Exaggeration of the threat
Counter Punch/Pedro Ribeiro Simões
THE three major military powers (the United States, Russia, and China) systematically and consistently engage in inflation of the threats they face. Each side tends to see the worst motivation and the greatest capabilities in assessing its adversaries in order to justify its own actions. This problem was endemic throughout the Cold War, particularly in the 1980s when president Ronald Reagan used exaggerated and politicised threat assessments to justify the largest peacetime increase in defence spending and to rally American support for the buildup. Ironically, the United States was doing so at the very time that the Soviet Union was in political and economic disarray, eventually dissolving in 1991.
Frank Gaffney: What Bloomberg Has Done Is in the Service of the Mortal Enemy of the United States
19 May 2021
Frank Gaffney, executive chairman and founder of the Center for Security Policy, said on Wednesday Michael Bloomberg’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) including “cooperation in the field of media” according the official Chinese government documents amounts to a subversion of America’s national interest for the benefit of its primary geopolitical adversary.
Gaffney drew on revelations detailing the Bloomberg-China ties in Alex Marlow’s
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Breaking the News] is focusing in on a vastly larger problem, but the microcosmic example of what Michael Bloomberg has done both personally and with his corporate enterprises and that vast wealth is in the service of the mortal enemy of the United States, namely the Chinese Communist Party.”
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By Paul Hall
Navy SEALs are an elite force sent to take on some of the toughest missions that our military has to dish out, many of those missions in total anonymity. The new film
Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, available now on Amazon Prime Video, tackles one of those missions and the consequences that followed.
John Kelly (Michael B. Jordan) joins his SEAL brothers on a team led by Karen Greer (Jodie Turner-Smith), sent to extract a hostage from Syria. As with many operations, not everything is quite what it seems. The SEALs weren’t given all the information about what they were getting into and who they were attacking. Because of the casualties related to the extraction, someone or some group is working to deliver payback to all involved with the SEAL team and there is bound to be collateral damage. Kelly’s life is about to change forever, but he is a survivor and he vows to fight back.