The U.S. and Filipino navies kicked off a three-week war game exercise that included drills in the South China Sea as tensions with Beijing increased and just after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a $95 billion war-funding bill with $8 billion earmarked for Taiwan.
Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov said in an interview Monday that the U.S. and NATO’s obsession with the idea of handing Moscow a “strategic defeat” in Ukraine has the world on the brink of a major catastrophe.
With an eye on China, Australia announced last week that it will inject an additional $32 billion over the course of 10 years to modernize its military so it “can resist coercion and maintain” its way of life in “a much less certain region and world.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did his best last week to capitalize on Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel and tie Ukraine security to Israel's.
Ukraine continues to try to regain confidence from the West by attacking Russian infrastructure because it does not have the military force to regain any lost territory on the front lines.