Foreign Policy
News From Myanmar
Seems like there’s turmoil just about everywhere these days. Does any of this strike home with anyone here? https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-faces-reckoning-myanmar-blocked-military-rcna249 The military of Myanmar has ordered the complete shutdown of Facebook in that country. From the article: The Myanmar military’s shutdown of Facebook access following the ouster of the democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi caps […]
Get in, boys, we’re going back to Saudi!
Both Jeff LPH 3 and the KoB sent me this one, so I figure I better get something up before there comes a vote of no confidence. The Associated Press (via Fox News or Military Times) report that there are plans in progress to open new bases in Saudi Arabia amid the increasing tensions with […]
…And In Regard to China: Are These Those Interesting Times?
China sends warplanes to harass Taiwan – again. The Chinese government is not only hassling Taiwan by refusing to recognize Taiwanese autonomy, but is also poking and pinching its other neighbors, e.g., the island nation of Palau and then there’s also that border dispute China has with India. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/24/us-reaffirms-taiwan-support-after-china-sends-warplanes.html From the article: Taiwan’s Defense Ministry […]
It’s Iran Again
Iran has been fiddling and fussing about boosting its nuclear fuel processing level to 20% for a while now, and seems to want to make it a permanent thing. The 2015 deal was that the enrichment levels would stay well below 20%. It’s only a short step from there to the 90% level that can […]
Russia ups their anti-satellite game
Thanks to the KoB for sending in this update on Russia’s offensive capabilities. Russia test-fired an anti-satellite missile in its pursuit to turn space into a “warfighting domain,” the U.S. Space Command announced Wednesday. The direct-ascent, anti-satellite missile test took place Tuesday, an official at U.S. Space Command told Fox News. To date, Russia has […]
Middle East Four-Peat
Israel and Morocco have agreed to normalize relations as President Donald Trump announced the fourth Arab-Israeli agreement in four months on Thursday. Israel and Morocco will restore diplomatic and economic ties, including the immediate reopening of liaison offices in Tel Aviv and Rabat. Cameron sends. President Trump announces another peace deal — this time between […]
We’re pulling out of Somalia
Both Jeff LPH 3 and the KoB have sent in this one, so I figured I better get at it. We’re finally leaving another place where we’ve been trying to force people to civilize. Pentagon says ‘majority’ of US troops leaving Somalia Pentagon officials announced Friday that the “majority” of U.S. troops stationed in Somalia […]
General Milley drops 15 megaton truth bomb
US Army General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the country’s highest ranked military officer has just spoke to our efforts in Afghanistan. “We believe now that after 20 years, two decades of consistent effort, that we he have achieved a modicum of success,” he said. Boom! What a honest assessment of […]
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