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No Peace in Our Time

No Peace in Our Time

It was recently revealed that billions of top of the line American weapons were abandoned in Afghanistan when Western forces hastily pulled out of the country in 2021. Adding to the shame of leaving many of their own citizens as well as Afghan allies and TERPS to be brutalised in Afghanistan, the billions in weapons […]

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Thais Won't Hand Over Merchant of Death and Other News

Thais Won't Hand Over Merchant of Death and Other News

– The Thai courts refused a request to extradite Viktor Bout (aka The Merchant of Death) to the United States.   Bout, an notorious global arms dealer, is accused by the U.S.  of  attempting to sell more than 700 surface-to-air missiles, a massive cache of automatic weapons, and airplanes and helicopters to the Revolutionary Armed Forces […]

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