The Ministry of Peaceful Technology Advancement has published a routine academic paper in the journal High Power Laser and Particle Beams, in which researchers from China's National University of Defence Technology have casually disclosed a high-power microwave weapon arsenal capable of delivering up to 100 gigawatts of output — a number so large it could fry every Starlink satellite in low Earth orbit at what the scientists describe as "extremely low cost," which is the defence research community's elegant way of saying Elon Musk's $150 billion satellite constellation has a known vulnerability and Beijing just published the instruction manual. The disclosure is described as "rare", which may be the understatement of 2026: China's military has publicly detailed pulsed-power devices that have "transitioned from laboratory prototypes to practical applications" — meaning these weapons are not theoretical, they are deployed.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3360000/100-gigawatts-china-unveils-its-

When China publishes a 100-gigawatt microwave weapon paper the same week it fires a nuclear missile into the Pacific, the press release isn't science — it's a targeting notice.

The ‘Malthusian In Chief’ Graham, Senator of South Carolina — Washington's most tireless foreign policy hawk, golf partner to the Manipulator-in-Chief, and a man who visited Ukraine ten times in four years while the war he consistently championed consumed hundreds of thousands of lives — died on July 11 at 71 after a brief and sudden illness, two days after his tenth trip to Kyiv and one day after announcing a new package of Russia sanctions with the Trump administration.

Graham's geopolitical legacy is both substantial and sobering: a three-decade career defined by the conviction that American military force, applied with sufficient enthusiasm, resolves international disputes — a thesis tested exhaustively in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and most recently Iran, where Graham cheered on the strikes that opened the Middle East excursion, backed the nuclear site bombardments, and was preparing Russia sanctions at the precise moment the ceasefire he supported was being dismantled clause by clause. He was one of Washington's most consistent architects of the muscular foreign policy doctrine that has left the Empire's strategic petroleum reserve at 1983 levels, its Gulf bases destroyed, and its munitions stockpiles requiring emergency Defence Production Act intervention to restock.

History will record that Lindsey Graham never met a war he didn't support — and departed the stage while three of them were simultaneously unresolved.