I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein

Key "Old Donald" surrogates, including his son, hardline congressional Republicans, and other backers have accused Biden of seeking to spark “world war three” before "Old Donald's" presidential inauguration in January.

Putin signs new doctrine lowering threshold for nuclear weapon use

Russia's 'meat-grinder' tactics bring battlefield success - but at horrendous cost

U.S. officials said on Sunday that the White House had approved the use of U.S.-supplied Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, missiles for use against targets far into Russia's territory.

Key "Old Donald" surrogates, including his son, hardline congressional Republicans, and other backers have accused Biden of seeking to spark “world war three” before "Old Donald's" presidential inauguration in January.

Putin signs new doctrine lowering threshold for nuclear weapon use

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Philippine counterpart Gilberto Teodoro inked the General Security of Military Information Agreement in Manila. The pact allows the sharing of classified defense information between the two countries at a time of growing assertiveness from Beijing over the South China Sea and Taiwan.

East Asia is the most serious threat to world peace. An eruption here is hotter and bigger than anything the Middle East or Europe would conceivably produce.

The Biden administration leaves behind a strong diplomatic legacy in Asia, in contrast to its failure in Afghanistan and mixed record in Ukraine and the Middle East. It built webs of security alliances across the region to deter China and forged what has proved elusive for decades - a rapprochement, if not warm friendship, between historical foes and America's closest Asian allies, South Korea and Japan.

Russian military planes are breaching the country’s northwestern coastal airspace repeatedly, a reminder that Tokyo and Moscow have an unresolved, nearly 80-year-old territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands that leaves them technically in a state of war. China disputes Japan’s claim over the Senkaku Islands in the south. In the first ever known incursion, Chinese military aircraft flew through Japanese airspace in August. Chinese and Russian military ships together passed near Japanese waters in September during a joint exercise. North Korea openly considers Japan a foe and occasionally sends a missile over the country. Huge challenges loom for Joe Biden’s successor here. The scale of the forces lining up against each other in the northern Pacific is terrifying. China is forging a deeper alliance of American adversaries in North Korea and Russia, making threats against Taiwan and staking stronger claims on territory in the South China Sea. America’s actions in other geopolitical theaters — above all Ukraine — will reverberate in East Asia.

“You have no idea what I did in the White House,” 'Old Donald' told the crowd in Duluth, Georgia, at a Turning Point PAC rally. 'I stopped wars with France'. France, you know the France story. They were going to charge us, think of this, 25 percent . I have to protect American companies whether we like ‘em or not.”

'Old Donald' Suggests Abraham Lincoln Should’ve Let the South Keep a Little Slavery

He answered a 10-year-old’s question about his favorite president by saying Lincoln should have “settled” the Civil War.

The real history is much more complicated. It is the story of the Palestinians who were offered a state in 1947 that the Arab states opposed. More recently, it is the story of flawed human beings on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides, who were confronted with a devilishly complicated situation.

Two decades ago, Bill Clinton threw a Hail Mary for Middle East peace

The question now, for Clinton and the peace process, was whether the Camp David experience has changed the equation in ways that might yield later success. A U.S. proposal to draft a statement on things the parties had tentatively agreed on was greeted coldly by both sides, particularly the Palestinians, a White House official said.

Shibley Telhami, a University of Maryland expert on Mideast issues, praised Clinton’s efforts at Camp David as “courageous,” but questioned whether his “graduate student” mentality of hoping that all things can come together with a heroic final effort showed “a peculiar absence of realism.”

Why do we make war at all? War has been a characteristic of almost the whole of recorded history, and warlike violence preceded the establishment of the first states.

Wars are always waged for something, whether it is pleasing the gods by seizing captives to ­execute or sacrifice, or coveting resources, or wars for belief, or extending power over others, or in the search for heightened security, or simply a war of defence against a predator. This mix of motives has remained remarkably constant.

Picture this: Chinese frustration over the status of Taiwan prompts a build-up of invasion forces. The United States is pre­occupied with its own domestic political crisis. Japan anxiously watches the exchange of harsh words between China and Taiwan, wondering whether to intervene. The United Nations condemns Chinese actions, and China repudiates the censure and orders invasion, confident that a quick victory will prevent others from intervening, as Hitler hoped when he invaded Poland in 1939

Taiwan Strait, where One imperative for avoiding global war is avoiding it across the China is getting increasingly creative and ambitious in its attempts to pressure Taiwan into a 'one country, two systems' model along the lines of what the mainland has used with Hong Kong.

Kevin Rudd, the Australian ambassador to the United States, says the efforts live in a 'gray zone' between peace and war - while China continues to prepare for the latter outright. Rudd sketches out the wide 'equation of integrated deterrence' that the world will need to solve if it is to keep peace in the region.

This brings us to another anniversary: Sunday marks five years since 1 million Hong Kongers peacefully marched in the streets against a proposed law allowing the extradition of criminal suspects to the mainland. Keith Richburg watched from one of the city's raised walkways, and his description of the demonstration is inspiring, beautiful even.

Five years on, Keith is filled with 'what ifs.' Could Hong Kong have been saved from its current suffering? Five years on, will we be wondering the same about Taiwan? About the United States?

Biden hailed NATO, the 'greatest military alliance in the history of the world,' and vowed to defend Ukraine: 'To bow down to dictators is simply unthinkable. Were we to do that, it means we'd be forgetting what happened here in these hallowed beaches.

Will Americans recognize their country in the dark and desperate portrait 'Old Donald' painted? 'Our country is falling to pieces,' he said, and if he isn't returned to power, 'the country is finished ... You won't have a country anymore.' 'Old Donald' described a nation full of 'crooked people' and serving as 'a dumping ground for the dungeons of the Third World.