For too long the West and their economies, particularly in relation to defence, have fallen into something of a malaise. It has taken Trump with his threatening, bombastic, aggressive, direct and urgent approach, to cause the West to awaken from its slumber.
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Recent years have seen the establishment in the US and other countries of government agencies aspiring to regulate the commercial space industry and space transportation.
Vance and Rubio have sought to enlist global cooperation in building an international coalition to wean the rest of the world from Chinese hegemony in the critical minerals and rare earths space.
Rubio to Europe: stop apologizing and start defending.
Stop trying to force your religion down other people’s throat.
This isn’t going away. It’s going to get worse. We haven’t even scratched the surface of the rot. And you can’t rebuild trust until you cut all of it out.
Today, due to government mismanagement and long-term strategic choices, the British Army is only a shadow of its former self: a force far removed from the versatile, hard-bitten-hard-fighting army that once could take on any adversary.
The question is what the world will finally demand of those who turn cemeteries into concealment, children into soldiers, humanitarian aid into weapons – and death itself into strategy.
The dismantling of the Iranian regime will immediately end the war on terror, because the main supplier of that terror will not exist. This, more than anything else, is the key that will unlock the door for peace in the region.
We did not find America: we willed it into being and the fates lacked the nerve to say no.
