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Graham: ‘I’d Be Very Much Open’ to Sending U.S. Forces to Taiwan.​

Graham: 'I’d Be Very Much Open' to Sending U.S. Forces to Taiwan

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on this week's broadcast of "Fox News Sunday" that he is open to sending U.S. troops to Taiwan. | Clips

www.breitbart.com

"I’d be very much open to using U.S. forces to defend Taiwan because it’s in our national security interest to do so.”

House Foreign Affairs Chairman McCaul: Sending US Troops To Taiwan Is "On The Table"​

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/04/09/house_foreign_affairs_chairman_mccaul_sending_us_troops_to_taiwan_is_on_the_table.html

Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron​

Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron

The ‘great risk’ Europe faces is getting ‘caught up in crises that are not ours,’ French president says in interview.

www.politico.eu

ABOARD COTAM UNITÉ (FRANCE’S AIR FORCE ONE) — Europe must reduce its dependency on the United States and avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between China and the U.S. over Taiwan, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview on his plane back from a three-day state visit to China.

Costs of War

The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

watson.brown.edu

Congress Has Been Captured by the Arms Industry

On March 13th, the Pentagon rolled out its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The results were -- or at least should have been -- stunning, even by the standards of a department that's used

tomdispatch.com

 

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Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron​

Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron

The ‘great risk’ Europe faces is getting ‘caught up in crises that are not ours,’ French president says in interview.

www.politico.eu

Too late for that. It's called NATO...

 

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Trust in media is so low that half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them.​

Trust in media is so low that half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them

Only 23% of respondents believed journalists were acting in the public's best interests.

fortune.com

American Views 2022: Part 2 Trust, Media and Democracy

The past five years of Gallup/Knight studies on this topic have focused mostly on the practices of news organizations linked to trust. The focus of the American Views 2022: Part 2 report is to expand understanding of the emotional factors that drive attitudes about the news.

knightfoundation.org

Full report here^^^^^^

 

[SWP's back]

To be fair, you’d have to be an incredibly stupid failure at life to try and say both parties are the same.

 

[DrBlueBob]

Has this forum ever had a more unpopular and disliked poster?

Dax?

 

[super_city_si]

Hahahahah...WTF?

 

[laserblue]

Hahahahah...WTF?

Would that be the same Maricopa County that had an audit of their 2020 election results run by Cyber Ninjas, a company with no auditing experience owned by pro-Trump fanatic and serial spreader of his big lie Doug Logan? The same auditors that were financed by MAGA contributions including $1 million from Trump himself and other fundraisers organised by the likes of Sid Powell? The audit that MAGA morons claimed would finally prove once and for all that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump? The audit that spent 4 months looking for the tiniest discrepancy, even to the extent of passing every ballot under UV light looking for non-existent Chinese watermarks and fibres, and only ended up finding 360 more votes from Biden?

Kari Lake is just as big a liar and sorer loser as her orange hero.

 

[super_city_si]

Would that be the same Maricopa County that had an audit of their 2020 election results run by Cyber Ninjas, a company with no auditing experience owned by pro-Trump fanatic and serial spreader of his big lie Doug Logan? The same auditors that were financed by MAGA contributions including $1 million from Trump himself and other fundraisers organised by the likes of Sid Powell? The audit that MAGA morons claimed would finally prove once and for all that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump? The audit that spent 4 months looking for the tiniest discrepancy, even to the extent of passing every ballot under UV light looking for non-existent Chinese watermarks and fibres, and only ended up finding 360 more votes from Biden?

Kari Lake is just as big a liar and sorer loser as her orange hero.

Sounds like they forgot to interview the laser printers.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

Hahahahah...WTF?

I was gonna call bullshit on this, but then I noticed the Blue Checkmark next to Kari's account. Now, I guess printer sentience has got to be real. Hopefully the laser printers aren't in communication with the space lasers.

 

[BayernMan]