Dollars and Sense
Key Points – President Trump’s second term is characterized by an unprecedented testing of legal and constitutional limits on executive power, with his administration...
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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
Twenty-five bidders are down to two, the decision lands within weeks, and the price approaches sixty billion dollars. Yet Canada's great submarine debate is...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The uncomfortable truth, by this analysis: Tehran's assessment is correct. America could flatten Iran again — but the missiles it would spend are the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Forty-nine more Tomahawks just flew at Iran — from a stockpile that may hold only a thousand truly free for this fight once the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Satellite photos of China's fourth carrier keep showing two large, square compartments — and CSIS reads them as likely reactor spaces. A nuclear supercarrier,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
No Ukrainian soldier has set foot on Crimea — and yet the bridges are down, the trains have stopped, and Moscow is afraid to...
Ukraine War
For four years the Kremlin's true losses were unknowable. Now four independent counts — named graves, demography, photographs, intelligence — converge on the same...
Ukraine War
British intelligence now puts Russia's war dead — dead, not wounded — near half a million, a number even analysts struggle to accept. Meanwhile...
Ukraine War
Russia is losing thousands of men a week in Ukraine — yet satellites show new bases rising on NATO's northern border, brigades reorganizing into...
The Treaty
While much of Western Europe caves to anti-Israel agitators, Czechia’s new conservative government is showing the kind of moral clarity, national confidence, and political...
The Treaty
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump publicly urged Israel not to retaliate after Iran launched ballistic missiles at the country – and it wasn’t...
The Treaty
President Donald Trump insists that an agreement to end the war with Iran is within reach. Speaking to reporters, Trump said that negotiators are...
Dollars and Sense
Washington says traffic through Hormuz is "rising very meaningfully." The tracking data says four ships made it through on Tuesday — and on Wednesday,...
Dollars and Sense
Iran's oil has never been worth more — and the regime can't sell a drop, its tanks full and its troops now going unpaid....
Dollars and Sense
This morning's CPI put inflation at 4.2 percent, the highest since 2023 — and gasoline up 40 percent points straight at the Iran war....
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...
The Treaty
Key Points – Despite initial media focus on a tense exchange over “white genocide” claims, the recent White House meeting between President Trump and...
Ukraine War
Key Points – Despite frequent nuclear threats from Vladimir Putin since the Ukraine war began, including a November 2024 lowering of Russia’s nuclear use...