Daily Archives: November 23, 2025
Risk of War with China Highest Ever as U.S. Pulls Missiles from Japan
The Pentagon should not have withdrawn the [Typhon missile system from Japan]. Worse, it chose the worst possible time to do so. Now, in the middle of a confrontation that China has picked with Japan, the Chinese propaganda machine is pushing the narrative that the withdrawal of the Typhon battery shows that Washington is abandoning Tokyo.
Ukraine: The Peace Mirage
The current phase started in February 2022, with what looked like a full Russian invasion. But that was only a sequel to the invasion and occupation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. That episode was itself a sequel to another politico-military operation two years earlier…
