The US is prepared to go to war with China if necessary, the Pentagon has announced, following Beijing’s threat of tariff retaliation in what marks another escalation in an ongoing trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth clarified the US position early on Wednesday in an interview with Fox News, responding to the Chinese Embassy in the US, which said Beijing was ready to fight “any” type of war.

“We are prepared,” Hegseth said, adding, “Those who long for peace must prepare for war.”

He further stated that this was why the US was rebuilding its military and restoring “deterrence in the warrior ethos.”

In 2019, the CIA proved that it had been lying to the public for decades about germ warfare in Korea when it released a trove of signals intelligence documents from the Korean War in a publication called Baptism by Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War.

The documents detail communications from CIA listening posts around the world that narrate the People’s Volunteer Army (PVA) of China and the North Korean People’s Army (KFA) responses to U.S. biological warfare (BW) attacks by airplane in North Korea from May 1951 through July 1953.

Last week, I narrated the events surrounding the Ukrainian conflict, emphasizing that French President Emmanuel Macron, as brilliant as he is, was incapable of adapting to the changes in the world.

This week, I am taking up the same elements, and many others that followed, to show that the divorce of Europeans from each other and of the EU from the United States has become a reality.

by Thierry meyssan

There is no time to procrastinate: the old world has just been destroyed. If we do not take a stand immediately, we will be swept away with it.

But at the moment, the UK and France are competing to take the place of the US on the continent, not to reform.

The US has suspended military assistance to Ukraine, including the delivery of weapons that were already in shipment, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has told journalists. Earlier, the move was reported by several US media outlets. 

“Today, a decision was announced to suspend American aid for Ukraine,”Tusk told reporters ahead of a government meeting on Tuesday. Washington has not made any official announcements on the issue. 

“Reports that are coming from the border, from our hub in Jasionka, have confirmed the announcements of the American side,” the Polish prime minister stated. Located in the southeastern Poland, Jasionka airport has been transformed into a major supply and transport hub for Ukraine-bound Western military aid.

Trump’s speech was full of wild claims. Here are seven that weren’t true

President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress highlighted several of the initiatives he has started in his first six weeks in office, but many of his comments included false and misleading information.

Here’s a look at the facts.

1. Trump overstated the numbers on his immigration crackdown

‘Illegal border crossings last month were by far the lowest ever recorded. Ever.’

Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday that Border Patrol apprehended 8326 people on the US-Mexico border last month. But US government data shows that Border Patrol routinely averaged below that number in the 1960s.

Gallagher says forcing employees back to the office ‘a step in the wrong direction’, particularly for women, as opposition’s plan to cut public service remains unclear

Labor accuses ‘policy-lazy’ Dutton of copying Trump as Coalition pushes to end WFH for public servants

BY Josh Butler

Anthony Albanese has accused Peter Dutton of “lazy” ideas and borrowing policy from Donald Trump after the Coalition pledged to end public servants working from home, a reform the nation’s workplace equality commissioner says could affect the gender pay gap.

There are no rules — and should be no judgement — about how International Women's Day should be marked.

Not everyone's a fan of pink cupcakes and special breakfasts full of women who are a little bit crying on the inside from having to get it together even earlier than usual.

Some ladies contain themselves to the quiet ritual of doing one and a half times as much housework as their husbands, just like every other day.

As Donald Trump and his 'broligarchs' take over, reality disappears from conversations on gender and diversity

Together with many Jews here and around the world, I’m proud to stand with you once again in solidarity with Palestine. On this occasion, I want to talk about the growing hysteria about antisemitism.

The petulant demand of tribute to the Trump empire and his transactional ethos surely now challenges the agreed balance sheet between Australia and America.

Comments last week by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on vital defence issues made clear how confused — and indeed downright misinformed — our highest political and defence force leaders are.

Albanese, asked whether ANZUS was “rock solid”, simply said “yes”. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton did not publicly object to this assessment of the treaty.

Witnessing the extraordinary cage fight this week between Volodomyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump in the Oval Office provided an eye-popping glimpse into what is normally kept behind closed doors when world leaders meet to nut out matters of great consequence.

The two presidents loudly talked over each other, eyeballs rolling, aggressively gesticulating and contradicting each other, with occasional interjections by Vice-President JD Vance – “I think it’s disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media!”

I do not believe that Russia, China or the United Kingdom or for that matter the United States or France should dictate Irish foreign policy or should dictate when we do or do not deploy troops.

Volodymyr Zelensky has met King Charles III at Sandringham, after attending a summit of European leaders on ending the war in Ukraine.

As the Ukrainian president arrived at the King's Norfolk residence, local residents, some holding Ukraine flags, gathered outside the estate to witness his entrance by helicopter.

Zelensky was in London over the weekend for the talks on European defence, after a fiery exchange with US President Donald Trump in the White House on Friday.

Questions about U.S. President Donald Trump's possibly shady relationship with Russia and the country's security services have long swirled, even culminating in a special counsel investigation during his first term in office.

Though that investigation found evidence of "extensive criminal activity" by Trump, his associates, and some of his family members, it found no evidence that he was working for, or had ever been recruited by, Russia's security services.

Could a partial month-long truce between Russia and Ukraine be the key to unlocking a lasting peace between the two sides?

President Emmanuel Macron of France believes so and he floated the idea during Sunday's summit of European leaders in London.

In an interview with Le Figaro newspaper, he proposed a four-week truce "in the air, at sea and on energy infrastructure". It would not cover ground fighting along the front line in the east. 

"In the event of a ceasefire, it would be very difficult to verify [a truce] along the front was being respected," Macron told the newspaper.