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Dollars and Sense
Bessent says Washington will announce a bank sanction this week and another the week after, then widen Operation Economic Outcast to airlines and digital...
Dollars and Sense
Venezuela confirms the agreement covers seventeen fields over at least twenty-five years. The contracts are not public, analysts are questioning what control means, and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Shay Bottomley reports that U.S. forces struck IRGC missile launchers on Larak Island, the first military action against Iran since late July, examines the...
Ukraine War
David Kirichenko reports from Kyiv on the winter ahead: interceptor stocks nearly gone, an American production license the manufacturers have not acted on, residents...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Gulf Cooperation Council called Iran's overnight attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan heinous and a blatant violation of sovereignty, with every member standing...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Tuesday's strikes hit around a hundred targets, Axios reports, including American drones firing into the engine rooms of two Iranian state tankers under Trump's...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iran's oil minister insists crude sales continue in distant waters, and tracking firms count more than a hundred Iran-linked shadow tankers active, but Buckby...
Ukraine War
Scores of flights were suspended across Russia on Wednesday after Zelensky warned airlines and insurers the Russian sky is becoming completely dangerous. Under Russia's...
Ukraine War
Sources say CIA Director Ratcliffe's visit was meant to end in the Kremlin, but Putin canceled after FSB chief Bortnikov relayed the briefing. Ratcliffe...
Ukraine War
Russia struck a locomotive depot in Ukraine's capital in what it called a massive strike, one day after Modi told Putin to end the...
The Treaty
Pezeshkian says Iran will return to the June memorandum the moment Washington does. Hardliners in Tehran want the opposite — to keep the war...
The Treaty
Stephen Silver reports that Iran's president offered at the SCO summit to reciprocate immediately if Washington returns to June's memorandum, while Trump mused about...
The Treaty
Georgia Gilholy reports on a Ukrainian claim that Russia's leadership has ordered its generals to plan operations toward Kyiv and Chernihiv, set against a...
Dollars and Sense
Trump has authorized a tanker-for-tanker policy that costs Iran a tanker for every strike on a vessel, beginning with two tankers hit Tuesday in...
Dollars and Sense
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell by more than three million barrels last week to its lowest level in more than four decades. U.S.-Iran strikes...
Dollars and Sense
Putin told Pezeshkian Russia is striving to provide Iran necessary assistance and is supplying essential goods, while Iran's president called for circumventing U.S. sanctions...
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.
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...
Dollars and Sense
One of the critical elements of modern warfare, reinforced by the war in Ukraine, is the importance of air superiority and the need to...
North Korea Talk
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. could intercept incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) using advanced and developing missile defense technologies. -Ground-based interceptors in Alaska...