The Truss agenda, copy and pasted from the playbook of the Republican right, is in practice more of a prescription for national suicide
Many conservatives in Britain believe the rhetoric about a smaller state with fewer levers of government control, which is, among other things, a misreading of British history. Britain was a great power in the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution because it was stable at home and had a powerful navy in an age of imperial expansion.
But last weekend, the retiring chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, said that the alleged spy balloon was not, in point of fact, spying, having most probably been blown off course by the wind when approaching Hawaii.told CBS News What was the balloon doing over the US, having got there by way of Alaska and Canada? Milley had a prosaic explanation, saying that it had been heading towards Hawaii at 60,000 feet when it was diverted by the wind. “Those winds are very high,” he said. “The particular motor on that aircraft can’t go against those winds at that altitude.”
Deflating the Chinese spy balloon story was not the only interesting remark by General Milley last Sunday, though what he said received scant media coverage.” and would take a “very long time”. In a CNN interview, Milley, who retires at the end of the month, said that “there’s well over 200,000 Russian troops in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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