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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
After Ukrainian drones struck an Iranian-linked vessel and a Russian warship over 500 miles away in the Caspian, Iran's FM called Zelensky a 'freeloader,'...
North Korea Talk
Brandon Weichert ties Zelensky's unverified claim — Russia seeking 30,000 more North Korean troops, atop roughly 14,000 deployed now — to Gen. Xavier Brunson's...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Professor Andrew Latham reads the blockade numbers: non-Iranian Hormuz transits collapsed to a fraction of last year's while Iran-linked traffic barely dipped, moving inside...
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Saudi Arabia stopped bombing the Houthis, pulled back in Yemen, and let its proxies work with them. Michael Rubin on what that bought Riyadh,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Zelenskyy told Sky News that Iran's transfer of thousands of Shahed drones — plus production licenses — amounts to direct participation in Russia's war:...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Zelensky announced a Caspian Sea strike on a ship carrying military cargo tied to Russia and Iran — believed to be Ukraine's first against...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
North Korea is rumored to be sending 30,000 more troops plus missile launchers, with Voronezh preparing to receive them since June, per Zelenskyy —...
Ukraine War
Fire Point CEO Iryna Terekh told The Guardian the company now builds roughly 100 Flamingo cruise missiles a month plus hundreds of FP-1 and...
Ukraine War
Zelensky told Sky News he believes Putin is preparing to mobilize hundreds of thousands more soldiers — Newsweek reports the figure at 500,000 —...
Ukraine War
Ahead of a July 28 Trump-Zelensky meeting, a Ukrainian source told Reuters both governments discussed halting aerial attacks while ground combat continues. The Kremlin...
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Russia's fuel crisis is deepening: Altai limits drivers to one fill-up every 24 hours — 30 liters max — plate numbers logged; Novak admits...
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With the pause in its third night, the options board looks bad: CNN reports the CIA and DIA showed Trump the bombing campaign has...
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The US and Iran are three days without reported attacks as mediators push to revive talks. Trump says Iran asked 'very nicely' for a...
Dollars and Sense
With the Saudi-Houthi truce shattered, the blockade serves the rebels' own ambitions as much as Iran's: Yemen's oil lies in government-held territory, so revenue...
Dollars and Sense
Per Foreign Policy, Russia isn't near collapse — but its war-finance options are narrowing: oligarch assets seized, corporate taxes up, regional transfers frozen at...
Dollars and Sense
President Donald Trump imposed tariffs of 10 percent to 12.5 percent on imports from 60 economies as the Iran war pushed oil above $100....
North Korea Talk
Zelenskyy says Russia wants another 30,000 North Korean troops, with preparations underway in Voronezh since June — though he offered no sources and the...
North Korea Talk
For years Beijing said it wanted both stability and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. Stability always ranked higher, but the second goal was at...
North Korea Talk
Pyongyang promised Moscow it will stay until victory. Moscow promised something back — and Beijing is watching its hold on Kim slip away.