

The war game turned out to be a rather accurate predictor of the future
The renewed VFA may be among the last that the Philippines signs, because the U.S. may not desire to sustain a presence as a part of its regional policy, Joaquin Flores writes.
U.S. provocations in the East are likely to continue and only Beijing knows how much more it will take before there is an explosion.
China is providing the equivalent scaremongering of the Soviet “missile gap” in order to sustain America’s militarist-dependent capitalist economy.
It is the Americans who need to stop their relentless and systematic aggravation of tensions.
One wonders when the penny will drop and the American people will rise up and say “enough is enough,” Philip Giraldi writes.
The inexorable imperial rot will go on, a tawdry affair carrying no dramatic, aesthetic pathos worthy of a Gotterdammerung.
Russia has, in just one week, upped the military ante to such a degree that long-term peace in this part of the world is a very tempting thought.