In what appears to be both a coordinated move and a warning to Washington China and Russia send spy ships to track Carl Vinson. As the US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and its accompanying escort ships come within striking distance of North Korea, a Japanese newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, is reporting that Russia and China have…
Following Sunday’s failed medium-range missile test by Kim Jong-Un, President Donald Trump has been evaluating his response options and according to Bloomberg, which cited a “person familiar with his thinking”, is willing to consider ordering “kinetic” military action, including a sudden strike, to “counteract North Korea’s destabilizing actions in the region” However, before launching another…
Historically-speaking, other than their utterly barbaric treatment of their indigenous population, Australia is not a typical nation that comes to mind when it comes to profound hypocrisy as for example Trump’s erratic behavior is now clearly becoming apparent to everyone. Too put it mildly, Mr. Trump is a poor man’s illusion of a rich man….
In The Art of War the Chinese General Sun Tzu asserted that «There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare» and many of us had hoped that President Trump would bear in mind this and other instructive maxims after taking power in the country with the world’s largest warfare machine. We had also hoped…
The Airwars.org U.K.-based monitoring group reports that 41 U.S-led air strikes targeting ISIS in Iraq and Syria killed at least 296 civilians during the week after the chemical weapons incident on April 4. U.S. cruise missiles reportedly killed another nine civilians in villages near the Shayrat airbase that was targeted on April 7th. But the fragmentary reports compiled by Airwars.org can only reveal a fraction of…
War-whoops and loud applause from foreign policy establishments and their media supporters have greeted President Trump’s missile strike in Syria, the dropping of the world’s largest non-nuclear bomb on Afghanistan and the dispatch of a naval task force in the direction of North Korea. This spurt in belligerence over the last week has as much…
