OPINION: Japan is preparing for the worst. Taiwan is just preparing excuses

As Tokyo sharpens its deterrence, Taipei stays trapped in dysfunction and denial
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In 1940 a women’s fic book about a rich British housewife absolutely loving life was published and shortly made into a movie that Winston Churchill said was more powerful than fifty destroyers, so good it scared Joseph Goebbels & is credited with getting millions of Americans to support the Allied powers

This bears mentioning again. The requested $500 billion increase in the Pentagon budget would fund NASA for 25 years at the current level. TWENTY FIVE YEARS. It is 5x the proposed total Artemis program budget of $93 billion. Just this one year increase. It is pure insanity.

Tajikistan, other Central Asian states hit by Iran food export ban https://trib.al/OqFDL83