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A congressional committee on Wednesday scaled back a U. S. military proposal that would have allowed it to force the transfer of potentially hundreds of Colorado Air National Guard members to the Space Force. Gov. Jared Polis and several members of the state’s congressional delegation had protested the proposal, which is intended to help staff up the newest military branch by allowing it to absorb state-led units involved in space operations.

“The new leader of Taiwan barely had time to unpack his presidential office before China’s military surrounded the island on Thursday, in a large-scale show of force that risks locking the two sides in a fresh cycle of escalation,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Growing mistrust of Beijing helped propel Lai Ching-te to the presidency, which he assumed earlier this week.

“Since the first American shipments of sophisticated weapons to Ukraine, President Biden has never wavered on one prohibition: President Volodymyr Zelensky had to agree to never fire them into Russian territory, insisting that would violate Mr. Biden’s mandate to ‘avoid World War III,’” the New York Times reports. “But the consensus around that policy is fraying.

A key adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is stepping away from his presidential campaign, citing an “increasingly hateful and divisive atmosphere” that “no longer aligns with my values,” the New York Times reports. “Angela Stanton King, the campaign’s adviser for Black engagement, announced her departure in a statement on social media on Tuesday evening, five months after she was added to the campaign’s payroll.”

While the left projects and plays the Hitler card, they emulate the Nazis in calling for the common good before individual good.

Naïve politicians boost this proposed fix without understanding the reality of the Middle East.