The news has become even more grim with discussions of record high temps. A few places to avoid:
* Certain Southern states
* The Three Furnaces of China: Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing
* Guam, but for a different reason. Unless you’re a contractor…
“… Guam has become a strategic node in America’s designs in the Pacific. It is commonly referred to as “the tip of the spear” — a place from which the United States can project military might across Asia, an essential conduit to the first island chain of Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan and then on to China. As geopolitical tensions rise, Guam’s importance to American military planners only increases, and so does the risk to those who live there. In every iteration of war games between the United States and China run by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (C.S.I.S.), Beijing’s first strike on U.S. soil has been to bomb Guam.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/first-battle-next-war-wargaming-chinese-invasion-taiwan
On Guam alone, there are currently 71 military construction projects valued at over $4 billion, and the Department of Defense has committed to more than $11 billion in construction there over the next five years, including a missile-defense system comprising up to 20 individual sites to achieve “360-degree defense” of the island, expected to be operational by 2027. There are three military construction projects in Micronesia for $432 million, seven in the Northern Marianas for $388.6 million, three projects at $180.4 million on Wake Island and one in Palau for $121 million.”
The America That Americans Forget https://nyti.ms/43uKDUd (paywall)
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