Laeserin on Nostr: When you are trying to negotiate a peace treaty, but everyone on the entire planet ...

When you are trying to negotiate a peace treaty, but everyone on the entire planet knows your promises and guarantees are worthless. 😏



But don't take it from me. Let's listen to the eloquent United States Secretary of State say it:



A bit of a different tone, from the current chit-chat from the White House:

> And I still believe that, obviously, and **it's one of the things I'm proudest that we've done in this administration** is we've told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can, but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine anymore.

In other -- completely unrelated -- news, Japan is busy shoring up defenses on Kyushu as part of a new defense strategy called **Southern Shield**, which is meant to substitute for the lack of US protection of Taiwan and Japan (which are a mere 100 km apart at the southern end of the island chain). They are also deepening defense ties with Australia and the Philippines.



https://x.com/MykhailoRohoza/status/2046335820869837060

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/24/japan-builds-up-its-southern-shield-as-faith-in-us-security-cover-falters

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