World Affairs Brief, July 23, 2021 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World. Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief

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Russia’s New Hypersonic Weapons Being tested: Putin announced an array of new hypersonic weapons in 2018 and the Zircon missile is now in the testing phase, and is capable of flying at nine times the speed of sound and have a range of 620 miles. Russia has already deployed its Avangard missile system with a hypersonic glide vehicle/warhead which Putin claims will strike like a meteorite and is unstoppable by any defense system. It is capable of traveling at 20 times the speed of sound, rising outside Earth’s atmosphere, and hitting anywhere in the world in less than 30 minutes. [Daily Mail]

South Africa Food Chain Collapse: South African riots by blacks have shut down exports of sugar cane and citrus as farms burn. Former ANC president Jacob Zuma, a communist, is in jail for contempt of court after refusing to appear at his corruption trial. This has led to widespread protests and civil unrest throughout that country. Rampant looting and arson has left at least 215 people dead and created chaos that is preventing food from getting to market and interfering with exports. In the midst of food shortages looters have been pillaging trucks carrying produce and other goods while sugar cane trucks are being hijacked, mills threatened, and farms set ablaze by arsonists.

Federal Judge Stops Biden DACA Amnesty. Liberals are up in arms over the decision by a federal judge blocking the Biden administration from reinstating the amnesty program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) for new applicants, although the program may continue for those illegal aliens already in it. This is a very important court decision in slowing the trend toward an authoritarian executive. It says that a president cannot simply ignore existing immigration law outlining who may legally enter the country and grant administrative amnesty (and government benefits) to whomever he wants. [Heritage Foundation]

Democrats Trying to Add Amnesty to Infrastructure Bill. Sen. Lindsay Graham says adding amnesty to infrastructure bill could be “dumbest idea” in the history of the Senate. “If you give one person legal status there will be a run on our border like you have never seen before…the dumbest idea in the history of the Senate, the history of the White House. It will lead to the breakdown of law and order beyond what you see today,” Graham told “The Ingraham Angle.”

Seattle Homeless Targeting Cars with Bricks. The “woke” Seattle government has stopped dismantling homeless settlements near the freeways and homeless criminals have shown their gratitude by throwing heavy objects at cars on the freeway below. As KOMO News reported, A mere “five suspects have been arrested in connection with the attacks that have been occurring on I-90 and I-5 in Seattle… [out of] 209 reported incidents of motorists being targeted from the roadside with debris and rocks.” Another post said, “Hundreds of drivers have reported rocks, bikes, propane tanks, bricks and all kinds of other debris hurled at them for months now.”