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Taiwan Says It’s In Talks On Being Brought Under US Nuclear Umbrella

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– Taiwan Says It’s In Talks On Being Brought Under US Nuclear Umbrella:

Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,

Taiwan’s foreign minister said last week that the US and Taiwan are in talks on the possibility of the island being brought under Washington’s nuclear umbrella, a step that would make a catastrophic war between the US and China much more likely.

Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu made the comments before Taiwan’s parliament, the Legislative Yuan. Wu declined to detail the talks when pressed if Taiwan had asked the US to bring the island into its nuclear umbrella.

“Regarding the discussion of this issue with the United States, it is not suitable for me to make it public here,” Wu said, according to The South China Morning Post.

Many of the US’s allies are considered to be under the protection of the US nuclear umbrella, including Japan, South Korea, and every member of NATO.

Giving such a guarantee to Taiwan would mean the US could use nuclear weapons if China invades the island or if war breaks out by other means. According to the SCMP report:

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Target Stores Hit With Bomb Threat After ‘Turning Its Back’ On LGBTQ+ Community

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– Target Stores Hit With Bomb Threat After ‘Turning Its Back’ On LGBTQ+ Community:

At least five Targets in multiple states received bomb threats Friday over company executives pulling the Pride collection section because of mounting boycotts, leading to multiple stores being evacuated as police and the FBI searched for explosive devices.

“Target is full of [redacted] cowards who turned their back on the LGBT community and decided to cater to homophobic right wing, redneck, bigots, who protested and vandalized their store,” reads a threatening email sent to several Target locations in Ohio and one in Pennsylvania, Cleveland 19 News reports.

“We won’t stand idly by as the far right continues to hunt us down. We are sending you a message, we placed a bomb in the following Targets. We will continue to bomb your Targets until you stop cowering and bring back your LBGT merchandise. ”

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‘Kevin Caved’: McCarthy Savaged Over Debt Ceiling Deal

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– ‘Kevin Caved’: McCarthy Savaged Over Debt Ceiling Deal:

Update (1345ET): The hits just keep coming for Speaker Kevin McCarthy, as angry Republicans have been outright rejecting the debt ceiling deal which raises it by roughly $4 trillion for two years, doesn’t provide sticking points sought by the GOP.

In short, Kevin caved according to his detractors.

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Colonel Douglas Macgregor: “Bakhmut Is A Catastrophe [For Ukraine]… F-16s Won’t Make A Difference” – “The Russians Are Overrunning The Two Areas That I Just Mentioned” (Video)

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Go to YouTube directly (video not embeddable) for this critically frank interview:

https://youtu.be/8A7RJJ1yCiU

– Col. Douglas Macgregor: “Bakhmut Is A Catastrophe [For Ukraine]… F-16s Won’t Make A Difference”:

Russia turned Bakhmut into the graveyard of Ukrainian military power, Col. Douglas MacGregor (ret.) explains ‘what comes next’ in his latest opinion piece at The American Conservative:

Until the fighting begins, national military strategy developed in peacetime shapes thinking about warfare and its objectives. Then the fighting creates a new logic of its own. Strategy is adjusted. Objectives change. The battle for Bakhmut illustrates this point very well. 

Read moreColonel Douglas Macgregor: “Bakhmut Is A Catastrophe [For Ukraine]… F-16s Won’t Make A Difference” – “The Russians Are Overrunning The Two Areas That I Just Mentioned” (Video)