Dollars and Sense
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Ukraine War
On the night of 14 August, Ukrainian forces hit the Ust-Luga port in Russia’s Leningrad Oblast, the region that encompasses Russia’s second city, St. Petersburg. The...
Dollars and Sense
Brent settled at $88.52 on Friday after a week of tanker attacks and no diplomatic movement. Washington's plan is to wait Tehran out —...
Ukraine War
DeepState counted 19 settlements regained and Russians pushed back in six more areas. The Institute for the Study of War documented significant advances. A...
Ukraine War
A Fox report details a 'dangerous new front': the executives and engineers behind drone technology are being hunted. A Russian FPV-drone boss was critically...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Storm Shadow missiles have crossed into Russia for years. What changed is confirmation that British-built drones are doing it too — cheaper weapons, produced...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Iran war, its uncertain endgame, and the up-in-the-air status of the Strait of Hormuz have left the United States’ oil reserves in a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Jack Buckby reports a senior Iranian official warns Tehran will act to break the US naval blockade unless its demands are met, shifting to...
Ukraine War
The jet-powered variants of the Iranian Shahed design fly considerably faster than the originals, cutting the time Ukrainian defenses have to detect and intercept...
Ukraine War
Izmail was one of Ukraine's only maritime gateways after the 2022 blockade, faded once Kyiv opened its own Black Sea corridor, and matters again...
Ukraine War
When Western firms left after the invasion, Wildberries filled the shelves with goods from China, Turkey and the UAE. Its model concentrated thousands of...
The Treaty
Nobody is extending it. An Iranian source told Reuters there is nothing to extend, because the agreement stopped existing weeks ago — after the...
The Treaty
The same day, a senior Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran is prepared to go fully offensive and take the war beyond Hormuz. Baghdad...
The Treaty
Some appear to have been made with AI, and a semi-governmental design house is producing many of them. Online, a British think tank tracked...
Dollars and Sense
A 2019 framework agreement expanded American military access to Omani facilities at Salalah and Duqm. Oman controls the southern side of the strait, which...
Dollars and Sense
Trump answered a single word when asked about extending the expired agreement. Iran's price for peace now runs to sanctions relief, an end to...
Dollars and Sense
Reuben F. Johnson reports VEB economist Andrei Klepach told an elite Moscow forum that Russia is losing the economic race 'not only to China...
North Korea Talk
Roughly 9,500 are already there. Reuters reports North Korean supplies have at times covered around half of Russia's frontline munitions, and the next contingent...
North Korea Talk
Ukraine's defense intelligence says Russian missile factories exceeded July's production targets across the board, even as Moscow leans on ballistic missiles from Pyongyang and,...
North Korea Talk
More than 120 Shahed-style drones flew as well, and Kyiv says they were upgraded jet-powered versions of the Iranian design. Russia has now taken...
The Treaty
Would Australia ever consider a purchase or even leasing older, U.S. navy nuclear-powered attack submarines? The idea seemed almost crazy nearly ten years ago...