Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – In 2015, China became the first international customer for Russia’s advanced Su-35 “Flanker-E” fighter, purchasing 24 jets in a deal that...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Venezuela playbook worked: seize the oil, become the seller. Kharg Island breaks it on one fact — Iran's crude has a single serious...
Dollars and Sense
Before the bombs, officials were already warning that parts of Tehran — ten million people — might someday need evacuating. The reservoirs hit 12...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Taking Kharg Island is the easy part — helicopters and Ospreys could do it. Holding it is the trap, one professor warns, and a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Trump threatened this morning to seize Kharg Island and take control of Iran's oil markets. The seizure would succeed in a day. Then several...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iran has paid a price: the Supreme Leader dead, fifty commanders gone, 55 aircraft destroyed, the navy largely wiped out. Iran has absorbed it...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The reported deal frees billions, punts every nuclear question into a 60-day window — and Iran keeps "sovereignty" over Hormuz. One analyst's translation: here...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
It first flew when Nixon was president — a bundle of gambles: fly-by-wire, the side-stick, the bubble canopy. Fifty years and 4,600 airframes later,...
Ukraine War
Russia's showcase forum was built to prove it's open for business. Two heads of state came — Uzbekistan and Tanzania — and America sent...
Ukraine War
Putin called Crimea his "unsinkable aircraft carrier." As Russia's vacation season opens, the carrier rations gasoline — twenty liters a week, by prepaid coupon,...
Ukraine War
Zelensky's 2022 vow — the war "must end with Crimea" — sounded like a slogan for four years. Then Ukraine's drone commander told Reuters:...
The Treaty
A White House official now puts the odds at "80 to 85 percent" — up from 75. But Washington and Tehran are still describing...
The Treaty
The signing could come Sunday in Geneva. The fight is over what gets signed: Iran's leaked version concedes almost nothing — no new nuclear...
The Treaty
Iran's state media kept score: thirty-eight times, a deal was declared imminent. But claim thirty-nine came with something the other thirty-eight didn't — a...
Dollars and Sense
A deal in Geneva would end the war — not the lesson. For three months the world watched a fifth of its oil hang...
Dollars and Sense
Everyone counts Russia's dead. One analyst's uncomfortable audit runs the other ledger: Ukraine's losses far exceed the official 55,000, with many men reportedly dodging...
Dollars and Sense
"It's over for Iran," the White House declares — a claim nobody can verify. What's verifiable: the calm rests on three draining cushions —...
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 – China’s Shenyang J-35 is a fifth-generation, multi-role stealth fighter designed to carry a diverse and potent arsenal for air, land, and...
Dollars and Sense
Key Points – The Western strategy of freezing over $300 billion in Russian foreign exchange reserves to fund Ukraine’s war effort has proven to...