No matter how divisive Washington can get, there’s always one thing lawmakers can agree on: more money for the military. The Senate Armed Services Committee, a 26-member group divided equally between Republicans and Democrats, increased the price tag of President Joe Biden’s National Defense Authorization Act to $857.6 billion, a significant increase from Biden’s $813...
Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS
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SPOTLIGHT ON ISRAEL
ISRAEL’S PM SAYS IT HAS THE RIGHT TO DETER IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM Naftali Bennett, the Israeli prime minister, told the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency in no uncertain terms that Israel has the right to act alone to prevent Iran’s nuclear program from being weaponized. Israel sees Iran’s nuclear program as an existential...
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ALGERIA BANS TRADE TO SPAIN AFTER MADRID’S U-TURN ON WESTERN SAHARA
Algeria announced last week that it will suspend its decades-long friendship treaty with Spain, a former colonial power, over a disagreement about the status of Western Sahara. Madrid announced in March that it would support the Moroccan effort for Western Sahara to operate autonomously but under Moroccan rule, the Financial Times reported. Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime...
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U.S. CONGRESS: MORE MONEY FOR THE WAR MACHINE
The Trends Journal has long noted that there is only one thing that brings both parties together in Congress and that is support for the military industrial complex. Politico reported last week that there is a growing push on Capitol Hill to increase President Joe Biden’s 4 percent defense spending increase to make up for...
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SPOTLIGHT CHINA: EAST VS. WEST
Australia and Canada blamed the Chinese fighter jets for conducting aggressive maneuvers during patrols near North Korea, which included one fighter spraying metallic chaff in the path of an Australian surveillance craft. China played down the incident and questioned aloud why planes from Canada and Australia were so close to its territory. “Australia military planes...
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LIBYA: DESTROYED BY NATO A DECADE AGO, GOING DOWN DEEPER
While the western world politicians and media condemn Russia for their invasion of neighboring Ukraine, not a peep from the Presstitutes about the United States and NATO’s wanton destruction of Libya. A recent UN report painted a dire picture for the African nation—over a decade after U.S. President Barack Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize winner,...
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SPECIAL: SPOTLIGHT ON ISRAEL
ASSASSINATION OF TOP IRANIAN COLONEL RAISES TENSIONS WITH ISRAEL Israel informed Washington that it was behind the brazen assassination of a top Iranian colonel earlier in May, according to a report. The New York Times, citing a U.S. intelligence official briefed on the matter, reported that the Israelis informed Washington that Col. Sayad Khodayee was...
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CHINA GOES BRICS TO COUNTER U.S. GLOBAL “HEGEMONY”
China has appealed to countries to form their own security apparatus to counter the U.S. influence on world affairs. Chinese President Xi Jinping turned to fellow BRICS members Brazil, Russia, India, and South Africa to “accommodate each other’s core interests and major concerns, respect each other sovereignty, security and development interests, oppose hegemonism and power...
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BIDEN DOUBLES DOWN ON HIS PLEDGE THAT U.S. WILL DEFEND TAIWAN IF CHINA INVADES
Last Monday, President Joe Biden drew China’s ire when he once again told reporters that the U.S. would defend Taiwan militarily if Beijing decides to reclaim the island. Biden made the comment during his first visit to Japan as president to take part in a summit of the “Quad” nations. He was asked by a...
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ISRAEL HOLDS MILITARY EXERCISE TO STRIKE IRAN
The Israeli Air Force plans to hold a massive military exercise in late May over the Mediterranean called “Chariots of Fire,” that will simulate a large-scale attack on Iran as nuclear talks seem to be stalled between Tehran and the West. The Times of Israel reported that the three-week exercise will include nearly all Israel Defense...
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