The New Cuban Missile Crisis | Opinion | The Moscow Times

Posted by Matt in March 18th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Missiles, Architecture, Barack Obama, Cuban Missile Crisis, Dangerous Undertaking, Missile-Defense, Moscow Times, National Security, Russia, United States

The result is that the “new missile defense architecture” announced by U.S. President Barack Obama last year might turn out to be a dangerous undertaking that could lead to a breakdown of strategic stability in the world. The United States has yet to convince Moscow that this undertaking will not undermine Russia’s national security. Moscow [...]

Why Are So Many Americans So Wrong About China?

Posted by Matt in March 15th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, Banking Sector, China Today, Coastal Provinces, Communism, Corruption, Economic Crisis, Foxnews, Gap, Leadership, Loans, Nationalism, New Leaders, Pendulum Swing, Shanghai Banking, Taiwan, Transparency, United States

Today, China is heading for another pendulum swing towards economic crisis and anti-Western nationalism. The Shanghai banking sector is filled with corruption, lack of transparency and bad loans. The gap between the booming coastal provinces and the still poor interior remains huge. Communism as an ideology has been displaced by surging nationalism.
A major economic crisis [...]

Greece’s crisis could presage America’s | The Town Talk

Posted by Matt in March 15th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Financial, Alan Greenspan, Chairman Alan Greenspan, Debtor, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Chairman, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Fiscal Problems, Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Greece, Thetowntalk, United States, World Economy

How long can the United States remain the world’s largest economy as well as the world’s largest debtor?
“Not indefinitely,” suggests former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. “History tells us that great powers when they’ve gotten into very significant fiscal problems have ceased to be great powers.”
Raum: Greece’s crisis could presage America’s | thetowntalk.com | The [...]

UK Economic and Debt Crisis Approaches Dangerous Tipping Point

Posted by Matt in March 15th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Financial, Cataclysm, Debt Crisis, Economic Crisis, Elites, Matter Of Time, Political Establishment, Precipice, Probability, Sinks, Sovereign Debt, Sustainable Solution, Tipping Point, United States

It seems to this observer that it is only a matter of time before the UK sinks into an irreversible sovereign debt cataclysm, with the United States not far behind. Anyone who believes that the same political establishment and financial elites that have led both nations to this hellish fiscal precipice can now lead us [...]

The Harvard Law Record – Noam Chomsky: Iran pursuing nuclear weapons out of fear

Posted by Matt in March 11th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Iran, general, Communism, Conclusion, Countries, Fear, Harvard Law Record, Iran Nuclear, Israel, Marxism, National Safety, Noam Chomsky, Nuclear Weapons, Posture, United States, Way Of Thinking

This is typical Leftist thinking. Troublemaker countries like Iran are truly victims. Who is the victimizer? Countries that are successful and powerful like America and Israel.
This is a sick and dangerous way of thinking that literally says bad is good and good is bad. This thinking is just as dangerous as Marxism/Communism.
His conclusion is [...]

Fears that Iran Wants to Trigger Mideast War

Posted by Matt in March 11th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Iran, Israel, Middle East, War, Allies, Confrontation, Economic Sanctions, Envision, Fears, Gaza, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Mideast War, Neighbors, New War, Nuclear Activities, Sanctions On Iran, Syria, tehran, United States, West Bank, World Citizen

As the United States steps up its campaign to impose economic sanctions on Iran, fears are growing in Washington and in the Middle East that Iran will try to trigger a new war in the region in order to shift attention from its nuclear activities, throw the U.S. and its allies off balance, and put [...]

AFP: Taiwan says China now has edge in air power

Posted by Matt in March 8th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, Taiwan, Afp, Air China, Air Force, China Air, Chinese Aircraft, Defence Ministry, Fighter Jets, Liberty Times, Military Report, Taiwan China, United States

China now has better fighter jets than Taiwan, according to a military report by the island’s defence ministry as the air force Monday renewed its bid to obtain new F-16s from the United States.
Of the three types of fighter jets in Taiwan’s air force, only the F-16A/Bs have a slight edge over the Chinese aircraft, [...]

China, Iran Creating ‘No-Go’ Zones to Thwart U.S. Military Power — Politics Daily

Posted by Matt in March 3rd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Military, Air Space, Allies, Barge, China, cyberspace, Defense Secretary, Global Commons, Iran, Jujitsu, Military Power, Pentagon, Persian Gulf, Power Politics, Robert Gates, Sea Air, Secretary Robert, Strategists, Target Countries, United States

But now the party’s over. The United States, Pentagon strategists say, is quickly losing its ability to barge in without permission. Potential target countries and even some lukewarm allies are figuring out ingenious ways to blunt American power without trying to meet it head-on, using a combination of high-tech and low-tech jujitsu.
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As Defense Secretary Robert [...]

Partners in Decline | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in March 2nd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Europe, Andrew Bacevich, Cabinet Officials, Decline, Dysfunctional, Europe, Europeans, Foreign Policy, NATO, Novel, Pacifist, Pitch, Scapegoat, United States, White House

It’s anti-Europe season again in the United States. Once the season opens (usually in the second year of a presidential term, when the White House most needs a scapegoat), cabinet officials and analysts start taking their shots: “Europeans don’t pitch in. They don’t fight enough.”
Andrew Bacevich’s article, “Let Europe Be Europe,” is just the latest [...]

India Prepares for a Two-Front War – WSJ.com

Posted by Matt in March 1st, 2010 | no comment

Published in India, Aggressiveness, Asia, China, Daniel Blumenthal, India Military, Pakistan, Peace, superpower, United States, War Doctrine, Wsj

There is one country responding to China’s military build-up and aggressiveness with some muscle of its own. No, it is not the United States, the superpower ostensibly responsible for maintaining peace and security in Asia. Rather, it is India, whose military is currently refining a “two-front war” doctrine to fend off Pakistan and China simultaneously. [...]