US Navy: a looming threat and a hollow force

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asia times by Seth Cropsey The year 2022 was an underreported but brutal one for the US Navy. The service is in crisis. Retention issues, an aging fleet, the revelation of several command failures, →

McCarthy’s embarrassing victory in speaker election not the end of mess in Washington: analysts

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​global times​​​ By Yang Sheng The US House of Representatives has finally elected Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy as the new speaker early Saturday morning after a historic and embarrassing →

Iran’s LPG exports increase 86%

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​modern diplomacy​​​ The value of Iran’s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) export rose 86 percent from the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2022) up to December 31, as compared →

How to Respond to a North Korean Nuclear Test

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national interest by Daniel Sneider North Korean leader Kim Jong-un marked the new year with a pointed display of military might unmistakably aimed at the United States, South Korea, and Japan. At →

Qatar corruption scandal: How Morocco manipulated the EP through Panzeri

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brussels times By Thomas Moller-Nielsen According to De Standaard, Pier Antonio Panzeri (S&D), a three-term Italian MEP who served in the European Parliament from 2004-2019, repeatedly deflected →

Launch ceremony held in Shanghai for China-built landing platform dock for Thailand

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​global times​​​ The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) recently organized a ceremony in Shanghai for its new landing platform dock from China, which indicates that it will be delivered to Thailand and put into →

Truth and the Foundations of a Free Republic

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american thinker By Paul E. Scates The philosophy of relativism claims that all truth is relative, and that there is no such thing as absolute truth. (Of course, if relativism is true, then based on →

Why Russia’s mothers aren’t as war-raged as before

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asia times by Jennifer Mathers and Natasha Danilova Ukraine’s military launched a devastating strike on New Year’s Day hitting a building housing recently mobilized Russian soldiers in the occupied →

US workers not ready for next-gen high-tech jobs

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asia times by Tony Schmitz The US Navy is beginning to build 12 top-of-the-line nuclear submarines, with the first one scheduled to be completed by 2027. But it is missing a critical ingredient: many →

Will Germany Seize the Zeitenwende Moment?

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national interest by James Jay Carafano Dan Negrea Three days after Russia’s second invasion of Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the Bundestag into an extraordinary session. His speech, often →

How the Ukraine Crisis Can Be Solved

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national interest by Christian Whiton To end the war in Ukraine in the near future, Washington will have to negotiate directly with Moscow. The sooner it does so, the better. And if the Biden →

Putin's Orthodox Christmas cease-fire begins, but Ukraine and its allies reject what they see as a cynical ploy

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nbc news By Patrick Smith The cease-fire ordered unilaterally by Russian President Vladimir Putin to coincide with the start of Orthodox Christmas began Friday but was rejected by Ukraine and its →

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