainian volunteers told The Times that they were supposed to hold the line in the area, but they weren’t armed with any of the advanced equipment the US and NATO have been pouring into the country. Click for Full Text!
China’s Navy Conducts South China Sea Combat Drills Encompassing Aircraft Carriers
Post Date: 2023-01-20 01:08:52 by Charles_Byrd
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Recently, the battle group of China’s CNS Shandong aircraft carrier conducted a combat exercise in the South China Sea to start its yearly training operations, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy announced. Various J-15 fighter jets participated in an air-defense drill to intercept “incoming enemy aircraft,” and pilots ran a slew of sophisticated tactical maneuvers before locking on their targets and simulating missile strikes, the PLA Navy declared in an article on its WeChat account. Click for Full Text!
Kissinger Changes Position, Says Ukraine Should Join NATO
Post Date: 2023-01-20 00:58:51 by Charles_Byrd
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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a video address to the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Tuesday that Ukraine joining NATO would be an “appropriate outcome” of the war, reversing his previous position that Kyiv shouldn’t join the Western military alliance. “Before this war, I was opposed to membership of Ukraine in NATO because I feared that it would start exactly the process that we have seen now,” Kissinger said. “Now that this process has reached this level, the idea of a neutral Ukraine under these conditions is no longer meaningful.” Click for Full Text!
Survey: Indians Regard U.S. as Next Biggest Threat After China
Post Date: 2023-01-20 00:55:14 by Charles_Byrd
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Indians regard the United States as the largest military threat after China and put more blame on NATO and Washington than on Russian President Vladimir Putin for his actions in Ukraine, based on findings from a new survey. Around 43 percent of the 1,000 respondents deemed China — with whom India has a long-standing border contest and has seen hostilities rise again since 2020 — as the largest threat, the survey by Morning Consult, a U.S.- based global business intelligence company, revealed. Click for Full Text!
Ukraine a ‘special case’: Is the WEF ‘hypocritical’ on Palestine?
Post Date: 2023-01-20 00:34:04 by Charles_Byrd
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When Khaled Sabawi was invited in 2015 to join the Young Global Leaders (YGL), a network set up by the World Economic Forum head Klaus Schwab, he was reluctant to accept. “I was sceptical of the WEF’s elitism, but accepted when I was told that the aim of YGL was to drive positive change in the world” Sabawi told Al Jazeera. Click for Full Text!
Pentagon Sends US Artillery Shells Stored in Israel and South Korea to Ukraine
Post Date: 2023-01-20 00:32:02 by Charles_Byrd
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The US has dipped into stockpiles of arms it keeps in Israel and South Korea to supply Ukraine with more artillery shells, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing anonymous US and Israeli officials. The stockpile in Israel is meant to supply the US for its conflicts in the Middle East and is also used occasionally by Israel. Between the two stockpiles, the US has shipped hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to Ukraine, as Kyiv’s war effort is entirely reliant on the flow of US ammunition. Click for Full Text!
War Lessons
Post Date: 2023-01-18 01:36:43 by Charles_Byrd
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Most likely, the first war in human history was one group of guys rushing at another group of guys, swinging fists and anything they could use as a club. It did not take long before a man decided that it was a good idea to use his hunting weapons to ward off these attacks or compliment these attacks. After all, if a gang of men with spears could take down a large animal, the same tactics would work on humans. From there the arms race was on among the human species. The club was probably the first weapon of war. The spear would be the first tool converted for use in war. The shield was the first tool of war created specifically for use in combat against other men. Unlike the club, the ...
Taiwan Offers to Help Ukraine With Digital Reconstruction
Post Date: 2023-01-18 00:20:06 by Charles_Byrd
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Taiwan is open to aiding Ukraine in overhauling its digital infrastructure in areas such as remote learning as part of reconstruction efforts after the war, the island’s Digital Minister Audrey Tang told Reuters. Tang made her comments in Vilnius, Lithuania, in her first foreign visit since her appointment as digital minister in August 2022. She singled out the digitalization of Taiwan’s education system as an example of how the island nation could help Ukraine. Click for Full Text!
Indonesia Sends Warship to Observe Chinese Coast Guard Vessel in Disputed Waters
Post Date: 2023-01-18 00:09:00 by Charles_Byrd
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Indonesia has sent a warship to its North Natuna Sea to keep tabs on a Chinese Coast Guard vessel that has been active in a resource-rich maritime area that both countries claim as their own, the country’s naval chief declared on January 14. Ship-monitoring data depicted the Chinese vessel, CCG 5901, sailing in the Natuna Sea, especially near the Tuna Bloc gas field and the Vietnamese Chim Sao oil and gas field since December 30, the Indonesian Ocean Justice Initiative revealed to Reuters. Click for Full Text!
Globalization is here to stay, according to historian Niall Ferguson, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. Calling the notion of de-globalization a “mirage,” Ferguson assured his globalist audience that all the seemingly disruptiv
Post Date: 2023-01-17 23:30:27 by Charles_Byrd
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A spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara is unlikely to approve Sweden and Finland joining NATO before June. Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Sweden needs time before it can codify new counterterrorism measures into law, changes Ankara wants to be made before signing off on Stockholm’s NATO membership. Click for Full Text!
Ukraine and Israel
Post Date: 2023-01-17 23:17:04 by Charles_Byrd
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I’ve been reading Raymond Chandler’s The High Window for the second time. The plot is convoluted. Somehow it got me thinking about Ukraine and Israel. Both countries are complicated crime scenes of U.S. foreign policy. They will never be objectively investigated and exposed. Like The High Window, plots and subplots embedded with events in Ukraine and Israel are confusing and loaded with smoke screens. It is difficult to navigate. Unlike The High Window, this is not fiction. Click for Full Text!
Russia Launches New Round of Missile Strikes Across Ukraine
Post Date: 2023-01-17 23:13:19 by Charles_Byrd
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Russia on Saturday launched missile strikes across Ukraine that targeted energy infrastructure after a two-week lull in such attacks. The strikes hit energy facilities in the capital Kyiv and in the regions of Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, Lviv, and Kharkiv. A Russian missile also hit an apartment building in the central city of Dnipro, and dozens of civilians were reported killed. Click for Full Text!
Japan Says East Asia Could be “Next Ukraine,” Tells Biden That New Era Needs “Military Muscle”
Post Date: 2023-01-17 23:08:20 by Charles_Byrd
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on January 14 that he told Western powers that East Asia could be the next Ukraine, as he called for a united front to deal with a hostile North Korea and an ambitious China. Starting Japan’s year as head of the Group of Seven (G-7), Kishida visited leaders of all members of the group except Germany, where he hopes to go soon. Click for Full Text!
U.S. Strategic Aim: Break and Dismember Russia; or Maintain U.S. Dollar Hegemony? Or a Muddled ‘Both’?
Post Date: 2023-01-13 02:18:57 by Charles_Byrd
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A strategic aim would require a unitary purpose that could be succinctly outlined. It would require additionally a compelling clarity about the means by which the aim would be achieved and a coherent vision about what a successful outcome would actually look like. Winston Churchill described the aim of WW2 as the destruction of Germany. But this was ‘platitude’, and no strategy. Why was Germany to be destroyed? What interest did destroying such a major trading partner achieve? Was it to save the imperial trading system? The latter failed (after ‘Suez’) and Germany went into a deep recession. So, what was the end result intended to be? At one point, a completely ...
Pentagon Pushes Back on Boeing Plan to Provide Ukraine Long-Range Bombs
Post Date: 2023-01-13 02:10:31 by Charles_Byrd
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Officials from the Department of Defense expressed concern over a plan to send munitions with a range of 100 miles to Ukraine, according to Foreign Affairs. The Pentagon officials are concerned the weapons will be unneeded by the time they reach the battlefield. Boeing proposed developing a ground-launched small-diameter bomb (GLSDB) for Kiev. The arms manufacturer believed it could easily put the 250-pound munitions on rockets that could carry the bombs 100 miles. Click for Full Text!
South Korea and US Plan Tabletop Nuclear Drills to Counter Communist North
Post Date: 2023-01-13 01:03:03 by Charles_Byrd
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South Korea and the United States will conduct tabletop exercises in February 2023 in a bid to tackle the North’s nuclear threats, South Korea’s defense minister said on Wednesday. Since 2017, U.S. and South Korean officials have cautioned that the North could be preparing for its first test of a nuclear device. Nuclear-armed North Korea fired a record number of missiles last year, including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that can target the U.S. mainland. Click for Full Text!
US Might Send Ukraine Stryker Fighting Vehicles in Next Arms Package
Post Date: 2023-01-11 21:21:12 by Charles_Byrd
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The US is considering sending Stryker armored combat vehicles to Kyiv as part of a new weapons package that is expected to be announced next week, POLITICO reported on Monday. An unnamed Pentagon official said an arms package that may or may not include the Strykers will be announced next week during a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a group of military officials from about 50 countries. Click for Full Text!
US, Japan Agree to Step Up Security Cooperation Amid China Worries
Post Date: 2023-01-11 21:14:54 by Charles_Byrd
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The United States and Japan on Wednesday announced stepped-up security cooperation in the face of shared worries about China, and Washington strongly endorsed a major military buildup Tokyo announced last month. "We agree that the PRC is the greatest shared strategic challenge that we and our allies and partners face," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after he and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met their Japanese counterparts in Washington, referring to the People's Republic of China. Click for Full Text!
Asian Powers Seek European Help to Counter Regional Threats
Post Date: 2023-01-11 21:11:27 by Charles_Byrd
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Amid the rising bellicosity of China’s Communist regime, the Ukraine- Russia crisis that saw Russia showcase its military prowess, and the historic number of provocative missile tests from North Korea, various Asian powers like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have been courting European efforts to counter regional threats. On Monday, January 9, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris as he began a weeklong tour of G7 nations such as Italy, Britain, Canada, and the U.S. Click for Full Text!
China's network of foreign ports is fueling country's military-intelligence ambitions
Post Date: 2023-01-11 20:43:45 by Charles_Byrd
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China’s global network of ports and shipping terminals, overwhelmingly operated by civilian firms, is a critical part of its ability to gather intelligence worldwide and central to its bid to increase its projection of military and diplomatic power. Click for Full Text!
War with China over Taiwan won’t end well for anyone
Post Date: 2023-01-11 20:39:22 by Charles_Byrd
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What would it look like if China invaded Taiwan in 2026? That is the question that a wargame report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, tries to answer. The outcome is quite harrowing for all parties, according to “The First Battle of the Next War: Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan,” which was released on Monday. The wargame simulated an amphibious invasion of Taiwan 24 times, accounting for possible scenarios ranging from a quick Chinese defeat to a protracted stalemate, to a Chinese victory. Click for Full Text!
'NATO’s mission' leaves Ukraine destroyed
Post Date: 2023-01-11 20:36:36 by Charles_Byrd
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Unveiling its latest military assistance package to Ukraine – at $3.75 billion, the largest to date -- the White House declared that US weapons are intended “to help the Ukrainians resist Russian aggression.” For their part, Ukrainians on the receiving end see it differently. Click for Full Text!
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