Dollars and Sense
Key Points – A recent YouGov/Yahoo News “Corruption Poll” (May 2025) found President Trump with a 41% approval and 54% disapproval rating. -A majority...
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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
Denmark's auditors checked the F-35 math for the first time in nearly a decade — and found a 25 percent surprise the warnings had...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The letter was brutal: the Treasury "unwilling to commit the resources the nation needs to defend the country." Britain's defense secretary quit — and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Most people missed it: in 2025, Ukraine offered to give up its NATO dream — but only in exchange for binding security guarantees. The...
Ukraine War
The verdict now comes from retired American generals and the former head of the DIA: Ukraine is "operationally winning." Russia's units can't communicate in...
Ukraine War
Russia still advances — at less than 8 percent of last year's pace, by ISW's count. Meanwhile every soldier it recruits is a worker...
Ukraine War
The war has now outlasted World War One — trenches, attrition, advances of 75 meters a day. "World War I, but fought with drones,"...
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...
The Treaty
Five Miles Long, Three Wide — and Holding Up Iran’s Entire War: The Island America Says It Will Take
Five miles long, three wide — and Iran's whole war runs through it. A declassified CIA file called Kharg Island the most vital point...
The Treaty
America started the Iran war — and is now being sidelined from it, as Israel and Iran trade strikes on their own schedules. One...
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 —...
Dollars and Sense
The secret tanker operation is real — 200 ships, 100 million barrels, by the president's own count. Now do the division: about 3.3 million...
Dollars and Sense
Last year’s NDAA included right-to-repair provisions written into it by both the House and the Senate. However, those provisions were ultimately removed from the...
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...
North Korea Talk
Summary and Key Points: Four years into a war the Kremlin expected to win in weeks, Russia is leaning on North Korean soldiers to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – Ukraine’s audacious “Operation Spiderweb” drone strike over the weekend, reportedly destroying 41 Russian aircraft, including strategic bombers deep within Russia, has...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The Tupolev Tu-95 “Bear,” a Soviet-era turboprop strategic bomber used by Russia for long-range cruise missile strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, suffered...