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American ICBM Failure Just After Takeoff Highlights Broader Issues With Strategic Nuclear Capabilities

14Jan

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USA

American ICBM Failure Just After Takeoff Highlights Broader Issues With Strategic Nuclear Capabilities

Minuteman III and B-52 Bombers In the late hours of July 6 the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program suffered a significant setback when its Mk 21A ICBM reentry vehicle being tested at Vandenberg Space Force base in California failed just seconds after launch. The LGM-35A program has faced widespread criticisms due to its cost, with proposals made to cancel it entirely and compensate with expansion of the intercontinental range bomber and ballistic missile submarine fleets. It is intended to replace the LGM-30 Minuteman III, which is the world’s oldest ICBM still in service and the only operational Western ground based ICBM. The program is expected to cost close to $270 billion, with such investments having been deferred for decades l...

Ukrainian President Zelensky Calls for Increased Foreign Involvement in Taiwan Strait Security to Counter China

14Jan

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China, Ukraine, USA

Ukrainian President Zelensky Calls for Increased Foreign Involvement in Taiwan Strait Security to Counter China

Ukrainian President Zelensky and Taiwan Strait Virtually addressing participants at the Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore on June 11, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for greater international involvement in the Taiwan Strait to support the Taipei government against the Chinese mainland. “We must not leave them behind at the mercy of another country which is more powerful in financial terms, in territorial terms and in terms of equipment,” he added in an interview after the address. Zelensky further used the summit to call for greater support for Kiev in its ongoing war with Russia. Although China has taken a neutral position in the Russian-Ukrainian war, abstaining from voting on the issue at the United Nations while banning arms sales to both sides, Zelensk...

U.S. Reassures Russia: Patriot Missiles to Ukraine Won’t Have American Troop ‘Shields’: A Green Light to Strike?

14Jan

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Russia, Ukraine, USA

U.S. Reassures Russia: Patriot Missiles to Ukraine Won’t Have American Troop ‘Shields’: A Green Light to Strike?

Missile Launch From Patriot Battery The United States has informed Russia that Patriot missile systems set to be delivered to the Ukraine in 2023 will not be accompanied by U.S. Military personnel, according to a statement by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on December 28. These assurances were reportedly provided by Washington through “embassy channels.” “We’ve asked the Americans through the channels that our embassy still has, whether their decision to hand over a Patriot battery [to Ukraine] means that American specialists would come along with it, since it is complicated to use,” the minister said, adding that Russian diplomats had received “extensive explanations” from U.S. officials assuring that no Americans would be accompanying the Patriots. “It is precisely because th...

Ukraine Won’t Be Ready for Patriot Missiles Until 2024: Advisory Body Warns U.S. Congress of High Risks From Deliveries

14Jan

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Russia, Ukraine, USA

Ukraine Won’t Be Ready for Patriot Missiles Until 2024: Advisory Body Warns U.S. Congress of High Risks From Deliveries

Missile Batteries From Patriot System The U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) advisory body has warned that Congress is facing issues “in both its legislative and oversight roles” over the deliver of Patriot surface to air missile systems to Ukraine, after the intention to send these systems as part of a $1.85 billion aid package was announced in December. It highlighted that although Patriot systems had been widely speculated to begin deliveries in the first half of 2023, training local repair crews alone would take approximately 53 weeks. “There is a lot of learning to do before Ukraine will have a functioning Patriot system on the ground,” it emphasised. It was previously speculated that U.S. or other NATO service members could man the Patriots after their de...

14Jan

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Russia, UN, USA

Ukraine Won’t Be Ready for Patriot Missiles Until 2024: Advisory Body Warns U.S. Congress of High Risks From Deliveries

Missile Batteries From Patriot System The U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) advisory body has warned that Congress is facing issues “in both its legislative and oversight roles” over the deliver of Patriot surface to air missile systems to Ukraine, after the intention to send these systems as part of a $1.85 billion aid package was announced in December. It highlighted that although Patriot systems had been widely speculated to begin deliveries in the first half of 2023, training local repair crews alone would take approximately 53 weeks. “There is a lot of learning to do before Ukraine will have a functioning Patriot system on the ground,” it emphasised. It was previously speculated that U.S. or other NATO service members could man the Patriots after their de...

14Jan

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USA

The Final Efforts of the 117th Congress

JULIA PITNER A view of the U.S. Capitol building on Nov. 28, 2022 in Washington, DC, as Congress wraps up the current lame-duck session, tries to fund the government and pass an omnibus bill. (DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2023, pp. 16-17 Congress Watch By Julia Pitner POST-ELECTIONS and the end of the current congressional session, the FY2023 is racing toward its end as an omnibus bill. The Senate’s good intentions for finishing its own bill (S. 4543) shifted to the House version (H.R. 7900) in late October, with the intention of replacing the House text with the Senate Armed Services Committee bill. However, the campaign and election season got in the way. Yet, the Senate has used the Armed Se...

13Jan

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, USA, ZIO-NAZI

The Growing “Battle” Inside U.S. Jewish Institutions As ‘Israel’ Embraces Racist Parties

ALLAN C. BROWNFELD I Itamar Ben-Gvir (r), leader of the Israeli far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, during a memorial ceremony for the late Israeli-American Rabbi Meir Kahane, in Jerusalem on Nov. 10, 2022. Kahane, a cofounder of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), was convicted of acts of terrorism and assassinated in 1990. Ben-Gvir will be Israel’s national security minister under a coalition deal with Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. (ILIA YEFIMOVICH/PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2023, pp. 20-21 Israel and Judaism By Allan C. Brownfeld THERE IS A GROWING EFFORT to stifle free speech within the American Jewish community. Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), recen...

Will Naziyahu and His Extremist Ministers Undermine Unquestioned U.S. Support?

13Jan

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USA, ZIO-NAZI

Will Naziyahu and His Extremist Ministers Undermine Unquestioned U.S. Support?

WALTER L. HIXSON ISRAEL-PALESTINE Palestinians inspect a destroyed truck loaded with citrus after it was set on fire by Jewish settlers during an attack near the Shavei Shomron settlement, west of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank on Nov. 16, 2022. (NASSER ISHTAYEH/SOPA IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES). Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2023, pp. 14-15 History’s Shadows By Walter L. Hixson RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM and cult of personality politics suffered a sharp defeat last November in the U.S. midterm elections and in Brazil, with the defeat of Trump-wannabe and rainforest plower Jair Bolsonaro. But Israel demonstrated yet again that it is one of the most politically reactionary regimes in the world by returning to office Binyamin N...

World Cup and U.N. Provide Context for Assessing the Abrahamic Accords

13Jan

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UN

World Cup and U.N. Provide Context for Assessing the Abrahamic Accords

IAN WILLIAMS NORTH AMERICA The U.N. Security Council holds a meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, at the U.N. headquarters in New York, on Nov. 28, 2022. U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland called for urgent steps toward a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (ESKINDER DEBEBE/UN PHOTO/HANDOUT VIA XINHUA) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2023, pp. 12-13 United Nations Report By Ian Williams CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING, and both the World Cup in Qatar and the United Nations in New York added their distinctive textures to temper the orthodoxies of geopolitics, not least about the Palestine issue. Sadly, I suspect you had to be on social media...

Call for Solidarity Actions with Anti-war Activists in Russia

13Jan

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Russia

Call for Solidarity Actions with Anti-war Activists in Russia

BY ILYA BUDRAITSKIS FacebookTwitterRedditEmail This is a call for solidarity with Russian anti-war activists by Ilya Budraitskis on behalf of The Russian Socialist Movement. For over a decade, Russian antifascists have commemorated January 19 as their day of solidarity. This is the date when in 2009, in the center of Moscow, the human rights and leftist activist Stanislav Markelov and the journalist and anarchist Anastasia Baburova were gunned down by neo-Nazis. The murder of Markelov and Baburova became the culmination of the ultra-right terror of the 2000s, which killed hundreds of migrants and dozens of anti-fascists. For many years, while it was still possible, Russian activists held antifascist demonstrations and rallies on January 19 under the slogan “To remembe...