July 2026

The Fuel Crisis Has Reached Moscow Itself — and for the First Time in the War, Analysts Are Asking if Putin’s Grip Is Slipping

For four years Putin kept the war's economic pain away from ordinary Russians. That strategy has broken down. Fuel rationing has spread from the...

Isaac Seitz11 minutes ago

Everyone is watching the Strait of Hormuz for oil. The bigger threat moving through it feeds the world: the natural gas and sulfur behind...

Brandon Weichert23 minutes ago

The pressure on Putin is mounting on every front at once. Russian military bloggers now estimate a soldier reaching the worst stretches of the...

Reuben Johnson41 minutes ago