Ukraine War
Russia's war has gone badly, its energy industry is under sustained attack, and even Putin's supporters are talking openly about a coup. Yet one...
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North Korea Talk
For years Beijing said it wanted both stability and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. Stability always ranked higher, but the second goal was at...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia has spent two years running a deniable campaign of sabotage, cable-cutting, and cyberattacks against NATO states, a scholar argues — pressure built to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iran's spokesmen taunt that they're 'counting down the minutes' to welcome American ground troops. Steve Balestrieri, a former Special Forces NCO, runs the numbers:...
The Treaty
The KMT is betting that Taiwanese voters, rattled by a decade of rising tensions, want a less confrontational hand on cross-strait relations. Ted Galen...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia holds the world's largest nuclear arsenal, yet Ukraine keeps striking deep inside its territory. In a South China Morning Post essay, retired Chinese...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
More than ten days into the renewed fighting, Iran faces three strategic paths over the Strait of Hormuz, according to a BBC assessment: settle...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Houthis are threatening to blockade the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Red Sea passage Saudi Arabia leaned on after building a pipeline to bypass...
Ukraine War
Ukraine has hit warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia's answer to Amazon, for the third time in a week, extending a long-range campaign that now...
Ukraine War
Ukrainian strikes have brought blackouts and fuel shortages to Crimea, where the Guardian reports that most of the peninsula's residents have lost power and...
Ukraine War
A third straight day of strikes on Wildberries warehouses has spread beyond Moscow to Krasnodar and Stavropol, wiping out stock that sellers say was...
The Treaty
Ukraine is not massing troops to retake Crimea. It is methodically knocking out the peninsula's power plants, fuel depots and supply routes, leaving parts...
The Treaty
The Iran-backed Houthis have not sealed the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, but the threat alone has been enough: three Saudi tankers bound for China and...
The Treaty
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told ASEAN foreign ministers that allowing Iran to control passage and collect compulsory payments through the Strait of Hormuz...
Dollars and Sense
The Iran-backed Houthis have declared a naval blockade of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a passage just fourteen miles wide that Saudi Arabia depends on...
Dollars and Sense
Tens of millions in the Gulf drink water that comes out of a machine. Those machines are being hit, and they are slow and...
Dollars and Sense
Social Security's retirement trust fund is projected to run dry in the fourth quarter of 2032, leaving incoming revenue to cover only about three-quarters...
North Korea Talk
Pyongyang promised Moscow it will stay until victory. Moscow promised something back — and Beijing is watching its hold on Kim slip away.
North Korea Talk
North Korea's foreign minister promised Putin on July 19 that Pyongyang will back Russia until victory — a pledge already embedded in the war....
North Korea Talk
North Korea stalled, negotiated, and built the bomb anyway — and its 2022 doctrine orders everything launched if its leaders are ever struck. Kim...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia was the earliest country to field multiple operational hypersonic weapons, and the Kremlin has long called them nearly impossible to stop. Only one,...
Ukraine War
Putin has abandoned any willingness to trade territory and now insists Russia take all of Donetsk before agreeing to a settlement, Bloomberg reports, citing...