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Washington and Tokyo are Preparing for a Conflict Over Taiwan
Japan sees itself as “Poland for Ukraine” in the event of escalation, and the United States is actively ramping up its production of the latest weapons. A little more than a month is left until the presidential elections in Taiwan, scheduled for January 13, 2024. In the run-up to elections, the candidate from Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is currently leading in the polls, leaving his contenders from the opposition Kuomintang and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) behind. The lack of agreement between…
US Seeks Plausible Deniability as it Lights Middle East on Fire
A surprising change of tone came from the Pentagon in early December. After weeks of devastating Israeli military operations inside Gaza, the US Secretary of Defense implored Israel to demonstrate restraint and concern for the civilian population. The Hill in its early December 2023 article, “Israel risks ‘strategic defeat’ if civilians aren’t protected, Pentagon chief says,” would report: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Israel risks a “strategic defeat” if it does not work to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza amid its war on militant group Hamas in the region…
Lessons of the Tehran Conference: the West continues to violate agreements, and, with promises of peace, prepares for war.
It is now 80 years, almost to the day, that the leaders of the “Big Three” powers in the coalition against Nazi Germany met in near secrecy. Operation Eureka was nearing its completion. But it would be a mistake to assume that the US and Britain sat around the negotiating table willingly. They were pressurized into changing their political strategy and tactics by the successes of the Red Army at the front and the realization that the Soviet Union was capable of defeating Nazi Germany on its own. In late November 1943, Joseph Stalin…
