Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Japan and the Philippines are increasing their military cooperation to counter an aggressive China.
China has repeatedly used their military to steal maritime territory, and is having the greatest ever peacetime increase in military.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkBLIBEsHE0
The Romans rose partially because they were willing to expand their citizenry more than other states around them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1FetxWcYI
The US appears to have used self-defense as an excuse to hit targets Iran uses to control the Strait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB-DI2slvcA
Trump has left Europe looking for alternatives to US weapons, even if they are worse, weakening the alliance and losing US sales. If the world does take big strides away from US weapons, the US will have lost a lot of leverage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifDBZ504vRc
Trump praised Xi like a sycophant. Xi did not return the words.
Trump has accelerated American decline. Further polarizing the country, getting the US into a so-far unsuccessful war with Iran, weakening relationships with allies, removing quality immigrants along with the bad ones, increasing corruption, weakening the ability of the country to tax its wealthy citizens, broad and unstrategic tariffs that weaken the US economy, etcetera…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V48nZHKih8
US companies built software focused on price and features, not security.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwVa_L27G-g
The Room Where It Happened: What the Media Missed About the Trump-Xi Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17o5SEY9So
Why This Asian Border Sees More Crossings Than the Entire US-Mexico Border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUWOhAs5rTs
North Korea has put into law that if its leader is killed in an attack, it will start launching nukes.
North Korea is still building more nukes and their nuclear missiles can reach the US. North Korea is determined to keep its nukes to defend the regime’s survival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlkCC4d3_Po
During the war and the following cease fire blockades and operations…the US has not been communicating well with the Gulf States.
Some Iranians ships continue to make it through the blockade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIpguXCcTSc