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Conflicts of Interest: NATO Mulling Ramping Up Nuclear Deployments

On COI #627, Kyle Anzalone discusses the wars in Ukraine and Israel.

‘Hell No We Won’t Go?’ – House Passes Automatic Military Draft Registration

This year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has a little surprise for males between 18-26 in the US: Automatic registration for the military draft! As the US moves closer to war with Russia, will a new generation of Americans say, “hell no, we won’t go”? Also today: NATO claims to have placed half a million troops on “high readiness” for war with Russia. Finally… the US and EU have agreed to steal $50 billion from Russia’s frozen assets to give to Ukraine… as a loan! What could possibly go wrong?

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Conflicts of Interest: How to End the War in Ukraine?

On COI #616, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news on peace talks for the war in Ukraine and the war on Gaza.

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There Will Be Wars and Rumors of Wars

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.

Checking my daily email from Reuters Thursday morning revealed these two stories:

US President Joe Biden is expected to sign a new security agreement with Ukraine to pledge America’s long-term support, while British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will announce up to $310 million in bilateral assistance to the country.

Israeli tanks advanced deeper into the western area of Rafah, amid one of the worst nights of bombardment from air, ground, and sea, forcing many families to flee their homes and tents under darkness, residents said. Follow the latest on the Gaza war.

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Congress Moves Toward Automatic Registration for a Military Draft

[Excerpt from the summary released by the Senate Armed Services Committee of the version of the NDAA for FY 2025 approved by the SASC and to be voted on by the full Senate.]

A proposal to expand registration for a possible military draft to young women as well as young men is moving forward again this year in Congress, along with a seductively simple-seeming but in practice unfeasible proposal to switch from the current system in which young men are required to register with the Selective Service System (SSS) to a system in which the SSS tries to identify and locate everyone eligible for a future draft and automatically register them based on other existing Federal databases from the Social Security Administration, IRS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, etc.

Friday both the U.S. Senate Armed Service Committee and the full U.S. House of Representatives approved different proposals to expand and/or make it harder to avoid the requirement for men ages 16-26 to register with the Selective Service System for a possible military draft. The House vote was 217-199.

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