Author: Walt Zlotow

The Tribune, in its editorial "After a year under Taliban rule, Afghans feel the price of peace" argues it’s OK for President Biden to withhold $7 billion in Afghan treasure from Afghanistan because the Taliban aren’t the legitimate Afghan government.

But President Biden, and his cheerleading Chicago Tribune, are in denial the Taliban whupped America fair and square. Outside of the corrupt US puppet government in Kabul, the Taliban had the support of the Afghan masses, tired of 20 years of US murder and mayhem that killed over 200,000 Afghans, destroyed their economy, creating one of the worst humanitarian crises on earth.

The Tribune supported all 20 years of America’s senseless war in Afghanistan that did nothing but turn Afghanistan into a failed state.

Continue reading “Chicago Tribune Applauds Further US Destruction of Afghan People”

Illinois 8th District Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congresspersons, has a strange way of practicing foreign policy.

He’s defending his recent visit to Taiwan with Pelosi as sending a strong signal to China not to expand its recent threats to Taiwan, including nearby military exercises and economic sanctions.

The strong signal that Krishnamoorthi claims will intimidate China to ignore Taiwan had the opposite effect: greatly expanding Chinese military maneuvers and economic sanctions against Taiwan. It further degraded US China diplomatic relations needed to resolve many issues, the most critical being how to combat climate destruction. Keeping Taiwan from being reunited with the Mainland won’t have much value if the world burns up.

Continue reading “Regarding Taiwan, Krishnamoorthi Has an Inflated View of Congressional Influence”

Steve Chapman’s Chicago Tribune column "On Taiwan, China is hurting its own cause" is pretty far off base in analyzing recent US provocations against China over Taiwan and China’s response.

For starters, he failed to characterize both Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan and Biden’s commitment to defend Taiwan as irresponsible provocations that would absolutely provoke a Chinese response. They continue the 7 years of America’s ‘pivot to Asia’ started by President Obama and continued uninterrupted by Trump and Biden, largely overturning our One China Policy begun by President Nixon in 1972.

Then to characterize China’s relatively measured tit for tat response as “designed to terrorize Taiwan and the US into acts of appeasement” or “conducting a dry run in preparation for an attack on Taiwan” is ludicrous.

Continue reading “Steve Chapman Column on China Disappoints”

Every year the four-day period August 6–9 brings to mind the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. This year is marks the 77th anniversary of those horrific acts. Given recent U.S. withdrawal from 3 nuclear treaties and US boasting about spending a trillion dollars to upgrade our nuclear stockpile, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds to midnight in 2020. That’s the symbolic closest we’ve come to nuclear winter in the entire nuclear age.

I learned of the atomic bombings 71 years ago at age 6 and have been haunted by them ever since. For the first decade afterward, I swallowed whole the US fairytale that the military and political elite were unified in dropping the bombs to prevent a US invasion and its estimate of a million US casualties.

Continue reading “Many Top Military Leaders Opposed Atomic Bombings”

Did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wake up one morning and say to herself, "How can I provoke war with China? Bingo, I’ll schedule a trip to Taiwan crossing a red line for China that will provoke a strong response."

How did that work out, Nancy? Let’s see. Firing missiles near their Taiwan’s border including greatly ramped up military exercises. Sanctions against Taiwanese trade. Stop cooperating with US on climate change. Cancellation of future phone calls and meetings between Chinese and US defense leaders, for which future dates had not been announced. Cancellation of annual naval meetings under the China-US military maritime consultation mechanism. Suspended cooperation on the repatriation of illegal immigrants. Suspension of legal assistance on criminal matters. Suspension of efforts to combat of transnational crimes. Suspension of its anti-drug cooperation with the US which will speed the flow of fentanyl here to kill our youth.

Continue reading “Nancy, Red Means Stop… Not Go”

Today is day 159 in the Russo Ukraine war. It’s also day 159 that the US has funneled tens of billion s of weaponry into the war zone instead of pushing negotiations to end the war quickly.

Having provoked the war for 14 years since proposing NATO membership for Ukraine in 2008, the US has learned nothing from its perfidy, doubling down on its long mission to weaken and isolate Russia after breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The result? Thousands of needless Ukrainian deaths simply to prolong the US proxy war that should never have been fought and could have quickly been ended.

Continue reading “US Weaponry Ensures More Lost Ukraine Territory”