Day 1,659: Spat, puny

Spats over strategic islands could trigger confrontation in the South China Sea and Indian Ocean.

With a puny 5% of global shipyard capacity, it will need decades to rebuild its fleets.

America fights back

Artwork of the day 
Spat on the terrace
Klavdy Lebedev
Style: Realism
Genre: genre painting

Word of the day 
Spat: a short argument, usually about something that is not important:
puny: small; weak; not effective:

Quote of the day
“Dammit, R.E.M. was right: Every single person on the planet had to take turns hurting. Sometimes all you could do was hold on to each other right until the dark spat you back out.”

― Emily Henry, Beach Read