Showing posts with label Taiwan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taiwan. Show all posts
Friday, May 22, 2026

Sounds like a resumption of hostilities is imminent

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  Acting Navy secretary: Taiwan weapons sales paused to ensure munitions for Iran war
Friday, May 15, 2026

A war 6,338 miles away is OK though

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  Trump On Taiwan: "The Last Thing We Need Right Now Is A War 9,500 Miles Away" And yes, DC to Taipei is 7,864 miles, not 9,500.  ...

Trump cares as little for freedom in Taiwan as he does in Ukraine

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  Trump told Xi ‘I don’t talk about’ whether U.S. would defend Taiwan from China Biden meanwhile publicly committed to the defense of Taiwan...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

America is no longer a world superpower because it doesn't have a Navy capable of maintaining freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, let alone in the West Philippine Sea or the Taiwan Strait

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But we can still put people in a tin can and send them around the moon like we did already in 1968. We also don't have a military capabl...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Tanker traffic out of the Persian Gulf has been cut by 98% in one month because of the Iran War, effectively reducing the world's primary energy inputs through the Strait of Hormuz by 20%

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The UAE is bypassing the Strait of Hormuz with 1.9 million barrels per day now coming out of Fujairah via its overland pipeline, and Saudi A...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Trump could have done this months ago without spending billions of dollars mobilizing 15,000 troops and Navy and Air Force assets needed elsewhere to defend American interests in Taiwan and the Red Sea

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 Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast  
Monday, November 17, 2025

The period is also marked by the phony utopianism of the libertarian Americanists who exalt the individual and deny that there are any limits

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 In their idealism they are little different than Zohran Mamdani.  ... The United States is undeniably the beacon of hope for the world bec...
Friday, October 24, 2025

One man is about to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Venezuela

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 The more the Uniparty changes, the more it stays the same. Bush invades Iraq. Putin invades Ukraine. Trump invades Venezuela.  Expect Xi to...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

Speaking of Margaret Thatcher, "right-wing" candidate for Japan PM backs "hardline conservative" policies of easy money and aggressive spending of it LOL

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"Let''s devalue the Yen and spend the hell out of it"   Right-wing Sanae Takaichi is set to be Japan’s first female prime ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

The devastating truth about the end of US Houthi attacks is that US forces failed after spending more than $1 billion

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 The thread is here . The limits of conventional power have been reached. Putin has been experiencing the same in Ukraine and could have bee...
Thursday, April 3, 2025

Trump tariff math is about trade imbalances and is not about a reciprocal response to a rate, requiring a trading partner to buy more from the United States rather than just eliminating its tariff rate

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In other words Trump's calculations of foreign countries' tariffs on the United States result in fictional rates. From the story her...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Twilight Zone: Republican Senate fascists tell dictator Trump to drop dead, CHIPS Act won't be repealed

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  Republican lawmakers on Wednesday said President Trump’s call for Congress to “get rid of” the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, which provided...
Monday, February 24, 2025

Nutball worlds in collision: Trumpism defends freedom in Europe with its right hand, stabs it in the back in Ukraine with its left, Biden defended freedom in Ukraine with his right, attacked it in America with his left

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   But The Federalist has its blinders on. Biden baaaaaaad! Trump gooooood! "Let's see if we can find some naive kid to write a sto...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Clueless Marco Rubio appoints Taiwan surrender monkey Darren J. Beattie to State Department job

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As if the nine-dash line doesn't even exist. Beattie is a total suck-up, just like Rubio.  
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Neocon Trump is alive and well JD, lol

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WaPo, May 28, 2024, here :  . . . at one event, he suggested that he would have bombed Moscow and Beijing if Russia invaded Ukraine or Chin...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

The $8.1 billion Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriation for Taiwan et alia passed yesterday 385-34-1-11, all the Nays being Republicans

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 The roll call vote is here . I would have reported in real time but Blogger had a major outage yesterday afternoon lasting several hours.
Monday, April 15, 2024

In the good old days the Republican fascists funded domestic companies, now the Democrat fascists fund the foreign companies

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 Taiwan last week, South Korea this week. The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide up to $6.4 billion in direct funding ...
Monday, April 8, 2024

24 Republicans voted for $280 billion fascist Chips and Science Act in July 2022 even though they didn't need to, latest award goes to Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co.

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  The July 2022 roll call vote is here . TSMC ’s Arizona subsidiary is set to receive up to $6.6 billion in U.S. government funding under ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

I'm so old I remember when politicians ran on less government, now it's less corrupt government lol

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  Less Corrupt, More Accountable Government Wanted America's New Majority Project   This is so silly. Politici...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Ramaswamy's endless flip-flops

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 Lose yourself: Vivek Ramaswamy's 2024 presidential campaign haunted by endless flip-flops: on: his voting history pardons for the Biden...