Armas Weekend Reader
This week: America still isn’t ready for war, China confrontation, Hitler at Purim, Oscar campaigning, Phyllis Wheatley’s genius, vanishing Korean children, Milius’s savages, the legend of the F-4, and more. Let’s go —
1) “We are going to lose if we fight like this.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-military-china-taiwan-russia-great-power-conflict-481f7756
2) “This month marks the 20th anniversary of the greatest western foreign policy disaster since the Fourth Crusade. It was the pre-eminent modern-day example of folly, driven by wishful thinking, utopianism and a lack of interest in history and how human societies differ. This was mostly carried out by good people.”
3) “BBC News is the most trusted news brand in America, scoring slightly above all other major U.S. news organizations.”
4) While both sides deserve blame for the crisis, the Biden administration currently holds the power and refuses to designate the cartels as terrorists over diplomatic nonsense with Mexico. Here’s what must be done.”
5) “China’s foreign minister warned that the U.S. strategy toward China risked plunging the countries into a conflict in remarks a day after Chinese leader Xi Jinping unleashed a similar verbal salvo at Washington, signaling a deepening rift between the world’s two largest economies.”
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