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US Missile Defense North Korea was just reminded how it could ruin the United States: The Pentagon plans to spend almost $18 billion to develop, produce and support its new interceptor to stop incoming nuclear missiles from North Korea or Iran, the first major defense procurement award of the Biden administration, according to newly released figures. ... The interceptors are designed to crash into and destroy incoming missiles from an adversary such as North Korea or Iran. They would be instal...

Opinion: WaPo Elides China’s Military Threat, Then Offers No Solution Commentary On May 1, the Editorial Board of The Washington Post finally, at first glance, somewhat-kind-of recognized a military threat emanating from Beijing. The Board cooly noted a “series of incremental escalations by Chinese forces in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea,” that are “substantially advancing a strategy for establishing its dominance in East Asia and forcing Taiwan’s surrender.” The Post (WaPo)...

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ksuadminApril 27, 2021 6 The growing attention to information control in the United States, the greatest example of which was the overthrow of Donald Trump by Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, led the Washington Post to compile a list of “gatekeepers,” the new custodians of information. In addition to the aforementioned social media platforms, he listed, in order: Google and Apple app stores, which cut TikTok in India. Cloud providers like AWS, Amazon, which shut down the social network Par...

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The policies of the Biden administration towards Russia and China are delusional. It thinks that it can squeeze these countries but still successfully ask them for cooperation. It believes that the U.S. position is stronger than it really is and that China and Russia are much weaker than they are. It is also full of projection. The U.S. accuses both countries of striving for empire, of wanting to annex more land and of human rights violations. But is only the U.S. that has expanding aspiration...

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AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, file The new administration started off using virtue signaling as an important component of foreign and domestic policy. But now even the “only adults in the room” suddenly suspect that  Woke garlic doesn’t repel vampires. Russia and China continue to defy the rules of the Biden-Harris administration despite their expectation that the world would return to its pre-2016 order. Pundits are starting to accept something has gone wrong in the calculations. Two crises th...