🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇹🇼 U.S. military plans “Hellscape” to deter China from attacking Taiwan:
🔶️ “The idea is that as soon as China’s invasion fleet begins moving across the 100-mile waterway, the U.S. military would deploy thousands of unmanned submarines, unmanned surface ships & aerial drones to flood the area & give Taiwanese, U.S. & partner forces time to mount a full response.”
📝 John Konrad: "Where is the US Navy hiding these thousands of unmanned vessels we plan to unleash on China?? I would love to believe we have them - or the ability to build them in a timeframe that matters - but as COO of an MIT autonomous ship startup from 2019-2021 - I have serious doubts."
📎 Ian Ellis
British man attacked for entering a ‘no-go zone’ in London.
A horde of Islamists surrounded him and questioned why he was in ‘their’ neighborhood.
They threatened him and began chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they kicked him out.
A 65-year-old couple retiring in 2025 with average earnings will receive an estimated $1.34 million in lifetime benefits, while contributing only $720,000 in today’s dollars.
That shortfall—more than $600,000 per couple—is being made up by younger workers.
“Most of the growth in spending has gone to retirement and healthcare, while programs that promote upward mobility... have been left behind”
https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-medicare-young-workers-cost-10477619