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5 former Secretaries of Defense call on Congress to exercise oversight responsibility on Trump-Hegseth firing of senior military leaders: The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."

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How Japan's national broadcaster is depicting the president of the United States negotiating between Russia and Ukraine.

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Yo, bringing Gretz into this ain’t cool

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Holy shit

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I am once again wondering how POTUS’s reticence to confront Beijing will end up resolving itself against the overwhelming mood in Congress and the rest of DC elites that views China as our most serious threat

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This is a different position from Biden, but Biden was breaking with the norm. This stance is the norm for US policy on Taiwan.

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Trump declines to say if U.S. would protect Taiwan from Chinese invasion www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...

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"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump." Marty Baron, former executive editor of the Washington Post, interprets what Jeff Bazos announced this morning. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

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White House bars AP, Reuters and other media from covering Trump cabinet meeting - www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

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A Chinese military helicopter edged dangerously close to a Philippine government plane on patrol over the flash point Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, an incident witnessed by The Japan Times.

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"Another [Chinese] expert mentioned that he was concerned about the Trump administration either tacitly or explicitly supporting South Korea in acquiring a nuclear weapon...They specifically mentioned Elbridge Colby" blog.ucsusa.org/robert-rust/...

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Japan's Defense Ministry confirms that a Chinese military Wing Loong II surveillance and aerial reconnaissance/precision strike drone has been spotted under Japan's anti-airspace incursion measures. The drone was confirmed flying from the E. China Sea to Pacific, near Okinawa.

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About 70% of foreign nationals in Japan have been subjected to police questioning on the streets in the past five years — nearly six times more than Japanese — a survey released by lawyers in a racial profiling case showed Wednesday. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...

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Standoff in the skies: Witnessing an unsafe intercept over the South China Sea www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) announced Wednesday that it will expand its business activities in Australia in what is believed to be another push by Japan as it vies with Germany for a lucrative contract to build new frigates for Canberra. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...

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'Provocative' Chinese warship near Australia puts Japan on notice www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...

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Random #cohenthedog update — still a sexy beast.

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Refreshing my syllabus for a course on the global history of bombing ("Dresden to Drones") and looking for recommendations for stand-out essays on bombing in Vietnam/Indochina Not particularly interested in strategy/theories of air power. Focus is more on civilian experience/environmental legacies

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has urged G7 leaders to be careful “not to draw the wrong lessons” by backing a Ukraine peace process that could validate the use of force to change borders.

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Mini NATO about to drop

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I can’t get over the fact that two separate people did Nazi salutes at CPAC and it’s so normalized at this point that it’s barely even notable on TV news. In any halfway normal era that shit would warrant wall-to-wall coverage.

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Across Japan, thousands of aging condominiums are trapped in a cycle of deferred maintenance, dwindling finances and aging residents. What happens when the cost of fixing a home outstrips its value? And what happens when there’s no one left to pay? www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...

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Trump’s frustration with generals resulted in an unconventional pick www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...

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Japan and the Philippines have agreed to establish a high-level framework to help expand defense equipment and technology exports from Tokyo, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani announced during talks with his counterpart.

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Japan and Philippines to establish high-level defense gear framework www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...

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Ukraine’s outspoken and charismatic ambassador to Japan, Sergiy Korsunsky, may be on his way out soon, but he has a message for his host country as he winds down his time in Tokyo: be prepared and stick to your principles. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...

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Ooooh, smoked

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Ghost ship if I ever saw one.

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Taiwan President Lai meets with Akie Abe, widow of slain prime minister www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...

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Associated Press sues White House officials to restore access

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Admiral Franchetti became the 33rd Chief of Naval Operations on Nov. 2, 2023, making her the first woman to have a permanent seat as a member of the Joint Chiefs www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

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Re-upping amid the JAG purge.

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As Ukraine rift emerges, Kyiv's envoy says Japan must take on bigger global role www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...

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Trump is nominating a retired Air National Guard 3-star to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Highest major command was Deputy Commander, CENTSOC www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

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Trump fires CQ Brown as Joint Chiefs Chair

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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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OpenAI said on Friday that it had uncovered evidence that a Chinese security operation had built an AI-powered surveillance tool to gather real-time reports about anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries.

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Trump allies want to remake U.S. foreign policy to align with the president's America First vision. They're waging war on GOP defense hawks who get in their way.

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At G20, Japan FM vows to continue support for Ukraine amid Trump tensions www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...

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For eight decades, alliances have formed the bedrock of American foreign, trade and cultural policy. But not any more. Europeans, but also America's Asian allies, need to accept this new world, and learn how to live in it. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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