Day: June 9, 2024
If you’re wondering why there has been no hostage deal done between Israel and Hamas…
It’s because Jewish CIA director William Burns is negotiating with Jewish Mossad chief David Barnea…🇺🇸🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/5BIkBHz4bR
— Pelham (@Resist_05) June 9, 2024
The U.K. Office of Maritime Trade Operations is reporting yet another Houthi Attack against a Commercial Shipping Vessel today in the Gulf of Aden, with a Vessel reported to have Struck by an Unknown Projectile, likely by an Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile, on its Aft Portion causing… pic.twitter.com/QqCcHLIy7b
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) June 9, 2024
SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — A new leader takes power in Taiwan, Taiwan and China hold competing military drills, the rhetoric from both sides grows increasingly strident, as do calls from U.S. lawmakers to come to Taiwan’s aid in the case of a Chinese invasion. Far from Taiwan itself, the U.S. and China engage in fierce economic competition over trade and economic policy, aimed in both countries as a way to guarantee the primacy of their industry and innovation in the decades to come.
These are among the elements for what some see as a looming great-power conflict, one that is at the heard of Dmitri Alperovitch’s new book World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century.
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