Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Saturday's tanker strikes point to the reported tanker-for-tanker strategy: an economic cost imposed on Iran for every attack, without a wider bombing campaign. Meanwhile...
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Ukraine War
Ukraine still wants to join NATO, but one analyst argues membership seems unlikely for the foreseeable future. Admission requires every member to agree, no...
The Treaty
Ukrainian policymakers have been prepared to accept a comprehensive settlement since 1991, a front-line ceasefire since 2022, and have refrained from striking Russian civilian...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Zelensky told Fox News that Ukraine would accept a ceasefire freezing the war along current front lines, even without recovering all occupied territory. The...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Poland scrambled fighter jets twice over the weekend as Russian air attacks hit western Ukraine near its border. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reports...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Netanyahu has directed Israel’s military and intelligence services to work toward toppling Iran’s leadership, saying Washington is preparing to “finish the job.” Trump, for...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Pentagon is sending the carrier Theodore Roosevelt and a Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East, due by the end of November, as...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Middle East is bracing for a new phase of the war with Iran. Trump has pledged no strikes before the midterms, but Iranian...
Ukraine War
Ukrainian drones have hit data centers belonging to Yandex, VKontakte and Sberbank this month, the Associated Press reports, causing nationwide outages in banking, e-commerce,...
Ukraine War
Putin has notched several big wins in recent weeks, one analyst argues, from the U.S. allowing temporary purchases of Russian oil to a sudden...
Ukraine War
Ukraine’s strike campaign is hitting Russia’s oil industry where it is weakest, its aging fields and strained repair capacity. Now, one analyst argues, both...
The Treaty
In a new Washington Post column, conservative commentator George Will argues Trump is increasingly aligning US policy with Putin, easing sanctions on Russian diesel...
The Treaty
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz could reopen once the US lifts its blockade and returns to a collapsed memorandum, terms Tehran has offered...
The Treaty
Something Strange Is Happening to Iran: Hardliners Are Now Making It Clear They Want Nuclear Weapons
Iran’s hardliners are now openly calling for nuclear weapons, with a senior lawmaker urging Tehran to build a bomb and conduct an actual test....
Dollars and Sense
Trump’s approval has fallen to thirty-four percent in a New York Times/Siena poll, the lowest pre-midterm rating for any president in eighty years. Voters...
Dollars and Sense
Oil prices are nearly as high as they were at the start of the war with Iran, but one analyst argues the bigger worry...
Dollars and Sense
Gulf oil exports have climbed back above prewar levels in some cases, Kpler data shows, but moving crude out of the region remains costly...
North Korea Talk
Ukraine quietly handed two captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea — a transfer Seoul says was supposed to stay secret, and one that...
North Korea Talk
Georgia Gilholy reports on Lavrov's world-order message to Pyongyang, Zelensky's claim that up to fifty thousand more troops could follow the Kursk deployment, Reuters-reported...
North Korea Talk
Trump ordered joint exercises with South Korea scaled back and praised Kim Jong-Un, drawing sharp criticism as Seoul stays muted.
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
American forces struck an Iranian tanker at the anchorage of Kharg Island — the hub that handled nearly all of Iran's crude — after...
Ukraine War
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner landed in Moscow carrying what President Trump calls a concrete proposal — an idea for peace — ahead of...