.@WCKitchen says its seven employees were killed in “a targeted attack by the IDF” after they “unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza.”
As a result, WCK is “pausing our operations immediately” in Gaza. The Israeli regime, armed by the Biden White… https://t.co/V7bt0Is64W
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 2, 2024
Day: April 2, 2024
Biden not only let Israel block food into Gaza, but provided Israel with bombs that likely killed Western aid workers — including an American — trying to deliver food themselves. https://t.co/yLerGf6v6H
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 2, 2024

Even as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping a were forming “a new epoch in relations” between their two countries, Russia was still planning for the possibility of nuclear war against China as late as 2014. Recently leaked Russian documents reveal contingencies for such a war against China in Siberia, including potential scenarios for the use of nuclear weapons against China. Russian planning for a nuclear war with China may seem surprising in hindsight. After all, this was just two years before the two countries increased their number of joint military exercises, as part of a
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As a new surface warfare officer, your time is split between running a division and getting qualified. While much of qualifying means opening every publication and tactical handbook you can find and learning it cold, a great deal of your oral examination is based on “gouge,” which is informal information about the board and the questions you’ll be asked. I clearly remember my gouge: “Don’t worry about mine stuff, we’ll never do it. Focus on missile detect-to-engage sequences for the bigger ships, that’s the real threat. Subs? Leave that to submarines.” I wasn’t going to argue with senior officers at
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