Dollars and Sense
Most commentary on Russia’s frozen reserves treats the story as one of irony. Vladimir Putin accumulated nearly $300 billion to protect Russia from Western...
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Dollars and Sense
The U.S. and its Gulf partners are racing to bypass the Strait of Hormuz — the UAE doubling its pipeline capacity, Saudi Arabia expanding...
Dollars and Sense
The IEA warns the renewed U.S.-Iran fighting could upend its forecast of a massive 2027 oil surplus, calling a lasting peace a "must" for...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Ukraine's drone sector has transformed from an ad hoc network of volunteers modifying commercial quadcopters into an industry of hundreds of companies building strike...
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A new analysis argues the true beneficiaries of Trump's Iran war were America's great-power rivals. Russia reportedly fed Iran targeting data on U.S. bases...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Unclaimed airstrikes rocked southern Iran hours after CENTCOM declared its 90-target operation complete — and no country has stepped forward, with one Iranian lawmaker...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
As Ukraine's strikes deepen Russia's fuel crisis, Trump called them "an escalation that can help lead to an end" — and the Kremlin conceded...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia's Oreshnik missile terrified the world when dozens of warheads rained down on Dnipro, sparking fears Moscow had launched an ICBM at Ukraine. But...
Ukraine War
Ukraine's strike on Omsk succeeded because Russia left its largest refinery almost completely undefended — a fatal assumption, with the drones' true endurance range...
Ukraine War
Putin dismissed Russia's fuel crisis as an enemy psy-op — but Yandex searches asking when the war will end just hit an all-time high....
Ukraine War
Speaking to the London Daily Telegraph, Czech President Petr Pavel says that a clock of sorts is ticking, with Ukraine having two months to...
The Treaty
China delivered an ultimatum-like message to Moscow ruling out nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Zelensky revealed at the NATO summit — as prominent Russian voices...
The Treaty
Putin has expanded his innermost bodyguard ring to 812 — reportedly adding a detachment of 27 drone pilots — after a Kremlin alert assessed...
The Treaty
Israeli intelligence has shared indications of a fresh Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump, per the Wall Street Journal — a warning that came...
Dollars and Sense
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has nearly stopped after America's second straight day of strikes on 90 Iranian targets — and the few...
Dollars and Sense
Ukraine's drone forces struck some 35 Russian vessels in the Sea of Azov over four days — the most intense targeting of shipping since...
Dollars and Sense
Western hopes that fuel shortages will topple Putin are misplaced, argues Russia expert Dr. Alexander Titov — the economy is strained but functional, the...
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...
Ukraine War
Rumors in the past few days have raised fresh concerns that the Belarusian authoritarian president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, may permit Russia to use his territory...
Ukraine War
Ukraine Has Declared Total War on Russia’s Oil and Gas Industries and Putin Can’t Make the Pain Stop
Reaching an area 800 miles from the border with Russia, on Sunday, 31 May, Ukrainian drones struck a Russian fuel depot, oil pumping station,...