Wednesday, April 17, 2024

The Iraq War has cost the US nearly $2 trillion

The bill of war to the U.S. to date would be an estimated $1,922 billion in current dollars.

Russia’s underperforming military (and ours)

Putin’s plunge into Ukraine confirms that he learned nothing from the folly of post-9/11 U.S. military policy.

The winner in Afghanistan: China

Does this debacle mark the decline of Washington's world leadership?

Why ISIS Needs the ‘Useful Idiots’ Who Demonize Muslims

Every imbecile who threatens Muslims is an unwitting agent of ISIS; in fact, it would be unsurprising to learn that ISIS itself is covertly promoting such messages in order to intensify enmity between the peoples of the Quran and the rest of the world.

South Asia’s nuclear-armed neighbors pull back from the abyss

The international community can only hope that the carnage and chaos of February was the last in a tragic series of encounters between nuclear neighbors that could otherwise lead South Asia to devastation and the world to nuclear winter.

Nuclear weapons: Barbaric tools of insecurity

Sustainable security is not created through threats and the cultivation of fear, but by building relationships, cooperating and establishing trust.

The age of anger

As we sleepwalk into the future, the steady deterioration of the ecosystem will ultimately lead to total systems collapse.
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Costs of war: After 9/11 attacks, US wars displaced at least 37 million people...

“The U.S. has played a disproportionate role in waging war, in launching war and in perpetuating war over the last 19 years.”

No indication in the US that the country is at war again

Keeping it normal in the world's leading rogue nation.

Can a war of words become a world of war?

Andrew Bacevich and Bill Moyers talk Trump and Kim Jong Un.