The Treaty
Key Points and Summary – Hezbollah isn’t done. Despite leadership losses, its financing—diaspora-linked laundering and new backing from Turkey to offset Iran—remains resilient. -Unless...
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Ukraine War
When Putin admitted Russia's fuel shortages, he meant to look like a state in control. Instead he confirmed what Ukraine has quietly engineered: not...
The Treaty
For four years Putin projected nothing but confidence. This weekend that cracked: he admitted Russia faces a fuel deficit as Ukrainian drones torched yet...
Ukraine War
Ukraine has done real damage deep inside Russia — burning refineries, hunting fuel convoys, turning the rear into a battlefield Moscow can no longer...
Ukraine War
Crimea is the territory Putin prized above every other conquest — and right now it's blacked out, rationing fuel, and under emergency rule his...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Washington has approved billions in weapons for Taiwan — F-16s, HIMARS, anti-ship missiles. But it keeps refusing the one jet Taipei has wanted for...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Putin declared this weekend that Russian forces are close to taking Kostiantynivka, the southern anchor of Ukraine's eastern fortress belt and the gateway to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Oil prices have fallen back to where they sat before the Iran war, and tankers are streaming out of the Strait of Hormuz —...
Ukraine War
Ukraine is negotiating with France for a license to build the SCALP cruise missile on its own soil, a step that would hand Kyiv...
Ukraine War
For most of this war, Ukraine was the side running dangerously low on air defenses. That's flipping. Russia is now reportedly running short on...
Ukraine War
Russian soldiers reaching the worst stretches of the front, military bloggers claim, can expect to survive 20 to 35 minutes. The figure can't be...
The Treaty
After a weekend of strikes across the Persian Gulf, the U.S. and Iran just agreed to stand down and meet in Doha on Tuesday....
The Treaty
Hours after U.S. aircraft struck Iranian missile sites and coastal radar over attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, Trump issued a warning Tehran can't...
The Treaty
Shipping is "literally caught in the crossfire," one analyst says, as the U.S. and Iran battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz. After...
Dollars and Sense
The Strait of Hormuz was finally reopening — then two tankers were attacked, the U.S. struck Iran again, and shipping collapsed from 70 crossings...
Dollars and Sense
The Strait of Hormuz carries far more than oil — helium for semiconductors, fertilizer, petrochemical feedstocks, a third of the world's farm goods. With...
Dollars and Sense
Tankers are moving through Hormuz again, crude has fallen below its prewar price, and the worst of the oil shock looks like it's passing....
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...
North Korea Talk
The recent North Korea–China summit highlights Beijing’s increasing concern over Moscow’s growing influence in Pyongyang. Since the Ukraine war began, Russia and North Korea...
North Korea Talk
Manila, Philippines – On the occasion of his visit to Pyongyang, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping has received one of the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Admiral Kuznetsov was the Soviet answer to U.S. carrier power: a heavy, missile-armed STOBAR carrier meant to project fixed-wing...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Four Ohio-class SSGNs—each able to fire 154 Tomahawks—retire from 2026–2028, removing 616 missiles from the fleet. -The Navy’s answer:...