It has been another exciting week in a world at war where the word “diplomacy” has no meaning and would probably be defined by America’s head of Homeland Security Kristi Noem as a doctrine in which you shoot someone first before he or she can shoot you.
In March, China continued reducing its portfolio of U.S. treasury securities, dropping it behind the U.K. as the largest foreign owner of U.S. debt.
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison
Chinese scientists have refueled a nuclear reactor without shutting it down, the first time the feat has been achieved.
Washington has approved a $310 million F-16 support package for Ukraine, and Trump threatens more sanctions for Russia.
“One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle.”—James Otis, Revolutionary War activist, on the Writs of Assistance, 1761
According to the statement from the U.S. Treasury on Wednesday afternoon, the newly created U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund recognizes the "significant financial and material support."
In the “anyone who hates my enemy is my friend” vein, some may have noticed a recent glut of stories positively spinning practically any policy or anti-U.S. statements by China.
I recently read an article by investigative historian Eric Zuesse, author of America’s Empire of Evil, that began “One of the core features of nazism (not the German political Party but its core ideology) is racism, which allows some ethnicities (or “races”) to be advantaged by law, and other ethnicities to be discriminated against by the law—it is, at its very core, AGAINST equal rights under law.”
The news cycle over the past week has been dominated by reports and analysis of the Signal group chat involving top national security officials discussing aspects of the recent air strikes which have been directed against the Houthis in Yemen.