- Lift-off for China-US rivalry over space’s new frontiers. Cold war-era treaties have not kept pace with developments such as space mining and new military technologies. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2180883/lift-china-us-rivalry-over-spaces-new-frontiers 16 comments space
- Mother of Ukrainian teen detained at the US-Mexico border says she doesn't know where he is: 'If I knew this would happen, I would have kept him here in the war zone' https://www.businessinsider.com/family-ukrainian-teen-detained-us-mexico-border-unsure-of-whereabouts-2022-4 11 comments worldnews
- Rand Paul: "It is our exceptionalism—and our separation of powers—that has kept us out of war in Syria." http://ideas.time.com/2013/09/13/sen-rand-paul-president-putin-america-is-exceptional/ 20 comments politics
- How Trump's trade war kept Russian fish sticks in US school lunchrooms https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/russian-fish-sticks/index.html 17 comments politics
- The next time you hear Dick Cheney talk about how the Bush administration kept us safe, don't just think about 9/11, the people who have died in the Iraq war, etc. http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/05/keeping-us-safe.html 5 comments politics
- TIL Cap Royce Williams, 99-yrs-old, single-handedly fought 7 Soviet MIGs during the Korean War—downing at least 4. The US was not officially at war with the USSR so his accomplishment was kept secret until Soviet Archives revealed it. Royce was debriefed by Eisenhower but didn’t even tell his wife. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royce_Williams 3 comments navy
- The Greatest Threat to Security Since WWII - NATO is in danger and the West is losing its cohesion. Lessons of the past warn us to stand tall against those seeking to unravel a global security framework that has kept us safe since World War II. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/john-kasich-the-greatest-threat-to-security-since-wwii-a-1134957.html 6 comments politics
- Mikhail Gorbachev warns of ‘new Cold War’ over Ukraine - Former Soviet Union leader says tensions between US and Russia should be kept under control http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/08/gorbachev-new-cold-war-ukraine-soviet-union-us-russia?CMP=ema_565 11 comments germany
- US soldiers who kept body part ‘war trophies’ charged - Twelve U.S. soldiers have been charged with gruesome crimes in Afghanistan ranging from murdering civilians to keeping body parts as war trophies -- revelations that the Pentagon said on Thursday damaged America's image around the world. http://www.france24.com/en/20100910-us-soldiers-body-parts-afghanistan-war-trophies-charged-murder-pentagon-kandahar-civilians 4 comments politics
- Mitt Romney At CPAC: ' I am convinced that history will judge President Bush far more kindly -- he pulled us from a deepening recession following the attack of 9/11,...he took down the Taliban, waged a war against the jihadists...and he kept us safe.' http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/02/18/mitt_cpac/index.html 10 comments politics