Coldwar 2.0, WW III, conflicts that challenge US hegemony ..

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'USAID funded Al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS…': US Congressman Scott Perry drops bombshell at House hearing
The Economic Times
Feb 14, 2025

A U.S Congressman, Scott Perry, has accused the U.S.Agency for International Development (USAID) of funding terrorist organisations, including Boko Haram, ISIS, and Al-Qaeda. Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, made these claims on Thursday during the first hearing of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency.

 

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I believe that we are potentially on the precipice of a world war.




Action, Inaction, and Incompetence | HISPBC w/ H.R. McMaster - Pt. 1
Hoover Institution
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Feb 21, 2025
Former National Security Advisor and Senior Hoover Fellow, Gen. HR McMaster, demonstrates how strategic incompetence - marked by unrealistic assumptions and misunderstanding of adversaries - has led to harmful patterns of both misguided action and dangerous inaction in American foreign policy. From Afghanistan to Ukraine, policymakers often see the risks of action while failing to recognize how inaction and the perception of weakness invite aggression -- where passive responses and strategic hesitation emboldened adversaries. To overcome this pattern, the United States must adopt a more rigorous strategic framework that balances the risks of both action and inaction, challenges implicit assumptions, and recognizes that adversaries respond to strength rather than accommodation. Failure to develop such necessary strategic competence carries a price often "paid in blood."

H.R. McMaster is a retired Lietenant General in the United States Army, former National Security Advisor, and the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the host of Battlegrounds: Vital Perspectives on Today’s Challenges and is a regular on GoodFellows, both produced by the Hoover Institution.

 

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"We talk about the CULTURE war. I worry about ACTUAL war" - Niall Ferguson's Sobering Warning

Alliance for Responsible Citizenship
Feb 20, 2025
In this sobering talk, Niall Ferguson warned of the dangers of the out-of-control public spending and debt in many parts of the Western world. At a time when the West faces threats in the form of a new authoritarian axis, a 'Cold War II', and the looming risk of World War III, Western nations are trapped in a cycle of debt and declining productivity.




US debt .. interest payments exceeding defense spending ..