Dollars and Sense
Key Points – The AbramsX technology demonstrator, a potential next step for the M1 Abrams tank, promises significant advancements but faces major cost questions,...
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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
India said no to the F-35. Then Chinese-built jets shot down several of its Western fighters — and now Putin is personally offering New...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The West said no to long-range missiles, so Ukraine built the FP-5 Flamingo — and just put one into a Russian arms plant 560...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
For months, the Strait of Hormuz has faced intense disruption, with traffic down by as much as 95%. The narrow waterway, which typically carries...
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
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....
Dollars and Sense
The Iran war's strangest ledger entry is its winner. While the Strait of Hormuz stays choked and economies from Europe to Asia brace for...
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...
Ukraine War
Key Points – While NATO supports Ukraine’s self-defense against Russia and is not a direct belligerent, the risk of the conflict escalating into a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The US Air Force’s plan to retire its B-1B Lancer bombers as the new B-21 Raider becomes operational is questioned due...