Should the United States Defend or Ditch Taiwan?

When we discuss whether the United States should defend or ditch Taiwan, what we should really discuss is whether the United States should seek to maintain its supremacy in the Western Pacific and beyond.

President Joe Biden’s recent pledge to defend Taiwan has ignited renewed controversy. When asked if he “was willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan” during his visit to Asia on May 23, he answered yes, adding: “That’s the commitment we made.” His remarks are apparently in contradiction with “strategic ambiguity,” the decades-long U.S. policy toward Taiwan that is deliberately ambivalent about the extent of the United States’ commitment to come to the aid of Taiwan. Although the White House, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and later Biden himself denied that the statement reflects a change in U.S. policy, it is unclear whether this was another gaffe by the president or a deliberate statement aimed at enhancing deterrence against China (adding ambiguity to strategic ambiguity), particularly given that this was not the first time Biden expressed his commitment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Taiwan, USA

Arms manufacturers are winning after 100 days of war in Ukraine

The United States and Germany this week pledged to equip Ukraine with some of the advanced weapons Kyiv has long desired for shooting down aircraft and knocking out artillery, as Russian forces close in on capturing a key city in the east.

Despite multiple countries sending arms to Ukraine since Russia invaded on 24 February, Kyiv has complained that it is still outgunned as it pleaded for more heavy weapons.

Here is a look at the weaponry that has either been promised or sent so far. This is not a complete list given some nations keep their donations secret.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Tough week for Hollywood, good week for America

Hollywood is wallowing in angst, and at least half of America couldn’t be happier.

It started with the release of Top Gun: Maverick. The film was a stunning success and was devoid of the typical wokeness that has slithered into just about everything they have created in recent years. None of Hollywood’s usual box-checking to fill the woke agenda was present. Worse yet, it is a pro-American movie, filled mostly with males doing military stuff.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Open Season on the Jews of France

Yet another French Jew is murdered in an anti-Semitic hate crime.

In what has become a disturbing, and all too familiar occurrence in France, another elderly French Jew has been murdered in an unprovoked attack motivated by antisemitism. On May 21, an 89-year-old Lyon resident named René Hadjaj was defenestrated from the 17th floor of the apartment complex where he resided. The perpetrator has been identified as a 51-year-old male of Algerian origin named Rachid Kheniche. Hadjaj was said to have been wearing a kippah at the time of the assault.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Putin’s war is just beginning

Even a ceasefire won’t thwart his masterplan

A hundred days ago, Putin did what he was always going to do: press the red button on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While US and British Intelligence warned an attack was imminent, much of the world was shocked by the sudden, merciless violence set in motion as Russian military forces entered from the north, east, south, and from across Black Sea.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Drought-stricken US warned of looming “dead pool”

A once-in-a-lifetime drought in the western part of the US is turning up dead bodies – but that’s the least of people’s worries.

Sitting on the Arizona-Nevada border near Las Vegas, Lake Mead – formed by the creation of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River – is the largest reservoir in the United States and provides water to 25 million people across three states and Mexico. Here, the stunning scale of a drought in the American west has been laid plain for all to see.

The water level is now so low that bodies of murder victims from decades back, once hidden by its depths, have surfaced.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

Up to 15,000 may join largest ever migrant caravan to walk through Mexico to US

Liozanys Comeja credits her survival to her teacup chihuahua, Mia. Originally from Venezuela, Comeja moved to Colombia five years ago, but decided to leave her new life behind this month due to the rising cost of living. She crossed the Darien Gap, a notorious stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama, with Mia tucked in her backpack, eventually making her way across eight countries. Now, Comeja is hoping the dog will help her make it through the grueling final leg of their journey.

Comeja has joined about 11,000 others who on Monday will leave Tapachula, a sweltering city on the Mexico-Guatemala border, and head north for the United States. It will depart as leaders from across the hemisphere gather in Los Angeles for the Summit of the Americas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Camp Of The Saints

The apathy election? Ontario sees lowest voter turnout in history, early data suggests

Call it the apathy election.

Thursday’s vote in Ontario may have seen the lowest turnout in the province since Confederation.

With some final polls still being counted, early data from Elections Ontario suggests about 43.03 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot — or about 4.6 million of the province’s 10.7 million potential electors.

Voter turnout in Ontario lowest in history, early data from Elections Ontario shows

As of Friday morning, the Elections Ontario website indicated only 4.6 million out of 10.7 million eligible voters chose to cast a ballot in Thursday’s election.

That’s around 43 per cent of eligible voters.

Is it any wonder? Given the choices on offer Ford seems the lesser evil.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOntario

Conservative leadership hopeful Pierre Poilievre tables bill to ban COVID-19 vaccine mandates

Conservative leadership contender Pierre Poilievre has tabled a bill in the House of Commons that, if passed, would prohibit the federal government from imposing vaccine mandates on federal workers and the travelling public.

Poilievre, who has been a vocal opponent of mandates since the convoy of protesters against vaccine mandates rolled into Ottawa earlier this year, said he’s tabling this legislation now “to give Canadians back control of their lives.”

It’s unlikely to pass so it’s really just red meat for potential supporters. Call me a cynic but I think a leadership campaign is in process.

Conservatives say they’re about to set another new membership record

Some Conservatives are predicting it will turn out to be the largest number of Canadians ever to join a political party at any one time in Canadian history.

Multiple Conservative Party of Canada sources say that, since the current contest to choose a new party leader began, more than 400,000 people have either joined the party, have renewed their memberships, or are existing members, giving them the right to vote in the leadership race.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

America is being held hostage by loony demands

Why are there so many problems in this country that aren’t addressed? Why, when we keep agreeing there are problems, can we not agree on any of the solutions?

It doesn’t matter what subject it is, the problem is always the same.

Already this year, there have been hundreds of mass shootings in America. This week, we saw the shootings at a hospital in Oklahoma. The week before, it was Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Each time one of these atrocities occurs, people agree that something must be done. But “something” never happens.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Elon Musk orders 10% cut to Tesla workforce, ‘super bad feeling’ about the economy

Writing in an email to executives on Thursday, as seen by Reuters, Musk said that he had a “super bad feeling” about the trajectory of the economy. Tesla currently employs around 100,000 people in the United States at the company and its subsidiaries, according to its most recent SEC filing.

Musk’s warning of a potential recession and the impact it will have on automakers is the most direct forecast of its kind in the automotive industry and follows months of warnings from economists about a potential recession or stagflation.

Joe Biden wishes Elon Musk ‘lots of luck on his trip to the Moon’

President Joe Biden took a dismissive jab at Elon Musk over reports that the mogul has a “super bad feeling” about the American economy.

“Lots of luck on his trip to the moon,” a sarcastic Biden said at a press conference Friday when asked about Musk’s reported views.

 

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", Economy

The ‘great replacement’ is nothing new, just a matter of scale

The root cause is generations of low fertility in the West

What is the “Great Replacement”? The phrase comes from Le Grand Remplacement, a 2011 book by French philosopher Renaud Camus. Camus believes that French culture is being replaced by a soulless globalism and the French people are being replaced through Muslim immigration. He has a point. Some projections are that France will be majority Muslim by 2100 if present trends continue.

The root cause is generations of below-replacement-level fertility in the West. Non-Western countries do not have mass immigration, so replacement is not a pressing concern. Just the prospect of dying out.

But the great replacement is reality for those who see their customs, traditions and way of life being swept aside by mass cheap-labor immigration.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Great Replacement

The path to hate: How a former Irish soldier joined Islamic State

Lisa Smith – Idiot Convert to Islam

Dundalk’s Lisa Smith will be sentenced in July following her conviction at the Special Criminal Court

Lisa Smith had been back in Ireland just a few hours when she was handed a cup of coffee by detectives at Store Street Garda Station. “The coffee is very strong in Syria,” she said, “this tastes very watery.”

It was a mild element of the culture shock she was experiencing. Over the next four days she would recall how her fear of hell-fire prompted her to go to Syria where she first lived in what she described as a women’s prison. She recalled her reluctant marriage and the beatings she received from her husband and the time she saw a dead man hanging from a cross with his eyes gouged out. There were the bombs that started to destroy the Islamic State she had travelled thousands of miles to be part of, forcing her to flee from city to village and town where she would watch as people were gunned down by snipers while she struggled to feed herself and her baby. She would recall saying goodbye to her husband as he returned to fight in a certain-death battle and then there were the long months in a refugee camp where horrific punishments, including burning alive, were inflicted even for minor infractions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Ireland, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Biden Is No Friend of Israel

Nothing better illustrates the Biden administration’s deep-seated antipathy towards the State of Israel than the leaking of highly classified material about the alleged role Israeli intelligence played in the assassination of a top-ranking Iranian terrorist.

For decades, Israel and the US have enjoyed a unique intelligence-sharing relationship whereby the two countries share the most sensitive material on their respective intelligence, security and military operations.

But the deep-seated bond of trust that forms the bedrock of this vital relationship has been seriously compromised as a result of the Biden administration’s egregious decision to leak details of Israel’s alleged involvement in the killing of Colonel Sayad Khodayee, a senior commander in the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Israel, Israeli - Islam Conflict